DISABLED SHIP UNDER TOW AFTER HITTING BIG ICEBERG
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Wireless Brings Steamships to to Scene of Disaster, and Passengers, Including Many Notables, Are Transferred to Carpathia and Parisian.
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LATEST BULLETIN.
HALIFAX, N. S., April 15.--The Canadian Government Marine Agency here at 4.15 P. M. received a wireless despatch that the Titanic is sinking. The message came via the cable ship Minia off Cape Race.
It said that the steamers towing the Titanic were endeavoring to get her into shoal water near Cape Race for the purpose of beaching her.
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It was said at the White Star line's offices at 4 o'clock this afternoon that a despatch had been received from a Canadian news agency that the Titantic was in a sinking condition. No confirmation of this report had been received. From another source it was reported to the line late this afternoon that all the disabled vessel's passengers had been put aboard the Carpathia, Parisian and Virginian.
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Authentic wireless reports late this afternoon from the White Star liner Titanic, which was in collision with an iceberg 400 miles off the Newfoundland coast at 10.25 o'clock last night, is that the badly disabled steamship had safely transferred her passengers and is being attended by three big steamships.
Shortly before noon the first official news of the fate of the Titanic since the flash of the disaster fourteen hours before was received from Cape Race, New Foundland, in the following wireless despatch from Capt. Haddock of the Olympic, Titanic's sister ship:
LINERS TAKING OFF PASSENGERS.
"Parisian and Carpathia in attendance on Titanic. Carpathia has already taken off twenty boatloads of passengers and Parisian five. Baltic is approaching. Olympic 260 miles from Titanic."
Vice-President Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine declared in making public his message from the Olympic that the Titanic would be safely towed to port and that her passengers would be landed at Halifax.
A wireless message received at Cape Race from the Parisian this aftenoon stated: "Cunard liner Carpathia is in attendance upon the disabled liner Titanic and has picked up twenty boatloads of Titanic's passengers."
No word had been heard from the Virginian at the main offices of the Allen Line in Montreal up to 3 o'clock this afternoon to supplement the first wireless message that reported the Virginian on her way to the scene of the wreck.
No details of the transfer of passengers have been received from any source.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon the White Star line officials here received the following bulletin from Boston:
"Allen line, Montreal (by telephone), confirms report Virginian, Carpathia and Parisian in attendance."
The operating officers of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company have been notified that the Titanic's passengers will be landed at Halifax and that there will he about six hundred passengers requiring transportation to New York in sleeping cars and same eight hundred by ordinary day coaches.
Twenty-three sleeping cars and two dining cars will be made up into trains between New York and Boston to-night and sent on to Halifax.
It is expected that the passengers of the crippled leviathan will be landed at Halifax some time Wednesday.
The Carpathia, which, with the Parisian, took off the Titanic's passengers, is a Cunard liner in the Mediterranean service and left New York on April 13. The Parisian is an Allen liner and sailed from Glasgow for Halifax on April 6.
The Allen liner Virginian, out of Halifax for Glasgow, is reported to have the disabled liner in tow.
The White Star steamship Baltic should be in attendance by this time, according to calculations of the line's officials.
The first news of the Titanic's accident was received at midnight by a wireless operator at Cape Race. It said:
"Have struck an iceberg; we are badly damaged; rush aid. Titanic, lat. 41.46 North, long. 50.14 West."
LINERS RACED TO THE RESCUE.
This call was flashed up and down the coast, and half an hour later
World's Biggest Ship Reported in Bad Shape After Collision at Night and Now Being Towed to Halifax by the Allen Liner Virginian
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the Virginian reported to Cape Race that she was rushing to the Titanic's aid. None of the shore stations got into communication with the Carpathia or Parisian, and until the message was received from the Olympic it was not known that those vessels had picked up the "S. O. S." of the Titanic.
The Titanic is the largest vessel afloat and carried a host of Americas millionaires aboard, among them Col. John Jacob Astor and his bride, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and G. D. Widener of Philadelphia. She is reported to have on board $5,000,000 worth of bonds and diamonds.
