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I " ! !!! , mmi ,. .M.M.. ,., ,,,,! , , M ARE IIS RESCUED FROM LIFE BY STEAMER CARPAIA Worst Marine Disaster jn His tory Follows Collision With Ice Berg. COL. ASTOR AND MAJ.' BUTT AMONG VICTIMS Largest Steamer Built Now at Bottom of Ocean News By Wireless. ! . ... . tnlT1t a ALL HOIK Aiiftnwuniiiu Dy Associated Proas 4 ST. JOHNS, N. P., April 1C. All hopo that any of tho paB t sengera or crow of tho Tltanlo other than Uiobo on tho Car- pathla aro ollvo waB abandonod 4 ivl. .flnrnnnn. All tllO Btoani- tn which havo boon cruising t near tho Bccno of tho dlsnBtor t hare proceeded on tholr voy- A irM Tho boalB woro filled largely t with women and chlldron but . hid sufficient numbora of tho Titanic! crow to hnndlo thorn. Tho belief Is genornl horo that , ill who survived Iho wreck nro ' on tho Carpathla. LIST OF THOSE RESCUED GIVEN Tho nmmllliic magnltudo of the treck of Uio Atlantic llnor Titanic hi boon but llttlo mltlRntod by tho ', Irsjmentnry Information which has been filled In today. Tho roHculng stumor, Carpathla, according to tho latest advices, has 8G8 survivors on boird. This Increases tho list saved t; about two hundred from tho num ler first rcportoil. Bat, except for this, favornblo do tills aro Insignificant, compnrod with tie (act that tho Tltanlo Is nl tho bottom of tho Atlnntfc and that tho skittered wreck took with hor about 1110 rlctlms to death. Tho Carpathla Is coming In slowly to New York. Tho hopo for details ef tho tragedy and Its offects nro cen tred on this ship. Sho w.ll bo In vlrclesa communication with Sablo Mud tonight, with Nantucket on Tiursday and will roach Now York Ttonday night. All hopo that tho steamora Vlrgln Iinand Parisian may havo picked up isrilrora has boen abandoned. London, Now York, Paris, South wanton and Cherbourg nro griof strleken and ovorwholmod with tho s of tho dlsnstor. Toarful crowds ef relatives and friends of passongors SCQ CrOW thrntlcnH (hn fitnnmalllit nf. fcM waiting hour after hour for "s that more often than not mount KfMToracnt and sorrow. People In Paris nnd London wont w bed last night with tho bollof that l the passongers on board tho TI "'c had been saved, but this morn-, 'tbrought them Uio appalling truth. . ursi uainga that tho Titanic J4 sunk came In a brief wireless '"Wch to Capo Ruco. N. P., seven i niaotea after sovon o'clock lust night tM?vthe Whlt0 8tr Lino Olympic. ' fAi :' " u l"J 'limine imu wunderea about 2:20 a. m. Monday ' latitude 40.10 north, longttudo. u.ueil.. Tho message nddod thm iV v ,h,p Can'athln. then on her f m, "ai',C8' aa rencnod tho scono mi. J reck at daybreak and found tii , and wreckage and that all ,,. uaal boats were accounted for fZ . about G75 S0"l8 woro saved Utt7.Ve. crew and passongors, tho 3S?f. t?eart" aU women and "'wren. This news to tho Assoclat J "ess was confirmed shortly aft SUr l hy ofriclaa of tho White 0ltm L ""uuuncea tno sieamor ttf. vhad sent a wireless that tho lacr.. .t8unR Th wlroloss early Tht, i. the ""'"hor saved to 8GC. tt ,.er, was reduced officially by wSot?.