The Alaska citizen., 1912-04-22

now on her maiden voyage out of London.
 The appeals of assistance have been received by ships within a radius of two hundred miles of the disabled vessel, and all of them are rushing to her aid.
 NEW YORK. April l.. Wireless messages received here today state that the steamer Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic. has reached Che scene of the Titanic wreck. and 625 ol the survivors. mostly women. have been rescued from their perilous position in the life boats and rafts Of the sunken vessel, in which they have been drifting about since the collision early last evening. The Titanic sank during the night and, as nearly as can be ascertained. fifteen hundred lost their lives.
 LONDON, April 15.-All England is in mourning over the sinking of the Titanic, and the appalling loss Of life which resulted from Che acci- dent 10 the giant craft Including the crew, there were 2.2o0 persons on the steamer, scores of them people of international reputation. | Included in the passenger list were: Colonel John Jaccb Astor and wife. Major Archibald Butt. military aide to President Taft; Benjamin Gug. genheim. W. T. Stead. editor of the Review of Reviews, and many others distinguished on both sides of the Atlantic.
 NEW NGJp Der of passengers who were saved from the wreck of the Titanic now reaches S66, while the unaccounted fir total 1,234.
 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt failed to occupy the rooms reserved for him on the Titanic, and is safe in London. Benjamin Guggenheim is still among the missing and there is little hope of his surviving the wreck. The Carpathia, bringing the survivors from the wreck of the Titanic, is due here tomorrow. and the Nirginian and the Parsian. the other rescue steamships. were unable to find any other survivors. On the Carpathia are members of the crew of the Titanic, who were saved by being detailed to man the lif6boats Ill which Were the women and child ren. and when they arrive the de tails of the wreck will be given.
 Among the rescued passengers are President Ismay of the White Star Steamship company, Mrs. Hayes. wife ot the president of the Grand Trunk railway, Sieur Cana. Lady Duff-GordOn, wife of Sir Cosma Ed mund Duff-GOrdon of Maryculter North Britain. and Mrs. George D. Wldener, the Philadelphia society leader.
 NEW YORK, April 1.-The lat est bulletin posted by the officials of the White Star Line says that there are S6S survivors of the ri tanlc, mostly women and children. They estimate that 135O perished. Bradstreets' issued a bulletin this morning stating that the body of John Jacob Astor had been recovered.
 CAPE RACE, N. F., April IA wireless received today from the Carpathia said that she was running through twenty miles of ice fields With bergs among them" Except
 
 steamers found any survivors of the wreck. The captain Cf the Titanic placed l,l11 people in lifeboats and on rafts before the ship sank. Frank lin says that POP out of 325 first cabin passengers are accounted for. NEW YORK, April 17.-Collector Loeb has received wireless message from the Carpathia which states that she will reach this port tomorrow afternoon.
 The Titanic, which now rests ill the ocean two miles under the sur face, carried insurance for B. .000 900, Her keel was laid in 1910; she was Of 45,OOO tons register and 5O,000 h. D.; SGO feet long, 92 feet breath and 94 feet depth. Speed 25 knots per hour She was a sister ship of the Olympic
 WASHINGTON, April 17.-Senator Guggenheim states that he has re- celved adyices from the White Star officials that all but 32 of the first caDln passengers are safe, and he has hopes that his brother is among the rescued
 NEW YORK, April 16.-Owing to the meager details of the wreck of the Titanic which have reached this city from the Cunard Liner Carpa- thia, which is now hurrying to port with the survivors. it is impossible to 1ully realize the magnitude of the disaster, which in point of num- Der and prominence of those drowned Is the greatest in the history of mar me catastrophes. The appalling results of the wreck are little mil igated by the fragments of inform alton that have leaked out. The number of deaths has been slightly reduced by the more recent mess ages received, but a more detailed account of the sinking of the giant ship will bring to light many incl dents that will probably add to rather than detract from the seriousness of the calamity.
 The Cunard liner Carpathia, the first boat to reach the scene of the disaster after the Titanic had sunk. IS expected here Thursday with S6S of the survivors, nearly all of whom are women and children. It is thought this number includes all of those who escaped from the sink ing vessel, for the other steamers which have since reached the spot, have failed to find more than the bits of wreckage that remained to indicate the place of encounter with the hugh iceberg.
 It is now practically determined that the number of drowned is fully 1850, slight reduction from the first reports. but still a much larger number than ever before met a