The Detroit Times du lundi 15 avril 1912

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SHIPS DASHING TO LINER TITANIC WHICH STRUCK AN ICEBERG --------------------- Gigantic Steamship Last Reported Limping in Direction of Cape Race --------------------- NO DEFINITE NEWS REGARDING PASSENGERS --------------------- White Star Officials Believe All Would Be Saved If Vessel Should Sink --------------------- MONTREAL, April 15.—At 11:10 the local agents of the White Star Line announced that they had received a relayed wireless which confirmed the earlier reports that the Titanic was not only afloat, but that her engines were working. She is heading toward Halifax, the agents say, and her passengers are safe. The line agents did not know whether the Virginian was then with the Titanic, but they believe she is standing by and may have already transferred the women and children. ----------------- MONTREAL. April 15.—Indirect messages received from points along the north coast late this morning said the gigantic steamship Titanic, with a large passenger list, which struck an iceberg in 41.46 north latitude, 50.14 west longitude last night, was struggling slowly but surely toward Cape Race. At 9:55 the following telegram was received by the United Press from the Marconi station at St. Johns, N. B.: Titanic, according to messages from Cape Race, St. Johns, and other points, is nearing vicinity of Cape Race. Immediately after she struck the iceberg the Titanic sent out wireless flashes for assistance. The Allan liner, Virginian, the fastest boat of that line, started immediately to her assistance. In addition to the Virginian there were in the vicinity of the Titanic and racing toward her the White Star Liners Olympic and Baltic; the Hamburg-American Liner Cincinnati; the Cunarder Mauretania, the Prinz Adelbert, Amerika, Friedrich Wilhelm and half a dozen freighters. At 8:30 this morning the Titanic was still afloat and her engines were working. At that hour she was crawling slowly in the general direction of Cape Race and forward the Virginian, which was en route to her. The Titanic reported that the women and children had been put in the lifeboats and that they were ready to be lowered at a moment's notice. This would not be done, however, until it was certain that the disabled giant liner was actually sinking. The weather this morning was clear (Continued on page 8). ----------------------

SHIPS DASHING TO AID OF LINER TITANIC --------------------- (continued from page one). --------------------- and calm. The pumps of the Titanic were being worked to their utmost, it was stated, and while the forward holds were full of water, the watertight compartments were holding, and if they can stand the strain, there is hope that the leviathan will yet make port. There is no doubt of the grave danger. The great steel prow of the Titanic crumbled before the impact with the enormous iceberg. At the smash, however, the watertight compartment doors closed automatically, immediately the wireless appeals for aid were sent out and the responses were immediate. It was believed here at 9.30, after every known bit of information had been considered, that all on board would be saved and that there is fair chance of the Titanic reaching port. According to information here, the Titanic carried about $5,000,000 in bonds and diamonds. The Titanic, the greatest of modern leviathans, exceeded even the monster Olympic in size. In addition she is the most luxuriously fitted and furnished vessel ever sent to sea. The vessel is 888 1/2 feet long and 92 feet beam: displacement, 66,000 tons, and registered tonnage 45.000. Five thousand passengers could be accommodated aboard the big liner, 600 in the cabins. She carried a crew of 600 men. Capt. E. S. Smith, a veteran shipmaster of the White Star line commanded her when she left Southampton on her maiden voyage. Even then the huge ship showed that her immense size might make her an embarrassing factor in trans-Atlantic navigation. When she pulled out from Southampton docks, the suction she created in the harbor dragged the American liner, New York, from her berth next to the Titanic, breaking two heavy hawsers like threads. It was with the utmost difficulty that the leviathan was maneuvered to avoid a collision. On board the Titanic when she sailed for this port was a big list of prominent Americans. The novelty of sailing on the greatest of modern ocean-going vessels had augmented the passenger list far above the average number. According to the White Star offices in New York, the advices from Europe placed the passengers at 700 first-class, 500 second-class and 1,200 steerage. Among the cabin passengers were Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Bruce Ismay, Clarence Moore, Mr and Mrs. Isidore Straus, Countess Rothes, Maj. Archibald Butt, Mrs. E. L. Appleton, Mr. and Mrs. Washington Dodge, Benjamin Guggenheim, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Widener, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Taussig, Norman Craig, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Haraner, Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Harris, Fletcher Fellowes, Col. Washington Roebling, Col. Archibald Gracie, Adolphe Saalfield, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Speddin, W. T. Stead, Robert W. Daniel, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Thayer, E. Stuart White, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Allison, Mrs. Aubert, Mrs Cardeza, Mr. and Mrs. W E. