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LINER 'TITANIC,' WRECKED
IN COLLISION WITH ICEBERG,
BEING TOWED TO HALIFAX
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Passengers Have Been Transferred to
the Carpathia and Other Ships
Aiding in Their Rescue
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ACCIDENT OFF NEWFOUNDLAND
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Urgent Wireless Calls Flashed Over the
Ocean Turn Prows of Several Steamers
Towards Scene ---Notable List of
Passengers Aboard---World
in Suspense for Hours
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HALIFAX APRIL 15.--The Canadian Government Marine agency here at .. 15 p. m. received a wireless dispatch that the Titanic is sinking. The message came via the cable ship Minia, off Cape Race. It said that the steamers wing the Titanic were ............water near Cape Race for the purpose of .... her.
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STRUCK BY AN ICEBERG
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Passengers of the Mammoth Liner Are Being Transferred From the Titanic.
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Wireless dispatches up to 2 o'clock today allowed that the passengers of the monster White Star liner. "Titanic," which struck an iceberg off The Newfoundland coast last night, were being transferred aboard the
HE IS PURSUED BY
MISFORTUNE
CAPTAIN SMITH
Commanding officer of the Titanic, who was also in command of the Olympic when that great vessel collided with H.M.S. Hawks in the English channel a year ago
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steamer Carpathia, a Cunarder which left New-York April 13 for Naples. Already 20 boatloads of the Titanic's passengers have been transferred on board the Carpathia and allowing 40 to 60 people as the capacity of each lifeboat, some 800 to 1205 people have already been transferred from the damaged liner to the Carpathia. Another liner, the Parisian, of the Allan company, which sailed from Glasgow for Halifax on April 6, is already close at hand and assisting in the work of rescue. The Baltic and Virginian also are near the scene and the Olympic apparently is near at hand, as the wireless information concernibg the transfer comes front Cap. Haddock of the Olympic.
SEA SMOOTH, WEATHER CALM.
The latest reports indicate that the transference of passengers is being carried on successfully and safety.
The sea is smooth and the weather calm. It is probable that all of the passengers of the Titanic are safe.
While badly damaged, the Titanic is still afloat and is making her way toward Halifax in tow of the Virginian.
The accident occured at 10:25 last night at a point about 400 miles south of Cape Race and about 1100 miles east of New-York.
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Columbus Woman on "Titanic"
Mrs. R. L. Beckwith, daughter of Mrs. William Monypeny, of the Lincoln hotel, was a passenger on the Titanic. Mrs. Beckwith makes her home in New York and was returning from a winter In Europe. Since all the passengers were taken off, Mrs. Beckwith's Columbus relatives have no fears for her safety.
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F. D. Millet, the artist; Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Sraus; J. G. Widener of Philadelphia; President Hays of the Grand Trunk railway; J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line; W. T. Stead and others.
The liner carries 1400 passengers and a crew of 800.
The Titanic left Southampton in command of Captain Smith, who was in command of the Olympic when she was rammed by a cruiser off the English coast last September. Smith was transferred from the Olympic to her sister ship.
This was the Titanic's first voyage and she is believed to have been kept at high speed all the way across the Atlantic in an attempt to make a new record for the White Stat Line.
EXCITING SCENES IN NEW YORK.
A scene closely rivalling that which occured at the tme of the disaster to the White Star liner Republic, off Nantucket Shoals, was presented today at te offices of the White Star line, at 9 Broadway, New York. Anxious relatives and friends of passengers aboard the Titanic clamored for news, and the insistent statements of the company officials that the Titanic could not possibly sink and that they felt assured there would be no loss of life, had little effect in quieting the fears. Bankers and brokers, men of affairs closely identified with the business and professional life of New York, elbowed their way into the crowed offices and with faces tersely drawn, watched for the advent of every messenger boy or grew attentive at every ring of the telephone bell, all the while expecting further news of the disaster.
BANKERS GREATLY EXCITED.
Among those who seemed to be most wrought up were Washington Sellsman, the banker, who has relatives on board the liner, and a man who said he was an uncle of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, formerly Madeline Force, both arrived at the White Star offices early in the day and filed numerous messages with the Marconi company, in an effort to find whether their relatives were safe. Wealth aggregaling nearly half a billion dollars is represented by ten of the passengers on the Titanic, if calamity befell them it would materialy affect the stock market, as well as vast business enterprises in the United States and England. Foremost among the passengers, in point of wealth, is John Jacob Astor, who was returning to New York with his bride, formerly Miss Madeline Force. Colonel Astor's holdings amount to fully $150.000.000, and he is connected with nearly a score of corporations. Next in financial importance come Benjamin Guggenheim, Alfred G. Vanderbilt and George D. Widener. Mr. Guggenheim controls the American Smelting Secrities company; the great mining corporation which was founded by his father, Meyer Guggenheim. The fortunes os the three are estimated respectively at $35.000.000, $75.000.000 and $50.000.000.
IS WORTH $25.000.000.
Col. Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn bridge, is president and director of the John A. Roebling's Sons company. His fortune amounts to about $25.000.000.
Isidor Straus is one of the best known merchants in the world, and is worth about $30.000.000.
J. Bruce Ismay and J. P. Morgan who consolidated the American and British steamship lines.
J. B. Thayer is vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad. His son J. B. Thayer jr, who sailed on the Titanic with jis parents, fromerly was a ..... fullback on the University of Pennsylvania football team.
The comtess of Rothes who was (continued on page Two).
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WORLD'S BIGGEST LINER WHICH WAS STRUCK BY HUGE ICEBERG OFF NEW FOUNDLAND
THE CRIPPLED OCEAN LINER TITANIC
The accident happened while the "Titanic" was on her maiden voyage to New York. She was struck at 10.25 o'clock last night when the great ship was 1150 miles east of New York, off the "Grand Banks." Her passengers were transferred to vessels which responded to her wireless calls for aid and the crippled ship is limping towards Halifax.
Titanic Largest Vessel Afloat
NEW YORK, April 15.---The White Star liner Titanic, the largest vessel afloat, left Southampton April 10 on her maiden voyage for New YorK.
She is a vessel of 46.328 tons, is 882 feet 5 inches long and displaces 66.000 tons.
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