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WIRELESS ENDS LAST HOPE
THAT LIST OF SAVED FROM
TITANIC MAY BE INCREASED
Pitiless Sea’s Death Toll in Greatest Maritime
Disaster Reaches 1,302.
COL. ASTOR AND MAJ. BUTT SURELY LOST
Steamship Carpathia Is Believed to Have on Board
Only Survivors of the Titanic’s First and Last
Voyage, Newly-Made Widows and
Orphans in Large Numbers.
CAPE RACE, April 16.-*-A wireless message to-night from
Capt. Haddock of the steamship Olympic, relayed by the Celtic,
reads as follows:
“Please allay rumor that the Virginian has any of the
Titanic’s passengers. Neither has the Tunisan. I believe that
the only survivors are on the Carpathia. The second, third,
fourth and fifth officers and the second Marconi operator are
the only officers reported saved.”
PARISIAN HAS SAVED NONE
HALIFAX, N. S., April 16.—1 n reply to a dispatch sent
by the Halifax manager of the Allan Line, Capt. Haines of
the steamer Parisian sent the following by wireless:
“I have no survivors of the Titanic on board and no
official information as to the fate of the ship. Expect to
reach Halifax early to-morrow morning.”
CARPATHIA THE ONLY RESCUER
NEW YORK, April 17.—That the final roll of the rescued
from the Titanic disaster had practically been made up was
the impression that grew almost into conviction last night as
the hours went on without revision of the lists adding meas
ureably to the total of known survivors.
Os definite news of the disaster the night added little.
Down the Atlantic coast, fog enveloped in many places, as the
reports showed, crept the Cunarder Carpathia bearing the
868 lives that had been snatched from the waters when the
Titanic’s lifeboats, laden to their limit, one by one made their
way from the giant liner as it became known that she was soon
to take her final plunge.
But although the rescue ship was reported within wireless
range of Sable Island station at a comparatively early hour and
every wireless ear was waiting to catch the snap of a receiver
which might mean that the great secret of the liner’s death
Was about to be given up, midnight came and lyent and £he*
night began to grow old, and still the word had not (been spoken.
JL RE ®° RD 0F heroism
osny piling the available lists, the records of the
survivors of the disaster stands significantly thus: Men
79, women 233, children 16; total 328.
Os the remaining 540 known survivors it is estimated that
not more than 100 were seamen required to man the boats.
This would leave approximately 440, and in the ordinary pro
portions of women and children in the steerage, where the
passengers in the Titanic’s care numbered 710, it seems prob
able that the greater part of these 440 were women and their
litjle ones.
Nothing could show more plainly the heroism of the crew
and the men passengers who stood by the doomed ship, facing
practically inevitable death and sent the women and children
away in the lifeboats. Some would have to be left—that was
a certainty. Hundreds in fact were left; but to all appearances
the men who were left stayed behind, deliberately, calmly, step
ping aside to let the weaker ones, those to whom they owed
protection, take their way to safety.
“Sinking by the head. Have cleared boats and filled them
with women and children.”
MILLIONAIRES DIE TO SAVE PEASANTS
This was the final message the brave men sent the world,
for it was directly afterwards that their wireless signals sput
tered and then stopped altogether. The picture which inevit
ably presents itself in view of what is known is of men like
John Jacob Astor, master of scores qf millions; Benjamin Gug
genheim of the famous family of bankers; Isidor Straus, a
merchant prince; William T. Stead, veteran journalist; Maj.
Archibald Butt, soldier; Washington Roebling, noted engineer,
of any or all of these men stepping aside and bravely, gallantly
remaining to die that the place he otherwise might have filled
could perhaps be taken by some sabot-shod, shawl-enshrouded,
illiterate and penniless peasant woman of Europe. (
Thus the stream of women with toddling infants or babes
in arms, perhaps most of them soon to be widowed, filed up
from the cabins and over the side and away to life. The men
—by far the greater part of them—remained to die, millionaire
and peasant and man of middle class alike, bravely, it must
have been, sharing each other’s fate
and going down to a common grave.
