OLYMPIC ARRIVES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1912, Page 7

OLYMPIC ARRIVES

WHY SHE DID NOT REACH THE SCENE OB DISASTER. % TOLD ALL ivERE SAVED. LONDON, 22nd April. The White Star liner Olympic, Bister ship cf the lost Titanic, has arrived at Southampton. Her officers state that the Olympic was 500 miles from tho Titanic when, a wireless message was received through the Celtic of the big vessel's danger. The Olympic's stokers and engineers worked like Trojans and forced the ship along at a speed of 24 knote for thirteen hours. The tension was relieved temporarily by the receipt of a wireless messa-ge stating that all on, board the Titanic were saved. Later, however, the Carpathia informed the Olympic of the truth, and the latter ship resumed her voyage. The Olympic is shipping sufficient collapsible boats for all aboaa'd. Tho Allan liner Virginian reports that she received a wireless message from the Cape Race station, notifying the Titanic's danger, at twenty minutes to one o'clock on Monday morning. She was then 178 miles distant. At twenty minutes past one the Titanic reported by wireless tha.t she was sinking, and her messages ceased abruptly at 1.47.