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•••••••• •• • • • •••••••••••• • • PASSENGE7/ JN • IS UNSINKABLE •illN LIFE BOATS • DECLARE OWNERS"EARLY •, BULLETINS • BO £ J VESSEL • Titanic Would Keep Afloat In • | • J ' >• AFTER THE CRASH • Spite of Accl- • j FROM THE SEA • • ,,asa. • • dents. ' •! • ^ :• • •! • [Unied Press Leased Wire Serv- • • [United Press Leased Wire Serv- • Morning Dispatches and Wireless i • ice.] • "Have Struok an Iceberg; We Are • ioe.] • ID BY WIRELESS • NEW YORK, April 16.—The • Badly Damaged; Rush Aid," Was • NEW YORK. April 16—The • Flutters Regarding the »* • White Star line officials here this • the Message • White Star line officials, after a • Wreck of the • morning gave out the following • • conference lasting more than an • Titanic. Giant Steamship Titanic Struck by Iceberg in • partial list of first class passen- • Received. • hour today, Issued an official • motors had been stopped. It develop­ • statement In which they stated • I ed, however, that there were reserve • gers who were booked to sail • v>^-. * r:-:h • from Southampton, Cherbourg • • that the great liner was unslnk- • I Midocean and Reported Sinking With motors and storage 'batteries for the • and Queenstown on the Titanic • • able and that there was no rea- • wireless and when this became known 2200 on Board. • as follows: • • son to believe that she either • REVENUE CUTTERS HELP some of the apprehension was reliev­ OUT IN HID OCEAN • had or could founder. They de- • ed. • Mrs. N. Aubert, Harry Ander- • • son, Miss Cornelia Andrews, Miss • • dared the Interruption to the • Finally, at 8:30, a brief wireless • Elizabeth Waiton, Mr. and Mrs. • • wireless was not significant of • stating that the Titanic was still afloat • R. L. Beckwith, Mrs. James Bax- • • danger. The statement reads: • and proceeding slowly under her own Women and Children Were Placed Uncle Sam's Ships Could Offer No • ter, Mr. Qulgg Baxter, Miss Elsie • • "While we are not in direct • 1 steam, was picked up. Then came • Bowerman, Mrs. W. Bucknell, • In Life Boats Ready to be • communication with the Titanic, • Aid as None of Them Were ILL WERE SAVED FROM WATERY GRAVE word that the Cunard liner Carpathia, • we are perfectly satisfied that the • • Mr. and Mts. D. H. Blschop, T. • In the Vicin­ the Allan's liner Parisian and Vir­ Lowered Into the • Beattie, A. H. Barkworth, Henry • • ship ls unsinkable. That no more • ity. . ginian, were "standing by" and that • Blank, A. O. Beardmore, Miss • 8ea. • wireless messages are coming • the Baltic was oomlng up fast. • Caroline Bonnell, B. P. Calder- • • from the ship 1b not a sign of • Appeal for Aid Brought Other Vessels to the -r;::.1' i • head, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Cly- • • danger and may be due to atmos- • Passengers Saved. • more, Charles T. Crane, Mr. and • • pheric conditions or something • Rescue and Passengers Were Another brief and fragmentary wire • Mrs. W. M. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. • MONTROAL, April 15.—At 8:30 the • like that. • [United Press Leased Wire Service.] less followed, telling that the trans­ • T. W. Cavendish, E. P. Calley, • Titanic was still afloat, her engines i • "The ship ls reported to have • WASHINGTON, Aiprll 15.—Follow­ Transferred. shipment of the Titanlc's passengers • Mrs. L. Chiball, Howard B. Case, • were working and at that hour she • gone down several feet by the • ing an Interchange of wireless mes­ had been begun. The first boat loads • Dr. George Lymer, Mr. and Mrs. • was crawling slowly in the general • head. This may be due to water • sages with revenue cutters of the New were rowed to the Carpathia. The • Walter McClark, George Quincy • direction of Halifax and toward the • filling the forward compartment • England coast, the service headquar­ boats of the Titanic are the very latest • Clifford, Mr. and Mrs. E. Carter, • Virginian, which is en route to her. • and the ship may go down many • ters here today announced that lt United Presg Leased Wire Service.]| Only meagre advices regarding the in the life boat line, wide and non- • Miss Lucile Carter, Wm. Carter, • • feet by the head and still keep • would not send aid to the disabled CANSO, N. S., April 16.