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B O D I E S O F T I T A N I C(Continued from Page One)

St. John's, N. F., April 17—A reportis current here, 'which is said to haveemanate d from the trading vesse lBruce, which is on the way to Sydney,C. B.. fflvin? a version of the Titanicdisaster, which the trader obtainedfrom various ships. This is to theeffect that when the Titanic struckthe berg she was going at the rate ofIS knots an hour and the impact almost rent the big vessel asunrier. Herdecks, sid^s and bulkheads were•mas hed from bow to midships. Thebows and upper works were smashedto pieces. The ship struck the bergpartially bow on, careening to the portside and almost turning turtle.

The bottom is supposed to hav*-been torn out of the Titanic by submerged iceberg*, over which she waspassing and as every compartmentfrom midships forward was quicklyflooded and the ship rapidly settled by

the head with a list to port, rollingheavily in the trough of the sea.The force of the impact was so ter

rific that it practically rent the shipfrom stem to stern. For a short whilesufficient order was maintained to allow of the launching in safety of mostof the lifeboat and embark about athousand persons Then a cry wentup that the Titanic was sinking andthe frenzied crowd rushed madly forthe boats. As the sh ip se t t led in thesea many of the boats were smashedto p ieces in the davit s and some wereswamped while they were be inglaunched. The others went down withthe sh ip .

By th is t ime the sh ip was seen tobe Battling fast and the water hadreached the engine room. The wireless tailed through the loss of the motor and all lights went out all over theship. This added to the gloom and thedifficulty cf handling the boats.

The source of this version, whichhas the appearance of reliability, givesthe number of passengers saved asover 1,000.

It Is practically a certaintw nowi that nearly a ll of the m en of the Ti

tan c'a company went do wn with theship when she plunged two miles towards the ocean floor or that they perished m<serably while clin ging towreckage or life preservers in the icy

i waste that betrayed them .They gave up life within sight of

the little rocking boats that held theirwomen and children, it cannot bedoubted now that among those were

| Colonel John Jacob Astor, IsidorStraus, Major Archibald W. Putt, aideto President Taft; George D. Widenerof Philadelphia, Karl H. Behr, thetennis champion; J acques Futre lle ,the writer; William T. Stead, the London editor; Francis D. Millet, the

I American artist, and many, manyI more who are known on both sides ofthe Atlantic. The toll of the Titanic'sdead will be felt the world over.

The names of the survivors wirelessed here by the Olympic include asmall number of men who were ableto find a place with the women and

children in the all too few boats. Suchgood news as 4here is places amongthe living Henry Sleeper Harper of thepublishing firm of Harper & Co., andM r s . Harper; Dr. and Mrs. HenryFrauenthal and Mr. and Mrs. T. G.

Frauenthal.M r s . John Jacob Astor, with her

maid, is on the Carpathia, which isborrytef the survivors to th is pot t andwhich should arrive here tomorrownight Among the others rescued areJ. Bruce Ism ay. the mana ging director

of the White Star line; Mrs. GeorgeD. Widener of Philadelphia; Sir Gordon and Lady Cosmo Duff; Mrs.Jacques Futrelle, Mrs. Charles M.H a y s , whose husband was presidentof the Grand Trunk railwa y; Mrs.Henry B. Harris and Mrs. WashingtonDodge of San Francisco.

CAPTAIN SMITH

Commander of the Titanic Went to

Death In His Sinking Ship.

M l o c k o r F o r e s i g h t B i t C o m m o n S e n s e

M o re T h a n A M il l io n D o lla r sl i t Acc ident Insura nce Ca rr ied

by the Pa sseng ers o f the

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Nothing Has Been Received From theSea Which Ml t l satea the H orro r

o f the T i tan ic D l tat ter .

Now York, April 17.—Nothing thatcame through the air from the seamit igated in any degree the p ity andthe horror of the Titanic tragedy except as individual d istress was abatedby the gradual addit ion of names tothe lis t of the known survivors .There are no known survivors thatare not on the Carpathia. The Virgin ian was too late and found noneand no other skip has reported findingany.

In the ley, fogamothered seas, wherethe Titanic sank, exposure most soonhave destroyed those who wer e left tol ife be lt s or wreckage when all theboats Were gone and no help had comeand the great steam ship foundered.

The receding Olympic, whose powerful wireless began on Tuesday morning to rec ite the names of the l iving,continued the work today of relayingthe Carpathian d ispatches and thesuerese ive bulle t ins posted at theWhJtt t tarof ltae kept many a despair ing man or women wait ing all day and•eft others awajr thanking God-

No Distinction Was Made When theBoats Were Lowered.

The list of survivors includes women and children from the Drat cabin,second cabin and steerage. No dist inct ions were made when the ru le ofthe sea sent women and children tothe boats and left the men to theirfate .

The first message from the Olympicthat filtered through stormy airs wasthat there were 868 survivors on theCarpathia was modified later in theday to "about 800," but whether onomessage allowed for the boat crewsand the other did not was not madec lear . There is no absolute certaintyhere as to how many souls were onthe Titanic when she hur led herse lfagainst a giant berg.

