A CATASTROPHE.
TITANIC SINKS OFF COAST OF N IOVv FOUNDLANI). HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. (By Electric Telegrapn.—-Copyright.) (United u ress Association.) London, April IG. The Titanic sank. Six hundred and seventy-five of her complement were saved. It is feared that'many have perished. The White Star officials believe that 1500 of the Titanic’s passengers and crew have been drowned. So far the details of the disaster arc meagre and contradictory ix character. It is believed that all the first-class passengers have been saved. This estimate is based by a count of there on board the Carpathna, the Cunard liner to which the Virginian transferred the people rescued by her. It is not known yet whether the Parisian saved any of the passengers or crew. The vessel cost £1,350,000, and her hull and cargo are insured for £2,350,000. Reinsurances were effected at 50gns per cent. NOTHING BUT WRECKAGE. New York, April 15. Mr Franklin, vice-president of the White Star Steamship Company, admits that there has been heavy loss of life by the wreck of the Titanic. The Olympic, which is a sister ship to the Titanic, and is a 22Vknot boat, steamed will all speed to the scene of the disaster. She found nothing hut wreckage left of the Titanic. The officers, of the White Star Company were besieged by friends of the wealthy Americans who were on board the Titanic. The absence of definite news created an excitement almost amounting to a panic in New York. Experienced Atlantic voyagers state that they have never before known of ice being met so far south as the scene of the disaster, in such great bulk as now. The ice recently met with has been mostly topless bergs, merely awash in the sea, and difficult to discern.
ABNORMAL ICE-FIELDS. (Received 17, 8.5 a.m.) Ottawa, April 16. Liners arriving at Montreal report abnormal ice in the North Atlantic. Several vessels met large icefields of! the Nova Scotia coast. SIX HUNDRED RESCUED. (Received 17, 9.45 a.m.) London, April 16. The Carpathia, sailing for New York, picked up 866 in lifeboats, mostly women. They included Mrs Jacob Aster, Countess Rothes, Sir Cosmo Duff, Mr Gordon Bruce, Mr Ismay, and Mehi, the tennis player. The Titanic lies two miles deep between Sable Island and Capo Race. She carried a million pounds’ worth of diamonds, and half a million worth of pearls. THE ROUTE ALTERED. (Received 17, 16.5 a m.) London, April 16. In consequence of ice, the White Star and other steamers have arranged to cross the Atlantic at a lower latitude. Mr Norman Craig, M.P., booked a passage by the Titanic, but cancelled it. A prominent banker estimates thai twenty persons of those aboard were worth between them a hundred million pounds sterling. GERMAN SYMPATHY. < (Received 17, 10.5 a.m.) Berlin, April 16. In the Reichstag, Herr Kempf, President, expressed grief with England in connection with the Titanic disaster. All members rose from their seats as a mark of sympathy.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 91, 17 April 1912, Page 5
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