The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 16, 1912, Page 1

No You Nnow How It Feels to FRED L.COALT pic, sinter ship to the Titanic, from South cod for three days in a gale which the captain | had experienced in 25 years. | was a passenger = bulk, the Olymple behaved badly. Once a the bow, smashed a hateh and flooded The shock sent a quiver through the Passengers were sent sprawling. Dishes and the furniture in the saloons slithered The steerage passengers fell on their the end had come. MANY STRAINS biman By wary the Oly Se ee York, lat LIKE LIFE Except when the motion—the strogeting and ing ot t hard / the worst Ne for alt her trem wap pe qu from ste shelves Neecnates © and pray groaning of the > reallee that we were afloat Life in these jev eleven decks tengers never see. sengers never meet From any deck the re. Here ia the worlds nd working class urkish baths, swt pensive hotel. I the passenger forget that he the itlus perfect, One go down to the sea in ships,” and es ~ tocks r) 20 the eliev aoe plet class amall » the ming was the a boat that long ca old girl sing the Olympic voiced her ning beams, plates and rivets. frankly worried. The officers tried away the passengers’ fears, but the ship's doctor confessed | alarmed. “Some day,” remarked the deck steward, sliding over| stac deck and balancing @ tray of tea and wafers, “seme | I don't like these toe bie be rigtd, wy sbips post Is nes Te gre too might and day jaa chorus The stewards and $4 ney ne is cafes and an ted, mn is not ks tewered above There us were long avenw Faith is a great thing, but it won't keep cream tfom souring like a chunk of ice will VOL, 14. NO, 39. cy is afloat ship's thane is like life in a skyscraper. There are mysterious regions far below which the pae There are hundreds of grimy tellers whom the p: first-claxa pastenger® part art still remembers the ON OLYMPIC’S "ROO We used to climb to the top deck, uncovered, where the four giant nd the rigging of the wireless of lifeboats up there, and we amused | ating on you leaned ov Her sides low with ¢ with wha the hote When made you dizzy, punctured far When she mour she scraped the sky never stop until whi strains seemed to ¢ gled to rise, Then and indescribable whole middle efile pall rooms, elevators, It is like rs evident intention to make Huge and splendid as it all is fate of thone who ra cing & plunge reminded and that but u leken a Werle it was a roll nor inwards n ed a When buried her when, grinding There are ne me the the mind grasp the aftoat—upper class TITANIC a worl She was making perhaps 18 knots The iceberg burst upon the vi the Titanic’s funnels, the berg wa bulk, she was a pigmy compared w Which whe Was rushing T cannot vision the crash captain on the bridge, the Jangling quiver that must have run through | it was 2 in the morning. The mg in the and gre I can only imagine ONE CENT ia they deck and ides of 1eeens could be fi of tha ke the comed she wou ank in @ trough, it ¢ in the ocean floor Howing in the ning in her never st seemed Khe The ¢ depths, she » vital re rit ENCOUNTERS BERG With memories of the Olympic fresh in my mind, | can see in fancy the Titanic rushing through the fog that ever hangs over the Banks Perhaps less, If the fog was thick sion of Capt, Smith. High as were higher tan was the ith the floating mountain of ice the sharp work of the of the bells in the eng the be bhip as the engities were reversed passengers were sleeping room ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1912. : ease, HOME S STANDS Se would Vensel's upen Perhaps Face Death on One of World’s Mightiest Steamships? they'll build one of 60,000 tons, and she'll break in two in midocean,” | ourselves spec IN SKYSCRAPER rolling and pl motion which t# neither ]@ haggard-eyed quartet of poker players were cashing in in the smok- ing room Og! 6. 0. a little are even the mightiest achievements of When that 45,000-ton bulx of stee! huried itself upon the berg, it was tossed back contemptuously, crumpled and broken. | say | cannot vision the crash, but in the care of fancy | can hear the sharp, stent calling of the wireless—"C. D. Q! C.D. QI” Th over the wate it rooms ed “Full be rned When How me ini the Carpathia, the engine thelr courses Olym an dzes to the from and tion « er emall The small only n disaster were athia reached the scene of the of wreckage floating on the Titanic bad down, with a rush, PY boats, and, perhaps, str men swimming The list of rescued contains the names of many women, but few men. It is likely that the women were loaded into the first boats which got clear away before the Titanic went down. If the men had time to take to the boats, it is reasonable to fear that they were sucked down when the Titanic plunged. Then the boilers let go and sea and alr were blended in an inferno of fire and flood boats water suck down wrecks: We doubt whether people who take quinine and whisky have a real hankering for quinine EDITION ustrated Diagram Showing the Position: of Titanic When She Rammed Iceberg Captain Smith of the Titanic Dominion CANADA Gutr oF Sr Lawere [save Is. * Pogrrion oF CARPATHIA Cie YORK 492 TITA FINANCIAL LOSSES ARE STAGGERING NEW YORK, April 16.