The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-04-16
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ter she crashed into an iceberg, the
mammoth White Star Line steamer
Titanic, bound from Liverpool to
New York, went to the bottom Off
the Newfoundland Banks. or the ap'
proximately 1900 people on board
the giant liner some of them of
worldwide prominence, only 675
are known to have been saved.
The White Star Line office in New
York, while keeping up hope to the
last. were free to admit that there
had been "a horrible loss of life
Accepting the early estimates of
the fatality list as accurate, the dis
aster is the greatest in the marine
history of the world The nearest ap-
proach to it in magnitude We're the
disasters to the steamer Atlantic in
1873, when 57i lives We're lost, and
La Bourgogne, in 1898, with a fatality
list of 57l.
Should it prove that other liners,
notably the Allan liners Partisan and
Virginian, known to have been in
the vicinity of the Titanic early yes
terday, had picked up other of her
passengers, the extent of the calam-
ity would be greatly reduced This
hope still remains.
News of the sinking of the liner
and the terrible loss of life in con-
| sequence came early last evening,
with all the greater shock because
hope had been buoyed up all day by
reports that the steamship, although
badly damaged, was not in sinking
condition, and that all her passengers
had been safely taken Off The mes
sages were mostly unofficial, how.
ever and none came direct from the
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possible bad news to come.
Shortly after : o'clock last night
there came flashing over the wires
from Cape Race. within 400 miles OF
which the liner had struck the ice
berg, word that at 2:20 o'clock Mon
day morning. 3 hours and 90 minutes
after receiving her death blow, the
Titanic had sunk. The news came
from the steamer Carpathia, relayed
by the White Star Liner Olympic,
and revealed that by the time the
Carpathia, outward bound from New
York and racing for the Titanic on a
wireless call. reached the scene. the
doomed vessel had sunk
Left on the surface. however were
lifeboats from the Titanic. and in
them, as appears from the meager re-
ports received up to late hour,
were some 675 survivors OF the dis
aster
These. according 10 the advice,
the Carpathia picked up, and is now
on her way with them to New York.
For the rest, the scene as the Car
pathia came up, was one OF desola-
ton. All that remained of the slo.-
OO0,0 floating palace on which hun
dreds of first and second cabin pas
sengers had been vayasing luxur-
ioulv to this side of the Atlantic
We're some bits of wreckage. The big
gest shin in the world had gonc
down. snuffing out, in her downward
plunge, it appears, hundreds Of hui
man lives.
Women Are Saved First.
New York. April ia significant
line in a Cape Race dispatch regard
ing the steamer Titanic was the an
nouncement that of those saved by
the Carpathia nearly all We're wom-
en- and children.
Should it prove that no other YES
sci picked up any passengers OF the
sinking liner this might mean that
few OF the men on board had been
saved, as the proportion Of women
and children among the passengers
was large. The same fact would like
wise spell the doom of the entire crew
Of about 500.
In the cabins were $50 women and
children. but it is not known how
many there were among the 40 third
| class passengers
In the first cabin there were 1oS