The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1912, Page 1

[FINA® __PRIOE ONE CENT. by, The Pree Patitehing Co. (The New York Wort “NEW YORK, ‘WEDNE SDAY, APRIL 17, 1912. = PAGES PRICE ONE OENT. Skyscraper ICEBERG SKYSCRAPERS PASSED BY LINER 10 HEURS | FORE TTA’ DSISTER= | La Bretagne Encountered Field of Bergs in the} Same Lane White Star Ship Was Fol- lowing and Manoeuvred 7 Hours to Escape a Collision. tor seven and a half hours around ice last Sunday along the same steamer lane followed by the Titanic and less than ten hours ahead of the doomed White Star boat “The ice was everywhere,” Mace to-day Kretagne came into the harbor. “The file of huge bergs as far ii could carry to the north and west looked like the New York sald Capt. when La! as tho eye skyscraper line.” cription of conditions prevailing at almost the exact the met her death blow and from fourteen to ten hours Titanic herself drew up on the ice menaced territory, Capt. Mace ga ae what was considered by marine experte almost conclusive evidence that tho Titanto must have rammed one of the giant borgs head op and not, ae had deen surmised by some, run onto an almost submerged foe, The whole zone of ice of over sevonty miles extent, and from which La Bretagne had to sheer off to prevent being crushog, wae brisiling with great detached bergs. Capt. Mace counted more than forty of the floating ico crags. \ One berg, which was 60 feet high, was photographed by @ passenger on La Bretagne from a distance of two and one-half milos, This Je the photograph reproduced here. A second element injected into the problems surrounding the conjectural cause of the disaster to the Titanic arises from Capt. Mace's description of thu weather in the vicinity of the waters wherein the Titanio was overwhelmed The sky was clear during all the time that La Bretagne was passing throush the zone of tce, according to Capt. Mace, and there wae not at any time euf- fiolent fog to obscure the presence of the towering pinnacies of ton, As far as the horizon those aboard La Bretagne could diatinguleh the serried spires of | the {co masses, unvetled by the fog which traps ships, spot where before x bias fret explanation for the Titenic's sé) blunder advanced ™. seamen ayer ROOR. Sie is ashore of ee Bona foe. pochenin ab tintifrer ii Iceberg Observed by Near the Spot Where Titanic Met Her Doom (Photograph Taken sf a Wistance of Two Miles by an Officer of La Bretagne.) The French line steamship La Bretagne, Capt. Mace commanding, ran ; ‘ | ively. steamer Kar! Grey, wht Chartotetown, Prince Edwards Island | Werte Building Turkioh Bs and Pictou, N. 8. were received chis! etw, Bath v gine Oa " =. Bretagne was that the weather must have been thick and that the berg which was ty | ae Hver the ) stab to the great White Star liner had shrouded !tself in a fog of its own making. Mace sald to-day that he entered the tee area at 7 A, M. on Sunday morning and that for five hours he was skirting a great mass of detached berg and ice fields. he ce covered the sea as far as the eye could reach,” "It was the st floe that ve ever seen, At first a { ulmost aw left the field, w nt forty large berg At ma 60 r Thts wound bring th wed the French ship twelve © great fle hours late totlo WITH ot | following message: “eed mx mediate | Beliens, Siasing.” Gaver M Rescue Ship Rushed to Cana- i dian Liner, Earl Grey, Fast 0 ‘wrtoe Haroon ya et on Rocks, | ‘The wireless ineswa MALIFAX, N. 8 mensages for help fro. ~~ POR BASEBALL sen PAGE os, °~) increases the number of cead in the disaster to 1,605. Un- | G00 passengers Saved. HEROES OF F TITANIC DIED , - AMID WORK OF RESCUE, 4 SAYS FIRST WRECK STORY Officers Carried \WWomen and Children to Boats While. Waves Submerged Decks of Vessel, Maintained Discipline and Chose Death Among Those Who Had No Chance. Bulletin From Carpathia Indicates That Probably Not More Than 600 Passengers Are Among the 705 Survivors Nearing This Port Aboard the Cunarder, Leaving 1,505 Dead. (Special to The Evening World.) f BOSTON, April 17.—The Globe prints the following special cable this afternoon from P. T. McGrath, the Globe's correspondent in News foundland. ST. JOHN’S, N. F., Via North Sydney, N. S., April 17.