The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-18

are being rushed into the lifeboats,"
were the last words that sputtcred
I into the wireless room of the Nir-
/ Binian from the Titanic.
All through the night and until her
wireless station was silenced, over
/ hundreds of miles of seas, from the
! antennae of the giant liner flashed the
mystic and magic IS. o. s." the world
wide cry of distress on the ocean
Every wireless operator within range
of the MANNED vessel dropped their
other messages to locate her, and
meanwhile relayed the fatal message
! to the world
The collision occurred In latitude
ALAG north and longitude SOFA west,
l,lJ0 miles east of New York and 45O
miles south OF Cape Race, the most
westerly point OF Newfoundland
Contrary to earlier dispatches there
was no storm when the vessel struck
The weather was clear and calm.
Almost as soon as the Nirginian
picked up the dit 'ress signal 1t was
recorded by the operator on the Olym.
pic. the THAMES sister ship. and next
10 her the largest vessel afoat This
was at midnight At that hour the
! Olympic was 200 miles from New
York en- route to Southampton.
The Olympic forged ahead under
full! steam, but wireless dispatches in.
dictate that she reached the scene too
! late to be OF any assistance.
The Baltic, famous for her rescue
of the passengers OF the steamer Re
public, and for her Jack Bins, who sat
alone and braved death to summon
help, was the next ship to pick up the
brief story of the ntanic's plight She
was on her way from New York to
Liverpool. but turned about and put
on full speed toward the Titanics pc.
sition.
The Partisan, according to her mes.
sages, reached the fiotilla of rescuers
shortly after the Baltic.
a wireless message from Captain
Haddock confirmed the fears of the
White Star line officials that all but
the go women and children who es.
capped In the small boats from the
100000 900 steamship had persisted. A
part of this message was withheld,
but enough was divulged to newsra.
pers to make certain the appalling ex.
tend of the catastrophe.
Not until Captain Haddock flashed,
Horrible disaster; all but 60 lost"
would the White Star officials believe
that the mightest ship ever launched
had gone down on her maiden voyage.
The sene In the White Star line
offices was pitiful. Brought to a real,
izatIon of the stupendous wreck-thc
complete destruction of the fruit OF
their dreams-gray haired men, many
of them veteran seamen. wept.
New York.-The tenor of all the
wireless messages that reached here
was that the Titanic sank before the
steamships that had heard her call for
help could get to her.
1t seemed clear that Capt. Smith
and his officers had lowered the
women and children and some CT the
men into the small boats, but that
most of the men passengers, as well
as the crew, periahcd with the going
down of the ship.
The Carpathia, the first of the liners
to reach the scene of the disaster. re.
ports by wireless that she found the
sea strewn with wreckage of the II.
tanic. which had already sunk The
rescued she carries were taken from
the Titanics lifeboats.
The Olympic reported that grave
fears were entertained for the male
passengers.
The officials of the White Star line
were struggling to get into communi-
cation with the Cunardcr Carpathia,
which has on board the GO women
ard children saved from the Titanic,
but not one word Of news could they
obtain. All they could get by wire.
less was the fact that the Carpathia,
which left New York on April 10 for
the Mediterranean, was retracing her
course to this port, bringing here the
women and children who were wild
owed and orphaned by the disaster,
Untold wealth was represented
among the passengers of the Titanic,
there being on board at least six men
each of whose fortunes might be reck.
oned at tens of millions OF dollars
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Her Ingenuity.