1300 Drowned Titanic Hits Ice- berg and Sinks. The Titanic, the largest steamship afloat struck an iceberg off the grand bank of New Foundland on Sunday night at ten o'clock and sank within four hours carrying with her to the bottom 1302 persons. The Titanic was on her maid- en trip. She cost $10,000.00, and was supposed to be unsinkable. No definite news of the disaster can be secured until the Carpathia reaches New York today with the survivors she picked up. Olympic Sent Terrible Tidings. The tidings that the Titanic had sunk came in a brief wireless dispatch to Cape Race, N. F, from the White Star liner Olympic, which repoite! that the Titanic had foundered at about 2.20 a. m. Monday morning, i latitude 41.16 north and longitude 50.14 west. The message added that the steamship Carpathia, then on her way to Naples, had reached the sceme -’ the wreck at daybreak and found only the boats and wreckage and that a! the Titanic's boats were accounted for and “about 675 souls saved, crew and passengers, latter nearly all womer and children.” A wireless dispatch received at Bos ton, which was relayed by the Olympic from the Carpathia, stated that the Carpathia had 868 of the Titanic's pas sengers on board, mostly women anc children, closing with the words; “Grave fears are felt for the safety o! the balance of the passengers and the crew.” The brief wireless dispatches re ceived so far show that the passin gers and crew passed through thrilling experiences from the very momen! that the great Titanic crashed intc tc iceberg in the dead of night until t.¢ Carpathia, several hours later, reache« the scene and rescued the survivor: from lifeboats floating in a sea of ite The collision occurred at a time when most of the passengers had re tired or were about to go to bed. When the Titanic struck she struch hard. There was something more tn: a rending and tearing of bow plates, a flooding of a few forward comput ments. The Titanic must have recuites from her destroyer a shattered an riven ship. Sc tremendous an wpe i would have crumpled up the ver, bedplates, shaken the mighty engine from their foundations, opened uy n watertight compartments, buckled i: plates from end to end and startc. rivets everywhere. It is likely that water rushed in her hull from all sides, for her kee must have been injured by the tei rific drive on a mass as hard as rock That jar must have quenched '¢ ship's lights by injuring her electrica apparatus. We know that the wirele:s worked weakly when Phillips, the 0» erator, set about his desperate task o reaching out for help while the wo men and children in the ho2ts roche off somewhere in the dark and the men waited with sinking hearts. The wireless ceased muttering in less thar two hours. A flutter or two and it was gone. The shock of the collision sent many of the passengers to the decks partly dressed. A wireless dispatch came through Camperdown, N. S., say- ing that the passengers were ordered to the lifeboats at once and that many were scantily clad as they took their places in the boats. This would indi cate that the Titanic's condition wa: such that no time could be spared tc return to their staterooms for addi tional clothes. Ice Menaced Lifeboats. Danger still confronted even those who were so fortunate as to be pul aboard the lifeboats. Huge quantities of field ice covered the ocean, a wire less dispatch says, and in the darkness the crews had to guide their boats with the greatest care to prevent be ing jammed and overturned. The ice was so heavy that the lifeboats could not forec their way through it, and as a result the boats became widely scp arated The air was biting cold, and the chill that rose from the ice floes caused the passengers to hover closo together to keep warm. All through the night the lifeboats bobbed help: lessly between the shifting cakes of ice, while the survivors prayed for the dawn to come. Shortly after 2 o'clock the sinking Titanic made her great dive into the sea, carrying with her hundreds of per- sons to death, Daylight came and with it arrived the Cunard liner Carpathia, whi‘h found only the score of lifeboats filled with crew and passengers floating helplessly about the vicinity where the Titanic bad passed under the waves, First reports were that the Car- pathia had saved but 675 persons. The new figures reduced the list of those for whose fate fear was felt by nearly 200, and if, as seems probable, practi. cally all those saved were passengers, it would appear that all but approxi: mately 456 of the vessel's passengers are accounted for, A partial list of the survivors received from the Car- pathia includes the names of many women of