—The financial loss to the White Star company will be staggering. Offi- cials declared that when the vesse! JORE. BOATS | Titanic carried a consignment of Men Say That if There Had Been Small Boats Enough, Saaeneee e aionated. te be worth Practically All Would Have Been Saved—Relatives and practically covered by insurance. Friends Frantic for News in New York. | The loss of the Titanic is th ‘ ah By | greatest from a financial standpoint NEW YORK, Apri! 16.—it is believed that nearly every soul aboard jn the history of marine insurance could have been saved if the giant liner had carried life-|The vessel itself was insured for and life r8fts enough to have accommodated her passengers. But | $3,700,000. A tremendous sum is 2 modern lifeboats were aboard. represented in the loss of bags: belonging to passeng the loss Carpathia Due Thursday from this source alone being placed President Franklin of the at $2,000,000 Star line is unned. He that the Carpathia will arrive York on Thursday or early Morning. The Olympic. said, is believed be the sea nea e of Wreck. He decla hor California the being by the Car pathia. : The stock market was nervous in the day because of the disaster, but| PROMINENT PEOPLE MISSING. the early depression was followed CAPE RACE, April 16.—1In a list by a fair recovery. The tone this Of the Titanic survivors, caught her: * - by wireless, Bruce Ismay, managing sac aoe aca director of the White Star line, in (By United Press Leased Wire) t ont promi nt passenger giv NEW YORK, April 16.—All New 8 positively ved. A later m York i¢ stunned today by the ap-"#Ke mentions Mrs. John Jaco palling loss of life to passengers{Astor as saved This probab coord the wrecked White Star lin-/means that Jobn Jacob Astor and have been virtually unsinkable. A ot. : long line of hysterical men, women wanes oes aed bm tg military and children besieged the offices of |* cna SAL Mauk grewmtent, of. the oo oy sane Fo again for | Grand Trunk Pacific railway, his ; . Stead. Relatives of the missing passen: Seni qucuuaniies gers,-as well as their friends, bitter-] P°T)" waiter, the artist ly denounce the company, charging! @" § Widener of Philadelpha the officials with aaving deliberate 4 and Mrs. Isdor Strauss. ly withheld news of the disaster! 4B’ Thayer, vice president of the when they were reasonably certain | peinsvivania railroad that thn janice had gone down! with hundreds of passengers The White Star officials are bit terly censured for issuing false re ports and comforting retatives and | friends by agsurances that all pas sengers bad been transferred to oth er vessels, and that It was expected that the Titanfe would be towed} * into port. A detailed explan ation for this action has not been| forthcoming, the officials at the ame time admitting they knew the Titanic had foundered several hours before the public announcement was made Company officials attempt ed to defend their action by & ng | they did not feel justified in alarm the world until positive infor mation bad been received or one of the steamers carrying the survivors had docked. Police Reserves Called The police reserves were scarcely to control the crowds in front » White Star line it on to bi \the Ingu ach supplied with @ gon A certified list of survivors. | take effect on May 1. =| Ju of Senttle for 27 years. For last 15 years he was a member of the law firm of Smith & Cole. Judge Ito picked up A near Only One Hope one hope re the Titanic ¢ files from the she ihe time she san 1 tome of the life drifted awa arrived. Scotia, how Might, and, with a then Horm traveling eastward, little ppmartained for rescuing the. who may sti afloat The wirciess jay ad their inabil any of Vessels supposed been cinity also have| tmable to re Carpathia, are endeavo each her It is be er thir struck t pow owered e Car eather off was foggy ain: ager, and Mrs. Harris Col. Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn bridge. MORGAN WASN'T ON THE TITANIC NEW YORK, April 16.