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Show HUNDREDS ARE DROWNED AT SEA Steamer Titanic Strikes an Iceberg and Sinks Before Aid Comes, Over Four Hundred Passengers and Crew of Eight Hunded Going Down. passengers, COO In the aaloon, 500 U the second cabin and 1.900 in the steerage, while she baa a crew of 8C0. She Is commanded by Captain Ted Smith, formerly commander or tht Olympic, her sister ship, which it now at Southampton. Ranks High Amonj World's Disasters. If the press reports are true, which place the loss of life on the Titanic at 1,300. 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 (Jul veston, the disaster exceeds In the number of persons killed any disaster disas-ter on the North American continent. The lows of life In each of the floods mentioned exceeded 6,000. Other notable not-able disasters In the I'nlted States do not hPRln 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 Kan Francisco earthquake! and fire stirred the world, but it oniy wade a death claim of 49X. The great Chicago Chica-go fire In 1871 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. Iter full passenger passen-ger capacity Is 3.000 coo In the saloon, sa-loon, 500 in the second cabin and 1,900 in thesteeraee. The Titanic, like the Olympic, hs-sessed hs-sessed the great length of 8X2 feet 6 Inches and a beam of 92 feet 6 Inches. Fifteen watertight bulkheads divided divid-ed the great vessel and these were thought to make her umrinkable, even though half of her compartments should be filled with water. Eleven steel de ks added to the Tltanlc's staunchness, while- an Idoa of "Che fast promenading space' may best be understood when It Is stated that the main promenade deck alone had an unbroken sweep of 190 yard on either side of the ship. New York. While the fate of the majority of the 2,100 persons on board tha 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 la feared more than J ,300 persons were, lost, a wireless message has been received from the White Htar liner Olympic, one of the vessels hovering near the scene of the dlHuster, flashing flash-ing the news that 868 of the Tltanlc's passengers, mostly women and children, chil-dren, were being brought to port by the Cunarder Carpathla, First reports were that the Car-pathla Car-pathla 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 saved were passengers. It would appear ap-pear that all but approximately 4H0 of the vessel's passengers we accounted ac-counted for. The Titanic, the largest vessel afloat, began her maiden voyage from Southampton on Wednesday, the 10ih, with 2, ISO passengers, 32.1 of whom were In the first cabin. The crew numbered 860. 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. ICvery vessel which had picked up the message immediately im-mediately made for the doomed ship. The weather was calm and dear, the Tltanlc'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 waved were placed In the boats while over C00 passongers and the crew remained on the Titanic. Ti-tanic. The boats were 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 Carpal hla's advices the liner, which struck the Iceberg at 10.25 o'clock Sunday night, sank at 2:20 o'clock Monday morning, nearly four hours later, in latitude 41.16, longitude longi-tude 50.14, or not more than balf a degree south of the point where the collision occurred. It seems improbable from this that the liner after the accident made much headway under her own steam. 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. The Titanic was supposed to be unilnkable, un-ilnkable, 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 $3,000,000, while her real value Is estimated es-timated at nearer 10,000,0(0. There were many prominent people on board the ill-fated ship, Including Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Straus, Major Archibald llutt. 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 2); Robert W. Itanlct, the Philadelphia banker; Col- ! SUMMARY OF TITANIC'S i ' DISASTER. ! First cabin passeners, 235. Second cabin passengers, 285. Third cabin passengers, 710. i Total number of passengers, ! 1,320. i Members of the crew, 860. Total passengers and crew, 2,180. j Number of known survivors, S6S. i Number who probably perished, 1.312. Total number of named survivors, survi-vors, 328. Approximately twenty lifeboats, j manned by seven members of the crew each, total, 140. I Estimate of saved steerage passengers, pas-sengers, 400. Total. 868. Names survivors: HrHt cabin iiassensers Women, 141; men, 6.1; children, 6; total, 210. Second cabin passengers Women, Wom-en, 92; men. 16; children, 10; total. to-tal. 118. i Total number cabin survivors, ' 328. onel and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Countess Rothes, Mrs. J. Stuart White, Mr, and Mrs. Henry . Harris. J. K. Widener, A. 11. Vauderbllt. F. D. Mll-lett, Mll-lett, the artist and president of the Consolidated American academy at Rome; C. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railway; Mr. and Mrs. 0. I). Widener, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Widener and Benjamin Guggenheim. Nothing could show more plainly the heroism of the crew and the men passengers who stood by the doomed ship fating Inevitable death and sent the, women and children away In the lifeboats. Some would have to be left; that was a certainty. Hundreds in fact were left. But to all aptiear-ances aptiear-ances the men who were left stayed behind deliberately, cataiily, stepping aside to let the weaker ones, those to whom they owed protection, Ua their way to safety. The picture that Inevitably presents Itself, In view of what Is known Is of men like John Jacob Astor, master of scores of millions; Benjamin Guggenheim, Gug-genheim, of the famous family of bankers; Isador Straus, a merchant prince; William T. Stead, veteran Journalist; Major Archibald W. Butt, soldier; Washington Rotbllng, noted engineer of any or all of these men stepping aside and bravely, gallantly remaining to die that the place he otherwise might have filled could perhaps be taken by some sabot-ohod. : hawi-enshrouded. Illiterate and pen-tiless pen-tiless peasant of Europe. Thus the stream of women, with toddling Infant or babes In arms, perhai tiumt of them soon to be widowed, filed up from the cabins and over the side and away to life. The men by far the greater part of them remained to die, millionaire and peasant and man of middle-class alike, bravely, It must have been, sharing ea"h other's fate and going down to a common grave. The Titanic Is 882 feet 6 Inches long, has a beam of 92 feet 6 Inches, displaces i.; ooti tons and is of 46.000 tons net rr gNtcr. She can carry 3,000 MAP SHOWING POSITION OF BIG LINER AT TIME OF ACCIDENT . j J firs f (jWA'JtAX |