—The White wreck have been received here by the The Titanic reported that the wo­ sinkable. They are capable of ac­ • Mrs. F. C. Douglas, Mrs. B. De- • men and children had been put in the • afloat for an indefinite period. • liner Titanic. Star liner Titanic, having transferred wireless and these fail to clear up commodating SO passengers in addition • villiers, Mr, and Mrs. Washing- • • "We cannot state too strongly • "The only revenue cutters now any­ her passengers to the Parisian and how the accident took place, or wheth­ life boats and that they were ready to the crew. However, there was no • ton Dodge, Miss B. M. Eustis, • to be lowered at a moment's notice. • our belief that the ship ls nnslnk- • where near the Titanic are at leflst Carpathia, was, at 2 o'clock this after­ er there was a panic among the pas­ necessity of overcrowding and only • J. I. Flinn, Miss Marguerite Frol- • • able and the passengers perfectly • three days run from the disabled sengers. That Captain Smith, admir­ This will not be done, however, until noon, being towed to Halifax, by the thirty-five passengers were loaded in­•ichers, Mrs. Goldenberg, Herbert • j tian that the disabled liner Is safe. •! liner," an official said. "Manifestly Virginian of the Allan line. al of the White .Star's fleet and in lt ls cer to each of the "boats. • H. Billiard, Mr. and Mrs. H. • I acMally asking. • "We figure that the ship is 1,- • lt would be too late to do any good." The Virginian passed a line to the command of this latest ocean crea­ The work of transfer, dangerous at • Sleeper, Mrs. John . Hogeboom, • • 080 miles from New York and six • Titanic as soon as the passengers had tion, realized the danger was shown The weather this morning was clear any time, was less hazardous than • Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Hoyt, Rev. • and calm. The pumps of the Titanic • hundred miles from Halifax. The • No News There. been transferred and the latest word by an appeal for aid. The wireless of usual because there was practically • P. Stewart Holden, W. D. Hog- • • Virginian is due to reach her at • BOSTON, April 15.—General Mana­ revived by wireless was that there the Titanic picked up the Cape Race were being worked to their utmost, no wind and the sea was calm. Many • ford, Mr. and Mrs.' F. R. Kenyon, • lt was stated, and while the forward • ten o'clock, the Olympic at three • ger J. H. Thomas of the White Star -was no doubt that the new White Star station and immediate aid was de­ of the passengers carried their most • Herbert Klablr, Mr. and Mrs. E. • • this afternoon and the Baltic at • offices here made the following ^ xr »r. u i, « „ . T , a i holds Were full of watff. the water liner would reach port. Agents of manded. valuable belongings with them, but • four." • statement to the United Press today: ; the White Star line at Halifax have The Allan liner Virginian was the J r *! tight compartments were holding and there was no attempt, so far as could Miss Gretchen F LongleyMilton •;„ they etAnd the 8traln there iB hope • Throughout the morning the • "We have no news from fihe Titanic. teen ordered to have wreckage, tugB first to bo reached but almost before be made out from the meagre advices • • White Star offices here were be- • h°nSr< htw ^ ' *! that the levlathian will yet make I cannot understand why wireless sent out to aid the Virginian with her she had turned her prow toward the that have reached here, to move hand • Fletcher:her Fellows, J. R. McGough, • ; • selged by friends of passengers • •port. , communication with the Titanic to# Into port - . wounded levlathian, other craft had baggage. • Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Mlnehan, • on theliig liner who^ wanted^ defi- #1 ij i stopped. She is not too far started on the same errand. There ls no doubt of the grave > B 0U d The women and children were the Miss Daisy Mtnehan, J. Conan • . . trt . _ . **,_!• nite information., . The telephones" — • Jia4.nnt tn .nonir tr> r»no TRace unless Unparalleled Case. - Thea^jirta -a cruel waiting time, P flret to leave the, »hfp. They had a,!#.Mlddleto \ ?; TVM. Caffey, T, J. Z (T + kept busy with inquiries. •,! J!Tc0Uition Seven^ If everything *, punctured with brief wireless mes­ HALIFAX, N. S.. April 15.