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On 1Carpathia; SEC'THlx" OI* THK TITANIC. SHOWING LONGITUDINAL * - » b* ...i.ink:il.lr. and utilized every modern improvement to Ê««^ * *-* - ¦^-» Tic bnllden of *. THsnfc procl_dH___! »>e flooded «H* to the ship s«a sus s-..- *s... rendered ¡t imponible to constnic._____^____Ä_xrrÄ^eornimrtmontt of such size that they muid ¦^.¦¡.J* aïswt^^JE^Sasttj raws SW suction that would surely draw ¡n time of dereA to torn tAT awr.y to be rle.ir of the great on land and sea that men have often observed under. »rred to the The steamship Carpathia, with several hun both gallant them d'Hvn when the Titanic dropped Virginian. true that men make this sacrifice at *U to 'MOÜÍÍLS,"W disaster. It is generally Not Quail at Thought of Dsath. red of the Titanic, is now en route to New York.'' who travel in the first and Cificors Do passengers women of the steerage as well as to those Darkness and fog added to the difficulty. Total darkness undoubtedly pre¬ crew were The statement that all the passengers and transferrei name dynamos that fed second cabins." vailed when the Ilfeboati were launched, for the lighting raies m m their data that the the dim light of oil .as qualified later. The White Star Line officials figured from thi wireless had long before passed out of commission. By the Titanic sank when well that within a few hours they woul«l "AT 2:20 THE TITANIC FOUNDERED." was forty miles from the place where lanterns the Titanic*» officers, knowing Olympic at o'clock last back th«-» cowards and helped the women So she sent the news last night. They calculated that 7 rest on the bottom with their chip, kept Wireless Operators Inter¬ the was out as the messag Shortly afterward following given the was 1,080 miles east of Sandy Hook. As the aver¬ 'nfl chl'dren to sa fet v. the "S O S" night Carpathia reach New The Titanic had. it Is thought, twenty lifeboats, e.ach capable of holding forty preted Signal rom Captain Haddock: run of the Carpathia is fifteen knots an hour, she should age pcrs-ou.--. At best these life craft could not care fur more than eight hundred That Supplanted "C Q D." a. m. the Titanic foundered. to Nev "At 2:20 Carpathia proceeding York early on Thursday evening. life rafts the use of these was not S. S. per-ons. There were sov«-*ral on hoard, but fork with passengers. H. J. HADDOCK, Olympic." mentioned in the «"»lympic's messages. There was plenty of help coming, but he said After this message was handed to Vice-President Franklin the sad part of it all waa that willing hands wer* too far away. OPERATOR OF EXPERIENCE TITANICS CAREER the a few "It is horrible ! HOW Women of the saloon who had been making merry aboard ship threi hours before were h'istled. with their Jewels and their purple and fine linen, "As far as we know, it has been rumored from Halifax that ENDED BY ICEBERG John George Phillips, Trusted WAS clad of the For once In lifi the the Car Into lifeboat« with their modestly sisters steerage. Employe of Marconi Com« iteamers have passengers on board, namely, Virginian, each a to this they were on a -nmmnn plane, huddled top-ether In lifeboats, where had While the new ten-mllllon-doll .r White Star liner Titanic, carrying pany, Had Best Appa« «thia and the Parisian. comm-in thought that she was leaving behind a father, husband or son to perish of the richest end most prominent pf»r3ons In the I'nlted States and ratus at Command. Haddock that the Titanic sanl Tort some lac» that them to the r<f th» ways. "Now we have heard from Captain .en .lie crash-d Into a fog in th* stee| pa brought parting* was steaming »Ion* on her mal trip «o v this We have also learned from him that the Car ¦attend, Rescued Only Witnesses of Titanic's End. (By Cabl« Tha Tr-inura.