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Herbt Chaffess, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Fortune, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harper. The number of passengers on the Titanic, as announced by the New York offices of the White Star line did not agree with the figures of the London office which placed the first-class passengers at 330, second-class 300, steerage 770, and the crew at 800. -------------------- Here's Partial List of First-Class Passengers -------------------- NEW YORK. April 15.—The White Star Line officials, here this morning, gave out the following partial list of first class passengers who were booked to sail from Southampton, Cherbourg and Queenstown on the Titanic: Mrs N. Aubert, Harry Anderson. Miss Cornelia Andrews, Miss Elizabeth Walton, Mr and Mrs. R. L. Beckwith, Mrs. Jas Baxter, Quigg Baxter, Miss Elsie Bowerman, Mrs. W. Buckell. Mrs. D. H. Bischop, T. Beattie, A. H. Barkworth, Henry Blank, A O. Beardmore, Miss Caroline Bonnell. E. P. Calderhead, Mr. and Mrs. T. w. Clymer, Chas. T. Crane, Mr and Mrs. W. M. Clark, Mr and Mrs T. W. Cavendish, E. P. Colley, Mrs. E. M. Chibnall, Howard B. Case, Dr. George Lymer, Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Clark, George Quincy Clifford, Mr. and Mrs E. Carter, Miss Lucille Carter, William Carter, Mrs. F. C. Douglas, Mrs. B. De Villiers, Mr. and Mrs. Washington Dodge, Master W. Dodge, Miss E. M. Eustis, J. I. Flinn, Miss Marguerite Frolicher, Mr. and Mrs. Goldenberg, Herbert H. Hilliard, Mr. and Mrs. H. Sleeper Harper, Mrs. John C. Hogeboom, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Hoyt, Rev. P. Stewart Holden, W. J. Awksford, Christopher Head, W. E. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Kenyon, Herman Klabler, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Kimball, Mrs F. A. Leader, Miss Gretchen F. Longley, Milton C. Long, Lambert Williams, Fletcher Fellows, J. R. McGough, Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Minihan, Miss Daisy Minihan, C. Douden Middleton, T. McCafftry, T. J. McCarthy, Miss Georgette Alexander Madill, J. E. McQuire, Maxwell Norman, A W. Newell, Misses Alice and Madeline Newell, Miss Helen Newsom, S. OVies, E. C. Ostby, Helen Ostby, Walter C. Porter, Florence L. Pond, T. Papkin. Jr., Mrs E. W. Robert, Jonkheer Reuchlin, Mrs Frederick J. Swift, Mrs. George M. Stone, W. W. A. Spencer and wife, Adolphe Saalfeld, Mr. and Mrs. John Snyder, Mrs. W. B. Stevenson, Mr. and Mrs Frederick O. Speeden, Master R. Douglas Speeden, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Silvey, Mr. and Mrs. Max F. Steilhli, Mr and Mrs. J. B. Thayer, Mr. and Mrs. E. Z. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Tausig, Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Wood, Hugn Woolner, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Warren, Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener and son, John B. Brady, Mrs. J. W. M. Cardeza, T. D. M. Cardeza, Miss Gladys Cherry, Mrs. A. S. Compton, Miss S. R. Compton, A. T. Compton, Jr., Robert Chisholm, P. D. Daly, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Douglas, Miss Caroline Endres, T. P. Franklin, B. L. Foreman, Col. Archibald Gracie, Mrs. D. L. Greenfield, George B. Goldenschmidt, Binbaum Jacob, Mrs. Ernest L. Hines, Miss Mary Clines, Peere Marchal, Mr. and Mrs Morgan, Thomas Pears and wife, N. H. Parr, R. W. Smith, G. M. Tucker. Jr., Wyckoff Vanderhoef, Mrs. J. Stuart White, Miss Marie Young. --------------------- Ship Is Unsinkable, Declare Its Owners --------------------- NEW YORK. April 15.--The White Star line officials after a conference lasting more than an hour today, issued an official statement in which they stated that the great liner was unsinkable and that there was no reason to believe that she either had or could founder. They declared the interruption to the wireless communication was not significant of danger. The statement was signed by Vice-President P. A. S. Franklin and was as follows: "While we are not to direct comunication with the Titanic, we are perfectly satisfied that the ship is unsinkable. That no more wireless messages are coming from the ship is not a sign of danger and may be due to atmospheric conditiOns or something like that. "The ship is reported to have gone down several feet by the head. This may be due to water filling the forward compartments, and the ship may go down many feet by the head and still keep afloat for an indefinite period. "We cannot state too strongly our belief that the ship is unsinkable and the passengers perfectly safe. "We figure that the ship is 1.081 miles from New York and 600 miles from Halifax. The Virginian is due to reach her at 10 o'clock this morning, the Olympic at three this afternoon. and the Baltic at four." ---------------------- Almost unsinkable, Declares C. Leidich ---------------------- The Titanic, according to C. Leidich, 174 Griswold-st., local steamboat agent, is one of the strongest boats afloat and almost unsinkable unless struck in a vital part. Having gone bow on into an iceberg, he says, there should be no great apprehension for the safety of those on board. He was unable to say whether any Detroiters are on the ship.