—Flat de nial of a report that J. P. Morgan, the New York financier, was aboard the lost Titanic was made at his of fices here today, It was announced that Morgan is at Aix-les-Bains, France. Everett Smith Is Judge Mrs. Benjamin « wife the mitiona who told ed to BRE SEabe 8 Awdul Stor M is expected by the sur thing in fic Women and Y while the fering About able Governor Hay as judge @ the su he sea prior PULL DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST NORTHWEST LEAGUE GAME IN TONIGHT’S PINK. NINE INNINGS OF DETAIL. cept membership on the school jbeerd. ‘ Henry 8. Harris, theatrical man-| The Women First On the ocean floor, two miles'b if the Newfoundland coast, lies the Wreck of the world’s largest ship—and 1,492 dead. Among the ebrpses, upon which the fish have already begun to prey, are thé clay shells of mil 2 and paupers, lords and freemen. Dpath, the great leveler, has made equals of them all They were brave men, those went down with the Titanic not din all their numbef, The posted lists of the rescued are incomplete but eloquent, They give the lie to those meath the hurrying waves, ilprs and passengers who one cow i who say the day of chivalry is past There is no law of the seas Which says that men must stand back and let the women be first in the lifeboats in time of shipwreck Yet, the passen women! The than this men rs rescued fro mthe Titanic were nearly all Middle Ages can furnish n@ finer example of chivalry 1,492 men, millionaires aad paupers, lords and free- and every an a hero! There is h abundant hope-+for the world t dead in the hearts of men The world In dity, on farm, in palace and hovel, heart Yet the dives of those for wh« weep have not been wholly wasted) The world will not forget the examp! Remembering it, we and paupers, lor« will be bound tronger, c Chivalry is ne mourns today are breaking m we they set millionaires and freemet brotherhood in closer, better ‘Rood Only Seattle Man on Board Everett Smith, president of the | believed that five or more resid schoo! board, has been appointed by |of Portland were on board the liner andle| perior gourt to succeed Judge Wil- |land men and women who may have | Gay, whose resignation will | perishe ie Smith has been a resident | the Smith has held no public office ex. | En Henry F Titanic. in By known, 1 Franenthal Summit av., reports that his cousin, Dr auenthal of N prk, and bride, were on the {ill-fated The were just returning from their honeymoon trip and whether they went down with the ship is not yet 903 couple ope, is nbers of the firm of the Pacific Creosoline company are not sure whether Hugh Rood, vice presidept of the company, sailed from Europe on the Titanic. Press dikpatches give Rood's name on the passenger list, and he may be one of the 1,492 persons drowned Mrs, Rood remained in England, Thé@ Roods resided at the Hotel Perry while in Seattle, and had written the management a few weeks ago fpr a reservation of rooms CALIFORNIANS ON TITANIC LOS ANGEL and Mrs, Walter Los Angeles « among the Ti vietims Clark is the son of J. Ross Clark vice president of the Salt Lake rail way and nephew of former Senator Wm. A. Clark of Méntana and Mrs, Willoughby Rodman, Miss Clark, who is 28 years of age, is; Edith Kirkpatrick and Mrs. W. H superintendent of the Los Alimitos|Perry, all wealthy society persons April 16 Miller Clark feared today Mr, ,sugay factory near Santa Ana. of} Caunt Wilhelm Hoff, Bavarian to be | noble, who spent the last year in Los Angeles, was aboard the lost liner, Other Los Angeles members of his party, who are believed to have, remained in Paris, were Mr Five Portland Passengers on Ship PORTLAND. April 16. in hops; F. M. Warren, pres the Warren Packing Co. Warfen; Mrs. James R her 13-year-old daught J.P. Brady, vice pre: |State bank of Pomeroy, Wash |a passenger Tt is nts ident of nd Mrs. Watt and Bertha Or., Titanie when she sank, The Port a Herman Klaber, wealthy operator was 155 MONE SAVED? NEW YORK, April 16—The New York News Bureau reports that a wirel wreck, says: “All except 1,237 of the accounted for,” passengers aboard the Titanic have been ident of the} os PARTIAL LIST OF TITANIC SURVIVORS (By United Press eased Wire) NEW YORK, April 16.