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TITANIC SINKING AT SEA AFTER CRASH WITH BERG
CAPE RACE, N F, April 15 -- At 10.25 last night the steamship Titanic called "C.Q.D." and reported having struck an iceberg. The steamer said that immediate assistance was required.---------------------------------------- Steamers Racing for the Scene in Answer to "C.Q.D." by Wireless. ----------------------------------- Women Take To Boats. ----------------------------------- Carries 1300 Passengers. ----------------------------------- Mr and Mrs John Jacob Astor, Maj Archi Butt, William T. Stead, Henry B. Harris, G. H. Hays Among Passengers. ----------------------------------- Half an hour afterward another message came reporting that they were sinking by the head and that women were being put off in the life boats. The weather was calm and clear, the Titanic's wireless operator reported, and gave the position of the vessel 41.46 North latitude and 50.14 West longitude. The Marconi station at Cape Race notified the Allan liner Virginian, the captain of which immediately advised that he was proceding for the scene of the disaster. The Virginian at midnight was about 170 miles distant from the Titanic and expected to reach that the vessel about 1 a m Monday.
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The Olympic at an early hour Monday Morning was in latitude 40.32 North and longitude 61.18 West. She was in direct communication with the Titanic and is now making all haste toward her.The steamship Baltic also reported herself as about 200 miles east of The Titanic and was making all possible speed toward her. The last signals from the Titanic were heard by the Virginian at 12.27 a m. The wireless operator on the Virginian says these signals were blurred and ended abruply.
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NEWS BY WIRELESS.
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Word Received in Montreal of the Mishap to the TITANIC -- Help on the Way to Her.MONTREAL. April 14 -- The White Star Liner Titanic is reported in advices received her late tonight to have struck an iceberg. The news was received at the Allan Line offices here in a wireless message from the captain of the steamer Virginian of that line. It was stated that the Virginian had been in wireless communication with the Titanic she had reported being in collision with an iceberg and asked for assistance. The Virginian reported that she was on her way to the Titanic. The Virginian sailed from Halifax this morning and at the time the wireless was sent she is reckoned to had been about abeam of Cape Race. She has 300 passengers on board, but can.
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