Os the survivors, WHAT? Tell story ,
of peril and suffering with the revela
tion they will furnish of just what i
happened on board the stricken ocean
giant, pictures which will leave the
Imagination nothing to draw upon, still
remains to be told. How quickly they
will be able to tell it and clear up all
the mysteries of identity of which the
limited carrying capacity of the Car
■ pathia’s wireless has left the world in
. doubt, seemed to-night to depend
fc largely upon atmospheric conditions.
* The weather was thick on the coast
last night, not only interfering, it is
.-ielieted, with wireless communication
•*fcom the liner to Sable Island, but
J&obably with her rate of progress to
-smrd Xew York, whither she is head
ing. Mean while other methods of com-.
municating with her than by the land
stations are being tried.
From the Virginia capes the scout
cruisers Salem and Chester, armed
with powerful wireless apparatus, are
speeding toward the Carpathia and be
fore very many hours have elapsed it
is hoped they will be in close touch
with her.
No More Survivors.
All hope that some of the Titanic’s
survivors might be on board either
the Parisian or the Virginian had to
be abandoned late yesterday when it
was definitely learned that neither
steamer had picked up any one from
the big liner.
Search for bodies in the vicinity of
the disaster, it was learned, will be
taken up by the White Star line from
Halifax, where the cable steamer Mac-
Kay Bennett has been chartered to
proceed to the scene and remain un-_
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Up to 1:30 this morning, so far as
could be learned at any of the coast
stations, no tidings had come from
the Carpathia since she was able by
the aid of the Olympic’s relay many
hours before to send waverlngly ashore
a list of names of first and second
cabin Titanic survivors which she had
on board. It is thought—feared would
be a better word—that this list is now
practically complete. As for the rest,
direct advices from Sable Island re
ported that weather conditions were
bad for transmission and that only
faint communication was had with the
ship, she being barely within range
of call. It was thought too that the
wireless operator on the Carpathia had
become fatigued from his long seige
at the key of the liner’s wireless and
that he was resting, preparing for the
transmission of messages when the ship
comes into communication with sta
tions on the American coast.
New York, April 16.—At 5 o’clock this
afternoon Vice President Franklin of
the White Star Line said that so far
as he knew, the Olympic w-as still
standing by the Carpathia to relay
wireless messages. He added that he
had received no word from the Olym
pic. since 9 o’clock this morning and
had been unable to get either the Car
pathia or the Olympic by wireless
communication.
Mr. Franklin said also that the
steamships crossing the Atlantic had
entered into an agreement to aban
don the short northern route in favor
of the southern route as long as ice
bergs were reported in the pathway
of the former course.
The dispatch from Montreal, saying
that hope was still entertained that
the Parisian might have aboard some
of the Titanic's survivors. Mr. Frank
lin characterized as a "ridiculous re
port.” He added that "In my opinion
neither the Parisian nor the Virginian
has any survivors aboard.”
The Titanic was insured for $5,000,000,
Mr. Franklin said. On the ship, he
added, the White Star Line would lose
about $3,000,000. "This will be the
smallest part of our loss." he added.
Capt. Rcitron of the Carpathia in his
last wireless report to ths Cunard
company stated that his vessel was
proceeding slowly through a field of
ice to this port.
President Taft late this afternoon
directed the Secretary of the Navy to
order the scout cruisers Salem and
Chester to the scene at once from
Hampton Roads to meet the Carpathia
and send in by wireless to the govern
ment a complete list of the Titanic’s
survivors, she Chester was caught by
wireless about forty miles off the Ches
apeake capes and by 4 o’clock was
steaming northward at twenty knots
an hour, aiming to get as quickly as
possible into touch with steamers for
news bearing on the disaster.
The revenue cutters also were no’l
fled to stand in readiness to proceed to
the Carpathia if necessary. In the
event that the Salem had not sufficient
coal, instructions were given to dis
patch the cruiser North Carolina in-,
itead.
