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* * * * To-dar. unkettled. PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT Vou LXXII....N0 23.893. To-morrow, fair; variable «rind». NEW-YORK. TUESDAY. APRIL 16. 1915.-POURTEEN *^JBt^mS% 1,340 PERISH AS TITANIC SINKS; ONLY 886, MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN, RESCUED ' STRUCK DIAGRAMMATIC MAP SHOWING POSITION OF THE TITANIC WHEN SHE Wireless from Olympic s Captain Gives News MD BEIGES THE ICEBERG AND LINERS RUSHING TO HER ASSISTANCE. and Weeping Women Gather at White Star Offices to Learn Fate of Relatives WHITE STAR OFFICE .1,323 Passengers on Ship Line Officials Only Able to Tell and Crew of 890. Inquirers That but 675 of 2,200 Were Saved. SURVIVORS EIGHTHOURSIN BOATS VINCENT ASTOR SEEKS NEWS No Word from Virginian or Parisian. Which Vice-President On Early Bulletins Two of Strau; Franklin Saved Others.Disaster Greatest in Family Started for Halifax to Hopes Meet Mr. and Mrs. History, if Hope Is Unfounded.Captain Isidor Straus. Believed to Have Gone Down Hundredp of telephone rails and tele- at His Post of Duty. graphic Inquiries p<ured into the office« of the White Star Line in lower Broad¬ way last night, asking Information as ti¬ ON TITANIC..._...... 318 FrRST CLASS PASSENGERS 261 the safety of friends and relatives wh« SECOND CLASS PASSENGERS ON TITANIC.** were on the Titanic PASSENGERS ON TITANIC.», 7-40 "* CLASS From about o'clock in the evenin*. THIRD 890 OF THE TITANIC. on the answers piven hy the rompan; CREW were far from reassuring, and a llttl« TOTAL . 2.209 later In the evening people began t«> SAVED ON THE CARPATHIA. 866 come in person, seeking t«"> get more defi¬ REPORTED nite news MISSING. 1,343 Vice-President Franklin of the Whit« about Star Line could tell them only that his The White Star liner Titanic sank at 2:20 a. m. yesterday latest information from Captain Had¬ Hook. dock of the Olympic was to the effect 1,150 miles east of Sandy of survivors, and crew, that the Titanic sank at 2:30 a. m. yes¬ First reports placed the number passengers terday and that 873 passengers had been this a relayed by the Olympic saved. at 675. At 2:30 o'clock morning dispatch Shortly after !"» o'clock Mrs. W. Addi said the number aboard the Carpathla was 866. son Wheelock. of No. .M7 Riversld ? said that the Allan Line steamer Virginian had Drive, with her daughter, came up to A still later dispatch the desk and asked whether Mr. and probably picked up some of the victims. », Mrs. r». W. Marvin had been saved. of the International Mercantile They gave her the bare facts as related P. A. S. Franklin, vice-president 675 out of above.the gist of Captain Ha-ddock's Marine admitted last night that probably only and the women brokt* Company, message, down were which means that sobbing. more than 2,200 souls on the lost vessel saved, From her broken sentences It wa«i went down with her. learned that Mrs. Marvin was her more than 1,500 persons sister, was out it was returning from a honeymoon trip abroad. When the full text of the Olympic's message given Astor Party Arrives in Auto. found that it estimated the loss at 1,800. A few minutes later Vincent Astor ar¬ 11 o'clock last a slight ray of hope that more rived in an automobile, accompanied by Shortly before night in a message A J. Drexel and Walter A. Dobbyn, than the 675 on the Carpathia had been saved appeared Colonel Astor's The secretary. Astor at Sable Island, near the scene of the dis¬ party was shown up to Vlee-Presblent from the Marconi operator Franklin's private office. What trans¬ aster. pired there was not giv.*n out. but yount- the of wireless mes¬ Af-'or «ame out with tears in his apeé In answer to an inquiry regarding deliveiy heard from at Sable Island replied "Have you anything your sages to passengers on the Titanic, the operator father?" he was asked. "as the are believed to "Nothing hut what 1 have read in th» that it was difficult to deliver them, passengers new.-papers," he answered, and then the be among several vessels." ant and dispersed party got into their «mobile went York on the Cunard liner Car¬ back uptown. Those saved are coming to New Sylvester Byrnes, secretary to Isid«»** a few minutes later. Ha pathia. Straus, came in New York on Thursday night. said that Jesse Straus, a son of hla The is expected to reach Carpathia the employer, was on board th«; Amerik.