Special Special Feature Feature ultj? &twc. SUNDAY. APRIL 28. 1912

A Graphic, Continuous Tale of the First and Only Voyage of the Bi££est Ship in the World That Ended So Disastrously Off the Great Ji Newfoundland Banks. The Hymn That the Ship's Band Played r % the Vessel Went Down.

The Captain and Officers of the ..From Left to Right, Dr. W. F. N. O'Laughlin, H. T. Wilde, Chief Officer; Chief Engineer Fleming; Purser McElray..Seated, Capt. E.J. Smith. Of the accident. In the Titanic's Now that the first shock of the Ti¬ passenger list were such names as Col. tanic disaster, with the succession of and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Major wild rumors which it brought, has , military aid to Presi¬ given place to something like certain dent Taft; James Clinch Smith. Dr. knowledge of what occurred on the Washington Dodge, Assessor of Port, terrible night that the giant liner San Francisco; Mrs. and plunged to the bottom of the sea, the Dodge child. following complete narrative of the Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff-Gordon. wreck, with the events that preceded Charles M. Hays, President of the and followed It, is rendered most time¬ Grand Trunk Pacific of Canada, his ly. With Its swift alternations of wife and daughter; W. T. Stead. Ben¬ scenes of horror and heroism, of grim jamin Guggenheim, F. D. Millet, the struggles for life and awful suffer¬ artist; G. D. Widener of Philadel¬ ings, It is probably the most dramatics phia, Countess Rothes, Mr. and Mrs true story of the sea ever written. . J. B. Thayer, Vlce^l^resl- It is printed at the request of many dent of the readers. Pennsylvania Railroad, his wife and son; T. D. M. Cardeza, Clar¬ ence Moore of Washington, Robert W. THE giant Titanic of the White Daniels of Philadelphia, J. Bruce Star Line, the biggest ship afloat Ismay, President of the International from when she sailed Southamp¬ Mercantile Marine Company, owner of ton, England, on April 10, on her the line; Henrv B. Harris, the theatrl- j maiden voyage to the Port of New cal manager, and Mrs. Harris: Thomas York, lies to-day a broken wreck, 2,760 Andrews, designer, and Archie Frost, fathoms beneath the ocean's surface, Chief Engineer for Harland & Wolff some 800 miles from shore off the the Titanic's builders. great Newfoundland Banks. The ship Many of these and of of the others that was unsinkable, In the minds aboard the Titanic had postponed or of the Titanic, of the circumstances of her leakers and the men that ran her, advanced their dates of sailing from her encounter with the berg, of the ef¬ has been sunk. The Queen of the Seas Europe, In some instances paying large forts made to save the ship, and of the is less to-day than one of her lifeboats bonuses, for the privilege of making death of the many and the savin* of a which bobs up and down on the broken the Titanic's maiden voyage. For few, can be constructed. 11 ¦ surface of the Hudson River, safe be¬ many of these passengers there was in¬ The Titanic as She Was When She Line. tween the piers of the White Star terest felt ashore, and inquiries were THE FATAL VOYAGE Started on Her Tragic Voyage. And in her sinking the Titanic ex¬ made not ohly by members of their toll than humanity ever families and by friends, but by persons Lasted Just Five Days and Ended acted greater follow her wake New York before had been made to pay for Its ef¬ connected with them in business or Two Miles Beneath Atlantic's 8urface up Harbor, but no word could come from them forts to conquer the sea. Of the 2,340 whose fortunes would be Influenced by HE TITANIC sailed from South- and crew their life or death. sooner than from the Titanic herself. persons composing passengers I ampton, England, on Wednes- New York down T05 over reached For such anxious there were JL settled to await the of the big liner, only Inquirer*) day, April 10. Scarcely "had she first from the and it More than two-thirds of many hours of suspense before even a drawn out of her when report big ship, 11 this port. berth came on at those who embarked on the Titanio for partial and Inaccurate list of the sur¬ she collision with the Sunday, April '14, when, narrowly escaped 2:15 A. the Titanic was The persons ex¬ vivors was wirelessed ashore from the American was M., reported Carpathia, Rescuer of the Survivors. her maiden Journey.1,635 liner New York, which miles east down with her when she Cunarder rescued all from haw¬ 1,284 of Sandy Hook and actly.went Carpathla which yanked her moorings, her due in New York at 4 o'clock Tues¬ nose beneath the waves, of the Titanic's sers suc¬ before the Senate Com¬ liner snubbed her passengers who were snapped, by the tremendous day afternoon. Investigating Amerika, and from other liners. an instant, half above saved. From this, lists of those who tion exerted the new steamship. The mittee. Capt. Smith was serious but not hung, quivering by The and half below the surfaco, and then had gone down with the steamship were great Titanic drew the New York to¬ giant liner was no four-day boat. Their statements established the fact alarmed. He had been amply warned, to the to In speed she could not with the that it was a when the started her downward plunge devised, and later, when bodies were ward her as an iron filing is drawn ! compete clear, cold night and if other ships could have traversed bottom, nearly two miles bolow. found floating on the scene of the a magnet, and the smaller vessel float¬ Lusitanla or Mauretania, though to NfAW£v»0, Titanic