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TITANIC REcoiLS A SHAT
TERED AND RiVEN SHIP.

When the Titanic struck she struck
than rending and tearing of bow
plates. flooding OF few forward
compartments. As the whispering of
the wireless is picked out by the ex-
perience of mariners and builders. the
Titanic must have recoiled from her
destroyer a shattered and riven ship
So tremendous an impact would have
crumpled up the very bed plates,
shaken the mighty engines from their
foundation. opened mp watertight COM
partments, buckled plates from end to
end and started riyets everywhere.
1t is likely thar water rushed into
her hull from all sides. for her keel
must have been injured by the terrific
drive on mass as hard as rock. And
that jar must have quenched the
ships lighter by injuring her electrical
apparatus. We know that the wireless
worked weakly when Phillips. the OPP
orator, set about his desperate task
of reaching out for help while the
women and children In the boats
rocked off somewhere in the dark and
the men waited with sinking hearts.
And the wireless ceased muttering in
less than two hours. A fiutter or two
and il was gone.
The Titanic struck home with a
grinding roar, which must have been
followed by a horrid chorus when the
Plates and pianks and timbers hove
under the shock She could not have
stopped progress all at once. SO she
must have gone on briefly while tons
of ice crashed upon her decks. And
then the sudden dark fell through the
terror upon men men and women at
ease. No tragedy OF the sea has sup
Piled picture more intense.
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garded as unsuitable by her line and
by the captain himself Perhaps, in
deed probably. the fog played its
greatest devils trick, lifting now.
clearing now. always intangible.
treacherons, the blanket of invisible
evil. Some such shroud must have
descended with little warning upon
the Titanic and blinded her 10 the fate
just ahead. Perhaps whimsy OF the
polar Currents whose pulses have
never been gansed hysseafare*s with
absolute. accuracy drifted the great
berg squarely in the Titanic's path.
The wireless has told us of the bit
ter cold In the air, accompanied by
ice packs that tear loose from Arctic
glaciers and sag southwark with the
10 defect the ship from her course.
She stroye ahead as destiny pointed
her: no invention of man or interior
ence OF Providence sWerved her from
q fatal course Her ears, the sub
merged telephones placed on either
side of the vessel Just below the water
line to tattle OF the proximity OF solid
objects near or distant, gave no warn
ing In time And il happened swiftly
that she went headlong into icy dere-
lets that We're more substantial than
the work Of mems hands: vast bulks
OF ice there IN make mockery or hu-
man ingenuity.
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BID FEARFUL FAREWELLS
TO WIVES AND FAMILIES.

With no other ship for 200 miles
around there was nothing 10 do for
the men OF the company save 10 bid
farewell to their wives and families
and hope that help would come before
the Titanic foundered. Phillips, the
| wireless operator OF the ship. told the
world that the Titanic was SINGING
ard that the women and children were
in the. boats. No hint of panic has
come from the tragedy. There is no
reason TO believe other than that Cap
tain Smith and his officers had control
of crew and passengers. All of the
boats have been accounted for and
that indicates something of orderly
procedure.
1t was long after daylight when the
Cunarder Carpathia, which was more
than 200 miles east of the Titanic
when she caught the appeal for help.
got to the scene and found the twenty
boatloads of exhausted, grief stricken
people. The sea was covered with
wreckage. The odds and ends were
wrenched loose when the Titanic
dth anu ilOdlGu W llCH oiN
1t Is supposed that many chung to
pieces of debris until cold and weak
ness released their hold Apparently
the Carpathia took aboard the refugees
without great difficulty and then. after
communicating with the Olympic.
since her own wireless apparatus was
not powerful enough to carry 10 land,
started for this city.
Later on the Allan lines Virginian,
the first ship to pick up Phillips cries
for help. made her appearance. But
she had lost the race against time.
What living there were had been
taken on hoard the Carnathia. There
was nothing for the Virginian to do
but to report to her line Office at
/. Montreal and continue eastward to
Glasgow with her mails.
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the gay lights.
And then. in the tick of clock, all
this was changed. The extent of the
catastrophe must have been apparent
to passengers as we'll as officers. lfus-
bands sought for wives and children.
Families gathered together, Those
who were asleep hastily caught up
their clothing and rushed on deck. 1t
IS evident that discipline was pre-
served. The belief is that Captain
Smith FIRST Of all tried the switch that
llosed the s~.ter tight compartments
and then had the boatswain sound the
call TO quarters. The officers We're as
signed 10 the task of filling tile boats
and getting them overheard.
There We're boats enough only for
the women and children and a few of
the men. In this respect the equip
ment of the Titanic was similar 10
that Of Der sister ship, the Olympic.
She carried sixteen life boats and four
eolIapsihle boats, which We're actually
life RATS. They We're supposed to be
capable o. accommodating about LOO,
but many less than that found places
on them.
untll the Carpathia arrives Thurs.
day night bearing those who were
torn away from their loved ones no
body may know the dreadfnlness OF
the hours that followed
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. PROCEEDS SLOWLY WITH
; THOSE RESCUED.

