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Thursday, April 18, 1912.] THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER Page Eleven GREAT DISASTER AT SEA. Giant White Star Liner Titanic Goes Down After Striking Iceberg—1,200 or More Lives Lost. New York, April 15.—More than 1,500 persons, it is feared, sank to death early Monday, when within four hours after she crashed into an iceberg, the mammoth White Star Line Steamer Titanic, bound from Liverpool to New York on her maiden voyage, went to the bottom off the New Foundland Banks. Of the ap proximately 2,200 persons on board the giant liner, some of them of world-wide prominence, only 675 are known to have been saved. The White Star Line offices in New York, while keeping up hope to the last were free to admit that there had been “horri ble loss of life.” Accepting the early estimates of the fatality list as accurate, the dis aster is the greatest in the marine history of the world. Nearest ap proaching it in magnitude were the disasters to the Steamer Atlantic in 1873, when 574 lives were lost and the La Bourgeogne in 1898, with a fatality list of 571. Should it prove that other liners, notably Allan Liners Parisian and Virginian, known to have been in the vicinity of the Titanic early yester day, had picked up other of her pas sengers, the extent of the calamity Would be greatly reduced. The hope still remains. News of the sinking of the line' and the' terrible loss of life in conse quence came early last evening will all the great shock because hope har been buoyed up all day by report- that the steamship, although bedl^ damaged, was not in a sinking cond tion and that all her passengers ha' been safely taken off. The message' Were mostly unofficial and none cam( direct from the liner, so that a lurk ing fear remained of possible baf news to come. Shortly after 7 o’clock last nigh there came flashing over the wi.e from Cape Race, within 400 mile'- of which the liner had struck the ice berg, word that at 2:20 o’clock Mon day morning, three hours and fifty five minutes after receiving her devt! blow the Titanic had sunk. The news came from the steaiuo’ t'arpathia, relayed by the White Sta' Line liner Olympic, and revealed tha by the time the Carpathia, outward bound from New York and racing, to Titanic on a wireless call reached the *^oene, the doomed vessel had sunk ^oft on the surface, however, were **fe-boats and in them, from what the ^ost appeared from meagre report? deceived up to a late hour, were some survivors of the disaster. These, according to the advices, the Carpa- fbia picked up and is now on her way them for New York. fi'or the rest, the scene as the Car- hathia came up was one of desola- fion. All that remained of the $10,- fifi0,000 floating palace, on which Nearly 1,400 passengers had been '’oyaging luxuriously to this side of Atlantic, were some bits of "'I'eckage. The biggest ship in the ''arid had gone down, snuffing out in ar downward plunge, it appeared, hndreds of human lives. A signifi cant line in the Cape Race dispatch '^as the announcement that of those aaved by the Carpathia nearly all ^are women and children. Should it vove so that no ther vessel picked 0 any passengers of the sinking liner thi a might mean that few of the men board had been saved, as the pro- Porti on of women and children among A-i (AJiLI a passengers was large. The same f^ct Of s Would likewise spell the doom Practically the entire crew of 800. ^ the cabins were 230 women and ^firen, but it is not known how ^ay there were among the 740 third-class passengers. In the first cabin there were 128 women and 16 children, and in the second cabin 79 women and eight children. Notable persons, travelers on the Titanic whose fate was in doubt in the lack of definite advices as to the identity of the survivors, were Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Major Archibald Butt, aide to President Taft; Charles M. Hays, president of Grand Trunk Pacific of Canada, his wife and daughter; W. T. Stead, Ben- jaimin Guggenheim, F. D. Millet, the artist, and J. G. Widener, of Phila delphia; Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, J. B. Thayer, vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; J. Bruce Is- may, Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager, and Mrs. Harris, and Col. Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge. The Parisian Did Not Pick Up Any of the Survivors. Halifax, N. S., April 16.—In reply to a dispatch sent by the Halifax Manager of the Allan Line, Captain Haines, of the Steamer Parisian sent the following by wireless: “I have no survivors of the Titanic on board and no official information as to the fate of the ship. Expect to reach Halifax to-morrow morn ing.” No Survivors on “V^irginian.” Cape Race, April 16.—A wireless nessage to-night from Capt. Had dock, of the steamship Olympic, re layed by the Celtic, read as follows: “Please allay rumor that the Vir ginian has any of the Titantic’s pas sengers. Neither has the Tunsian. I believe that the only survivors are on the Carpathia. The second, fourth and fifth officers and the second Mar coni operator are the only officers re ported saved.” Boissevain, Man., April 16.—J. P. Alexander, a former member of the Provincial Parliament, dropped dead to-day when told of the Titanic dis- xster. He was troubled with heart disease. Whether Charles M. Hays, presi dent of the Grand Trunk Railway, was saved, was not known to-night. His name was not among those re ported rescued by the Carpathia. A Canadian dispatch early in the day stated that Mr. Hays was saved. His wife and daughter were rescued. Statement From Washington. Washington, D. C., April 16.—The Treasury Department, through the Customs officials, has given orders to expedite the landing of the survivors of the Titanic and to aid them in ev ery way possible upon the arrival of the Carpathia. Custom regulations have been suspended and the Cus toms officers will aid the survivors in finding relatives and friends. Vice- President Franklin said late this af ternoon that his list of survivors showed that 202 out of the 325 first cabin passengers and 114 out of 285 second cabin passengers of the wreck ed liner had been accounted for. New York, April 16.—“We are waiting for a complete list of the names of the survivors and until this is received, we can give no definite information. This was the only answer that could be given to-day at the White Star Line offices here to the thou sands of anxious persons who gather ed there seeking information regard ing relatives and friends who are among the victims of the Titanic dis aster. 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