The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-18
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But the NlrSlnldn was nearest, bare
| ty 10 miles away and was the first to
(; know of the Titanics danger. She
went about and headed under forced
! draught for the spot indicated in one
Of the last of Phillips messages-lat.
1892 north and long. 61.1S west. She
is fast ship, the Allen liner, and her
wireless has told the story of how she
put in her best licks stretching
through the night to get to the Titanic
in time. There was need for all the
power of her engines and all the ex-
perience of her captain. The final
fluttering Marconi messages that were
received from the Titanic made it GER
tain that the great ship with her g.
$50 passengers was filling and in des-
perate peril.
Farther out at sea was the Car
pathia, which left New York for the
Mediterranean on April Is and which
had felt the chill in the air which all
sailors know means the proximity of
great bergs drifting down from the
Arctic. Around she went and plung-
saving life. And the third steamship
within short sailing of the Titanic
was the Allen Partisan away to the
eastward on her way from Glasgow to
Halifax
While they sped in the night with
all the drive that steam could give
them the Titanic's call reached to
Cape Race in Newfoundland, and the
startled operator there heard at mid
night the same message, which quick
ly reached New York.
1t was 12:17 a. m. while the vir-
ginian was still plunging eastward
that all communication from the
Titanic ceased The Virginian's op-
orator, with the Virginians captain at
his elbow, fed the air with blue flashes
in a desperate effort to know what
was happening to the crippled liner,
but no message came back. The last
word from the Titanic was that she
was sinking. Then the sparkling be-
came fainter. The call was dying to
nothing. The Virginian's operator
labored over a blur of signals. 1t
was hopeless. So the Allen ship strove
on, fearing that the worst had hap.
pened.
The Titanic, already waterlogged.
her end certainty, her people strain
ing their eyes for the first streak of
fire against the horizon that would
show the approach of help, was as
much cut off from the world as if she
were already on the ocean bottom
The wireless has given us just a
hint, suggestion of the JOY that fash
ed over the passengers of the doomed
vessel when the Carpathia was made
out, her lights showing clear and
bright beyond the field of ice peaks
where the Titanic had dashed her
self. Although the Virginian had
been the first to hear the appeal, the
Carpathian was the first of the relief
ships to arrive
AS the wireless tells the story in
fitful periods, the seaways between
the icebergs were crowded with the
wallOwing boats of the Titanic, and
the great ship herself, bow crushed,
half full of water forward, was heel
ing forward on her forefoot. her stern
high out of water, SO that the tremen-
dous screws were visible dimly and
on the verge of dropping beneath the
surface. 1t was a spectacle of marine
disaster, that can never fade from the
memory of the seamen who came up
on the Carpathian-them most wonder
full of ships on the verge of her end
and her people scattered over the face
of the waters in little, rockinD boats.
of the waters in little, rocking boats.
rending hour cannot be known definite
ly until the wireless finds itself in a
steady, straightforward story, for out
of the icy waste have come but two
messages which appear to cover the
time. One is that the Carpathian and
the Virginia picked up most of the
passengers and perhaps half of the
crew. The other was that he Titanic
finally sank at 2:2O a. m., many lives
in a $10,000,000 ship gone to the sea
floor.
On her maiden trip the Titantic
built and equipped at cost of S10,-
| 100000, floating palace, found her
graveyard. Swinging from the west
erly steamship lane at the south of
the grand banks of Newfoundland to
take the direct run to this port she
hurled her giant bulk against an ice
berg that rose from an immense field
drifting unseasonably from the Arctic.
Running at high speed into that grim
and silent enemy of seafarers the
shock crushed her bow. From hap
py. comfortable vessel she was con-
verted in few minutes into a ship of
misery and dreadful suffering.
| New York. April 17.-Nothmg that
has come through the air from the sea
| mitigates in any degree the pity and
the horror of Titanic tragedy except
as individual distress is abated by the
gradual addition of names to the list
of the survivors.
There are no known survivors that
are not on the Carpathia. The Vir-
ginian was too late and found none,
and no other ship has reported finding
any.
In the icy, fog-smothered seas where
the Titanic sank exposure must soon
have destroyed those who were left
to life belts or wreckage when all the
boats were gone and no help had come
2 id the steamship foundered. The
] Olympic, whose wireless began on