-ot th0 CnrPath,a t0 1n?Ti.w'.r?,e88 "Ports say none boarS iJ 8n,Cfl PaBscngors nro on rtlai 8tener Parisian or Vlr- JIAXV NOTED .MEN LOST Of Ifco Hthla h i ,vorB on board tl, Cur ire nm far tno Greatest number lluj n an'1 c,,ll'ren. literal .me" ot Prominence In tho otln.n a ,lnanclal world of two No ;lare amnB the missing. fl Jn, s ueen received of Col- Wver Vacoh A8tor- b"t 1,S wIfe . yer, was s-ived. !re ,i ,rau8' Now Yrk mllllon rh0 a? orei",nt. PHLlantnroplsi aOn? H, , la uui ruiiuriuu Other 8Urv'rs. . er notables not reported saved J pT,Sad' the editor; jfil n? MUlot' art,8t: llnii. "Wenhelm, the Denver mll- tyteh'bald Dutt, aide to President Names of Some of Those Saved When Titanic Sank In Atlantic. (Dy ABSoclatod Press to Coos Say Times.) CAPE RACE. April 16. So far nB names can bo chocked up correctly, tho following saloon passcngorfl ot Titanic nro snfo on board tho Car pathla: Anderson, Hnrry. Allen, Mlub E. W. Apploton, Mrs. E. W. Astor, Mrs. John Jncob nnd maid, nnrkworth, A. 8. Rehr, C. II. Daxtcr, Mrs. Jamus. Drayton, Ocorgo A. Hockwlth, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Rlshop, Mr. nnd Mrs. D. II. Illank, Henry. Dowon, Miss G O. Donnoll, Miss Caroline Howorniun, Miss Blsle. nrown, Mrs. .1. ,T. Drown, Mrs. J. M. Cnldorhend, E. P. Cnrdezn, ThomaF. Cardoll, MIpb Churchill. Carter, Miss Luclllo. Carter, Mro. Wm. E. Carter, Master William. Cavendish, Mrs. Turroll D. and maid. Chnffeo, Mrs. H. P. Chambers, Mr. nnd STrs. S, C. Cherry, Miss Gladys. CnBo, Howard II. Chovro, Paul. Crosby, Miss, Daniels, W. Dovolllorcs, Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. Thornton, Dick, Mr. nnd Mrs. A. A. Dodgo, Mr. nnd Mrs. Washington and son. Douglass, Mr. Fred C. Douglass, MrB. Waltor. Fllnn, J. P. Fortune Mrs, Mark, Miss Luclllo, Miss Alice Frnuonthal, Dr. Henry and Mrs. Frauonthal, Mr. nnd Mrs. T. G. Frollshor, Miss Mnrgarot. Frultollo, Mrs. Jacques. Gibson, Mrs. Leonard, Gibson, Miss Dorothy. Gnldcnborg, Mrs. Snmuol. Goldonborg, Miss Ella. Gordon, Sir and Lady Cosmo Duff, Grnclo, Colonol Archibald, Grnhnm, Mr. Graham, Mrs. William and Miss Mar garet. Groonflold, Mrs. Leo D. Grconflold, Mrs. Wm. D. Harder, Mr. and Mrs. Gcorgo A. Hnrpor, Henry II. nnd oorvnnt. Harper, Mrs. ITonry S. Haran' Henry. Hawksford, Henry Hayes M'H. Charles M. nnd Miss Mnrret. Harris, :.!rs. ITewr n. Hlppach, Miss jan and Miss Ida S. Hngobnom, Mrs. Jotin O. !"' nd Mrs. Fred M. Isnuiy, J, Druteo. Loador. Mrs. A. P. Linos, Mrs. Ernest and Miss Mary C. Longloy, Miss G. F. Madlll, Miss Georgletto A. Mnrsclinll, PJerce. Marvin, Mrs. D. W. Mlnnohnn, Mrs. W. E. and Miss Daisy. Newell, Mlssos Murjorlo and Made line Nowsom, Miss Helon, Ostbeye, Miss C, and Helen R. Omond, Flonnnd. Puochon, Major Arthur. Pottor, Mrs. Thomas J. Rholms, Mrs. George, Rolmnno, C. RoBonbaum, Miss Edith. T?othschtld, Mrs. Mnrtin. Rothes, Countess of Robert, Mrs. Edw. S. Saalfleld, Adolf ESleopor, Wm. T. Salaman, Abraham. Schabert, Mrs. Paul. Seward, Frederick. Sllvoy, Mrs. Wm. D. Slmonlus, Colonel Alfonzo, Snydor, Mr. nnd Mrs. John. Spencer. Mrs. W. E. and maid. Stone, Mrs. Geo. M. Stengel. Mr. nnd Mrs. C. E. II. Swift. Mrs. Frederick Joel. Stopolln, Dr. Mox. Tucker, Gilbert M Taussig, Miss Ruth. