2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1913. Hundreds Lose Lives When Floating Palace Sinks i SOME OF THE MORE NOTABLE PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC WHEN THE VESSEL WENT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE ATLANTIC. CHILDREN AND RESIDENTS OF WOMEN SAVED SACRAMENTO ON FROM TITANIC OOARD VESSEL Several Californians Believed to Stephen Hold and Wife aud H. Be Drowned in the Terrible Klaber Passengers on Disaster the Titanic
< on tinned From Pagre 1 [Special Dispatch to The Call] SACRAMENTO, April ?Three Sac- vessels nearest Titanic's 15. nathia. lb* the ramento persons were on board the 111 "?e,-in burial place when it disappeared. fated liner Titanic, which sank in the As the Titanir ?ank at 2:20 o'clock. North Atlantic Ocean this morning. They Mi. and Mrs. Stephen Hold \u25a0I was not thought the Virginian are ? and Herman Klaber ..f Portland, whose before 10 a. m. :. i the scene wife formerly was Gertrude Ginsbert at cr.rli«st.. while the Tarlsian was of this city- visiting said t(i l>c some distance farther away. Mr. and Mrs. Hold had been parents in Cornwall, Wale?, the Star Mrs. Hold's !t was feared even by White for tli« last l»> months, and in a lette: officials, trying their best to calculate received by W. 11. Bradley of this ritj accurately, that they would not have a few days ago they stated that the? from on reached the scene in time to be of serv- intended to depart Liverpool the Titanir' April 10. r , * Klaber, who is a hop broker, went NO SIRMVORS REPORTED abroad about three months a so. aivl The steamer Virginian finally was wrote his wife that he intended inj? to America on *ard from at 2;15 o'clock this morning. the Titanic. Sh" begged him not to make the trip on It did not report the presence of any the vessel, because it was the liner'> survivors on board, the message from maiden voyage. the vessel stating that it would bring to St. Johns, X. F., such survivors as it "may rescue." The fact that the Virginian was to go out of its course to put into Ft. the Pacific Creosoting company, whose Johns on its voyage to Iwverpool was name appears in the list of the Titanic's taken as a tavorable indication, arous- passengers, is a wealthy Seattle man ing hope that after all it might have who had been spending the winter on picked up some of the victims of the the continent with his wife. Mrs. Rood wreck and was bringing them into port. and her maid were to sail later. mas The Titanir lies buried two miles be- neath the ocean surface midway be- pAPTAIN SMITH tween Sabel island and Cape Race. lis "a horrible loss of life" in the Titanic Unusual position when it struck the iceberg disaster. He said that he had no In- V IS UNFORTUNATE was given as latitude 4146 north, formation to disprove the Associated Press dispatch from Ca"pe Race to the longitude west. M.14 effect that only 866 of passengers and [Special Dispatch to The Call] Display BUIKING OF THE TITVXIC crew had been rescued. He said that NEW YORK, April 15.?Captain E. J. According to the <"arpathia's ad- the monetary loss could not be esti- Smith, who commanded the Titanic, has mated tonight, although he intimated We are showing an un- vices, the liner which struck the ice- of late been pursued by ill luck. The berg at 10:25 o'clock Sunday night that it would run into the millions. captain upon evil days when assortment sank at 2:20 o'clock Monday morning, "We can replace the money." he first fell usually large nearly four hours later, in latitude added, "but not the lives. It is hor- | he was in command of the Olympic and 41.16 north, longitude :,o.lf west, or not rible." that vessel was run into b~y the British of PAJAMAS ?in more than half's, degree south of the Franklin said there was a suffi-I cruiser Hawke. The testimony of wit- oxfords, cient number of to all ___-?______placed the blame upon madras, soisette point 'where the collision occurred. lifeboats take \u2666 \u25a0 . . nesses the Tt seems improbable from this that the passengers from the Titanic. He I Map showing the position of the Titanic when it met with the disaster that cost more than 1,300 lives. cruiser, and Captain Smith was retained the liner after the accident made said that he had been confident today ! in command of the Olympic until the and soft, silky fabrics? much headway under its own steam. when lie made the statement that I Titanic came out. when, as commodore It seems established that there were the Titanic was unsinkable. that the i he broke down completely and wept. The Titanic's first S. O. S. message with the British cruiser Hawke last of the fleet, he was sent to the newer in solid colors, small fig- about 2.100 persons on the wrecked steamship was safe and that there ! * Young Clark