plunged into the iceberg. The the field in safety, surely the giant Ti¬ Since then the cable ships Mackay- wreck, lists of those who had been ed, helplessly, stern first, down on the no others need she yield, but New York big vessel had been four days on her tanic could make the passage. was Bennett and Mlnla have been pt the identified were giantess of the seas. content to wait for the coming of way. Such passengers as had been un¬ He ordered Second Officer made. the Capt. A. H. Rostron, Commander of Llghtoller scene of the wreck searching for bldies. Meantime Her lined her decks on the greatest ship afloat. acquainted when the steamship left to keep the Titanic on her but t the Carpathla, most anx¬ passengers course, articles would the Carpathia, Which Rescued port, had established the cordial rela¬ to Some have been identified by iously awaited of all ships which were side off which the New York lay, The report from the Titanic the Survivors. notify him if there arose the slight¬ In the clothing and are now on their nearing the Port of New York, laughing with pride that they were come on Sunday in time for publication tions which usually exist among fellow est doubt as to conditions. Then he way to Halifax aboard the Mackay- brought In her cargo of surviv¬ aboard such a ship, when they learned in the newspapers of Monday morning, passengers on an ocean voyage. Din¬ left the bridge at 9:25 o'clock. Bennett. Altogether 205 liad been picked and that it was the Titanic's suction which and should show her 500 miles or more Captain of which immediately advised ner .was over and there were groups of Thirty-five minutes later Chief Offi¬ ors, with them the first au¬ that he was proceeding for the scene up last Thursday, The steamship Is thentic story of the wreck, of how had strained the New York from its nearer New York. That was the mes¬ of the disaster. carefully gowned women and men in cer Murdock relieved Lilghtoller on the were late The at was about evening clothes in the saloons. The due there this morning. Others the great ship had of what oc¬ moorings. That the narrowly avoided sage which was awaited. Instead, Virginian midnight bridge. The weather held fine and struck, 170 miles distant ffipm the Titanic and rooms were filled. recommitted to the sea after it had curred her collision was prophetic of that other on Sunday night, this is the message to reach that vessel about 10 smoking There were clear, though cold. The temperature aboard after her bottom expected games of and other been found that they were unrecogniza¬ plates had been off by contact collision in which the Titanic was to which came: A. M. Monday. bridge hazards at was 31 degrees, but was not considered the ripped 2 A. M., Monday..The Olympic at an cards in progress. abnormal for the ble. The Minia will remain at with the Iceberg and her fifteen water¬ play the part of the pigmy could not CAPE RACE, Newfoundland, Sun¬ early hour this (Monday) morning was region in which the scene of the disaster for some days to tight compartments had begun to fill, have entered the mind of a single per¬ day night, April 14..At 10:25 o'clock in latitude 40.32 north and longitude Outside the temperature had been Titanic was. The men discussed the Is to-night the steam¬ 61.18 west. She was in direct communi¬ as the ice fields and which come, and it will not be until there of how the order was given to take to son aboard. ship Titanic called " C. Q. D." to the cation with the Titanic and is now falling rapidly Titanic drew bergs the ship was all haste her. nearer and nearer to a fair certainty that everybody recov¬ the boats and of how It was fulfilled, Then the big steamship gathered Marconi wireless station here and re¬ making toward the ice floes from approaching, and decided that they while ported having struck aa Iceberg. The The steamship Baltic also reported the midst of which rose the would encounter in erable has been found that the search of the conduct of officers and crew and headway again, moving slowly steamship said that immediate assist¬ herself as about 200 miles east of the group of probably them will be abandoned. of passengers, especially that of those she was in range of other shipping, ance was required. Titanic and was making all possible icebergs on one of which the great ship about an hour. Their estimate was not that the occurrence of the New York Half an hour afterward another mes¬ speed toward her. was to strike. Tests of the water had far wrong in view of the It was collision wltji an iceberg which whose names were famous sage came that were The last signals from the Titanic were uncertainty throughout reporting they been taken every two hours as to the exact caused the destruction of the Titanic, the world; of how the lifeboats were might not be repeated, but increasing sinking by the head and that women heard by the Virginian at 12:27 A. M. throughout location of the fields her as she were being put off in the lifeboats. "The wireless operator on the Virginian the day and but these as which were with the and thoee who would moralise over the launched and of the hours of wait¬ speed left the shore behind says these signals were blurred and evening, yet constantly moving long The weather was calm and clear, the had failed to show a great ship's loss can see in such a meet¬ ing in these cockleshells while the Car¬ until finally she was racing through Tltanlc'8 wireless operator reported ended abruptly. dangerous prox¬ currents, for it was at 11:30 