* it 2:20 morning. hidden iceberg, to the eastward of Tape Race, at 10.25 o'elodl OB Sunday night, 16 «"Tuesday) -The man Tltnntlc went down unseen by other eyes than those watery ones in London. April 675 survivors on board. she went to Ihe bottom of the Athntfo. Th» s»nt the fateful "S O S" »athia had and four hours later the who wireless ap. In WOrM left the lifeboats, and It is doubtful if even they through misty night for assistance, th» Marconi operator "It is difficult to learn if the Virginian and the Parisian havt Fresh from th* builders' yards, the hlga-est merchantman the p»al very wer» abl» to se» h»r sink. The awful roar as she plunged under «as perhaps aboard the Titanic, is John Oeorg» Phil« asked Haddock and oui Southampton last Wednesday with a passenger complement Of 1.470 lOali and my survivors on board. We have Captain had that she had ¦ resident of «lodalmlng, Surrey. from the speed sh- had t«een making with her forced draft the only sl(*n th» survivor« disappeared lips. aboard tht a crew of 890. and believed that no member An official of the Marconi '"ompany at Halifax to ascertain if there are any passengers time. Apart from the men who manned th" lifeboats. It is tgent and coa.1 it was certain Ih« would have re»ch*d this port in record told "The Dally Express'* representative picked of th» crew was saved According to those who know him. Captain Pmlth and her at* the time of tho Is one of their most trusted rwo steamships. Nothing thus far has heen learned ».»Indicate speed of the that Phillips hot- his officers assembled on the bridge, and, In accordance with the rules sea. "We much fear, however, that there has been a great loss o: collision, hut from the Impsct with th« Ice mountain that s-nt her to the at.d effl'-ient men. very bravely went down with their ship. been six in our em¬ the bast A "He hag yer,r« until we havt It la almost certain she was plunging along st close to 21 knots, ife. but it is impossible for us to give further particulars torn Several hours later, when those on th« Titanic had passed to rest, the ployment," that official said, "and he i» her triple screws could «give. jeard from the and the Parisian. We have no informador velocity cunard Uner Carpathia, which could undoubtedly have saved all hands, came by twenty-six years old. He has operate*! Virginian the wireless all over th» world and on Then 1,500 Persons Believed to Have Perished. at top speed, too lf.tr* to be of assistance. Wreckage and crowded lifeboats were i :hat there are passengers aboard those two vessels. More many vessels. His Installation on the any to where th» Titanic had been. hoard have thus fur been accounted for. and the onl] marks above the eurfa««e sl.ow great a of about Tr*t "We are that the rumors us that the Vir Only d"ô souls of the fJ$S on Tltanl«- possessed range very hopeful reaching with the ship In Th» «'»inarder promptly took the survivors aboard and p«it about for New all conditions. Usually, it is believed more than 1..V10 persons have perished biggest mtles «inder have survivors aboard are true. «ame later, but It Is nor, messages to a jinian and the Parisian to he unslnkabl*. York. The All in liners Virginian and Parisian by however, it wotild convey the world, which was thought distance. "There was a sufficient number of lifeboats on the Titanic to carry wake of the Tltani«*'* sister ship. known whether they gathered In any of those from the Titanic. much greater Misfortune and mishap had camped In 1h* "Phillips took day and night turns that the latest leviathan Over Sister's Qrave. til the passengers. (he Olympic, and It was hoped by the White Star Une Olympic Stops Younger with his assistant at the apparatus, », Wolff at Belfast, would have better lu«*k. At dusk yesterday the Olymplo at high speed came over the grave of her It was never for a moment left un- "I was confident to-day, when I made the statement that the Titanic from the Harland A yards, that Haddock , man Fate, however, seemed to have aet Its seal on th* big. nnwl*ldy queens of young«r sister and stopped. On her bridge stood Captain the watched. was unsinkable, that the steamship was safe and that there would be commodore of the White Star fleet. "The equipment of the wireless cabin the Atlantic, and the Tltani«* did not escape. Three times had the oiymplo whom the Titanic« disaster had made on the Titanic includ«ed nil the latest lo loss of life. The first definite news came in the message from Cap- costing her owners almost a million dollars for as he was leaving his «"»moe. P. A. P. Franklin, vir*-presi¬ been in trouble, th* mishaps Late last night, improvements and was the best of lt« rain Haddock." «irydorklng. loss of business and repairs dent of the International Mercantile Marine Company, was asked If there were klnd in existen« e." was off T.a«e on Pun- care on he the Titanic s Line had Only once did the Titanic get In trouble. That Cape enough lifeboats on the Titanic to take of all board, and replied that The oftVlal explained how Mr.
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