: New York, April 16--cap-
tain Rostran of the steam
ship Carpathia today sent a
wireless message to the agent
Of the Cunard line, saying the
: Carpathia with over eight
hundred passengers of the Tt
: tanic on board, is proceed
ing slowly toward New York
: through field of ice. He ex-
pected TO reach this city Fri
day morning.
So far as known in this
. city at noon more than thr-
. teen hundred persons persisted
. when the steamship Ii
: tantic sank. The Carpatnia is
known to have 900 passen-
. gers on board, most of them
women and children. Only
fragmentary list of the res
. cued has been cabled here.
. Officials of the White. Star
line believe the steamer Vir-
sinian has picked up a num-
: Der of passengers whose
names are yet unknown. Mrs.
. John Jacob Astor is among
those saved.
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MANY HUNDREDS MOVE
AMONG THE GAY LIGHTS.

The blasting shrek of the sirens
had not alarmed the great company of
the Titanic. because such steam calls
are an incident of travel in seas where
logs roll. Many undoubtedly had gone
TO bed. but the hour. 1910 p. m, was
not too late for the friendly contact of
salons and smoking rooms. 1t was
Sunday night and probably the ships
concert had ended. but there were
many hundreds up and moving among
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FINDS ONLY WREcKA0E
or FLOATING PALACE.

For the rest, the scene as the Car
pathia came up was one OF desolation.
Ali that remained of the $4,000, 900
floating palace. on which nearly 1,400
passengers had been yoyaging luxar-
iously TO this side of the Atlantic,
We're some bits of wreckage.
The biggest ship in the world had
gone down, shutting out in her down.
ward plunge. 1t appeared, hundreds OF
human lives.
A significant line in the Cape Race
dispatch was the announcement that
OF those saved by the Carpathia nearly
all Mere women and children. Should
1t prove that no other vessel picked up
sny passengers OF the sinking liner
this might mean that few OF the man
On board had been saved. az the pro-
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PARTlNCS SADDER THAN
IMAGINATION CAN GRASP