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. E. Z. Warren. Mrs. Frank M. White. Mrs. J. Stewart. Wick, MIs Mnrv. Woolner. Hugh. WIdener. Mrs. Geo'.' p. and maid. Thayer, Mr and Mrs. J. D. Wlllard, Miss Constance. Young. Miss Mnrl'n-k. Mrs Walter Cummlngp, Mrs. John D. SUvert'orne, R. Sooncer (some Ques tion as to Identity). Alino't. Roso (probably Mrs. N Au bort) Francltelll, Miss. (Continued oa pas ) LIFE SAVING APPARATUS ON ROAT DISTRESSING Life Boats and Rafts of Olym pic, Similar to Titanic, Can Accommodate 1171. ' (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Times.) NEW YORK, April 16. Statistic al Information of tho llfo saving ap paratus of tho Olympic, a sister ship of tho Titanic, was given out today. Tho figures for tho Tltanlo nro not available, but as tho ships aro al most Identical In size, It Is not llkoly that tho equipment materially dif fers. Tho Olympic has 16 llfoboats and four rafts, calculated to accom modato 1171 persons. This means that about one-third of tho total numbor of passcngors and crow to gether, which Is 3447, can bo nccom-1 modatcd. It Is said at tho Duronu OT Insncctor of steam voaasla that no ship Is required to havo sufficient, boat room to accommodato all Its comploto passongcr crow and list. Tho Olympic carrlds 3447 llfo pre servers and 48 llfo buoys made in compliance with tho regulations of tho RrltlBh Doard of Trade Tho United Statos bureau has no power except to seo that each Btcamor nicots tho requirements of Its homo government. NO UNSINKAULE SHIP Designer 'Says Titnnlc's Sldo Was Torn Out (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Times.) LONDON, April 16. Aloxandor Carlisle, designer of both tho Titanic and Olympic, said today: "I never thought that thoro wns such a thing as an unslnkablo ship, When tho nows first camo that tho Titanic was sinking, I thought llkoly sho would reach port. Tho fact that sho sank within four hourB aftor tho Impact with tho ico Indicates her sldo was torn out." WAS TO 1JE INSPECTED Difference In English nnd American Requirements (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Times.) WASHINGTON, April 16. Tho federal steamship inspection sorvlco was awaiting tho arrival of tho Ti tanic for examination to soo that sho compiled with tho English laws with regard to llfo boats and other equip ment. If tho vessol had boen of Am erican rcgistor, It would havo boon obliged to havo lifeboats or llfo rafts containing 23.470 cubic foot, or ac comodations ror z,;-i7 porsons. W L LAND 0 Of Carpathia With Survivors Titanic Will Reach New York Then. (Dy Assoclatod Pross to tho Coos Day Timos.. WASHINGTON, April 16. Tho Carpathlu will arrlvo In Now York Thursday aftornoon, according to a wlroloss mossago to Colloctor Loob. Tho Troasury Department has direct ed that tho customs regulations bo walvod so that tho landing of ovory body bo facilitated. I Think Most of Notables Aboard Titanic Have Been Rescued. (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Time) NEW YORK, April 16. Vice prosldont Franklin of tho Whlto Star i. inn Hnl! nt 4:50 o'clock this after noon that 114 out ot 285 socond cab in passongers on tho steamBhlp Ti tanic were accounted for, wariiinoton. Anril 16. Sen ator Guggenheim said this aftornoon ho had received advices irom me White Star Line that all but thirty two of the first class passengers on tho Titanic woro safe. Sonator Guggenheim's brother was a passongor on tho Titanic. His namo does not appear among those rescued bo far reported. TO SIEKT OAKPATHIA M I TOF ABOARD LOST Majority of Men Aboard Titanic Reported to Have Been Drowned. (Dy