A GREAT LINER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143767, 16 April 1912, Page 3

A GREAT LINER.

COLLIDES WITH ICEBERG. OFF NEWFOUNDLAND COAST By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. , NEW YORK, April 15. The steamer Titanic, inward bound to Now Y’ork from Southampton, communicated by wireless telegraphy that sho had collided with an iceberg and asking for urgent help. Tho liner Virginia is hastening to the aid of the wrecked vessel. - LONDON, April 15. The Titanic was off Cape Race, at the south-east extremity of Newfoundland, when she collided in the dark with an iceberg. Em steamer telegraphs wirelessly that she is sinking by the head, and that the women are being taken off in the boats first. ' The doomed steamer has a complement of three thousand passengers and crew. The Titanic left Southampton on Wednesday, and was making her first voyage across the Atlantic. ABRUPT END OF SIGNALS. WEATHER HAPPILY CALM. (Received April 16, 9.5 a.m.) 'LONDON, April 15. The Titanic struck on Sunday evening. There were 1330 passengers, including 300 first-class, and a crew of 650. The Virginian received tho Titanic’s appeals when 170 miles distant. The Olympic and Baltic have also gone to the rescue, but it is doubtful whether they will arrive in time. The last signals were blurred and ended abruptly. The women were debarked in lifeboats. The weather was calm. The passengers included Mr. W. T. Stead, Mr. James Israay, of Ismay, Imrio and Co. and the White Star Line, Colonel J. Astor, and several New York bankers. (Received April 16, 9.5 a.m.) HALIFAX, April 15. All the passengers had left the Titanic at 3 o’clock this morning.

A HOPEFUL REPORT. (Received April 16, 10 a.m.) LONDON, April 15. The Montreal Star states that the Titanic is steaming slowly to Halifax. A DANGEROUS ICEFIELD. (Received April 16, 10 a.m.) LONDON, April 15. • Various liners have recently encountered an icefield 100 miles long by 35 miles broad, near Newfoundland Grand Banks, and had perilous voyages. The liner Niagara twice had holes made in her, aiid other vessels also sustained damage. [The Titanic is the latest built of the large White Star Liners, having been completed by Messrs. Harland and Wolff in 1911. She is a vessel of 45,000 tons, with a len'gth of about 850 ft., a width of 90ft., and a depth of 59ft.]