Is extremely popular in was received by the Allan liner Vir- September. vessel. And now this last command would be no loss of life. The first defi- Lthe social and business life of Los An- the bottom. ures, or line liner. This was the estimate of the ginian, which, according to the position The other officers of the Titanic were has plunged to in hair line officials in New York, who gave nite news received "came in the mes- geles. :\u25a0'.;.' "?7 .' At this hour no one knows whether snge from Captain Haddock, he said, j ~-/."' given by the Titanic's operator, was Surgeon W. F. N. O'Loughlin, Assist- captain ship, stripes. the number of passengers as 1,320, ' the went down with his given the remainder of 860 making up the and was to the press at once. ' not more than 170 miles away. The ant Surgeon J. K. Simpson, Purser 11. but It is feared that?the captain, who crew. TEXT OF MESSAGE CTEAMERS HEARD captain of the Virginian at once W. McElroy, Second Purser B. L. is required by sea law to be the last to leave, was among $2, $2.50, $3, $3.50 Xews of the sinking.of the Titanic The text of the message from the started his vessel at full speed for the Brocker and Chief A. the drowned. Steward Latimer. nearly every great md of the terrible loss of life came steamer Olympic reporting the sinking ?3 "S. O. SIGNALS In one of the S." scene of disaster. presence of many icebergs sea the have early last evening with all the greater of the Titanic and the rescue of sur- the The in tragedies of the masters shock because hope had been buoyed which reached here late tonight, The Titanic's accident happened in the path of trans-Atlantic liners was almost invariably bowed to the merci- vivors, NEW April 15.?The first HASTI NQS »?;? all day by reports thatvthe steam- also expressed the opinion that 1,800 YORK. latitude 41.46 north, longitude 50.14 indicated by wireless last week. Twelve less rule that the captain who loses his ship, although badly damaged, was not wireless message from the Titanic, re- hours before the news of the Titanic's ship must not himself survive. lives were lost. west. This point is about 1,150 miles sinking, and that all its passengers had "Loss likely total I.ROO souls," the ceived shortly after midnight Sunday, accident reached the world the serious Captain Ward of the Rio Janeiro, CLOTHING CO. east of New York city and 450 menace of the icebergs pointed in San Francisco bay, closed been taken off safely. dispatch said in its concluding sentence. announced that the liner had struck an due was out wrecked The messages were mostly unofficial, hoped believed here that miles south of Cape Race (N. F.) wire- by the arrival here of the Cunard line the door of his stateroom and shot him- Post and Grant Aye. Tt is and Newfoundland however, and none came directly from this is an error, unless the Titanic had Iceberg off the banks of less station. steamer Carmania, which reported self. . the liner, so that a fear remained of more passengers on board than was and was in a sinking condition. Trans- All the messages from the ship wero having dodged 25 big bergs, some of Deloncle of the Bourgoyne stood with possible bad news to come. reported. The list as given out showed relayed to th* Cape Race wireless them more than 250 feet high. folded urms upon the bridge of the fer of the passengers 'to the lifeboats Virginian Shortly after 7 o'clock last night 1,310 passengers and crew of 860, or r station by the and forwarded The Carmania reported that the French liner as she sank. Yon Ooessel j began at once. ;," New there came flashing over the wires from 2,170 persons in all. * by the Marconi company to York French steamship Niagara had a worse of the Elbe died likewise. Captain Cape Race, within 400 miles of which follows: :" The , accident city. experience, having bumped small of the Mohegan held to the The Olympic's dispatch occurred *at 10:25 Into Griffith the liner had struck an iceberg, word "Carpathia reached Titanic position o'clock last night. Two' hours"later The Titanic's twin Ship, the Olympic, bergs which punched holes in her hull. bridge until the waters engulfed him. that at 2:20 o'clock Monday morning, at daybreak. Fou-d boats and wreck- the ; ship's wierless apparatus, which which left New York iast week, was The Niagara had this experience on 3 hours and 55 minutes after receiving age only. Titanic sank about 2:20 had been working so badly as to per- also in direct communication with the Thursday, and unless she has greatly Vanderbilt Safe in London IW^E^S__a_____h4 its death blow, the Titanic had sunk. a. m. in 41:16 N? 5:14 W. All its boats mit of only' intermittent and fragment- sinking boat from a point about 300 reduced speed she should reach port NEW YORK. Apr!" 15.?Mrs. Corne- L