Her veteran captain, E. I. Smith,knew the perils that lay ahead of him,along the wester ly track of steamships . Other navigators had foundand avoided those pall id shapes in asmother of fog that remain the unconquerable enemies of sh ips. Only afew hours before the Titanic shatteredher tremendous bulk, the Hamburg-American l iner Amerika wire lessed tothe Titanic that there were two largebergs a l i t t le east and south of theplace where the White Star colossuswas finally.hi collision.

That was on Sunday and very shortly t f t tr rece iving the psws tfj* Titajjtc

herself relayed it to a land station,from which the hydrographic officeheard of it. And then, there seemslittle reason to doubt that the Titanicplunged onward and hurled herselfagainst these very bergs.

A shadowy hint of what followedthen has come from that area of waters that are ruled by fog and frost.The wireless, modern miracle as it is,could not achieve the impossible andsnatch toward the Titanic In time tosave, her people the greyhounds thatwere hundreds of miles away.

It has not recounted clearly andfaithfully the episodes of the terriblefour hours while the great ship struckfrom happin ess and peace to horrorand despair lay stricken among thegroaning bergs.

When the Titanic struck she struckhard. There was something morethan a rending or tearing of bowplates, a flooding of a few forwardcompartments. As the whisper ing ofthe wireless is pieced out by the experience of mariners and builders, theTitanic must have recoiled from herdestroyer a shattered and riven ship.

ease. No tragedy of the sea has supplied a picture more intense, morestagger ing to the imaginat ion .

The blasting shriek of the sirenshad not alarmed the great companyof the Titanic because such steamcalls are an incident of travel in seaswhere fogs roll.

While the greatest of all ships was

driving steadily westward in the nighttowards a c ity that was await ing herwith all of that city's interest in afine new thing. Captain Smith was onthe lofty bridge.

There can hardly be a doubt of that,for ship masters in dangerous seas—

and few stretches of ocean are moretrying at this season of the year tonavigators than the waters that runbetween Cape Race and Cape Sable—remain on*watch night and day, foregoing rePt for many hours on astretch. It seems to be clear that theTitanic was running at great speedor else the shock of collision couldhardly have crushed a vessel that wasregarded as unsinkable by her lineand by the captain himself.

day night bearing those who were toruaway from their loved ones, nobodymay know the dreadfulne ss of thehours that followed. With no otherships for 200 miles around there war.nothing to do for the men in the company save to hid farewell to theirwives and families and hope that he lpwould come before the Titanic foundered. P hillips, the wirel ess operatorof the ship told the world that theTitanic was sinking and that the women and children were in the boats.No hint of panic has come from thetragedy.

There is no reason to believe otherthan that Captain Smith and his offi

cers held control of crew and passenge r s . All of the boats have been accounted for and that indicates something of orderly procedure.

WRECKAGE COVERED SE A

FO G PLAYLED DEVIL S TRICK

IMPACT TREMENDOUS

Must H ave Shaken Eng ines From

Foundations and Opened Up Wat

er T igh t C ompartments.

So tremendo us an im pact wouldhave crumpled up the very bed plates,shaken the mighty engines from the irfoundation, opened up water-tight compartments, buckled plates from end

to end and started the rivets everywhere .It is likely that water rushed into

her hull from all tides, for her keelmust have been injured by the terrificdrive on a mass as hard as rock. Andthat jar must have quenched the ship'slights by injuring her electrical apparat us .

We know that the wire less workedweakly when Phil l ips, the operator,set about his desperate task of reaching out for he lp while the women andchildren in the boats rocked off somewhere in the dark and the men waited with linking hearts. A flutter ortwo and it was gone .

The Titanic struck home with agrinding roar, which nust have beenfollowed by a horrid chorus when theplates and p lanks and t imbers hoveunder the shorfk. , She could not ha vestopped progress al l at once so shemust have gone on br ie f ly while tonsof tee ci-aattad apon her decks. Andtheir the sad den dark falling threw

*.«I»JlJafl» »nd *affltn it

Had Shrouded the Frozen DangerWith Its Blanket of Invisible Evil.Perhaps, indeed, probably, the fos

played Its greatest devil's trick, lifting now, clearing now, always intangible, treacherous, the blanket of invisible evil. Some such shroud musthave descended with little warningupon the Titanic and blinded her tothe fate Just ahead. Perhaps awhimsy of the polar currents whosepulse has never been gauged by seafarers with absolute accuracy driftedthe great bergs squarely in the Titanic's path.

The wireless has told us of the bit-, ter cold in the air. the accompaniment' always of the ice packs that tear loose

I from Arctic glaciers and sag southward with the currents. But no warn-

I ing chill served to deflect the shipJ from her course. She strove aheadI as destiny pointed her and no invenI tion of man or inte rference of Provi-I dence swerved her from a fatal course.

( Her ears, the submerged te lephonesplaced on either side of the vessel below the water line to tattle of the

'proximity of solid objects near or distant , gave no warning in t ime, and it

happened swiftly that she went headlong into icy derelicts that were moresubstantial than the work of mens

l hands; vast hulks of ice there to make* mockery of human'ingenuity, asleepor awake, were at the mercy of chance,

Few among the more than 2,000aboard could have had a thought ofdanger. The man who would havestood up in the smoking room to paythat the T itanic wa s\ vu lnerable orthat In a few minute s two thirds ofher people would be face to face withdeath, would have been considered afool or a lunatic. No ship ever sailedthe seas that gave her passengersmore confidence, more cool security.