prominence who were on the steamer. A Terrible Scene. After the first desperate calls of the Titanic for help had been sent flying through space and brought steamers for hundreds of miles around spes! Mg to the scene, * at seems to have been an impenet; - wall of silence was raised betwe ar and the anx- p———— 5 fous world. The giant liner, so far zs advices, appear, went to her fate with. out so much 2s a whisper of wha: must have heen the scenes of terrible tragedy enac:ed on her decks. In the lack of even a line from a survivor, imagination pauses hefore as the inevitable hecame known ani it was seen that of the more than 20:0 human lives with which she was freighted there could be no hope ct saving, as it appears, fa: less than tle half. Other than the news that 868 per. soiew, largely women and children, h~d been rescued from the liners boats by the Cunarder Carpathia, several hours passed without a word as to the fate of the remainder of those on board at the time of the fateful crash, Along the entire Atlantic coast wire. less instruments were attuned to catch from any source the slightest whisper »f* hope that possibly on one of the many steamships which rusred to th: assistance of the stricken Titan of the seas were other survivors of the sunk. en vessel. But from none of the ship+ reported to be at or near the scene of what, viewed in the light of the prch abilities may be recorded as the world’s greatest marine horror, cam> the slightest syllable of encourage- ment to the anxiously waiting world. The $10,000,000 Titanic, with cargo and jewels, worth perhaps $10,000,000 more, is a total loss. Prominent Men Lost. It ia practically certain now that nearly all 0° the men of the Titanic’s company went down with the shiy when she riunged two miles toward the ocean f.oor, or that they perished miserably while <linging to wreckage or life pre<ervers in the icy waste that betrayed them. They gave up life within sight of the little, rocking boats that held their women and children. I! cannot be doubted now that among these were Colonel John Jacob Astor, Isador Straus, Major Archibald W. Butt, aide to President Taft; George D. Widener, of Philadelphia; Karl H. Behr, the tennis champion; Jacques Futrelle, the writer; William T. Stead, the London editor; Francis D. Millet the American artist, and many, many more who were known on both sides of the Atlantic. The toll of the Titan: ic’'s dead will be felt the world over. Captain E. J. Smith, commander of the Titanic, probably went to hs grave with his ill-fated vessel without once being able to communicate direct with the agents of his line. Aside from the “S. O. S.” sent by his wireless op erator, not one word from him was re- ceived up to the time the Titanic sank bow foremost into the ocean. The presumption is that he met his death while at his post as a gallant skipper. That he and his crew faced the rigidly unwritten law of the sea—wo- men and children first—is plainly indi cated by the preponderance of women among the partial list of survivors that the wireless has given. ‘ Although rated as one of the mos able commanders since the advent cf the modern steamship, Smith's career had been recent.y marred with ill luck. He was in com: mand of the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, when that vessel was in col lision with the British cruiser Hawke. Exonerated of all blime for this occur rence, he was placed in charge of the Titanic, only to graze disaster when his new charge fouled the steamship New York in the Solent after leavin: Southampton. Although 868 souls are reported to be on the Carpathia, it is apparent that all of them are not passengers, for it was necessary for members of the Titanic's crew to man the life boats whic) set out from the sinking liner. How many of the crew were assigned to each boat is a subject of conjecture. A similarly unsettled point is the percentage of first class passengers among those saved. Whilc the names of survivors obtained are largely those of saloon passengers, the rule “women first” should apply equally to the second cabin and the steerage, a regulation which may have cost the life of many prominent men above decks. It is natural also tha! the names of the more obscure surviv ors would be slower in reaching land. that the steamers Virginian and Par- isian, of the Allan line, might have picked up survivors in addition to those on board the Carpathia, but this was practically dispelled when the Sable Island wireless station reported that the Parisian had no survivors on board, and when the officers of the Allan line in Montreal issued a state ment that the captain of the Virginian had sent