The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-04-17
Only Meager Details Yet But Star
Line Officials Concede That
the Worst Is Feared
BUT 675 SOULS SAVED
OUT 1900 LIVES ABROAD
Steamers That Rushed to Answer
Distress Messages Found Only
the Life Boats Floating With
Women and Children on Board

More than LOU nundred persons,
it is feared sank to death early yes
terday when. within four hours after
she crashed into an iceburg, Mann
moth White Star steamer Titanic
from Liverpool to New York on her
maiden voyage, went to the bottom
of New FoundIand banks. OF the
1900 persons on board, some world
wide prominent only 675 are known
to be saved. The White Star officials
in New York, while keeping hope to
the last, freely admitted there had
been "horrible loss of life"
Greatest Marine Disaster
Accepting the early estimates of
the fatality list as accurate, the dis
aster is the greatest in marine his
tory. The nearest approaching this
magnitude We're the disasters of the
steamer Atlantic in 1878 when SAT
lives were lost and the La Bourgoyne
in 1898 with a list of SCI. Should
1t prove that other liners, notably the
Allan liners, the Partisan and the Nir
gilman, known to be in the vicinity
of the Titanic early yesterday, had
picked up other passengers, the eX-
tent of the calamity will be greatly
reduced. This hope remains
Early Reports Favorable
News of the sinking of the liner
and the terrible loss of life came
early in the evening with all the
greater shock because hope had been
buoyed up all day by reports that
the steamship, although badly dam
aged, was not sinking and that all
toll off 70
The messages We're mostly unofficial,
however, and none came directly from
the liner. so that fear remained that
possibly bad news was to come.
Real Shock Came Later
Shortly after o'clock last night
there came flashing over the wires
from Cape Race within four hundred
miles of which the liner had struck
an iceberg, word that at 2:20 o'clock
Monday morning, three hours and
55 minutes after receiving her death
blow, the Titanic had sunk News
came from the steamer Carpathia re-
layed by the White Star liner olympia
and revealed that by the time the
Carpathia outward bound from New
York and racing for the Titanic on
a wireless call, had reached the scene
the doomed vessel had sunk.
Only a Few Life Boats Left
Left on the surface, however, were
lireboats from the Titanic and in
them it appear, according to meager
reports received at a late hour, were
some rs survivors of the disaster.
These, according to advices, the
Carpathia picked up, and is now on
her way with them to New York.
For the rest, the scene as the
Carpathia came up, was one of desc
lation-all that remained of the
100000 floating palace on which
nearly 1,400 passengers had been
travelling to this side of the Atlantic
was mere bits of wreckage. The big
gest ship of the world had gone down,
snuffing out in its doward plunge it
appears, hundreds of human lives.
Women and Children Saved
A significant line in the Cape Rice
dispatch announcement that those
saved by Carpathia, We're nearly all
women and children. Should it prove
not other vessels had picked up any
passengers of the sinking liner, this
might mean but few men had been
saved, as the proportion of women
and children among the passengers
was large. The same facts likewise
spell doom virtually for the entire
crew of 500. In the cabins were $50
women and children, but it is not
known how many there were among
the 740 third-class passengers. in
the first cabin We're 12S women and
IS children, and in the second cabin
70 women and eight children.
Notable Persons Aboard
Notable persons on the Titanic
whose fate is in doubt from lack Of
definite advices as to the identity Of
the survivors We're Mr. and Mrs
Jacob Aston, Major Archibald Butts.
aide to President Taft; Charles NJ
HAYS, president Of the Crank Trunk
Pacific railway. his Wife and
daughter; W. T. Stead, Benjamin
Guggenheim. F. d Millet, the artist;
C. D. Widener, of Philadelphia Mr..
and Mrs. Isadore Strauss, j. r. ThaH-
err vice. president Of the Pennsylvania
railWa y; J Bruce Ismayi Henry b
Harris. theatrical manager and Mrs
Harris and Colonel Washington Roeb-
ling. builder of the Brooklyn bridge