The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-02-21
Titanic Claims Go To Millions.

Claims for more than Sc, 900, 900 have
been filed as result of the loss of the
Titanic. The claims fall into three
classes for deaths, for personal injuries
and for loss of property. The death
claims amount to over 81, 900. 900. while
the claims for personal injury run up
to about $50, 900, and for loss of prop
erty to $1,000 900.
| Not the least interesting part of the
list of claims is the number of names
which are missing from it. The heirs
of John Jacob Astor, Mr.. and Mrs.
Straus, BENZ. Guggenheim, Charles
Hays, w. T. St cad and George Widen
er have not made any claims on the
steamship company for either the loss
of their relatives or the property they
happened to have with them.
The largest claim is made by Mrs.
Henry Harris, widow of the theatrical
man. She asks $1.0O0,000 compensa-
ton for the drowning of her husband,
S27, 700 for the loss of her own personal
property and 4,625 for the loss of her
husbands baggage. The value she
places on her own belongings is caused
by the number of jewels which she had
with her, among which was a $40, 00C
string of pearls and a $1,000 diamond
necklace. Claims for the loss of the
personal effects of Major Archibald
Butt are put in by Lewis Butt OF
Augusta, Ga, who values his seven
| trunks at 81, 200 but no money is asked
as compensation for the loss of his
life. Mrs. Lucy Millet, widow of the
artist, asks 500, 900 death claims and
for Lucian Smith death claim of $25-
900 and property claim of $8,431. &c
are entered. Portaluppi was one
among many that lost personal proper
ty of an unusual description, among his
efforts which he valued at $17,52 was
picture of Garabaldi signed by him
when he presented it to Mr.. Portal.
uppi's grandfather. This he asks So,
600 for, while H. B. Steffanson wants
$780, to compensate him for the
sinking of an oil painting by Blohdel,
while still another asks $50 for two
Irish crochet collars. A claim of SIT,
352, rs for jewels and wearing apparel
is put in by Mrs. Charlotte Cardeza of
Germantown, Penn. she lost fourteen
trunks and the inventory of her apparel
and jewels covers twelve type written
pages and among the items is a cake of
soap worth $1.75, ring worth $14. 600,
pink diamond worth 500 900. a pen
dant worth $4,000, Worth gowns
valued at $50. apiece, box of lace
$500. white petticoat $95. and eighty
four pairs of gloves and thirty three
pains of shoes. An unusual claim is
made by Mrs. Catherine Harbeck of
Toledo, Ohio. She asks $25. 900 for
her husbands death $55.853 for his be-
longings, among which was 10000
thousand feet of moving picture films,
which at fifty cents a foot comes to
$50. 600. A few claims are made in be-
half of the cargo carried on the Titanic.
Gray & Co of New York ask 1854 for
Roquefort cheese lost.
Here and there through the claims,
with their facts and formulars, appear
hints of stories that thrilled the world
when first told. Lawyers in putting in
the claims of their clients tell, in dra-
matte style, of how husbands were pre-
vented from entering life boats and of
claimants that were made sick and
suffered bodily injury and nervous
shocks for which they ask compensa-
! ton.