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Show TWELVE HUNDRED DROWNED AT. SEA N Steamer Titanic Strikes an Iceberg and Sinks Before Aid Comes, Over Four Hundred Passengers and Crew of Eight Hunded Going Down. puted to be worth $150,000,000. Mr. Asi tor was returning from a tour of Egypt with his bride, who was Miss Madeline Made-line Force, and whom 'he 'married in Providence on September 9. Benjamin Guggenheim, probably next in financial importance, is the fifth of seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim, Guggen-heim, who founded the American Smelting and Refining company, the great mining corporation, and is a di. rector of many corporations," including the International Steam Pump com. pany, of which he is president. His fortune is estimated at $95,000,000. His wife, wlicse name does not appear ap-pear on the list, is the daughter of James Seligman, the New York banker., George D. Widener is the son of P. A. B. Widener, the Philadelphia "traction "trac-tion king," whose fortune is estimated at $50,000,000. Isador Straus, one of New York's most prominent, drygoods merchants and notable for ihis philanthropies, has a fortune estimated at $50,000,000. He is a director in various banks, trust companies and charitable institutions. insti-tutions. J. Bruce Ismay, president and one of the founders of the International Mercantile Marine company, who has always made it a custom to be a passenger pas-senger on the maiden trip of every new ship built by the company, is said to, be worth 40,000,000. New York While the fate of the majority of the 2,100 persons on board the mammoth White Star liner Titanic, which sank early Monday on the Newfoundland New-foundland banks after a collision with an iceberg, still remains in doubt, and it is feared more than 1,200 persons were lost, a wireless message has been received from the White Star liner Olympic, one of the vessels hovering near the scene of the disaster, flashing flash-ing the news that 866 of the Titantic's passengers, mostly women and children, chil-dren, were being brought to port by the Cunarder Carpathia. Other messages mes-sages later brought confirmatory tidings. tid-ings. First reports were that the Carpathia Car-pathia had saved but 675 persons. The new figures reduced the list of those whose fate fear was felt by nearly 200, and if, as seems probable, all those eaved were passengers, it would appear ap-pear that all but approximately 450 of the vessel's passengers are accounted ac-counted for. The Titanic, the largest vessel afloat, began her maiden voyage from Southampton on Wednesday, the 10th-, with 1,300 passengers, 300 of whom were in the first cabin. The crew numbered over 800. 1 At 10:45 Saturday night the Titanic called for assistance by wireless, reporting re-porting that she had struck an iceberg ice-berg and was sinking. Every vessel which had picked' up the message immediately im-mediately made for the doomed ship. The weather was calm and clear, the Titanic's wireless operator reported and gave the position of the vessel 41:46 north latitude and 50:14 west longitude. It would seem from all reports that those who were saved were placed in Olympic, her sister ship, which is now at Southampton. Ranks High Among World's Disasters. If the press reports are true, which place the loss of life on the Titanic at 1,500, the disaster is the greatest for loss of life in maritime history. With but two exceptions, Johnstown flood and the- flood and tidal wave at Gal-veston, Gal-veston, the disaster exceeds in the number of persons killed any disaster disas-ter on the North American continent. The loss of life in each of the floods mention exceeded 6,000. Other notable not-able disasters in the United States do not begin to compare with the terrible death roll on the sunken steamer, although al-though at the time they cast a gloom over the entire country for weeks after. Of the more recent disasters, the San Francisco earthquake, and . fire stirred the world, but it omy made a death claim 'of 498. , The great Chicago Chica-go fire in 1S71 claimed 200. The Largest Steamer in the World. The White Star liner Titanic was . .e largest steamer in the world. She was a sister ship to the Olympic, but larger even than that vessel. The great liner carried 356 first-class passengers pas-sengers on this trip. Her full passenger passen-ger capacity is 3,000 600 in the saloon, sa-loon, 500 in the second cabin and 1,900 in the steerage. The Titanic, like the Olympic, possessed pos-sessed the great length of 882 feet 6 inches and a beam of 92 feet 6 