A possible chance of obtaining news
bearing upon the disastqn developed
early this evening when t«e Leyland
liner Californian came Into the zone
of wireless communication with Sable
island. The Californian was reported
at the Scene of the disaster shortly
after the Titanic went down and it
was thought probable that she would
have valuable information to commu
nicate.
Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia has
been instructed to send full details of
the sinking of the Titanic. Ail day
long tearful and anxious throngs
swarmed the offices of the White Star
Line and overflowed into Broadway,'
stopping traffic at times and keeping
police reserves busy maintaining order.
Col. John Jacob Astor is believed to
be among the missing. His wife and
her maid are safe on the Carpathia.
Isador Straus, the millionaire mer
chant; Benjamin Guggenheim, the cop
per magnate, and Edgar J. Meyer, vice
president of the Baranden Copper
Company, are still unaccounted for.
Whether Charles M. Hays, presi
dent of the Grand Trunk Railway, was
saved, was not known to-night. His
name was not among those reported
rescued by the Carpathia. A Canadian
dispatch early In the day stated that
Mr. Hays was saved. His wife and
daughter-were rescued.
The Treasury Department through
the customs office has given orders to
expedite the landing of the survivors
of the Titanic and to aid them in every
way possible upon the arrival of the
Carpathia.
Customs regulations have been sus
pended and the customs officers will
aid the survivors in finding relatives
and friends.
Vice President Franklin said late
this afternoon that his list of survivors
showed that 202 out of 325 first-cabin
passengers and 114 out of 285 second
cabin passengers of the wrecked liner
had been accounted for.
Charles P. Sumner, general agent of
the Cunard line in this country, said
to-night that he believed the Carpa
thia was within 60 or 70 miles of the
Titanic when the big ship struck the
iceberg.
Mr. Sumner, who had vainly tried
to reach the Carpathia by wireless
during the afternoon, salts he had no
way of telling just where the Car
pathia was at this time, but thought
she was steaming for New York. She
might be wdthin the New York wire
less telegraph zone and able to send
messages late to-night or to-morrow
morning, he said, but added that ne
had merely advanced this as a suppo
sition.
When asked regarding a rumor that
the Carpathia might put into Boston
and land her rescued passengers there,
Mr. Sumner replied that there was
nothing in the report. Had there been
but a few of the rescued ones this
might have been done, he said, but it
was his opinion that with more than
SOO survivors on board, the captain of
the Carpathia would make direct for
this city.
It was estimated that both the scout
cruiser Chester, and her sister ship,
the Salem, which was understood to
have started north about the time the
Chester headed that way, would be in
touch with the Boston wireless station
before midnight. The cruisers are ex
pected to communicate any informa
tion they may acquire to Washington.
Was Court Reporter.
Appleton, Wls., April 16. —George
Hart, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hart
of Appleton, was a passenger on the
Titanic. It is presumed he lost his
life. Mr. Hart was for many years
court reporter ®t Wausau.
Hears of Disaster, -Drops Dead.
Bolessevain, Manitoba. April 16.—J.
P. Alexander, former member of the
provincial Parliament, dropped dead
to-day when told of the Titanic disas
ter. f J
FIFTH AVENUE AND BOWERY WEEP
TOGETHER OVER TITANIC DISASTER
Hysterical Women Throng About Steamship Offices
Begging for Some Word from Relatives.
HONEYMOON ENDS
WHEN LINER SINKS
Millionaire Guggenheim’s Wife
Becomes Hysterical.
New York, April 16.—“ We are wait
ing for a complete list of the names
of the survivors and until this is re
ceived we can give no definite in
formation."
This was the only answer that could
be given to-day at the White Star
Line offices here to the thousands of
anxious persons who gathered there
seeking information regarding rela
tives and friends who are among the
victims of the Titanic disaster.
From early morning until late to
night pathetic scenes were seen in
lower Broadway and in Bowling Green
Park, opposite the steamship offices.