—Held trying time, biit all were safely land • McCarthy, Miss Georgette Alex- • Titanic c * ®. ? ., '• To all the White Star official ex- • wowere„ normalnnrmll she„hn shouldBhnnid haveh spoken afloat only by her water tight com­ sages that caused the utmost alarm. ed on the Carpathia and Parisian. One I • ander Madill, J. E. McGufre. • with the enormous iceberg. At the ^ tended a88Urance8 that the ve8. « smash, however, the water tight # gel wm afJoat an(J thgt ^ ^ # to points along the north coast via ( partments the great White Star liner "Hurry! Hurry!" was the-burden of report Bald that some of the passen-' • Maxwell Normal, A. W. Newell, • compartment doors closed automatic- ^ , . + the Olympic and other vessels long Titanic is slowly crawling toward this every word that came flashing through j ge'r8" Wer0 al80 placed on board the • Misses Alice and Madeline New- • sengerB WGre not n danger ere this." :5.V/ hirbor. Her .passengers have been the air but it was plain from the Virginian and still another said that • ell, Miss Helen Newson, S. Ovies, • ally. Immediately the wireless aP-:# The TUan,c was 8cheduled to « peals for aid were sent out and the; ^ gaU from New Yor]l taken off to other vessels only to have start that the badly needed aid musti^e \-[rg^nian had taken the Titanic in • E. C. Ostby, Helen Ostby. Walter • on her re- • Afloat at 4:24. to face a Becond ordeal as they are to come from the steamers that were in tow • C. Porter, Florence L. Pond, T. • response was Immediate. It wasturn tr)p Qn nej£t gaturdajr and so + in again transferred to the Baltic of the immediate vicinity. ; • Papin Jr., Mrs. E. W. Robert, • believed here at 8:30, after 1^at was the desire to travel on • NEW YORK, April 15.—The White The conflict In the wireless was known bit of Information had been it i ^ t'Star officials report that the Olympic the White Star line this afternoon. I due to Interference with messages and • Jonkheer Reuchlin, Mrs. Fredk. • • the new vessel that six hundred •| was in communication with the Ready to Flee. • J. Swift, Mrs. George M. Stone, •'considered, that all on board will be|^ bookings had been made In the The Baltic will take them to their also to the fact that all ot me dis- . . . Titanic at 4:24 this mornina and at Journey's end in New York where they Finally word came that the situation patches from the scene had-to be re-!4 W. A. Spencer and wife, Adolph •! saved and that there is a fair chance • first cabin, ! that time the Titanic was still afloat. are due next Thursday. on board the Titanic was so serious layed as the distance was too great'• Saalfleld, Mr. and Mrs. John Sny- •'of the Titanic reaching port. I They refuse to tell what the commun­ The disaster to the Titanic was un- that women and children had been for the wireless of the steamers to! • der, Mrs. W. B. Stevenson, Mr. • As soon as the passengers can be ication was that passed between th» paralleled in the history of navlgar placed in the life boats and that they carry to land. In relaying many mes- • and Mrs. Frederick O. Speeden, • j trans-shippeed it is believed Captain two boats. tion. The largest, most luxurious and were ready to be transshipped, should sages were mutilated. • Master R. Douglas Speeden, Mr. • j Smith will try to have the Titanic it appear that the steamer was certain • and Mrs. William B. Silvey, Mr. • towed to port. It is likely he will Towed to Shore. beat apportioned vessel ever laid Headed for Halifax. to sink. Captain Smith told the • and Mrs. Max F. Stehli, Mr. and •; have her drawn stern foremost to [United Press Leased Wire Service.1 down, she seemed proof against any All Go to Halifax. MONTREAL, April 15. — At 11:10 Mrs E,u1 Tausl MONTREAL, April 15.—A message (taster and lt Is to the very fact that j steamers that were headed toward VPW YORK Anrii 15 John I Wa-i* - ' =. Mr. and Mrs. •; lighten as much as possible the terri-j the local agents of the White Star- the was a new steamer that the pas- him that he was working his pumps to 11 b director of the International * Frank B. Wood. Hugh Woolner, •| ble train on the collision bulkheads, j to the Montreal Star from its cor- capacity and believed he could keep] • Jr. and Mrs. F. M. Warren, Mr. • The position of the Titanic when | respondent at St. John, N. B., at 1:15; 1,ne »nnounced that they had received sengers on board, noted financiers | Mercantile Company, at. 2:25 this af­ «nd society leaders, owe their lives. afloat, although the danger was very • and Mrs. George D. WIdener and • she was last heard from was 41.46; says that the Titanic is being towed. ay.e.d