MANY WELL-KNOWN MEN MISSING.
ALL WOBEN AND CHILDREN SAVED. INSUFFICIENCY OE THE BOATS.
By Telegraph—PreEe Association-Copyright
(Rec. April 18, 11.5 p.m.) New York, April 18. The cruiser Chester is now repeating wireless messages from the Cunard liner Carpathia, stating that tho safety' of all tho women and children who wore on board tho Titanic is assured. Tho steamship America warned the Titanic of tho icebergs a few minutes before she struck. Tho ■ liner Tunisian was twenty-four hours in tho ice. Two hundred icebergs were seen, and the vessel was stopped at night for safety. Sho sent a wireless message to tho Titanic at midnight on Saturday. Mr. Vincent Astor, Colonel Astor's. son, has chartered a steamer to search for his father's body. The 6teamer Mackay Bennett has left Halifax with undertakers and clergymen aboard to perform funeral rites over all bodies found.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1418, 19 April 1912, Page 5
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