them a wireless message say- ing that he had “arrived at the scene of the disaster too late to be of ser vice.” Both the Virginian and the Parisian therefore appear to hold out no hope of further reducing the extent of the calamity. The Virginian has proceeded on her way to Europe. The Parisian steamed through much heavy field ice looking for passengers from the ill-fated ship. No life rafts or bodies were sighted among the floating wreckage, which covered a large area. The Parisian reports that the weather was cold and that even if any persons had been on the wreck: age they would in all probability have perished from exposure before they could have been picked up. The Carpathia, having on board the only survivors accounted for, is com- ing in slowly to New York. All hope for details of the tragedy and its ef: fects are centered on this ship. She will reach New York some time dur ing Thursday night. London, Paris and New York are grief stricken and overwhelmed by the news of the disaster. Tearful crowds of relatives and friends of pas sengers on board the Titanic thronged the steamship offices in all three even trying to conjecture what passed ! Captain 252 Hope clung desperately to the beliet | $300 — cities, waiting hour after hour for news that, more often than not, when #t does come means bereavement anc BOTTOW. Of the survivors on board the Car pathia by far the larger number are women and children. SOME OF THOSE SAVED. Among the prominent persons who were saved are: Mrs. John Jacob Astor, New York, bride of John Jacob Astor. Countess of Rothes. Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, British baro- | of the net. Lady Duff-Gordon, wife of Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon. J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star line. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Hoyt, oi New York. C. M. Haves, president Grand Trunk railroad, of Canada. The following persons from Puiu delphia were saved: Mrs. George D. Widener, of Lynn2 wood Hall, Elkins Park, and her mal!, Emily Geiger. Mr. and Mis. William E. Carter, of Bryn Mawr. Miss Lucille Carter and Master Wil- liam Carter, children of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Carter. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Thayer, of Haverford. Mr. Thayer is second vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad. John B. Thayer, Jr, young sou of Mr. and Mrs. Thayer. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Reyerson, of Haverford. Miss Susan and Miss Emily Ryer- son and Master “Jack” Ryerson, chil dren of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ryerson. Mrs. Thomas Potter, Jr, widow of Colonel Thomas Potter. Mrs. Boulton Earnshaw, daughter of Mrs. Thomas Potter, Jr. Mrs. Emma Ward Bucknell, widow of William Bucknell. J. B. Shope et ux to A. L. Bower- Soib, premises in State College Boro; A. B. Lee, admr. to H. C. Gettig, 1 acre in Potter Twp.; $400, Lehigh Valley Coal Company to R. B. Daugherty, tract of land in Snow Shoe Twp.; $40. George B. Stover et ux to Mary C. jdams, tract of land in Miles Twp.; Hanah Luse et bar to Irvin Zettle et al, tract of land in Centre Hall; $1800, William E. Johnstonbaugh et ux to Charles H. McKee, tract of land in College Twp.; $2000. Harry A. Sampsel to Sarah C. Hunter, tract of land in Spring Twp.; Hester C. Christ et al to G. M. Bloom, tract of land in College Twp.; $200. Philip Heim to A. W. Zettle, tract of land in Gregg Twp.; $200. T. B. Jamison et ux to A. W. Zet- se tract of land in Spring Mills; Wyre W. Kerstetter to Maria M. Showers, tract of land in Pleasant Gap: $1600. Max Finberg et ux to Lemuel Jackson. tract of land in Philipsburg; 470. J. M. and H. W. Kryder to J. C. Kryder, tract of land in Gregg Twp: $50. J. C. and HA. W, Kryder to J. M. Kryder, tract of land in Gregg Twp.; John Boyer to Lewis S. Boyer et al, tract of land in Snow Shoe Twp.: $62.50. Rush Hawkins to Philipsburg Land & Coal Co. tract of land in Rush Twp.; $1. Josephine N. Jones to George T. Blast, tract of land in Philipsburg; James E., Lindsey et ux to Harry S. Horner, tract of land in Potter Twp.: $900. Sally Lingle et al to Harry 8S. Homer, tract of land in Potter Twp.; $1. Alice J. Deitz et bar to Robert P. Confer, tract of land in Howard Twp.: $100. Hannah Behrer et bar to Annie E. Grove et bar, tract of land in State College; $2000. Julius H, Seibert to Kate A. Rodg- 8 tract of land in Snow Shoe Twp.; Lovina Houdeshell to Samuel T. Hoover tract of land in Burnside Twp.; $350. Margaret Bowersox et al to John D. Dreibelbis, tract of land in Fer- guson Twp.: $5400. 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