Hundreds of anxious Inquiries were
received also by long distance tele
phone.
Multitudes remained in the vicinity
of Bowling Green throughout the day
hoping against hope that their loved
ones were included among the sur
vivors on board the Carpathia, which
is ndw speeding to New Y'ork with
the passengers who were rescued from
the lifeboats after the Titanic sank.
Clerks in the White Star offices were
kept busy Informing those seeking news
that no information had been receiv
ed from the Carpathia or the Olympic.
The Incomplete list of survivors was
posted at the entrance of the White
Star office.
When word reached the scores of
men and women crowded into the nar
row corridors of the offices that Vice
President Franklin of the Interna
tional Marine Company had announced
that he was confident that the Vir
ginian and the Parisian of the Allan
line had none of the Titanic’s passen
gers on board, an atmosphere of deep
depression prevailed.
Vice President Franklin was locked
in his private office throughout the day
and few persons were permitted to see
him.
Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim, wife of
the smelter millionaire, was one of
the first visitors in the forenoon. When
informed that no word had been re
ceived of her husband, she *became
hysterical.
‘ Isn't there something that can be
done; can't you send steamships out
to search for lifeboats, which may yet
be afloat?” she appealed.
She was told that every steamship
within the zone of wireless had been
requested q> give assistance.
There a constant procession of
autouioWrjAßjjd taxlfabs and women
T<t>d the fiow<4-y '
hjihES Toteether in the foyer of the
buP>hns«g*»lhlla they scanned th# bul
’Mfw pi-httf the latest news of the
sea tragedy.
Men>- pleaded with the clerks not to
withhold information from them.
Scores of boys were calling out extra
newspapers announcing that more
than two-thirds of the Titanic’s pas
sengers had lost their lives, and so
anxious were waiting crowds for every
bit of news bearing on the disaster
that they bought the newspapers and
scanned the list, hoping that the one
In whom they were interested might
be found among those who had been
rescued.
After having waited in Bowling
Green Park for more than fifteen
hours, Mrs W. A. Wheelock of this
city was summoned when the first list
of names of survivors came by wire
less. She was told that her niece, Mrs.
D. W. Marvin, who with her husband
was returning from her honeymoon, had
been saved, but that no word had been
received as to the fate of Mr. Marvin.
Later In the day Mr. Marvin’s mother
and father called in quest of some
news.
Telegrams of inquiry were received
from President Taft and from scores
of other public officials in Washington
and other cities. Many cable mess
ages came from London and Paris.
In up-town New York wherever
means of information was available
the clamor for news was no less in
sistent.
Similar conditions prevailed in the
lobbies of the more prominent hotels,
where lists of passengers reported
saved from the Titanic were posted.
Memorial services for those who have
lost their lives in the sinking of the
Titanic will be held next Sunday morn
ing in the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine. Bishop Greer will make an
address and there will be special mu
sic.
7,000,000 PIECES OF
MAIL WENT DOWN
New York, April 16.—Postmaster Ed
ward M. Morgan stated to-day that
the White Star liner Titanic had on
board' 3,423 sacks of mail. It is not
likely, he said, that the mails were
saved.
As the standard ocean mail bag holds
about 2,000 letters, it Is estimated that
in all about 7,000,000 pieces of mall mat
ter have been lost. About 200 bags
contained registered matter. Postmas
ter Morgan said this afternoon that
these sacks contained on an average of
about 8,000 letters each. Jle estimated
that approximately 1,600,000 registered
letters and packages had gone to the
bottom.
BOATS HOLD BUT THIRD
OF SHIP’S PERSONNEL
New York, April 16. —Statistical in
formation of the life-saving apparatus
of the Olypipic, sister ship of the Ti
tanic, was given out to-day by the bu
reau of Inspection of steam vessels.
Figures for the Titanic are not avail
able, but as the two ships are almost
identical in size, it is not likely that
their life-saving equipment materially
differs.
