S.S. Titanic.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 24, 18 April 1912, Page 5

S.S. Titanic.

ONLY 79 MEN BAYED APPLIANCES QUITE INADEQUATE. Victims from ail Parts. World-wide Grief and Horror. ICE DELAYS THE CABPATHIJ. THE TITANIC HAD BEEN WARNED. . AN EXPERT'S REASONABLE /J^IEORY. Press Assn —By telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, April 17. The Titanic's wireless messages ceased two hours after the colision. Only seventy-nine men were saved,' whereof sixty-eight were the crew necessary to man the boats. The Daily Mail says the- Titanic was provided with a 100 per cent, more boat accommodation than the Board of Trade required, but the provision proved altogether inadequate. The Financial Times estimates the total loss at five millions, including besides the vessel, cargo, mails, life and other insurances. NEW YORK. April 17.

to capsize she regained her level. When she was mounting and sliding back, many of her bottom plates wore wrenched amidships to the bow.

The compartments were flooded, defying the pumps. She settled by the head, listing to port and rolling heavily. Tons of ice fell on the deck. Every man leaped to his post. •Most of the boats wero launched, but some were stove in before they were freed from the davits, others were swamped. AMERICAN STORY A FICTION. WIRELESS MESSAGES NONEXSSTENT. NAMKS OK MILLIONAIRES £ SOCIETY LEADERS. (Received April 18, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 17. The New York Herald's details about the Titanic steaming IS miles an hour and that she ran bow foremost onto the berg and was shattered from bow to midships, are fictitious. Renter denies the existence ' <rf any Marconigrams alleged by the Herald to have been received from the steamer Bruce.

The community is stunned ami there is scarcely a large city m "he United . States that is not oonuibuting f victim.

Major Butt, President To It's chief military a ide-dc-eamv>, is among the missing.

The Carpathia is slowly, traversing the icefield. The Virginia arrived too late, the Onvnathin being first on the scene. The newspapers declare that ihe

Titanic bad insufficient boats. The second, third, fourth, and fith officers, and the junior Marconi operator were saved. LONDON, Apri! 17.

Wireless messages from various vessels at .the scene of the disaster make it clear that nam l were resumed beyond those picked up by the Carnathia.

The Champion steamer has been dispatched to search for bodies. The following were rescued: - Lady Cosmo Gordon. C. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railway.

The captain of the Parisian states that if any clung to the wreckage they must hare perished from exposure.

The following are still missing:- - J.sidor, millionaire. Straus, millionaire., George D. Widener, millionaire. Benjamin .Guggenheim, millionaire.

The liner Ton rain on Wednesday entered the icefield and quitted it on Thursday.

It warned the Titanic on Friday receiving the cnutain's thanks. An official of Messrs Harland and Wolff thinks that after colliding the Titanic swerved and careered along the edge of the ice floe, and her side was ripped open, otherwise the bulk heads would have saved her.

Washington' Uoebling, constructor of the Brooklyn bridge.

Danial and Mrs Marvin and Clarence Moore, well-known New York residents.

Thos. Andrews, director of Harland and Wolff's.

Right representatives of the firm are aboard. NEW YORK, April 17.

Crowds throughout the day thronged the White Star Co.'s ajid newspaper offices and there were many pathetic scenes. Scores of towns throughout the United States and Canada- are represented in those a.board. ■ The Carpathia's arrival is delayed by thick icefields. A revenue cutter has also been despatched , A PLEA FOR MODERATION. IN SPEED AND SIZE, GERMANS CONDEMN" TITAN ICS COMPETITIVE ACT I ON. (Received April 18, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, April 17. The Times questions whether or not it is time to call a halt in mammoth steamer construction, made for competitions, and the selection of a track dangerous to certain seasons, when a safer route exists. -It appeals for a saner and sounder public opinion on the subject. BERLIN, April'l7. ' The papers condemn the rage for speed, and describe the Titnnic's voyage as an attempt to break the Olympic's record. German underwriters lose £75,000 'on the Titanic. German ships are instructed to make the southern route to America. A Message from St. Johns FIRST CONNECTED NARRATIVE RUNNING AT 18 KNOTS TO AN ICEBERG. (Received April ; LONDON, April 17. The New York Herald and others have'received a message from St. John's purporting to have been . picked up by tho steamer Bruce, from vkrious steamers, stating that the Titanic was. running at eighteen knots head foremost to the iceberg. The shock almost demolished the decks and ripped the bulkheads, shattered the bow to a point almost amidships. • Tlio upper works and some boats were splintered. The bow first rose clear of the water and she listed and threatened

Ri.dgeley Carte]' (United States Minister to Roumania. Charles Williams, racquets. " NEW YORK, April 17. Among tlio Titanic's passengers were:-7 Dodge. Banks. Mrs Leison, a New York hostess.. Clarence Jones, stockbroker. Robert Chisholm, fibre manufacturer. J. Futrollo, novelist. C. Head, ex-Mayor of Chelsea. Jonkheer Renchlin, director of the Holland-American line. F. D. Millet, artist. Henry B. Harris, theatrical producer. THE GARPATHIA'S MESSAGE. (Received April 18, 12.4-5 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 17. The Carpathia sent the following wireless message: "Seven hundred and five .survivors on board. Expect to arrive early on Friday." Unvouched-for wireless reports state that 230 passengers were aboard the Baltic.