«. a wireless message to her last night asking that Her¬ Mr. Franklin sent .astbound, and that ..nother son. sent wireless. b-art. was on his way to Halifax, «x- names of the survivors aboard be by p<=»cting to m« ft the Cnrpathia there an Astor was among those lost and that «*<.»" A report that John Jacob greet his father. Herbert started last but could not be Hallfax as s«»on as the information, giv¬ Mrs. Astor had been saved was current night, en out by the White Star Line carli¦ r in the day. indicated that the Carpathla confirmed. ' , . ;!i" -___------- __-___. .J.-_. would st<am for Halifax, and that ¦' . Ii MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN SAVED. would have on board practically all th1- THE GREATEST BTEAM8HIP EVEB BUILT, WHICH K.J. SMITH ON Till: BRIDGE OK THE TITANIC. THE TITANIC, those saved. Of the passengers of the ill-fated Titanic. CAPTAIN ON HEB KIB8T TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE. Both passengers and crew are among passen¬ to Her¬ are silent, M Is fatttoed «be went «fl^wn with his eWp. FOUNDERED Byrnes endeavored intercept Aliiioti-.il w_i_>I***m raporta women and children. onvcyn." saved nearly all are bert Straus with a message gers via the the later information, but was un*=uc- The received is from the Carpathia, Olympic». Mrs. only report cessful. He said that both Mr. and "LOSS SOULS," and the Parisian, which were also racing to the founder¬ Isidor Straus had been aboard the NAMES OF SURVIVORS 1,800 The Virginian Titanic. Titanic, have not yet been heard from. All Saved. ing First Thought CARPATHIA OLYMPIC'S »MESSAGE The Olympic, of the White Star Line, reported that the Carpathia out THE The earlier Information given by ON of the Titanic. the local officials of the line. It was be¬ was the first vessel to reach the position lieved, was responsible for the compara¬ found small boats and wreckage. tively small number of Inquiries made That Estimated Number Is Too She only List of First Cabin Belief Here were accounted for, to tha at the offices last night, because those Wireless Brings Partial All the boats of the Titanic according who had friends or relatives aboard 300.-Rescuers Find Wreckage. «sent to bed last night secure In their Passengers Saved from Titanic. Large by Olympic. 11 o'clock last on the latest statements of the Franklin said shortly after night belief, based 15..Followii J. Flynn. The text of the message from the steamer Olympic reporting Vice-President the company yesterday afternoon, that Cape Rsce, N. F., April Fortuns. that the had of the first csbin passe Miss Alice and the rescue of 675 survivors, which reached he had received a wireless message saying Carpathia the Tltanlc's passengers were safe on is a partial list Mrs. Rortcrt Douglss. sinking of the Titanic that fleet of the gers who wer« rescued from the Titani Miss Hilda Slayter. that lives were lost. of the Titanic she carried from a small Carpathla. Mrs. P. Smith. here late last also expressed the opinion 1,800 rescued the survivors who - missed). night, From another inquirer appeared Mrs. Jacob P. (word Mrs. Braham. :30 o'clock more than eight at the late last right came the Mrs. Edward W. Appleton. "Loss total 1,800 souls," the dispatch said in its concluding lifeboats up at lO yesterday morning, offices Abbott. Miss Lucille Cartsr. likely picked story of Arthur Ryerson and his family Mrs. Rose William Carter. Titanic sank. Miss G. M. Burns. Roberts. sentence. hours after the coming over on the Titanic to attend the D. D. Cassebere. Miss all Miss Miss Cummings. is an the he believed the was making possible iuneral of a son of the family who died Mrs. William M. Clarke. It is and believed here that this error, unless He said that Carpathia Countess of Rothes. hoped were a f«*w In Mrs. B. Chibinaco. that the rescued passengers, who days ago Philadelphia- E. G. Crossbie. C. Rolmane. more on board than was She carried for New York in order George Madoff, the friend of the Ryer- Miss Mrs. Florence Mare. Titanic had passengers reported. speed Miss H. E. Crossbie. Miss Alice Phillips. have medical attention at the earliest aona who made the Inquiry, said that Miss Jean Hlppach. about 2,200 including passengers and crew. Deducting 675, suffering from exposure, might his two Harris iwirelsss var Mrs. Paula Munge. persons, "with Mr. Ryerson were wife, Mrs. Henry B. - B. Miss Rosie (word missed). would indicate a loss of more than 1,500 persons. L. Y. Harris). - daughters, a aon and a maid. They had sion Mrs. Mrs. Jane (word missed). the known saved, minute. cablea Mrs. Alexander Halvsrson. 0.- (word missed). remained in the vicinity of tha baan touring Europe when Miss Margaret Hays. Miss Phyllis The dispatch follows: The Leyland liner Californian of the death of the Miss Bertha-(word missed). Olympic's reached them telling Mr. and Mrs.