The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-04-19
GREATEST DISASTER
IN HISTORY OF SEA
BIGGEST STEAMSHIP AFL0AT
GOES TO BOTTOM.
About 1890 Find Watery GrayeS-Be-
tween SOC and 500 Saved-WO-
men and Children First.

The greatest tragedy il the history
OF the sea was precipitated on Sunday
night when the giant steamship Ii
tanic, of the White Star line, the Iarg-
est snip in tbs |or,&, Ca. earring rs aGout
2,1So people, over 1900 OF them pas
senee.s, sjr3ck an iceberg off the New
founQlanu coast in latitude 4l.46 north,
longitude 5O.14 westf and sank, carry
ing With her to the bottom about 1900
people, many of them Of prominence
internationally in fanciai and other
circles. Some SOS survivors were res
cued from life-5oats by the Cunarder
Carpathia, which put out for New
York, and these are the only ones of
the big passenger list who are known
to have been saved.
The White Star Liner Titanic, the
largest vessel ever built, was $50 feet,
6 inches in length. She was on her
maiden voyage, bound from Liverpool
to New York.
After the first desperate calls of the
Titanic for help had been sent flying
through space and brought steamers
for hundreds of miles around speeding
to the scene, what seems to have been
an impenetrable wall Of silence was
raised between her and the anxious
world. Meagre wireless flashes were
received every now and then from
which details of the disaster were
placed together, and a partial list of
the survivors obtained
That the final roll of the rescued
from the Titanic disaster had practi-
cally been made up was Tuesday night
the impression that grew almost into
convictions as the hours went on with
out the revision of the little lists gain
ing measurably to the total of known
survivors. Of definite news of the dis
aster the night added little. Down the
Atlantic coast, fog enveloped in many
places, as the reports showed, crept
the Cunarder, Carpathia, bearing 86S
men and women and children snatched
from waters when the Titanic life
boats laden to their limit, one by one,
made their way from the giant liner
as it became known that she was soon
to take her final plunge. But although
the rescue ship was reported within
wireless range Of the Sable Island sta
Jion at comparatively early hour and
every wireless ear was waiting to
catch the snap Of a receiver which
might mean that the great secret Of
the liners death was about to be given
up, midnight came and went ana the
night began to grow old, and still the
word had not been spoken.
Women and Children First.
Carefully compiling the available
lists, the record of the named surviv-
ors of the disaster stood significantly
;thus: Men 10; women 233; children
-16. Total 32S.
OF the remaining $40 known suryi-
vors it is estimated that not more han
100 were seamen required to man the
boats. This would leave approximate
ly 440 and in the ordinary proportions
of women and children in the steer
age, where the passengers in the tt
-tanic's care numbered 10, it is posi-
bic that the greater part of the 44O
were women and their little ones.
Nothing could show more plainly the
5heroism of the crew and the men pas
sengers, when they stood by the DOOM
ed ship facing practically inevitable
death, and sent the women and chill
~dren away in the life boats. Some
would have to be left; that was a GER
tainty.
Stayed Voluntarily.
hundreds in fact, were left. But
to all appearance men who were left
stayed behind deliberately, calmly
stepping aside to 1T the weaker ones,
those to whom they owed protection,
take their way to safety.
Sinking by the head. Have clear
ed boats and filled them with women
and children"
This was the final message the brave
men sent the world, for it was directly
afterwards that their wireless signals
sputtered and then stopped altogether.
Tho nicture inevitably presents itself