But no comparison can lessen the
partings sadder than the imagination
can grasp, of weak and suffering WON
en- wrenched cruelty from dear ones
whose lives were matter OF honrs.
Perhaps ii was easier TO have died
than to live in that short space of
time while the Titanic staggered in
her shrond OF fog.
Her captain. Il. j. Smith. knew the
peril that lay ahead OF him along the
westerly track of steamships. Other
sayigators had found and avoided those
Tallid shapes in a smother of fog that
remain the unconquerable enemies OF
chips. Only a few hours before the
Titanic shattered her tremendous bulk
the Hamburg. American lines Amerika
wirelessed to the Titanic that there
were two large icebergs little east
and south OF the place where the
White Star colossus was finally i'll
Collision. That was on Sunday and
very shortly after receiving the news
the Titanic herself relayed IL to land
station from which the photographic
office heard OF It. And then, there
seems little reason to doubt, the III
tanie plunged onward and hurled her
self against these Very tergs.
A shadowy hint OF what followed
then has come from that area of wa.
ters that are ruled by fog and frost.
The wireless. modern miracle as it IS,
could not achieve the impossible and
snatch toward the Titanic in time to
rave her people the greyhounds that
were hundreds of miles away 1t has
not recounted clearly and faithfully
the episodes of the terrible four hours
While the great ship, struck from hap
piness and peace to horror and des.
pair, lay stricken among the groan-
Ing bergs. The story of the wireless
has been maddening snatches, bulle,
tins which skinned the top of sur.
mise, few figures. some conjectures,
and, finally, an ugly picture of green
sea strewn with wreckage and inn
perilled by grinding icebergs. But be.
tween the flashes of the marconigrams
and with the stories of the captains
who came too. late something of the
tragedy OF the Titanic can be written.
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Carpathia Was modified later to about
$780," but whether one message al
lowed for the boat crews and the other
did not was not made clear. There
is no absolute certainty here as to
how many souls We're on the Titanic
when she hurled herself against the
giant berg. The first estimate or the
line here was 2,1S0, the London Offices
estimate 1855 and an estimate here
vas 2,210 made up of 325 first cabin,
2S5 second cabin, TO steerage and $50
crew. With the lowest total AID the
highest list of saved there would he
1900 lost and the highest OF both,
I.500
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small number Of men, who were
able to find a place with the women
The list OF survivors includes wom-
en- and children from first cabin, Sec
ond cabin and steerage. No distine-
tons were made when the rule of the
sea sent women and children TO the
boats and left the men to their fate.
The first message from the Olympic
that filtered through the stormy airs
that there Were S6s survivors on the
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CRUISER CHESTER REPORTS
Warship Speeding Toward csrpathla
Flashes Back Message.

Newport. r. l.. April 1.-THE scout
cruiser Chester, which is speeding to.
ward the Carpathia under orders from
President Taft. was in touch by wire
less with the Nantucket soath shoals
lightship The Chester was at that
time estimated to be about 500 miles
from the carnathia.
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SAD BREAKING OF FAMILY TIES ON VESSEL
Ships Brave Crew Perished in the Icy Waste;
Small Number of Men Saved From
Burial at Sea.
Especial 10 The Free rress.l

New York April ia brief wireless word from Carpahia to-
day served only to make the Itanc disaster awful than
had yet been suspected According 10 flashed out from
the Cunarder which picking her TO New York through ice
pack than 1000 lives LOST when the great vessel
sunk Word brief exceedingly Indefinite The
message did not state the number OF ant passengers The Car
patia had board and contained nes OF the probable
number of those left behind 10 perish beyond the bare statement
that The loss is than 1000.
Later word received from the steamer Faneonia saying
The Capaa had reported the number OF Titanic passengers
board to be only 70o Previous dispatches habit that the Car
pathia was bringing SOS Itantic passengers 10 port.
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New York. April 16-- More than
1900 persons it is feared were
drowned when within four hours after
she crashed into an iceberg tile man,
moth White Star line steamer Titanic,
bound from Southampton to New
York on her maiden voyage, went to
the bottom off the Newfoundland
banks OF the approximately 2.20o
persons on board the giant liner. sons
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FEW OCEAN STRETCHES
ARE MORE DANGEROUS.

While the greatest of all ships was
driving steadily westward In the night
toward city that was awaiting her
with all of that city's interest in a
fine new thing Captain Smith was on
the lofty bridge. There can hardly be
doubt OF that, for shipmasters in
dangerous seas, and few stretches of
ocean are more trying at this season
of the year to navigators than the wa
ters that run between Cape Race and
Cape Sable, remain on watch night
and day, foregoing rest for many hours
at stretch.
1t seems to be clear that the Titanic
was running at great speed or else
the shock OF collision could hardly
have crushed q vessel that was re-
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TOLL or DEAD WILL BE
FELT THE WORLD OVER.