DISCIPLINE WAS PRESERVED

Offiers Were Assigned the Task ofFilling Boats and Getting Them

Overboard .

And then in the tick of a clock, allth is was changed. The extent of the catastrophe must have been apparent topasse ngers as well as officers. Husbands sought for wives and children ,families gathered together . Those whowere asleep hast i ly caught up the irc!othdng and rush on deck.

It is evident that d isc ip line waspreserved. The belief is that CaptainSmith first of all tried the switch thatc losed the water t ight compartmentsand then had the boatswain soundthe call to quarters. The officers wereassigned to the task of filling the boatsand get t ing them overboard. Therewere boats enough only for the womenand Children and a few of the men. Inthis respect the equipment of theTitanic was similar to that of hertitte r ship, the Olympic. She carriedsixteen lifeboats and four collapsibleboats which were actually l i f e raf t s .Thsy were supposed to be capable ofaccommodating about 1.100. but manyless than "that found places o n them.

" £ Cjiriia^hja. arrive s Tfa.nre.

C arpat h ia F ound N ot h ing But 20 Boat-

loads of Gr ie f S t r icken People.

It was long after daylight when theCunarder Carpathia, which was morethan 200 mile?, east of the "Titanicwhen she caught the appeal for help,got to the s cene and, found the 20 boatloads of exhausted grief-stricken pto-p l e . The sea was covered with wreckage, the odds and ends wrenched Iocswhen the Titanic struck and fioatcwhen she foundered.

It is supposed that many c!pieces of debris until cold on'ness re leased the ir hold . Ap-j !the Carpathia took aboard th? .• i\

gees without great difficulty, arirt tl:ciafter communicating with the Olymiic, since her own wire less appa.aluwas not powerful enough to carry tland, started for this city.

Later on the Alian liner Virginia!the first ship to pick up Phillips' crie.?for help, made her appearance. Butshe had lost the race again st time.What living there were had been taken on board the Carpathia.

Like the Virginian, the Parisia nsearched first for the Titanic too farto the northward, acting on the locat ion given by that sh ip when she sentout her calls. But the Titanic hadcrept 30 miles to the south before shefoundered and it was not until after acareful search that both ships madetheir way to the scene of the disaster.

The Par isian sUamed through f ie ldsof heavy ice looking for passengersfrom the Titanic . Everywhere a greensea churned between masses from theArct ic . Progress was necessar ilyslow. The liner found much wreckagefrom the Titanic, but observed nobodies. She found no lifeboats orrafts and none of the Titanic's company remained, as the Parisian's officershad hoped, afloat on wreckage.

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Going on her way after a carefulsearch, the Parisian reported that theweather was cold and that even ifthere had been persons adrift theywould, in all probability, have perishedbefore they could have been pickedup .

The Carpathia. with about 800 ofthe survivors on board, has suppliedno account of the wreck, nothing butthe list of the survivors, which she relayed to the Olympic and which theOlympic, in turn, sent to the WhiteStar Hnc here.

It may be that the story of thov/or ld 's greatest marine d isaster wil lnot be cleared up until the Carpathiareach es here tomorrow night. Underfavorable condit ions the Carpathiashould make the voyage by tomorrownight and land the survivors on Friday morning. According to the Cun-ard officials, she is net overcrowded.

With 800 of the Titanic's people shecarried a ltogeth er 1,700 passen gersand she is fitted to carry about 2.500comfcrtab ly. There Is plenty of foodon the ship as she was on her way,provisioned for a cruise in the Mediterranean.

liov ed, ha s proceeded on hpr way "iLiverpool. The Carpathia h"? sot into comm unica tion with Sable -piai !but no news has >et be n r» p\. !from her.

The M ackey-Be nnett rablo <hip r?-gone to search the scene of the wre<There are still vagiae hopes i hat r

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sibly the Titanic did not. sink a? r •

report or her foundering has not ac >

ally been confirmed.

To Search Scene o f Wreck.

Halifax, April 17. — The steamshipParisian sent a wire less message tothe effect that none of the passengersor crew of the Titanic were on boardthat ship. She had no news as to thepassengers reported as missing.

Nothing was rece ived last n ightfrom the Virginian, which, it is be-

Four Off icers Saved.

Cape Pace Marconic Station Anr

17.—T his m essa ge com es frcm <"atain Haddock of the Olympr, via i,Ce lt ic :

"Please allay rumor that Virginir-has any Titanic passengers; run

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has the Tunisian. Believe onh s

vivo rs on Carpathi a Secnr.rl th

rfourth and fifth officers and s< oMarconi operators only officers re;med saved."

M r s . Astor Lest Htr Jewels.Norfolk, Va, April 17—A wirH^

messa ge received here last nisht rports the total survivors of the Tit a-ic as 870. Mrs. Astor reported thai-he lost all her jewels and onb save

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