wire,e*f h con rmed ternoon said that Instructions would I son John R Brad Mre J w ' the earliest reports that the Titanic Hardly another craft afloat could grave. ! tn~thp~rnMains of the'varlous ! • - >"' - - - •! north, 50.14 west. j toward port by the Allan line Virgin- was not only afloat but that her have withstood the terrific shock when After this word all communication _ n,,t• M. Cardeza, T. M. Cardeza, Miss • j The first news of the accident wastian. ships on which the Titanlc's passen engines were working. She 1b heading the Titanic, driving along at better with the Titanic and the Virginian was • Gladys Cherry. Mrs. A. S. Comp- • received by the wireless operator at! ^ iimmm, gers have taken refuge to take them toward Halifax, the agents say and than half speed although in the midst cut off. This, it afterward appeared, • ton. Miss S. R. Compton, A. T. •! Cape Race. It said: to Halifax as quickly as possible. He " No Direct News. her passengers are safe. of ice fields, crashed bow-on into a was due to atmospheric conditions, said that the company has made ar-!t Compton Jr.. Robert Chlsholm. •, » ave struck an iceberg: we are H [United Press I/eased Wire Service.] The line agents did not know great submerged mountain of ice although for a time it was feared the j rangement8 wlth the New Haven roa(J; • P. D. Daly, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. • I badly damaged: ruBh aid." BOSTON, April 15.—The White whether 1he Virginian was then with which tore away her steel plates. liner might have sunk so low • Douglas, Miss Caroline Endres, T. •] within half an hour the Virginian, t . . to have a number of special trains tar • P. Franklin, B. L. Forwan, Col- • of th A]ian ]ine ha(i been communi- ® and Allan line officials here the Titanic, but. they believe she Is made up to bring the passengers to h aVe rece 10 dIr c t noWS from standing by and may have already • onel Archibald Grade. Mrs. D. L. •! cated with and her captain was head-1 u „ i™* J f I this city at once. the llner Titan,c transfered the women and children. The New Haven road has started • Greenfield, Geo. B. Goldschmidt, • j ^ directly to the scene. Shortly j - ^ - < _ ; CLfCK OF WIRELESS TELLS K twenty cars, including all equipment • Mrs. Ernest L. Lines. Miss Mary • afterward the Virginian sent the! —— needed, to Halifax where they will • Lines, Pierre Marshal, Mr. and • following to her local agents: OF TITANTIC SITUATION await the ship-wrecked party. The • Mrs. Morgan, Thomas Pears and • "Titanic says she is badly damaged iTITANTIC IS GREATEST special trains will start for this city ^ ^ PeayB' JJ- "?'• ?"Uh' *! as result of striking an iceberg. Shei vessel. Titanic, reported to be sink­ as soon as possible after the Tltani^s ^ J r7'vr ' t" ^yc ° ^ * I demands immediate assistance and j • derhoff Mrs. J. Stuart, Miss • 8Wn her help." I OF MODERN LEVIATHIANS ing in latitude 41.46 north, longitude company reaches Halifax. , e 50.14 west. The Olympic stated that • Marie Young. • From time to time other wireless | The Bulletins Which Quivered Miss E. W. Allen, Thomas An­ I latest advices showed that the damage A" Ar8 Savedl advices were received. In each lt was J gers. The novelty of sailing on tha drews. Raymond Artagah-Ceyta, ..-•_ * ' greatest of modern ocean going vessels Through Space During to the Titanic was very great and NEW YORK, April 15.—Wireless.' t stated that the Titanic was still in the Morning. Captain Smith had reported that he ^patches from Captain Murdock of ;* £ I touch and it was not until 12:27 that Great Ship IS 088 Feet Long iiad augmented the passenger list far 1 would trans-ship his passengers to the; the Whlte star liner Olympic, says; J J " ' ® Bonnell J T • the Virginian reported she had lost and Could Carry Five above the average number. According t0 tlle star fficers here nty b the Titanic. The last report was that 1 Thousand. ' ' ° the "T Ll x j advices from Europe placed the waB expected to be the Virginian of; y,aV0 '-been ,takenr 'r* from ".rTfr™* the sinking tho women and children were in the • dels, George Brayton, Mr. J. J. , . . • 1 passengers at 700 first class, 500 fTJnltepd Press Leased Wire Service.] tho Allan line. , - '-y I Titanic by the Parisian of the Allan; • Brown, Mrs. J. H. Brown, Mrs. life boats ready to be lowered into The Olympic refused to say' what line and others have been taken off the Atlantic should it be necessary. .second class and 1,200 steerage. BOSTON, April 15.