Ii cannot be doubted now that
among these were Colonel John Jacob
Aston. ISador Straus, Major Archibald
w. Butt, aide TO President Taft:
George ID. Widener of Philadelphia.
Carl III. Beher, the tennis champion;
jacques Futrelle, the writer; William
4. Stead, the London editor; Francis
ID. MiAet, the American artist; and
many, many more who were known on
both sides of the Atlantic. The toll
OF the Titanic's dead will be felt the
world over.
The names of the survivors wire
kssed here by the Olympic included
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New York. April 1.-The Cunad Line This afternoon gave
out the copy OF Marconi message received from Onfed
Thompson of Boston, who passenger the steamer ranoona
saying: Steamer ranconia established communication with
Carpahia 81 A. NJ New York time. The later then 49S
miles of Ambrose ohanna in need Of assistance steam
ing I knots Expect to reach New York eight O'Clock Thursday
evening" She has total 705 survivors aboard The Fran
COMA eayins personal messages from the Carpaha to Sable
Island
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New York, April ia wire
less message from the White
Star liner Olympic. one Of tire
vessels lowering near the scene
of the disaster. flashed the
news that S66 OF the THAMES
passengers. mostly women and
children, were being brought to
port by the Cunarder Carpa-
thia. II. as seems probable.
practically all those saved were
passengers. IL would appear
that all but approximately $50
of the vessels passengers are
accounted for.
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THESE NAMES NOT AMONG
THE SAVED.

New York, April f6.-Amona
the prominent passengers of
the Titanic whose names
have not yet been reported
among the rescued are: Ma
jor Archibald Butt, aide to
President Taft; Benjamin Gug-
eenheim, William r. Stead of
london; jacques Futreiie,
American novelist; Isador
Straus and John Jacob As
tor.
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New York. April l7.-Nothing that
came through the air from the sea
mitigated in any degree the pity aud
the horror of the Titanic tragedy, ex-
oept as individual distress was abated
BY the gradual addition of names to
the list OF the known survivors. There
are no known survivors that are not
on the Carpathia. The Virginian was
roo late and no other ship has report
ed finding any.
In the Icy, fog smothered seas where
the Titanic sank exposure must have
soon destroyed those who were left
10 life belts or wreckage when all the
boats were gone and no help had
come and the great steamship foun-
dered The receding Olympic, whose
powerful wireless began Oh Tuesday
morning to recite the names OF the
living, continued the work of relaying
the Carpathia's dispatches and the
successive bulletins posted al the
White Star Office kept many despair
ing man or woman waiting and sent
others away thanking God.
1T is practically certainty now
that nearly all OF the men OF the Ii
tanic's company went down with the
ship when she plunged two miles to-
ward the ocean floor or that they per-
ished miserably while clinging to
wreckage or life preseryers In the icy
waste that betrayed them. They gave
mp life within sight OF the little rock
ing boats that held their women and
children.
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M0NETARYLOss BIG; DIAMoNDSAND BONDS
Many Wealthy Passengers On Board Inflated
Vessel; Suffer Many Hardships; Boat Sinks
In Two Miles of Water.
Especial u The Free rress.I

New York. April 16--The White Star Line announced
officially one o'clock that they had received positive
news that the number of survivors on board the liner
Carpathia was 1858. This dispatch the White
Star Line from the Olympic which, is understood is in
wireless communication with the Carpatha proceed
ing to New York.
Two messages received shortly after 10 o'clock by the
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company from the COM
pany stations Cape Race and Sable Island made it
certain that there of the Ttanics passengers
either the steamship Partisan the Vrginian. The
death list as estimated at two o'clock this afternoon is
1871.
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ANXIOUS RELATIVES AND
FRIENDS CRAVE NEWS.