—While it is admittedly incorrect the follow ing partial list of survivors from the Titanic disaster is the best that pathia up to noon today. The Car. thia’s wireless operator has been ceaselessly sending names and mes sages, and is nearly worn out. In- terference by amateur wireless op- ators hi also hindered the cu rate transmission. The survivors, so far as ascertained are: | Col."and Mra, Washington Dodge and son, Mrs, Jobn Jacob Astor and maid, Harry Anderson, Misg E. W Allen, Mrs. KE, W. Appleton, A. 8 Rarkworth, Mrs. James Baxter, Geo, A. Brayton, Mr, and Mrs, R. T. Heckwith, Carl R. Baebr, Mr, and Mrs, B. H. Bishop, Henry Blank Miss Caroline Bonnell, Miss C. C. Rowen, Miss Elsie Bowerson, Mrs J. M. Brown, Mrs. J. J. Brown, Miss Ressette Mrs, William Bucknell Karl Barrett, E. P. Calderhead, Miss Chrachill Cardell, Mrs, J Card Thomas Cardeza, Miss Lu cile Carter, Mrs. Wm Carter Master Wm. Carter, Howard B Cass, Mra, Turrell W. Cavendish and maid, Mrs, Gracie Chaffee, Col Archibald, Mr. Graham, Mrs, Wm | Graham, Miss Margaret E.and Mrs Lee Greenfield, Wm. B. Grenfield, |Henry Harner, Miss Marjorie New |xom, BE. C. Ostby, Miss Helen R Ostby, Flennand Omond, Miss Mad eline Newell, Miss Marjorie New ell, Mr. and Mrs A. Harder, |Henry S. Harper and man servant, Mrs. Henry 8. Harper, Henry | Hawksford, Mrs. Chas. M. Hays and daughter Margaret, Mrs, Henry Harris, Miss Jean Hippac |John C. Hogeboom, Mrs, Turrell |W. Cavendish and maid, Mrs, H. F. |Chaffee, Mr. and Mrs, N, C, Cham | s, Miss Gladys Cherry, Paul Chevro, Miss Crosby, Daniel W. Da jvidson, Mrs. Thornton, Mrs. De |Valiers, Mr. and Mrs. A. A, Dick Mrs. Fred C, Douglas, Mrs, Walter Doug’ J, F.. Flynn, Mrs, For tune, Miss Lucile and Miss Alice Mark, Dr. Henry and Mrs. ‘rauen thal, Mr. and Mrs. Frauenthal Miss Margaret — Froliche Mrs Jacques Futrelle, Mrs, Leonard Gib son, Mr Samuel Goldenber N sia Goldent and Lady Co: mo Duff Gordon Icebergs Are Most Dangerous to Ships. | (Wy United Press Leased Wire) ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 16— Captain Inman Sealby, who was in lcommand of the liner Republic when it sank off the Massachusetts coast and who is now a law student said today that icebergs are the most dangerous factors with which liners have to contend. B,| Mrs. | 866 PEOPLE ARE RESCUED ; Two Thousand Three Hundred Fifty-eight were on board—the | Virginian and Parisian Arrived on Scene too Late to Rescue Passengers—Only About 20 Men Are Saved, According to | Reports. | (By United Press Leased Wire.) } NEW YORK, April 16.—Lives of 1,492 persons, according to latest estimates here today, were lost when the Titanic sank, after striking an iceberg off the Grand Banks. According to the |company, the White Star line, there were 2,358 aboard the Ti- tanic when she struck and of these 866 were saved in the ship's | boats and are now speeding to New York aboard the Carpathia, | 866 SURVIVORS. The rs, numbering 866 persons, mostly women and children g New York on board the liner Car- pathia all remain of those, including passengers and crew, who saile voard the Titanic on its maiden voyage from Southampton last. Wednesday P. A. Franklin, vice president of the White Star company, admitted here today that it was impossible to give a correct list of the it ident the Titanic’s officers had shown no preference in transferring women passengers to the Carpathia, the women in the steerage being given an equal }chance with the wives of the millionaires in the first cabin, ALL HOPE FADES AWAY. | The hope that additional passengers had been picked up hy the Virginian and Parisian, was shattered today, when wire- jless messages received here announced that these two vessels had arrived on the scene too late to be of assistance. MEN SANK WITH SHIP. Not more than a score of male passengers are believed to have been saved, the men evidently insisting that the women and children be transferred first to the Carpathia. The identity of those rescued, however, cannot be definitely determined until the Carpathia arrives here or sends a revised list of the | survivors by wireless | — Col. John Jacob Astor, Benj. Guggenheim, Isidor Straus, | Col. Washington Roebling, J. B. Thayer and Geo. B. Widener, all multimillionaires, are believed to have gone down with the Pitanic One likes to believe there was could be gotten from the liner Car. | now steat for are survivors, as was ¢ that Greatest Marine Disaster The Titanic catastrophe is the greatest marine dis- in time of peace, in the history of the world. ‘The loss in lives and money, according to the best obtainable re- ports, is as follows Lives lost, about 1,500. Cost to build the Titanic, $10,000,060. Estimated value of jewels carried by women passen- | gers placed at $5,000,000. } Value of baggage and mail, $2,000,000. Loss from probable lawsuits and litigation, $5,000,000, s message to Cape Race, relayed from the scene of the |at the University of Michigan here, | MORE STORIES OF THE WRECK ON PAGE 6,