IS IT AN AMERICAN MYTH?

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14971, 19 April 1912, Page 7

IS IT AN AMERICAN MYTH?

THE FORE HALF "CRUMPLED." "TONS OF ICE" ON THE DECK. SURVIVORS ON CARPATHIA 705 New York, April 17. The Carpathia sent tho message "All well" by wireless on Wednesday afternoon. She has since sent a wireless telegram to the effect that there are 705 survivors, and that she expects to, arrive at New York early on Friday. Another wireless report states that there are 250 passengers aboard the liner Baltic, but this report is not authentic. The New York Herald and other newspapers state that they have received a message from St. John (Newfoundland), purporting to have been picked up by the steamer Bruce from various steamers, stating that the Titanic was steaming at 18 knots an hour when she crashed head foremost into the iceberg. The shock almost demolished the decks, ripped the bulkheads, and shattered the vessel from the bow to a point almost amidships. Tho upper works and some of the boats were splintered. The bow first rose clear of the water, and the vessel then listed badly and threatened to capsize before she regained her level. As the vessel mounted on the ice and again as she slid back many of the bottom plates were wrenched. The compartments of the steamer from amidships to the bow were flooded, the inrush of water defying the pumps. The vessel settled slowly by the head and listed to port, rolling heavily. Tons of ice fell on the deck, and everyone leaped to the port side. ~ Most of the boats were launched. Some were stove in before they were freed from the davits; others were swamped. "•".-. St. John (N.), April 17. The British steamer Bruce, which is en route from Sydney to Nova Scotia, in a wireless message, re-

ports that some of the Titanie's boats were crushed by the iceberg. The message also states that the vessel was travelling at 18 knots an hour, and that she was crumpled for almost half her length. London, April 17. The New York Herald's alleged details of the wreck are fictitious. Reuter denies that any Marconigrams have been received from the steamer Bruce.