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