The San Francisco Call du lundi 15 avril 1912

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Liner Titanic Strikes Iceberg, Sinking Head Down THOUSANDS IN DIRE PERIL ON THE ATLANTIC --------------------- Largest Vessel Afloat Reported Sinking Head Down: Women Put Off in Boats --------------------- Wireless Call for Help Responded to by Several Ships. Including Olympic --------------------- Many Notables Among Passengers of Titanic Following is a partial list of some of the notable persons among the passengers on board the Titanic: Astor, colonel and Mrs. John Jacob. Butt, Major Archibald, military aide to President Taft. Daniel. Robert W., Philadelphia banker. Guggenheim, Benjamin. Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Hays, C. M., president Grand Trunk railway. Ismay, J. Bruce, chairman White Star line. Millet. F. D. artist and president of the consolidated American academy of Rome. Rothes Countess. Stead, W. T. Strauss, Mr. and Mrs Isidore. Vanderbilt, A. G. White, J. Stewart. Widener, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Widener, Mr. and Mrs. Harry. Widener. J. E. Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne. Dodge, Mr. and Mrs Washington of San Francisco. CAPE RACE, N. F., April 15.---At 10.25: o'clock last night the White Star steamship Titanic called "C. Q. D." and reported having struck an iceberg. The steamer said that immediate assistance was required. Half an hour afterward another message came, reporting that they were sinking by the head and that women were beeing put off in the lifeboats. The weather was calm and clear, the Titanic's wireless operator reported. He gave the position of the vessel 40:46 ---------------------- Continued on Page 2, Column 5

WOMEN ON TITANIC TAKE TO LIFEBOATS --------------------- Big Liners Hurry to Assist the Great Steamship Which Strikes Iceberg --------------------- Continued from Page 1 --------------------- north latitude and 50:14 west longitude. The Marconi station at Cape Race notified the Allen liner Virginian, the captain of witch immediatly advised that he was proceeding for the scene of the disaster. The Virginian at midnight was about 170 miles distant fom the Titanic and is expected to reach that vessel by 10 a. m. Monday. The Olympic at an early hour Monday morning was in latitude 40:43 north and longitude 51:18 west. It was in direct communication With he Titanic, and now is making all haste toward the endangered liner. The steamship Baltic also reported itself as about 200 miles east of the Titanic and was making all possible speed toward the other. 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 abruptly. Largest Vessel Afloat NEW YORK, April 15.--The Titanic, the largest vessel aflot, left Southampton April 10 on its maiden voyage for New York. It is a vessel of 45.328 tons, is 882 feet . inches long and displaces 60.000 tons. The Titanic carried about 1,300 passenger, of whom 350 were in the first cabin. Among these are D. Millet, the artist and president of the Consolidated American Academy at Rome; Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President Taft; C. M. Hayes, president of the Grand Trunk rallway; J. Bruce Ismay, chairman and managing director of the White Star line; Henry B. Harris, the American theatrical manager; W. T. Stead, Mrs. Isidore Strauss, Mr and Mrs John Jacob Astor, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Widener, Benjamin Guggenheim and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Widener. Captain E J. Smith is in command of the Titanic. Whole Trip Eventful The last communication with the Titanic vas a wireless message received by the Marconi station at Cape Race, reporting it 1.284 miles east of Sandy Hook at 2:10 o'clock Monday morning. On leaving Southampton last Wednesday the Titanic had a rather exciting moment. While passing the White Star liner Oceanic and the American liner New York, which were berthed alongside one another, the suction of the Titanic's triple screws dragged the New York from the moorings. Its stern swung into mid stream and narrowly escaped striking the Titanic. Can Accomodate 3.500 The Titanic is a luxuriously fitted vessel and its accommodations for cabin passengers are elegant. It has accommodations for 2.500 persons and carries a crew of 840. That icebergs are prevalentt in the Atlantic just now was made known today when it was learned that the Cunard liner Carmania and the French liner Niagara had adventures with them last week. The Niagara had several plates stove off Grand Banks last Thursday and the Carmania had an exciting day threading its way through floes. OTHER OF PROMINENCE Passengers in addition to several prominent ones previously mentioned are Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who joined the ship at Cherbourg; Countess Rothes, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Taussig, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Thayer, Mrs. J. S. Stuart-White, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Allison, Mrs Albert, Mrs Cardoza, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Chafee, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Fortune, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harper, Mrs. E D. Appleton, Norman c. Craig, M. P. Mr. and Mrs. Washington Dodge, William C. Dulles, Colonel Archibald Gracie, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Hoyt, Fletcher Fellowes, Lambert Williams, Colonel Washingtnn Roebling, Adolphe Saalfield, J. Clinch Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Spedding. Clarence Moore and Robert W. Daniel. One reassuring feature of the accident to the Titanic is that the large number of ships appear to be within the big liner's call. MAURETANIA NEAR SCENE Besides the Virginian of the Allen line, which appears to be the first to have heard of the Titanic's distress, and the White Star liners Baltic and Olympic, both of which were reported on the way to the scene, there are also the Cincinnati of the Hamhurg-American line the Curnarder Mauretania, the Hanburg-American liner Prinz Albert, the Amerika of the same line and the North German Lloyd liner Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, bound from this port to Plymouth. All these ships and many smaller liners are shown on today's steamship chart as probably within the zone of wireless communication with the Titanic.