inches. F.fteen watertight bulkheads divided divid-ed the . great vessel and these were thought to make her unsinkable, even 'though half of her compartments should he filled with water. Eleven, steel decks added to the Titanic3 the boats while passengers to the number of 450, and the crey, remained on the Titanic. The boats ewre picked up by steamers steam-ers hurrying to the aid of the stricken "vessel and occupants taken on board. Those who stayed on the doomed ves-vel ves-vel are supposed to have gone down With the ship. According to the Carpathia's advices the. liner, which struck the icenerg at , 10.25 o'clock Sunday night, sank at 2:20 o'clock Monday morning, nearly four hours later, in latitude 41.16, longi-tuue longi-tuue 50.14, or not more than half a degree south of the point where the collision occurred. It seem3 improbable from this that the liner after the accident made much headway under Uer own steam. It seems established there were about 2,100 persons on the liner. This was the estimate of the line officials in New York, who gave the number of passengers as 1,320, the remainder of S60 making up the crew. More people of prominence were on the Titanic than .probably ever before congregated on an ocean liner. The toll from the leaders of society will be a heavy one, providing the report of the heavy loss of life proves true. Th'j Titanic was supposed to be un-sinkuble, un-sinkuble, and when the news of , the disaster first came, the steamer officials offi-cials assured everyone that the vessel would not possibly sink. The insured value of the Titanic is staunchness, while an idea of he vast promenading space may best be understood when it .is stated that the main promenade deck alone had an unbroken sweep of 190 yards on either side of the ship. Buried in Water Two Miles Deep. Halifax. The deathbed of the $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 steamer Titanic and of probably prob-ably many who must have been dragged down with her, is two miles below the surface of the sea. The calculation was made an official offi-cial of the government 'marine department de-partment who finds that the depth on the marine chart at a point about 500 miles from Halifax and about seventy seven-ty miles south of the Grand Banks, where he believes the Tianic went down. Clarks on Ill-Fated Vessel. -. Los Angeles, Cal. J. Ross Clark's son, Walter Muller Clark, and his wife and baby were passengers on the Titanic. Mrs. Clark was Miss Virginia Virgin-ia McDowell of Cohoes, N. Y., anu they were married three years. , Mrs. Clark was famed as a beauty. They had been to Europe on a' postponed honeymoon and were returning on the Titanic. A wedding of a niece of J. Ross Clark, scheduled to take place at the Clark home Wednesday, was postponed until the fate of the travelers trav-elers is definiely known. Colonel Astor Drowned. New York. The Bradstreet Coni- ut.v.ijwj fc uul ti Altaian, j Monday night received from the Olym- j pic, sister ship, of the. Titanic, saying say-ing that Colonel John Jacob Astor was among the hundreds who lost their lives in the catastrophe; that his body had been recovered and that his wife was afe-on the Carpathia. Colonel Astor and his young bride, ionnerly Madeline Force, departed from New York January " last for Europe to complete their honeymoon. ?5,ouu,uou, wnue ner real vaiue is estimated es-timated at nearer $10,000,000. There were many prominent people on board the ill-fated ship, including Mr. and Mrs I.sidore Straus, Major Archibald Butt, W. T. Stead, the London Lon-don correspondent of the International Interna-tional News Service, who is scheduled to speak at the peace celebration in Carnegie hall on April 21; Robert W. Daniel,' the Philadelphia banker; Colonel Col-onel and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Countess Rothes, Mrs. J. Stuart White, Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Harris. J. E. Widener, A. G. Vanderbilt. F. D. Mil-lett, Mil-lett, the artist and president of the Consolidated American academy at Rome; C. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railway; Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Widener, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Widener and Benjamin Guggenheim. The Titanic is 882 feet 6 inches long, has a beam of 92 feet 6 inches. ' displaces 66,000 tons and is of 46,000 tons net register. She can carry 3,000 passengers, 600 In the saloon. 511U in the second cabin and 1,900 in the steerage, while she has a crew of S60. She is commanded by Captain Ted Smith, formerly commander of the |