TORTLAXD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 1G, 1912.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
VOL. LII-NO. IG,03..
SHIP LOST; 615
RESCUED; 1520
BELIEVED DEAD
Titanic Sinks Before Aid
Arrives -Ray of Hope
Is Only Slight.
SEA SCOURED FOR OTHERS
Steamer Carpathia Finds Only
Boats and Wreckage at
Scene of Disaster.
MAJORITY IN BOATS WOMEN
White Star Officials Admit
Horrible Loss of Life.
WRECK WITHOUT PARALLEL
Single (ha lire Remains That Other
Mcnnier May Have Ticked Vp
Additional Lifeboats Not .
Found by Carpathia.
Pvial Di.patch to the X.w Tors Times.
'APE RACE, N. F- April IS. It can
he positively stated that up to II
o'clock tonight nothing whatever has
Wen received by the Marconi station
to the effect that ths Parisian oi- VI r
x'nian or any other ships than the Car
pathia have picked up the survivors
from the Titanic.
NEW YORK. April It. More than
liO persons. It Is feared, sank to death
early today when, within four hours
after she crashed Into an iceberg, the
mammoth White Star steamer Titanic
from Liverpool to New Tork on ber
maiden voyage, went to the bottom off
the New Foundland banks. Of the 2100
persons on board, some of them of
world-wide prominence, only 7 are
knovn to have been saved. The White
Star offices In New Tork, while keep
ing hop to the last, freely admitted
that there had been "horrible loss of
life."
Accepting early estimates of the fa
tality list as accurate, the disaster Is
LONGITUDINAL
the greatest In marine history.
Nearest approaching It In magnitude
were the disasters of the steamer At
lantic in 1S73. when 847 lives were lost.
and o La liourgoyne In 1S9. with a
fatality list of 571.
Ilea Yet Ressalaa.
Should It prove that other liners, not
ably the Allan liners Parisian and Vlr
Kiniun. known to nave ieen In the vi
cinity or the Titanic early today, had
.U krd up other of her passengers, the
extent of the calamity would be greatly
reduced. This hope remains'.
The st-famer Olympic reported at
I'a.'e Race that til steamer Carpathia i
reached the Tltanic'a position at day
break today, but found boats and
wreckage only. the reported that the
Titanic had fotinJererd at about :.20
o'clock A. M. in latitude 41. It north and
longitude 50.14 west. Tho message
itl. Is that all the Tltanic'a boats were
nrx-ounted for and "about $75 souls
aved. crew and passengers. latter
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irarly all women and children."
urarrk l rmlsara.
Tlie rrport from the Olympic s.t
mat the Ley land liner Caltfornlan was
remaining and searching the vicinity
ft the dijasier. The Carpathia. It was j
(Concluded oa Pace 4V1
WIRELESS FLASHES
TRAGEDYTO WORLD
FATE OF TITANIC MIGHT II AV
E
BEEN SEA MYSTERY.
Modern Invention Alone Tolls of
Milpm-reek nd Sends Res
cuers to Scene.
But for the wireless telegraphy the
Titanic might have- sunk at aea and
the world always have been Ignorant
of hr fate. It was the wireless call
which sent the liner Carpathia to the
rena In tlmo to ave "6 of those
aboard.
Since 10 wireless has scored many
triumphs, notable among- which was
the savins; of 1(50 passengers and crew
on tho steamer Republic, January 1J.
10 9. after a, collision In the fog with
the Florida, Jack" Bliins. wireless
operator, sent out the call which sent
the Baltic to the steamer's rescue.
Thirty-three persons wer erescued
September . 110, by a car ferry sum
moned by wireless to the wrecked Pere
Marquette ferry steamer No. 18. of She
boygan. Wis. Two passengers and Jl
officers and crew were drowned.
The Canadian training ship N'lobe
sis saved off Tsrmouth. N". SL, in re
sponse to a wireless call. January 29,
1911.
August 30. 1)11, 1Z passengers were
rescued from the steamer Lexington
off Hunting Island through wireless
esaagea. sent by "Jack" Sheets.
J. O. Phillips, formerly wireless oper-
stor for James Gordon Bennett, wss
operator on the Titanic and sent the
"C Q. p." call when the ship struck
the Iceberg.
By an art of Congress passed June
J 4. 1910. all ocean-going steamers car
rying 50 passengers or more are re
quired to have wireless apparatus.