The Olympic has sixteen life boats
and four rafts, calculated to accommo
date 1.171 persons. This means about
one-third of the total number of pas
sengers and crew together, which is
3,447, can be accommodated. It was
stated at the bureau that no ship is
required to have sufficient boat room to
accommodate all its complete passen
ger and crew list.
The Olympic carries 3,445 life pre
servers and 48 life buoys and these
equipments are made in compliance
with the regulations of the British
beard of trade. The United States bu
reau has no power except to see that
each steamship meets the requirements
j>l Its home government.
DISASTER TOLD BRIEFLY
STORY OF GREAT TITANIC
First cabin passengers 325
Second cabin passengers 285
Third cabin passengers 710
Total number passengers. . 1.320
Members of the crew'.. 860
Total passengers and crew.2,lßo
Number probably perished. . .1,312
Total number of known sur
vivors 868
Approximately 20 lifeboats
manned by 7 members of
the crew each 110
Estimated saved steerage pas
sengers 400
Named Survivors—
First cabin passengers: Wom
en, 141; men, 63; children,
6; total 210
Second cabin passengers:
Women, 92: men, 16; chil
dren, 10; total 118
Total number of survivors
named ... a 328
SUREARCHIEBUTT
DIED LIKE A HERO
WAS A MAN, EVERY INCH
Say Washington Folks, Who
Knew Him Best.
Washington, D. C., April 16.—Ail
hope for the safety of Maj. Archibald
Butt, aide to the President, was aban
doned at the White House to-night and
the belief is, now prevalent that he
found a watery- grave when the Titan
ic went down.
Archie Butt’s lovable and sturdy
qualities, his appreciation of manliness
in another, no matter what the sta
tion in life, his ability to make him
self at home in the highest social
realms or under reverse conditions,
endeared him to one and all alike.
“When you hear the real news you’ll
hear that Archie Butt was a hero;
that he refused to leave on the life
boats and that he stayed behind like
a man while the women and children
were being cared for," was the as
sertion of one intimate friend at the
White House to-day.
“I know that many people believed
Him merefe..*ta leader in high society,
but they didn’t know the man. There
is no whiter stuff than that out of
which Archie Butt was made. He was
a man through and through, though
gentle as a woman.”
And this testimonial to Maj. Butt
was one voiced everywhere, those who
knew him and his sterling virtues.
Wherever men met in Washington to
day the first anxious inquiry was as
to Archie Butt. He had been known
here as a newspaper correspondent
many years before he went into the
army, and his connection at the White
House, with both President Roosevelt
and Taft, brought him into almost the
same degree of public notice here and
throughout the country as President
Taft.
NO NEEDFOR SUCH
MONSTER VESSELS
House Committee Would Limit
Vessel’s Size.
CONGRESS GETS TO WORK
In Effort to Make Disasters
More Nearly Impossible.
Washington, D. C., April 16.—Stirred
by horror of the Titanic disaster, ail
official Washington to-day was pre
paring for steps to minimize the pos
sibilities of another such tragedy.
Congress began framing legislation
to govern life-saving appliances and
wireless and President Taft, doubly
touched by the probable loss of his
friend and military aide, Maj. Archi
bald W. Butt, held conferences with
cabinet officers to consider government
control over the operation of wireless.
The House to-day unanimously
adopted a resolution of condolence to
the relatives of those who lost their
lives on the Titanic. The resolution,
which was offered by Representative
Austin of Tennessee, Republican, fol
lows:
"Resolved, that this House has heard
with profound regret and sorrow of
the appaling loss of life on the steam
ship Titanic and expresses its deep
sympathy for the relatives of those
who perished in that great disaster.”
A searching investigation by the
House into the sinking of the Titanic
was provided for in a resolution offer
ed to-day by Representative Mott of
New York, Republican, with a view to
the enactment of legislation providing
for proper safeguards for human life
on board all vessel arriving at or
leaving United States ports.
The inquiry will be made by the
Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com
mittee. which will be endowed with all
the powers of a high court.
