Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-04-20
1926 Lives Are
Probably Lost.
ONLY SIS ARE RESCUED
White Star Officials Admit a
Horrible Loss Of Life"

New York, April 16.--From Cape
Race, Newfoundland, last night came
the news that the mammoth liner Tt
tanic. the largest of all vessels afioat.
which struck an iceberg on Sunday
night off the Banks of Newfoundland,
had gone down.
The dispatch said that about 675
souls. including crew and passenge 5.
the latter chiefly women and children.
had been saved. This would indicate
that 1925 persons had been drowned.
since the Titanic carried 1900 persons
in all. including crew and passengers.
The sinking OF the Titanic. the
drowning of 1926 persons and the res
cue of only CTS, was admitted by p.
A. s. Franklin, vice president OF the
International Merchant Marine. At
first it was said that all the passen.
gers and the crew had been taken off
from the Titanic. Then Mr.. Franklin
made the admission that 1t could not
be definitely stated that no lives had
been lost"
Then followed the announcement Of
the White Saar officials that many
lives had been lost, and In making
complete admission, Mr. Franklin
termed the sinking of the ship and the
drowning of 1925 as horrible.
Mr.. Franklin refused to give out the
full text OF message received from
Captain Haddock, of the Olympic. sis
ter ship of the Titanic, which rushed
to the aid of the sinking liner
1t is possible that some OF the pas
sengers may have been picked up by
some other steamship than the yir-
gilman and the Carpathia.
The rescued passengers of the IT.
tanic, who were on board the Virgin
ian, were transferred to the Carpathia,
which Is steaming to New York with
them.
carpatha Finds Only Wreckase.
The steamship Olympic reports that
the steamer Carpathia reached the
Titanic's position at daybreak. but
found boats and wreckage only
She reported that the Titanic had
foundered at about 2.20 o'clock a. m,
In latitude 41.16 north and longitude
SOFA west.
The message adds that all of the
THAMES boats were accounted fer
and about 675 souls saved, crew end
passengers, latter nearly all women
and children"
The report from the Olympic states
that the Leyland liner Californian was
remaining and searching the vicinity
of the disaster The Carpathia, 1t wa
stated. was returning to New York
with the survivors.
Officials OF the White Star line later
admitted that only 675 persons had
been saved when the liner Titanic
went down off the Newfoundland
Banks after collision with an ice
berg. The admission was made afer
several previous announcements In
which 1t was said that lives had been
lost, but the number could not be
given officially
The first announcement was to the |
effect that the Titanic had gone down
and that her crew and all her passen
gers had been saved
p. A. s. Franklin, vice president of
the International Merchant Marine,
the highest White Star line official ia
New York, then said that 1T could
not be definitely stated that no lives
had been lost"
The following statement was given
out at the White Star iffices:
Captain Haddock, of the Olympic, /
sends wireless message to the White
Star offices here that the steamer I'll.
tanic sank at 2.20 a. m, after all pas
sengers and crew had been lowered to
lifeboats and then transferred to the
The steamship Carpathia,
with several hundred passengers Of
the Titanic. is now enroute to New
York"
The message received from Captain
Haddock. as made public by Mr.. /
Franklin, reads:
AT 220 a. m. Titanic foundered
Carpathia proceeding to New York
with passengers"
These wa5 reason to believe, how