Cape Race, Newfoundland, is the nearest land point to the scene of the collision with a wireless station. The Marconi operator got several messages after the first S. 0. S. flash, one of them stating that the Titanic was sinking by the head. Then all messages ceased until Capt. Haddock was heard from.
Wireless advices from the Allen line steamship Virginian, while she was rushing to the aid of the Titanic, stated that her last wireless message from the Titanic was received aboard the Virginian at 3.05 o'clock this morning. The Virginian communicated this fact to the wireless station at Cape Race, Newfoundland.
The operator of the Titanic stated in this message that the women and children were being takes off in a calm sea. At this point in the message there was a sudden break, followed by a few incoherent letters and then a complete cessation.
The following message came from Boston at 9.40 A M.: "Indirect messages received from points along the north coast state that Titanic is struggling slowly but surely toward Cape Race."
SAY PASSENGERS WERE TAKEN OFF.
A 9.55 the following telegram was received by the United Press from the Marconi station at St. John, Newfoundland "Titanic, according to message from Cape Race and other points, nearing Cape Race."
An Associated Press despatch from London read: "All passengers of the Titanic were taken off safely by 3.30 o'clock, according to a wireless message to Halifax, Nova Scotia, relayed by a news agency here."
The following messages in quest of information of the Titanic's plight were sent out from the offices of the White Star line to-day:
8.41 A. M.
"Captain Smith of Titanic, via Sable Island--Anxiously awaiting information and probable disposition of passengers. "FRANKLIN."
8.45 A. M.
"Marconi Station, Camperdown, Nova Scotia-Give us quick information condition Titanic. Answer this office. "INOGRAM."
The first "S. 0. S." flash from the Titanic stated that the weather was clear and calm. The fact of the collision may be explained in that icebergs carry their own veils of fog with them.
At midnight, when the Virginian got the Titanic's distress message via Cape Race, the Virginian was 170 miles from the reported scene of the accident and sent word ashore that she ought to reach the Titanic by 10 o'clock.
The Virginian left Halifax yesterday morning with 900 passengers aboard. Her captain reported that he could take care of all the Titanic's passengers.
Other big steamships ploughing the same lane followed by the Titanic and which are being rushed to her aid are the Olympic of the White Star Line, which left New York Saturday, the Baltic of the same line, the Hamburg-American liner Cincinnati, the Cunarder Mauretania, the Hamburg-American liners Prinz Adelbert and Amerika and the North German Lloyd steamship Prins Frederich Wilhelm.
BALTIC SPEEDING TO RESCUE.
The officers of the White Star Line figure that the Baltic should reach the latitude and longitude given by Titanic at 3 o'clock this afternoon and that the Olympic should run up at 8 o'clock to-night. The Baltic has been turned backed from her course to go to the rescue.
The Montreal office of Horton Davison, one of the Titanic's passengers, received the following wireless message:
"All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by the Virginian."
Manager Mitchell of the White Star office in Montreal is on his way to Halifax to take charge of the passengers of the Titanic when they arrive. He will also look after the unshipment of luggage when the crippled steamship readhed port.
Lloyd's agents in London, according to a cablegram, were demanding a 50 per cent premium for the reinsurance of the cargo of the Titanic.
Vice-President Franklin of the international Mercantile Marine assured the throngs of relatives and friends of passengers aboard the Titanic who clamored for news at the White Star offices that the greatest steamer could not sink, no mater how bad the collision.
It was reported from the offices of the Allen line in Montreal at 9.30 o'clock this morning that no word had been received from the Virginian since shortly after midnight.
The Montreal officers of the line authorised the statemeat that the Virginian should reach the disabled vessel some time this morning.
Another report of an unofficial character received at Montreal at 8.30 o'clock this morning stated: "The Titanic is still afloat end her engines are working. At that hour she was reported crawling slowly in the general direction of Halifax and toward the Virginian."
At 11 o'clock Mr. Franklin said at the White Star offices that he had received the following version of the Montreal despatch:
"Titanic slowly proceeding for Halifax under her own steam."
He bad received no replies from his anxious inquiries addressed to the Cape Race and Camperdown wireless stations.
Titanic's position when she struck the iceberg was estimated on