Representative Alexander of Mis
souri. chairman of the committee, de
clared this catastrophe should stop
the building of such enormous vessels,
for which there was no commercial
need. This could be accomplished, he
said, by legislation to limit the size
of ocean-going vessels admitted to
American ports.
"This committee will soon report a
bill to regulate radio-communication,”
said Mr. Alexander.
"There should be an international
agreement for protection of sea traffic,
regulttion of the size of ships and
designation of what routes vessels
should travel at different seasons. If
the Titanic had taken a longer south
ern route the disaster would not have
occurred.” t
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TERROR OF THE SEA
IS GREAT ICEBERG
Out of the Night Hugh Shape
Looms Ahead.
THEN COMES THE CRASH
Thus Did the Titanic Go to Her
Doom.
New York, April 16.—False news and
false hopes and an international be
lief that the palatial Titanic was prac
tically unsinkable, have followed the
slowly unfolding accounts of her loss
in away without precedent. Eager
crowds in a dozen cities in the United
States besieged bulletin boards when
it became known that Che giant liner
had really Sunk with terrible loss of
life and in New York city hysterical
men and women crowded into the
White Star Line offices seeking news
of relatives. Vincent Astor, Col. As
tor’s son, spent the entire night wait
ing for some wireless tidings of his
father, alternately visiting the White
Star Line headquarters and the news
paper offices.
The speed at -which the Titanic was
going when she shattered herself
against the iceberg will perhaps never
be known until the first of her sur
vivors reach port. Whatever her rate
of progress, however, ship builders
here and abroad must admit that while
the modern steamship may defy wind
and weather, ice and fog remain an
ever present element of danger. No
ship, they point out. no matter how
staunchly built or how many water
tight bulkheads protect her, may
plunge headlong against a wall of ice
without grave results. The general
opinion is that the Titanic’s equipment
was put to an extraordinary test which
no vessel could have -withstood.
“Under ordinary circumstances these
water-tight compartments will pre
serve a ship from sinking,” said A. L.
Hopkins, president of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com
pany In New York, "but smashing in
to an iceberg could produce shattering
effects that would render a ship help
less beyond the protection of any de
sign yet known. In fore and aft col
lisions where the compartments are
punctured the lowering of either end
of the ship produces an increased
strain on the other compartments.”
Granting that only the fore bulk
head of the Titanic had been crumpled
by the impact with the iceberg, Mr.
Hopkins was inclined to think that
the relative buoyancy of the remain
ing compartments would have been
sufficient to save the vessel. . In as
much as he was not familiar with the
relative division of the Titanic s com
partments, he could not estimate how
many compartments must have given
away the impact of the col
-11 Robert Stoker, naval constructor of
the Brooklyn navy yard, said:
Did She Hit “Pinnacle” Berg?
•Tn the case of the Titanic I am in
clined to think that her sinking was
due to the effect of grounding rather
than to the impact of collision Fre
quently a ship strikes what is known
an ’pinnacle’ rock, ripping open her
keel. The Iceberg against which the
Titanic smashed her bow may have
had some such submerged projection
which did damage to the keel. If the
forward bulkheads of the vessel had
held after the impact which smashed
the bow, it certainly seems that the
relative buoyancy of the remaining
compartments would have been suffi
cient to keep the ship afloat. I am
compelled to believe that a great many
of her compartments must have been
punctured or sprung.”
Lewis Nixon, the eminent naval arch
itect, is inclined to think the Titanic
was either traveling at full speed or
perhaps crashed Into a berg so tre
mendous that there was practically no
give.
"If the Titanic hit one of these great
ice masses,” said Mr. Nixon, 'lt is
likely that she struck one that had
no more give than a rock. Under the
circumstances something had to give
way, and as the Iceberg did not, the
great ship had to crumple up. It is
conceivable that an impact of this sort
might have buckled her longitudinal
plates from end to end. shearing off
and starting rivets and opening up
the water-tight compartments through
out the length of the vessel.”
