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-
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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 !
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Hope clung desperately to the beliet | $300
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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.
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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
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Margaret Bowersox et al to John
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Ella Eckley to Salinda Shutt, tract
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Susan R. Reighard to Rebecca
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F. P. Bower et ux to C. 8. Bower,
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A. J. Shook et ux to H. H. Eisen-
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Winnona W. Evey et bar to Maud
Nite), tract of land in Lemont;
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John J. Orndorf to Isaac Orndorf,
tract of land in Haines Twp.; $1252,
Miles Wrye et ux et al to Frank
Wrye, tract of land in Half Moon
Twp.; $1500,
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