—Indirect mes­ • Churchill Cardell, Frank Carlson, NEW YORK, April 15—The Titanic; Among the cabin passengers were Mr. sages Received from points along the the latest information regarding the by the Cunard liner Carpathia. • T. M. Carran, J. P. Carran, N. C. It was believed here that. the Titanic's wireless was working badly is the greatest of modern levlathians, and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Alfred 0. north coast at 9:30 said the Tltantic extent of the Titanic's damage was. The Parisian and Carpathia are • Chambers and wife, Paul instead of that she had gone down exceeding even the monster Olympic Vanderbilt, Bruce Ismay, Clar- Is struggling slowly but surely toward standing by the Titanic and the # cbrevre, Mrs. R. C. Cornell, John • Cape Race. At 9:55 the following Parisian Hears Nothing. Baltic was reported as approaching T Craftoni Kdward G. Crosby, • and this was confirmed later when In size. In addition she is the most ence Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Tsadore an unsigned message was received luxuriously fitted and furnished iStraus, Countess Rothes. Archibald telegram was received by the United CAPE RACE, April 15.—A wireless by the Olympic's captain. • wife and daughter; John Bradley • from the steamer Parisian from Glas­ This information came direct to reporting that the Titanic was afloat vessel ever sent to sea. • Ru',000. Widener, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Taussig, Cape Race, St. Johns, N. F., and oth- last "night showed her 350 miles off making it public, declared that he ^ William O. „Dulles,ulJCO> Missmino E. •„ , . %T „ , _ er nearby points, nearing vicinity ot Sable Inland, she had failed to receive personally had no doubt but that the 4 Adams Mrs. A. F. Eganhaim T. certain here that withing five hours Five thousand passengers could be Norman Kraig, Mr. and ^B- Henry Cape Race. an appeal for help from the Titanic Titanic would be safey towed to port • G. Frauenthal, Dr. Henry Frauen- • at the very most all of the passengers accommodated aboard the big liner, Haranor, Mr_ and Mrs^ "eniy B. (Signed) "MARCONI STATION. ' which was in that neighborhood. He declared that she has plenty of • thai and wife; J. Frutrelli and •, would be transferred to safety, al- six hundred in the cabins. She carried Hair s, Fletcher Fallows Washington In addition to the Virginian, there water-tight compartments and that, • wife; Arthur Qeehr, Mrs. L. Gib- • though this will be a gigantic task, a crew of 600 men .Captiain E. S. Robling, Colonel Archibald Gracia, Mr. and Mrs. Two Hour* of Silence. were in the vicinity of the Titanic and! while she may sink several feet • Bon, Miss L. D. Gibson, E. L. •' The Virginian is the fastest of the Smith, a veteran ship master of the Adolph faalfleld, W. T. Stead. , ST. JOHNS, N. F., April 15.—The racing toward her today, the White' because of the weight of water in the • Goldenburg and wife; Mrs. Wil- • j Allan line fleet. She can make better White Star line, commanded her when Fred. Speendin, wireless station here has been unable Star liner Olympic, the Baltic; the forward compartments and the! • Ham Graham, Mrs. Margaret E. •'than twenty knots an hour and at she left Southampton on her maiden Robert W. Daniel, Mr^and Mrs. J^ Hamburg-American liner Cincinnati; necessity of trimming ship, she will^ Graham, Victor Giglip, W H • 1 last advices every ounce of fpegg^w&s voyage. ;B. Thayer, .T.* *"Stuart * ~White, Mr. and tor more than two hours to get Into showed Mrs. H. J. Allison, Mrs. Aubert, touch with any of the ships rushtug the Cunarder Mauretanla; the Prince not go down. !• Harrison, H. Haven, W. F. Host, •! being gotten out of her. I Even then the huge ship _r _ to the aid of the Titanic, it cannot Adalbert; Amerlka, Frelderlch Wil- The boats of the Titanic are very.#. Mrs. Ida S. Huppuch, Miss Jean • .1 — [that her immense size might make Mrs. Cardeza. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. took : r be determined whether this 1b due to belm and half a dozen freighters. large and they care of 35 + Huppuch, A. O. Holversch and •' : ; Noted Sculptor Oeadsi-Yt^^i j b« an embarrassing factor in trans- Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Char- atmospheric conditions or to th