She had 1380 passengers aboard, including 300 in the saloon, and a crew of 650. The Virginian received the Titanic appeals at a distance of 170 miles.
The Olympic and Baltic have also gone to her rescue, but it is doubtful whether they will arrive in time, as the last signals were blurred and ended abruptly. The women were put into lifeboats. The weather is calm. The passengers included Mr W. T. Stead, Mr James Ismay (of Ismay, Imrie, and Co., proprietors of the White Star Line), Colonel Jacob Astor, and several New York bankers.
HALIFAX: All the passengers left the Titanic by 3 o'clock this morning.
LONDON: Several liners have recently encountered an icefield 100 miles long and 35 broad off Newfoundland. There have been numerous perilous voyages. The liner Niagara had two holes knocked in her, and others have been damaged.
LONDON, April 16: (Received April 16, at 5 p.m.) The Titanic has sunk. Six hundred and seventy-five people have been saved, but it is feared that many have perished. (Received April 16, at 9.40 p.m.). The officials of the White Star Company believe that 1500 (?
) passengers were drowned. The details are meagre and contradictory, but it is believed that all the passengers in the first class were rescued.
This estimate is based on the number aboard the Carpathia, to which vessel the Virginian transferred the people rescued by her. It is not known whether the Parisian saved any. Veteran Atlantic voyagers have never before seen the ice so far south in such great bulk as now. It mostly topples over, and the upper surfaces of the bergs are merely awash, making it difficult to discern them.
NEW YORK, April 16 (Received April 17, at 0.20 a.m.). Mr Franklin, vice-president of the White Star Company, admits that there has been heavy loss of life on the Titanic. The captain of the Olympic reports that when he reached the scene only the wreckage remained.
the company's offices are besieged by the friends of wealthy Americans on board. The absence of news caused excitement approaching a panic.
The loss of this magnificent liner recalls the loss of the White Star Company's steamer Naronic, which occurred a few years ago. She was a vessel of 5780 tons, and was commanded by Captain William Roberts. The Naronic had eight watertight bulkheads, and was regarded as being the finest vessel of her class at that time. She made six round voyages from Liverpool across the Atlantic and on her last voyage she carried a crew of 60, and 14 cattle men, all of whom disappeared with the ship.
- ODT, 17.4.1912.
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