Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-17
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Of the remaining $40 known survivors h is estimated that not more than 100 were seamen required to man the boats. This would leave approximate Iy 440, and in the ordinary proportion Of women and children in the steer age where the passengers in the Iii tanic's care numbered ITO, it seems probable that the greater part of these f40 were women and their libtle ones. Nothing could show more plainly tho heroism of the crew and the men passengers who stood by the doomed ship, facing practically inevitable death and sent the women and chii- dren away in the 1ifeboats. Some would have to be left; that was cer- tainty. Hundreds, in fact, were left. But to ell appearances the men who were left behind. stayed behind deIib- erately. calmly, stepping aside to let the weaker ones. those to whom they owed protection, take their way to safety.
 Sinking by the head. Have cleared boats and filled them with women and children" This was the final message these brave men sent the world, for 1t was directly afterward' that their wireless signals sputtered and then stopped altogether.
 The picture, that. in view of what ts known, inevitably presents itself, is of men like John Jacob AstoT, master of scores of millions; Benjamin Gug- genheim, of the famous family of bankers; Isidor Straus, a merchant prince; William T. Stead, veteran journalist; Mai Archibald Butt, sol dier; Washington Roebling, noted en- sineer-of any or all of these stepping aside and bravely, gallandy, remaining 10 die that the place he otherwise might have filled, could perhaps be taken by some sahot-shod, shwal- zen Rhrouded. illiterate and penniless peas Ont woman oGaEurope.
 Thus the stream of women with toddling infants CT babes in arms perhaps, most of them soon to be widowed, filed up from the cabins and over the side and away to life The men-by far the greater part o1 them-remained to die, millionaire ana man peasant and man of middle clasl alike, brayely, it must have been sharing each others fate and going down to a common grave.
 Of the survivors, what? Their story peril and suffering, with the revela. tion they will furnish of just wha happened on board the stricken oceaI Kiant-pictures which will leave tht Imagination nothing to draw upon Ptiil remains to be told. Hoy quickl1 they will be able to tell it and clea1 up all the mysteries of identity whicl the limited carrying capacity of tn, Carpa thla's wireless has left the worlt in doubt. seemed tonight to depend largely upon atmospheric conditions
 The weather was thick on the coas aSt night. not only interfering, it i believed, with wireless communication from the liner to Sable Island bu probably with her rate of progress to ward New York, whence she is head sng. Meanwhile other methods of com Snunicating with her than by the Ian stations are being tried. From tn Virginia Capes the scout cruisers Sa lem and Chester, armed with powerful wireless apparatus, are speeding to ward the Carpathia, and before yer many hours have elapsed it is hope they will be close.
 Hope that some of the passenger of the Titanic not taken on board tn Carpathia may have been saved wa revived early today when the captaf of the freighter Ultonia of the Phoe nix line, which docked about midnigh reported that he passed along the rout taken by the Titanic. and that a nun Der of fishing boats were in the Vicin 1ty of the disaster at the time. He sal he thought it not improbable that man of the passengers had secured If preservers and jumped in time { avoid being carried under by the sue ton of the liner, and may have bee erscued by the crews of the fishin vessels. The Ultonia was not equippe with wireless. The captain of the lin CT said that fishing boats were heade toward Halifax when he passed alon Ehe route taken by the Titanic.
 All hope that some of the Titanic survivors might be on board eitht the steamer Partisan or VIrgintan ha to be abandoned late yesterday whe at was definitely learned that neitht steamer had picked up any one fro1 the big liner.
 Search for bodies in the vicinity the disaster, 1t was learned tonigh will be taken up by the White Ste line of Halifax, where the cable steam CT Mackay Bennett has been charter ed to proceed to the scene and renal until further orders, searching fl bodies that may come to the surface
 Up to 1.30 o'clock this morning, { Ear as could be learned at any of tl goast stations, no syllable of tidinE Sad come from the Carpathia sinC she was able by the aid of the OlrnT kcs relay many hours before to sen waveringly ashore a list of the namt Wf AEgt and second cab9n Titanic SUI