—From an absolutely well. authenticated source comes the report that the captain, officers and crew of the Titanic, displayed unexampled bravery in face of the most appalling marine catastrophe inthe ~~ world’s history, endeavoring to maintain order, quell the panic, launch and man boats and embark the passengers, assuring all there was no immediate danger while fully cognizant that they would soon be plunged beneath the waves with their fast sinking ship. Capt. Smith and all the principal officers heroically stuck to their posts to the end, encouraging, directing and assisting to the extent of carrying fainting women and chile dren from the decks and berths to the gangways and helping them to the boats, return>” 3 ing, even when the waves were practically submerging the ship, to the rescue of passens gers, absolutely regardless of self. They worked like Trojans while it was possible to, savea single one of the passengers, while death, sure and swift, stared them in the e It is said that the captain and every officer, except the six who manned the boat with the subordinate members of the crew, went down with the ship while life was wit in their reach, if they had disregarded their duty to the passengers and escaped, t alone knowing how near the ship was to ‘sinking after striking the iceberg. & Confirmation of the report that reached ‘New ‘York. this no al nage nepeniies 5 will be a alowed to board the Carpathia until dal reaches her pier, This is to avoid disturbance to the survivors of ering statin that the Carpathia has only ont Rig al Titanic pl many of whom are doubtless Ao from grief. be ; vivors of the Titanic disaster aboard was received ti is after The following telegram was received at the Navy Department ia ‘ ‘oon at the office of the Cunard Line. The message is from) Washington from Commander Decker of the scout cruiser Chester, via Winfield Thompson of the Boston Globe, a passenger on the Portland, !e.: Re Franconia of the Cunard Line. The Franconia is now off the Carpathia states that list of first and second-class passene | 4 coast of Nova Scotia. Following is the message: gers and crew were sent to shore. Chester will relay list of THE FRANCONIA ESTABLISHED WIRELESS CON- third-class passengers when convenient to Carpathia, NECTION WITH THE CARPATHIA AT 6.10 O'CLOCK The message is taken to mean that the list transmitted by wireless THIS MORNING, NEW YORK TIME. THE CARPATHIA |from the Carpathia to the station at Cape Race, N, F, , through the Olym- WAS THEN 498 MILES EAST OF AMBROSE CHANNEL | pic contains the names of all the first and secondeclass passengers rescued, LIGHT IN NO NEED OF ASSISTANCE, STEAMING 13 | The latest report from the Carpathia, via the Franconia, effectually OTS, AND EXPECTS TO REACH NEW YORK AT @ | dsPoses of the report that 868 survivors were picked up. The Ev KN S. i J c | World has consistently held to the figures sent out from the only authors Sogn Pre yag SHE HAS @ ‘OTAL ity from which such figures should come—Capt, Rostroa, of the Care 5 le THE FRANCONIA iS RELAYING PERSONAL MES- 1 pathla, The last report does not materially change The Evening World’s . - information, because there is still ground for belief that the C: arpathla’s, 4 SAGES FROM THE CARPATHIA TO SABLE ISLAND, % This message is the jirst authentic information that has. saved. bie Bi Breport to the Franconia did not incl. he Titanic's seamen who were come from the Carpathia since 9 o'clock yesterday morning. It The dend, according to the best information obtainable concerning the. number of persons aboard the Titanic, number 1,505, Doubtless one of tig ae ee ‘ Titante's officers—of whom atx are sald to be among the survivore—has the doubtedly theic are at least 1U0 saiiors from the Titaiiic on the gaty's mauitos:, the pursor's books and othr documentary evidence of the Carpathia among the survivors, so there cannot be mere than number of passengers and crew on board and the names of ail the elity's company, ST a | A relay private message from the Carpathta received here to-day an nounced that “all the women are safe.” Tho measage wan recetved by Mre. J, W. Bonnell of Youngstown at the Waldorf from Henry Wick, her brother, who ts aboard the Olympte, Wiel’ NUMBEK OF PASSENGERS SAVED ABOUT 600, Inasmuch as n Carpat a elilie abe Fecnived a wireless from his nieve, Mra, Bonne!l's daughter, Caroline Bone! sircles as represe f nell, who, with George W, Wiel, her uncle, eailed on the Titante. The mek number of pas: wake Fendt ‘All the women safe. Have no word of Ge here of mi indicates n the name go's Wick's name does not appear in Carpathia, and he is believed lost, 3t le pomwible, though unlikely, ‘Dat the wirciess relates es only 10 500 am wlan Bas aa Rs team ist of survivors om the