PROFIT BIG IN QUICK DEAL
Apartment-Route Change Hands
Twice Within Week.
One of the quickest profits recorded
In a realty transaction in Portland was
rr allied yesterday when Call an Jk Fos
ter sold an apartment-house In I'pper
Washington street for $40,000 after
having had title lees than IS hours. The
property was purchased from Alexander
Kerr Saturday morning for f 75,000, and
sold yesterday morning to Edward E.
(louder, a Portland financial agent, at
an advance of 15000.
The lot la 50x115 feet, and I lee In
Washington street between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets, extending
north to Couch street. On tho Washington-street
frontage Is a lhre-story
apartment-house, and a frame dwelling
fronts on Couch street. The property
was purchased as an Investment,
GIRL'S EYE FISH-HOOKED
Kstacada Maiden In Singular Acci
dent Sunday.
Miss Ruth Given, whose parents
live near Estacada and who had been
making her home In Portland, nearly
lost an eye while fishing Sunday. A
fish-hook penetrated the eyelid of her
right eye. The hook was removed by
a physician several hours later.
She was returning from a fishing
trip and was following A. A. Kadderly
on the way home when In some way
the fish-hook caught under the eyelid
Just missing the eyeball. Mr. Kadderly
tried, but failed to remove the hook.
SECTION OF THE GREAT STEAMSHIP TITANIC,
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I i v H I J
TITANIC LOSS
GREATEST OF
ALL DISASTERS
World's History Has la
. Parallel-Ship Was
hnesi Aiiu'di.
NO GRAFT IS INVULNERABLE
Liner Crashing Against Wall of
Ice Sinks Like Old,
Wooden Vessel.
MEN SAVED MAY BE FEW
Large Number of Women on
Ship Brings Fear for Others.
NAMES OF SAVED UNKNOWN
Captain Smith Believed to Have
(.one to Rollout Willi Boat Ca
lamity Strikes Without Warn
ing In Dead of Night.
Fpectal From the New Tork Sun to The
Orexooisn.
NEW YORK,' April 16. Ths greatest
marine disaster in' the history of the
world occurred last Sunday night when
he Titanic of the White Star Line, the
biggest and finest of steamships, stutt
ered herself against sn Iceberg and
sank with 1500 of her passengers and
crew In lcss than four hours.
Our of nearly 2200 people thst she
carried only 75 were saved and most
of these were women and children.
They were picked up from small
boats by Cuarder Carpathia, which
found, when she ended her desperate
race against 'Ime. a sea strewn with
the wreckage of the lost ship and the
bodlva of drowned men and women.
Fear for Notable fJreat.
Among the 1320 passengers of the
giant liner were Colonel John Jacob
Astor and his wife, Isador Straus, Major
Archibald W. Butt, aide to President
Taft; tleorgc B. Wldener and Mrs.
Wldener.'of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs.
Henry S. Harper. William T. Stead, the
I-ondon Journalist and many more
whoso names are known on both sides
Cnnrlui1t on PM 7.)
HOPE THAT OTHERS
WERE SAVED FADES
VIRGIXIAX ASD PARISIAN MAKE
XO REPORT OP RESCUES.
Allan Line Steamships Too Lute at
Scene of Disaster Is Belief.
Wreckage May Carry Few.
MONTREAL, April 15. The two
Allen line steamships Virginian and
Parisian, which were reported as hav
ing' steamed toward the 'scene of the
Tltanic'a disaster, had made no re
port to the. company headquarters here
at 10 o'clock tonight of what they had
done.
Reports that the Virginian had sent
a. wireless saying she had rescued a
number of passengers and re-transferred
thera to the Carpathia were not
confirmed.' George Hannah, general
manager of the line. Is of the opinion
that the Virginian arrived too late to
be of any assistance and, being a mail
boat, proceeded on her voyage. She
may not be In touch with the world
until she nears the Irish Coast.
Mr.' Hannah. thinks the Parisian may
have arrived in time to be of assistance
to the Titanic. If she did, he thinks
she probably would have passed some
time cruising around in search of per
sons clinging" to wreckage and It Is
possible that some were saved In this
way.
BULLET RIPS BOY'S CHEEK
Girl at Target Practice Shoots Com
panion by Accident.
SPOKANE. April IS. (Special.)
