The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-19
PRESENCE i 0ff' F. ;;;SS;;$:9!|!rRG g! KNOWN
ON PRECEDING AFTERNOON
Titanic Relayed Wireless From Amerika Telling of Their
Presence-scenes of Horror Mingled With Acts of
Herosm and cowardice- Major Butt Hero.
THE AWFUL STORY CONDENSED.
Fifteen hundred and ninetyfive persons meet their
death.
No hope for those who were left behind by the life
boats.
Several men of wealth and prominence pershed.
All the women saved except those who vol
UNFAIRLY met death with their husbands.
Major Butt proved hero in defending the women
and children.
The explosion of the boilers hastened the sinking
Of the ship
Isrnay, managing director Of Company. which
owned Titanic said to have been first get life boats
The ship keeping up her standard speed of 81
to q knots in order make speed record on her
maiden trip
The Titanic knew Of the presence of the ice bergs
in her vicinity.

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The difference in the total loss .
figures Of the Associated Press. q
.. which is 1.5ab, and those of the .
1925, - probably due to double .
= checking. and the elimination and
double counting OF names which
.: have been misspelled. -
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New York. April 1s.-rhe Titanic
disaster was written into history to-
day by many of the 745 survivors
accounts for the loss Of 1859 persons
at sea off the New Foundland banks
early Monday and the subsequent
death Of six persons who had been
rescued. bringing the total lives lost
up to 1896.
ly the estimates which came by wire
less and the stories the survivors tell
make certain. as has already been
judged from the meagre wireless re-
ports, that the disaster is the greatest
ocean travel has ever known.
The big facts which came to the
surface in the food of narratives arc
there is hardly a shadow Of hope this
grand total will be curtailed by q
single additional survivor: that sew
eral men Of wealth and worldwide
prominence are, as has been feared
for several days. among those who
perished: that practically the only
women who were not saved were
husbands: that nearly all the sur
vivors say that as the Titanic sank
they heard the music Of the orchestra
playing Nearer My God to Thee"
mingling with the shrieks Of the
drowning as the vessel sank in two
thousand fathoms.
The Titanic struck an iceberg about
ninety feet high which ripped the
liners sides open and made the water
tight comparents useless and white
the vessel was gradually sinking icy
water reached her steaming boilers,
causing an explosion which sent her
to the bottom.
Among hundreds on her decks to
the last were Colonel John Jacob As
GuEgenheim, Jacques Futrelle. George
D. Widener, Henry B. Harris and
scores of other well known persons.
Istdor Straus was among them also
with Mrs. straus. who refused to leave
her husband behind when she had an
opportunity to save herself.
Major Butt Hero.
hand 10 said to have stood at the
eteerase passage and defended the
women ana children from the mad
dened men. Colonel Astor also 10
said to have met his fate bravely after
seeing his bride to the life boat, draw
Ing aside to watch the other women
step to safety and awaiting his own
Owner . Coward.
capacity the steamers life boats Was
barely Q third Of the complement Of
the ship In crew and passengers that
the hundreds Of passengers had to Do
left their fate. ]. Bruce Ismay. man.
aging director Of the International
owned the Titanic. is said BY some
passengers to have been one Of the
first to get into life boats. but this n
denied by Ismay.
Stunned by the immensity Of tho
tragedy he had little to say. He 10
expected to be heard in the investiga-
ton which the United States senate
s has begun and expressed his willing-
ness to assist the senate committee In
it, inquiry. He agreed to appear be-
fore the committee here today.
Whero tho Fault Lay.
The surviving passengers are unani.
nous In the statement that the unbe-
iievable happened. The voyage had
been pleasant and unsventful. Tho
and all accounts agree that on the
night o. the disaster she was appar-
entity going At her usual rate-from
81 to % knots per hour. Quartermas.
ter Moody. who was at the helm, said
the ship was making Fl knots and that
the officers were under orders at the
time to keep up the speed In the hope
Of making Q record passage on the
liners maiden voyage. These orders
were being carried out In the face Of
the knowledge that the steamer was
S~ssptns 6own nom the north. That