New York, April IAN
. anxious throng of relatives
and friends of the passengers
on the unfortunate Titanic
faced another day of heart
breaking apprehension and IN
; certainty as they gathered in
additional numbers at the
. White Star line offices this
; morning.
The Marconi Wireless Tele-
. graph company said they had
received no wireless commu-
. nication from Carpathia, but
. If the atmospheric conditions
. were favorable they expected
. to get in communication with
. the steamer through the slas-
. conset station late this after
. noon.
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! Johns, NJ. r, from Cape
: to indicate that large the
y the steamer Titanic
carpah picked
:. all the boats launched
: counted for
!. dren but had sufficient
+ tanics o
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or them or Worldwide prominence,
only s66 are known 10 have been
saved. The White Star Offices in New
York. while asserting hope 10 the last,
admitted that there had been hort.
bic loss of life"
Accepting the early estimates of the
fatality list us accurate The disaster
Is the greatest in the history OF nayi-
CATION Nearest approaching it In
magnitude We're the disaster to the
steamer Atlantic. also White Star
liner, IN 1873, when 547 lives were
| lost. and 10 La Bonrgone. 1898. with
Ia loss Of 571
Should 1t prove that other liners,
notably the Allan liners Partisan and
virginian, known 10 have been In the
other of her passengers the extent of
The calamity would be greatly reduced.
This hope still remains.
TiDiNGs OF TERRIBLE
DISASTER GREAT SHOCK.
News Of the sinking of the liner
and the terrible loss OF life in conse-
qpence came with all the greater
shock because hope had been buoyed
up by reports that the steamship, al.
though badly damaged, was not In q
sinking condition and that all her pas.
sengers had been safely taken of.
The messages were mostly unofficial.
however. and none came direct from
the liner. so that lurking fear re-
manned of possible bad news to come.
There came flashing over the wires
from Cape Race. within 400 miles OF
which the liner had struck the iceberg.
word that at 900 o'clock Monday
morning. three hours and tifty-five min.
utes after receiving her death blow,
the Titanic had sunk The news
came from the steamer Carpathia, re-
layed by the White Star liner Olympic.
and revealed that by the time the Car
Ipathia. outward bound from New York
and racing for the Titanic on q WIRE
less call. reached the scene the doomed
vessel had sunk
Left on the surface, however, were
iifeboats from the Titanic and in
them. as appears in meager reports re-
leeiged, We're some sec survivors OF
the disaster These. according to the
sdyices. the Carpathia picked up and
is now on her way with them to New
York.
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cARPATHiA WILL DOCK
FRIDAY MORNING.

. New York, April 1.-THE
. cunard line has announced
. that il received i wireless
dispatch from the Carpathia
stating that at eleven o'clock
. Tuesday night she was 500
: miles east of the Ambrose
; channel light and would be
; off Sandy Hook at nine o'clock
> Thursday night. She will
. probably anchor down the
/. bay and come up to the dock
. Friday morning. The COM
. pany stated that the wireless
dispatch said all on board
; the Carpathia are we'll.
BY Ambrose is meant Am
hrose channel entrance of
New York harbor.
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WEALTHY MEN WHO WERE. 4
ON BOARD TITANIC. 1

!. New York, April t7.-Weaith
: aggregatne something like
+ half a billion dollars is rep
: resented by seven of the pas
: sengers on the Titanic. II
+ calamity befell only few
!. of these seven, it would ma
: teriaIiy affect vast business
enterprises in the United
: States and England. The sew
: en- are:
: Colonel John Jacob
!. Astor ......... $4,000, 900
!. j, Bruce Ismay.. 100000
), Colonel Washington
). RoebIina 49,. 100000
!. lsador straus -. 100000
!. George o. Widener 100000
!. Benjamin Gugeen-
helm ........ $4,000, 900
: ]. q. Thayer. So. 100000
: Total ....... s42o, 100000
+ Ii the fortunes of the iirst-
+ class passengers alone we're
+ placed together, they would
+ easily make St,o0,ooo,oo0.
!. Foremost among the pas
!. sengers in point of wealth
+ was Colonel John Jacob AS
= tor, who was returning to
+ New York with his bride, for
!. merry Miss Madeline Force.
!. Colonel Astor's holdings may
!. amount to $150,ooo,0oo. Be-
!. sides attending to his realty
!. interest he was connected
!. with many corporations.
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