Herschel Gillls. a 12-year-old school
boy, lies at the home of his parents on
College Hill. Rltxville. Wash., with a
bullet wound extending from his mouth
to his ear. A number of young people
were out walking, some of whom bad
a small rifle, t lora Bauer was about
to shoot at a tin ran. and while the
gun rested on the shoulder of the Gillls
boy, someone struck the arm of the
girl Jus', as she pulled the trigger and
the bal! plowed through the face of the
lad.
An X-ray will be used to locate the
bullet. Flora Bauer Is a Rlztville
schoolgirl and the daughter of Fred
Bauer. The parents of the boy are
farmers.
HUSBAND, COUNTESS' GOAL
Titled Passenger on Titanic Coming
-- to Meet Sponse.
PASADENA, Cal., April 15. Countess
Rothes, In the Tltanlc's passenger list,
was on her way to Pasadena to spend
the coming Summer with her husband,
Norman Kvelyn Leslie, 19th Earl of
Rothes, and representative peer of Scot
land.
He Is In New Tork, having left here a
week ago to meet his wife.
CANADIAN LINER HITS ICE
Empress of Britain Encounters
Field 100 Miles in Extent.
LIVERPOOL. April 15. The Canadian
Pacific Steamship Company's liner Em
press of Britain, which left St. John,
N. B., April 6, arrived here today and
reports having encountered an Ice field
100 miles in extent when three days
out from Halifax.
PHOTOGRAPH OF SISTV.R SHIP OLYMPIC, AND
gT??35RC - ' jlMlS- ...
SEVEN ON SHIP
AV
WEALTH
420 MILLIONS
Fortunes of First-Glass
Passengers 'Is Easily
$1,000,000,000.
COLONEL ASTOR IS RICHEST
If Calamity Befalls Great Fi
nanciers Business Will Be
Vastly Affected.
WIDENER WORTH T50,00?,0J0
Guggenheim, Rated as Having
$95,000,000, on Titanic.
STRAUS HAS $50,000,000
Rochling. With Fortune of W!5,000,-
000; Thayer, Railroad President
Worth $10,000,000 and Ismay
Hated at $50,000,000.
SBW VORK, April IB. (Special.!
John Jacob Astor was among the pas
sengers nbo vtent down with the Ti
tanic, according to a wireless dispatch
received by BradstreeCa tonight from
the l.lner Olympic. Mrs. Astor was
saved and Is being broujght to IVerv
Tork by the C'arparthla.
NEW YORK. April 15. (Special.)
Wealth aggregating something like
$500,000,000 Is represented by seven of
the passengers on the Titanic. If cal
amity befell only a few of these men
It would materially affect vast business
enterprises In the United States and
England. The seven are:
Colonel John Jacob Astor S15O.000.OOO
J. Bruce lsmay 40.coo.ix0
Colonel Waahliijton Roeblinc K.oOO.OOO
Inador Straus . BO.OnO.ooO
Gooriro t. wldener DO.onn.OO.
benjamin liuggonhelm 5.im)0.R0
J. B. Thayer 10.000,000
Total ..$420.000 000
If the fortunes of the first class pas
sengers alone were placed together
they would easily make ' $1,000,000,000.
Aator Wealthiest Passenger.
Foremost among the passengers In
point of wealth Is Colonel John Jacob
Concluded on Page 7.)
MONETARY LOSS
WILL FIGURE HIGH
TITAXIC'S COST $10,000,000.
OTHER ITEMS ADD.
Vessel Carried Diamonds Worth
$5,000,000, Bonds, lelgh, Etc.
Owners Are Hard Hit. '
LONDON. April 13. A member of a
leading firm of marine underwriters,
when informed of tne disaster to the
Titanic, said:
"Even if the Titanic reaches port her
owners will have to calculate on a loss
of at least $750,000, but if she becomes
a total loss, it will be an extremely
serious matter. The vessel cost $10
000.000 to build. Her hull is valued for
Insurance. purposes at $5,000,000.
"There are all sorts of miscellaneous
matters to be taken into account for
disbursements and for passage money
and freights paid in advance, as well
as for storage, baggage and other
things. I do not suppose the owners
are - covered to the extent of more
than $7,250,000, or at the utmost $7.
500,000."
