Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — OCEAN LINER SINKS AT SEA [ARTICLE]

OCEAN LINER SINKS AT SEA

Over 1,800 Lives Lost When Levithan Titanic Goes Down LARGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD Strike's Iceberg Off Coast of Newfoundland and Goes Down Before Aid Can Reach Her —Ship Was Making Her Maiden Voyage —Many Millionaires Are' Drowned.

New York, April 15.—The White Star • Liner Titanic, the world’s greatest steamship, has gone down some 500 miles off Cape Race, with more than 630 of her 1,300 passengers and her full crew of 860 men on board. The text of the message from the steamer Olympic reporting the sinking of the Titanic and the rescue of the 675 survivors, which reached here late tonight, also expressed the opinion that 1,800 lives were lost. “Loss likely to total 1,800 souls,” the dispatch said in its. concluding sentence. It is hoped and believed here that this is an error, unless the Titanic had more passengers on board than was reported. The list, as given out, .-towed 1,310 passengers. The liner Carpathia, the first vessel to come within sight of the Titanic, rescued all the Titanic's lifeboats, in which were 670 persons, most of them women and children. Many women and children, however, have parished When the Carpathia reached the ill-fated vessel no sign of life was to be seen anywhere, the mountainous ocean swells giving mute evidence to the stupendous disaster.

Scores of terror-stricken passengers, among them women and children, are reported to have leaped into the sea soon after the vessel collided with the iceberg. Other women and children struggled desperately with the men to reach the lifeboats. Early Reports Had All Safe. Early reports stated that all the passengers and the crew of the Titanic had been taken off by the Allen Liners Virginian and the Parisian, and then the Carpathia, but wireless messages received here tonight discredit these reports in every detail. That the sinking of the Titanic was witnessed from the bridge of the Carpathia which was leading the Parisian and the Virginian to the rescue, is believed here tonight. That the vessel was seen through the glasses of the Carpathian captain to be afloat is regarded as the source of these early encour aging reports. No hope is' held out at the offices of the White Star Line that any man on board has survived to tell, the story of the final sinking of the leviathan, although some of the women in the boats may have witnessed the sinking. Only by a miracle, it is pointed out, could any person who stood by the ship escape the great vessel’s powerful suction as she sank to the bottom. Pulled Under by Suction. One wireless report late tonight stated at least three or four lifeboats were pulled under the water by the suction when the Titanic sank from view. The Titanic carried the most not

able list of passengers ever borne across tbo Atlantic by one vessel Home-coming American tourists arranged their sailings weeks ago so as to ride the new wonder of the seas on her maiden voyage. Tonight's dispatches state that the Titanic went down at 2:20 o'clock this morning. The delay in the transmission of the news is attributed to the fact that all dispatches have been subject to difficult relays. The collision of the Titanic with an iceberg is now known to have been a head-on crash that occurred while the liner was proceeding at little less than her best speed. Day Ahead of Her Schedule. She was a day ahead of her schedule, and it is considered probable that an attempt to make a record-breaking voyage was the hope of her crew when she entered the ice field. Her forward plates were completely wrecked, a gaping wound opening below her water line and letting the water into her forward compartments. In the meantime the lifeboats were manned and into them were placed as many of the women and children as they could hold. These boats were put off while there was yet some hope of holding the Titanic afloat until her wireless messages could summon help. The Titanic was the greatest of modern steamships and was nearly 900 feet in length and 92 1/2 foot beam. She was making her maiden voyage and her passenger list contained the names of many prominent millionaires among whom was John Jacob Astor, who went down with the ill-fated ship. Only women and children were saved, it is reported, and the disaster is the worst ever known.