The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-18
Wireless Calls Shrieked over
lce-DOtted Waste of Water.
GReYHOUNDS RACE To RESCUE
CarPathia Takes Off CTS Pas.
sengers ere End Comes.

New York, April 16.-The greatest
marine disaster in the history of the
world occurred last Sunday night
when the Titanic of the White Star
line, the biggest and finest of steam
ships, shattered herself against an ice
berg and sank with 500 of her pas
sengers and crew in less than four
hours.
Out Of nearly 2.200 people that she
carried only 675 were saved and most
of these were women and children
They were picked up from small boats
by the Cunarder Carpathia which
found, when she ended her desperate
race against time, a sea strewn with
the wreckage of the lost ship and the
bodies of drowned men and women.
Among the 1920 passengers of the
giant liner were Colonel John j. AS
tor and his wife. Isidor Straus. Major
Archibald w. Butt, George B. Widener
and Mrs. Widener of Philadelphia, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry S. Harper. William T.
Stead, the London journalist, and
many more whose names are known
on both sides of the Atlantic. The
news that few besides women and
children were saved caused the great
est apprehension as to the fate of
these.
On her maiden voyage, the colossus
of steamships shattered herself against
an iceberg. Nothing asailed to keep
her afiOat. The science of shipbuild-
ing prevails against winds and wealth
ers, but the mighty steel ocean goers
OF the twentieth century are as much
at the mercy of fogs and ice as were
the oak bottoms of 100 years ago.
Staggering in the ice field into
which she had been driven at great
speed the, Titanic sped call after call
to the hurrying liners of the upper
roads-the Cunarder Carpathia, the
virginian, and the Partisan of the AL
len line, the great Baltic, the Good
Samaritan" OF the Atlantic. and the
big Germans that were ploughing their
way between the continents. And
the wireless once more proved its
worth for the Carpathia and the Vir-
ginian, wheeling in their courses, sped
through the night, venturing unknown
dangers and raced up in time to save
the lives of 675 people
1t has been many years since the
world was left in such suspense and
dread as followed the first faltering
calls for help of the crushed Titanic
At I0:3O p. m. the Virginian, speed
ing on her way to Glasgow, picked up
the White Star steamships insistent,
frantic &c. 0. D." the eMarconi signal
of distress and peril that clears the
air of all lesser messages and stops
ships at sea full in their tracks. Dash
by dash and dot by dot, the wireless
operator of the Virginia caught the
cry for help.
"Have struck an iceberg; badly DAM
aged Rush aid"
Seaward and landward, j. G. Phil
iips. the Titanic's wire man, was hurl-
ing the appeal for help. By fits and
starts-for the wireless was working
reached out to the world crying the
Titanic's peril. A word or two, scat
tered phrases, now and then a coz
nected sentence made up the mes
sages that sent thrill of apprehen-
sion for a thousand miles east and
vest and south.
Other rushing liners besides the Vir-
xinian heard the call and became on
the instant something more than car
20 carriers and passenger greyhounds.
The big Baltic, 200 miles to the east
yard and westhnund- turned aRaip TO
aave life as she did when her sister
of the White Star fleet, the Republic,
was cut down in fog in January,
1909. The Titanic's mate, Olympic.
the mightiest of sea goers save the
Titanic herself, turned in her tracks.
All along the northern lane the mira
Gle of the wireless worked for the dis
tressed and sinking ship. The Ham
hurr-American Cincinnati, the Paris
Ian from Glasgow, the North German
Lloyd Prinz Frederick Wilhelm, the
Hamburg-American liners Prins Adel
heyt and Amerika all heard the &c.