It is generally understood the TI
tanic carried diamonds of the estlmat
ed value of $5,000,000, consigned to
dealers. She also took a large amount
of bonds. She was insured at Lloyds
for $5,000,000.
LOW-GRADERS FILL PRISON
Indeterminate Sentence Law Keeps
Penitentiaries Crowded.
OLYMPIC, Wash., April 15. (Spe
cial.) That the new indeterminate sen
tence is responsible for tho filling of
Washington's state prisons with "low
grade" convicts is the statement made
by members of the State Prison Board
who have Just returned from a meet
ing at Walla Walla, where 127 cases
were acted upon. Of these 51 were re
leased, 41 given paroles on conditional
pardons, while 35 were granted final
discharges.
The board says that judges now send
to the penitentiary for a minimum
term of six months to a year men con
victed of petty offenses, where they
formerly were sent to the county Jails.
Consequently, the board has to pass
on many trivial cases and the recent
session was the longest on record. The
law Is considered a good one, but slight
changes, eliminated when the new
criminal code was passed, are needed.
SPOKANE FRUIT CROP SAFE
Trees Heavily Budded and Danger
of Freeze Is Passed.
SPOKANE. April 15. (Special.)
"All varieties of fruit trees in the
Spokane Valley are loaded with buds,
undamaged by the Winter, and are
now safe. This means that we can look
forward to a bumper fruit crop," said
R. A. Jones, of the Riverside Nursery,
yesterday.
"Peach trees promise an unusual
crop, and pear trees are loaded with
bursting buds that are undamaged.
One would be safe in predicting a ban
ner fruit crop all around. Cherry and
apple trees also are heavily blossomed,
and it looks as If the apple crop would
be better in this section than it has
been for years. At this time there is
hardly a possibility that the crops can
be damaged by a late freeso."
MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF DISASTER.
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CITY, FRANTIC,
DECS FOR BIT
OF GOOD NEWS
Disaster Details Grow
Less and Less
Assuring.
PUBLIC IS FIRST MISLED
Shock When Real Calamity Is
Known Brings Men' and
Women to Tears.
DISPATCHES GRIMLY TERSE
Doom of Majority of Men on
Titanic Becomes Apparent.
NEW YORK CLINGS TO HOPE
Friends of Notables Aboard Flcad
for Real Word Belief Exists
That Few Other Than Wom
en and Children Saved.
BOSTOX, April A wireless mes
sage picked up , late tonight, relayed
from the Olympic, srjs that the Car
pathia is oa her nay to Sew York vtlth
88 passengers from the steamer Ti
tanic aboard.' They are mostly women
and children, the message said, and It
concluded t
"Grave fears are felt for the safety
of the remainder of the passengers and
crew."
NEW YORK, April 15. News of the
terrible loss of lfe in the sinking of tho
Titanic was limited in its circulation in
the early evening, but by 9 o'clock it
had brought a great crowd of persons
to the White Star Line offices.
Women were In tears, and men were
frantic, for their plea for assuring
news was met with the frank admis
sion that little is known of the fate of
the passengers who were not in the
first or second cabin.
All of the White Star officials and
subordinates available were on duty in
the offices and planned to make a night
of it, under siege by reporters, relatives
of passengers and others.
News came early this evening with
all the greater shock because hope had
been buoyed up all day by reports tliat
the steamship, although badly damaged,
was not sinking, and that all her pas
sengers had been taken off safely.
The messages were mostly unofficial,
however, and none came directly from
the liner, so that a fear remained of
possible bad news to come.
Shortly after 7 o'clock tonight there
came flashing over the wires from Cape
Race, wthjn 400 miles of which the
liner had struck the Iceberg, word that
at 2:20 o'clock this morning, 3 hours
and 60 minutes after receiving her
death blow, the Titanic had sunk.
Those In Boats Saved. j
The news came from the steamer
Carpathia, relayed by the White Star
liner Olympic, and revealed that by the
time the Carpathia, outward buund
from New York and racing ttj-f the
Tltanlo on a wireless call, reat'Uwl
scene the doomed vessel had sunk.
Loft on the surface, however, were
llfebonts from the Titanic, and in them,
It appears, according to meager reports
received at a Into hour, were soma 6T5
survivors of- the disaster. These, ac
cording to advices, the Carpathia picked
up und is now on her way with them
to New York. ,
tCuucluded ou I'aja 4.
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