Show DEATH ROLL OVER I SIXTEEN HUNDRED EXACTLY HOW MANY DIED AS RESULT OF SINKING MAY NEVER BE KNOWN White Star Line Issues Stat Statement ment Placing the Loss of Life at 1635 While of Those on Board Ill Fated Vessel Escaped New York The York The living cared for fort the dead beyond recall survivors of the Titanic disaster were able for tor the first time on Friday to see in calmer retrospect the recent tragedy of the north Atlantic and from their more normal utterances there is slowly Unfolding unfolding un Un- folding the full story of how the great White Star liner her band playing to the last sank off ort the Grand Banks with with more than 1500 souls aboard From Washington also came the opinion of expert naval ers that no blame should attach to Captain Smith because an analysis of ocean charts has bas shown that the skipper shipper warned of the presence of icebergs had steered the Titanic full sixty miles mUes southward from fram the regular regular regu lar course In spite of this caution the mass of ice was struck and as a preventive of similar disaster the fhe hydrographic by hy- office in New York Issued Friday an order shifting the lanes lanea of transatlantic liners miles mUes southward from the path which the Titanic followed After giving his testimony before the senate committee Captain Rostron Rostron Rostron Ros- Ros tron of the Carpathia took charge of his ship which departed late Friday Fri day for the Mediterranean The vessel b had d been hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly hur hur- and cleared of the disorder caused by the presence of the Titanic survivors and she left with cabins full Captain Rostra wept as he told how the Carpathia has picked up the unfortunates set adrift from the Titanic and before he left on his ship admiring passengers presented pre presented pre pre- pm-j pm him with a loving cup |