For many years steamship men have
asserted that the safest place is to be
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on a well-equipped ocean liner. In
proportion to the number carried, the
statistics show there is less loss of life
and less chance of Injury on board a
modern liner than there is in any other
means of transportation. Fleets come
and go from New York and other ports
with the regularity of the tides and
those carrrying mails maintain a
schedule which almost equals in punc
tuality that of all mall trains.
Trans-Atlantic steamers travel in de
fined routes known as “steamship
lanes,” the westbound and the east
bound. This reduces to a minimum
the chances of collision with one an
other. But icebergs and derelicts have
no respect for these rules and float
in the paths or wallow across them
to be a dire menace in time of fog
or very thick weather. There is no
way to give warning until too late.
Out of a smother of fog a pallid shape
may be glimpsed over the bows to be
followed a half minute later, by th«\
of the bows against the” mascot
The brief .Wireless '{Ji<>ntcheff receiv
ed so far shT»w that the passengers and
crew passed through thrilling experi
ences from the very moment that the
Titanic crashed into the Iceberg in the
dead of night until the Carpathia, sev
eral hours later, reached the scene and
rescued the survivors from life boats
floating tn a sea of ice. The collision
occurred at a time most of the passen
gers had retired or were about to go
to bed. The shock of the collision
sent many of the passengers to the
decks partly dressed.
A wireless dispatch came through
Camperdown, N. S., saying that the
passengers were ordered to the life
boats at once, and that many were
scantily clad as they took their places
in the boats. This would indicate that
the Titanic’s condition was such that
no time could be spared to return to
state rooms for additional clothes.
Danger still confronted even those
who were so fortunate as to be put
aboard the life boats. Huge quantities
of field ice covered the ocean, a wire
less dispatch says that in the dark
ness the crews had to guide their boats
with the greatest care to prevent be
ing jammed and overturned. The ice
was so heavy that the life boats could
not force their way through it and
as a result the boats finally became
separated.
The air was biting cold and the
chill that rose from the ice floes caus
ed the passengers to hover close to
gether to keep warm. All through the
night the life boats bobbed helplesslj'
between the shifting cakes of ice while
the survivors prayed for dawn.
Soon after 2 o'clock the Titanic made
her final dive into the sea, carrying
with her hundreds of persons to death.
Daylight came and with It arrived
the Cunarder Carpathia, which found
only the score of life boats filled with
crew and passengers floating helpless
ly near where the Titanic had passed
under the waves.
WHY HE HELD'BACK
THE TERRIBLE NEWS
White Star Officer Gives His
Seasons.
New York, April 16.—Vice President
Franklin of the White Star Line has
been criticised to-day for his definite
reassuring declarations of yesterday,
which tended, as alleged, to mislead
the public.
Mr. Franklin this afternoon gave to
the public the full text of the wireless
message from Capt. Haddock of the
Olympic yesterday afternoon.
“The reason I did not give it out last
night,” Mr. Franklin said, "was be
cause it was so discouraging that I
felt that it would not be right to alarm
the public unnecessarily. Now that
the worst is known I am willing to
give it out. Here it is:
" ‘Carpathia reached Titanic’s po
sition at daybreak. Found boats and
wreckage only. Titanic had foundered
about 2:20 a. m., in 41.16 N, 50.14 W.
All boats accounted for. About 675
souls saved, crew and passengers.
Latter nearly all women and children.
Leyland liner steamship California re
maining and searching for exact po
sition of disaster. Carpathia returning
to New York with survivors. Please
Inform Cunard. Haddock.’ ”
HAZLEHURST PRIMARY
Hazlehurst, Ga., April 16. —HazH-
hurst held the primary election foe
mayor and a board of aldermen yes
terday, with the following results: B.
B McDonald, mayor; aidermen, J. J-
Frazier, J. H. Boone, J. N- Smith, W.
W Finley. H. D. Wilson. W. L. Beall
and R C. Williams H. G. Moore was
elected a member of the school board.