that the the hand of which ocean waves, cleaving to a line which and gave the position of the vessel as imity to the ice field. The officers Titanic scraped over a submerged shelf ing Fate, required pathla was steaming at extraordinary 41.46 north latitude and 50.14 west lon¬ This was the first word of the disas¬ the greatest example of man's handi¬ from her navigators had lain down for her, gitude. were not alarmed, and in the mind of of the berg, tearing away the steel speed many miles away. News of! ter received in, America. It was not no work afloat on the sea to point its all this the off at last on her maiden Journey with The Marconi station at Cape Race passenger, probably, was there a plates of her bilge. Carpathla brought, but notified the Allan liner Virginian, the until many days later that authentic of The Two facts protest against his ambition. For It It was told rescued New York as her goal. thought danger. Titanic, they stand out prominently in mostly by passen¬ " news of the striking and sinking of the was seems certain less than an News of her starting was cabled to believed, unslnkable. the . One Is that that nothing gers, still too excited to give more than Titanic was received, and it became could have withstood collision that city and the departure from Eng¬ The big ship was plowing ahead at had the look-outs in the crow's nest Iceberg impressionistic accounts of what had known how the accident had occurred. and Second Officer with the enormous Titanic. Than her befallen the ship and them. land of the greatest steamship in the good speed, Lightol- been equipped with binoculars the dis¬ giant Many of the facts were gathered ler, who had taken the at aster have been no ship which sails the seas 'riras better The stories varied and in world was heralded far and wide. For bridge 6 might averted. The widely their from the testimony of J. Bruce Ismay, o'clock, was still on duty. It was which the prepared to meet unexpected encoun¬ variances revealed how different several days there could be no early iceberg sent great liner to may President of the International Mercan¬ evening. In the crow's nest were Sea¬ the bottom was ters with others. Even a war vessel, be the impressions received in different news of her. She might speak other sighted when there tile Marine; Second Officer Charles men Flint and Leigh, keeping a sharp was yet time to turn the the heaviest Dreadnought, probably minds by the one occurrence. In the ships, bound for foreign ports, or of steamship Herbert Lightoller the Titanic, and watch ahead, for though the iceberg sufficiently from her course so that must have succumbed to the rushing main features the recollections of a ships headed as she was yet which Harold Bride, the Marconi operator fleet was not dreaded, it was known the of collision was felt the Impetus of the monster Titanic had majority agreed. In detail dif¬ must bow to her superior speed and the impact by they aboard Titanic, which was given to be near at hand. There were no liner's starboard bow some feet they Jostled each other In the narrow fered, one from the as the twenty other, imag¬ other lookouts except the men on the from the stem. The a lanes of the ocean. ination of one who recounted them dif¬ warning given It had to be than bridge. few seconds before probably would something greater fered in quality from that of another. At 8:55 o'clock Capt. E. J. Smith have allowed time for the to afloat to sink the Titanic, and was Tltanlo any ship It not until the United States mounted the bridge and consulted with have been turned aside beyond the that something was supplied In the Senate undertook an inquiry "into the his second officer. The ship was mak¬ range of the berg. tremendous berg, eight-ninths of whose cause of the disaster that ¦,,, -K SI- * . testimony ^--.vaac. ing twenty-one or twenty-one and a The other fact is that bulk skulked beneath the waves while was obtained from many persons, which the actual half knots. The weather was fine and most of them men. lost their lives need¬ it a of some presented paltry lump Ice, facts of the Titanic's sinking' could be clear. A myriad stars dotted the heav¬ Not one of the 120 feet in to do combat with That lessly. lifeboats which height gathered. inquiry is still under ens. pulled away from the sinking Tttanlo the steamship. way. As yet no blame has been fixed Capt. Smith with of a Is thirteen spoke Llghtoller apparently went with full cargo. It days since the Ti¬ for the worst marine catastrophe in re¬ the ice fields into which they were run¬ Some of them carried less than half tanic sank.fourteen since she plunged corded history, but facts have been ning and* of the great Icebergs there. the number which might have found into the berg. Through many of those brought out in the testimony of offi¬ Wireless warnings of the existence of room in them. That this was so was days her owners and those who waited cers of the ship, in the tales-of sur¬ these fields and bergs and of their loca¬ the result of the demre of most of the ashore for news of dear ones aboard vivors. and in the records of wireless tion had been received the men aboard to remain there till every by Titanic woman had been removed. the big liner were forced to be con¬ messages, sent and received, from from her sister liners, the Olympic and tent with meagre wireless accounts which an accurate account of the loss Baltic, from the Hamburg-American (C«itl»ei em F«ll«wUf

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