Associated Press to Uio Coos Day Timos.) ST. JOHNS, N. P., April 16 Messages from Capo Raco soom to indlcato that a largo majority of tho mon who woro on tho Titanic went down with tho ship. MoBsagos from tho Carpathla stato all tho boats that woro launchod by tho Tltanlo havo boen accounted for. STORM ENDS RESCUE NOPE Revenue Cutter Ordered Out by the President. (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Time.) uFAsmNrtTON. Anril 16. Presi dent Tuft ordered out today two rev enue cutters to meet the Carpathla. The Oresham at Doston and the Acqulsnet at Woods Hole, Mass., will go out under Taft's orders. Tho President has also ordered the scout cruiser Salem to proceed to sea ut onco from Hampton Roads, Va., to meet the Carpathla. n. Sulnm In eAulnned With tllO best wireless-In the navy and Is cap- ...I- .n.ilim nno Hiniisnnrl miles nuio ui odiums :, . ., i and by order of the President, the J commander will oiuain u cuuuuoio ii.i ,iin Titnnlc's survivors and sond the names by wireless to the government here. In case the Salem has not sufflclont i i.. i. o,. imnkarR tn start immed iately, tho cruiser North Carolina will take her place. PORTLAND MAN LOST Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Warren, n- rn..tl',nri or-nmlnent Rose Cltv citizens, were supposed to bo on tlie. Titanic en route home from a Europ ean trip. Tlie name oi mtb. nuim M Warren appears among the list of . those saved but Mr Warren's name is not Included. Heavy Fogs and Thunderstorm Preclude Possibility of ' Saving Others. (Dy Associated Press to Tho Cooa Day Timos) MONTREAL, April 16. Tho weather signal station in tho Gulf of St. Lawrenco reported today (that heavy fogs lay off Nova Scotia and that a violent thundor storm broko in that neighborhood last night and Is traveling eastward. It was said that such conditions loft llttlo hopo of rescuo of nny survivors of tho Ti tanic that might still be adrift In rafts or boats. The Parisian steamed through a heavy field ot ico looking for pas sengers of tho Titanic. No llfo rafts or bodies woro sighted floating in tho wreckage which covered a large area, Tho Parisian reported tho woathor cold and that It thoro was any one in the wreackago, they probably por Ished of exposure beforo they could be plckod up. Tho Parisian Is ex pected at Halifax tomorrow morning. RANGE SMALL FOR WIRELESS SCENES AT HOMES OE MEMBERS OF TITANIC'S GREW R PEOPLE SAVED Names of Only 315 of Rescued Have Been Obtained By Wireless. (Dy Assoclatod Press to Tho Coos Day Timos) NEW YORK, April 16 Tho Whlto Star Lino announced officially at olo von o'clock that thoy had received posltlvo news that tho numbor of survivors on tho Carpathla woro eight hundred and sixty-eight. This dispatch was sont from tho Olym plo which, It Is understood, Is In wlro Iobs communication with tho Car pathla, NAMES OF ONLY a 15 Only Partial List of Survivors of DIs aster Obtained. (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Times.) NEW YORK, April 10. Tho offl clal announcement of tho Whlto Star Lino ot posltlvo proof that olght hun- drod sixty-eight survivors of tho TI tanlc nro on board tho Carpnthla and tho fact that tho nnmca of only 315 of Uiobo saved havo boon sont in by wlroloss shows 553 porsons woro res cuod whoso names hnvo not boon re colvod horo. J. J. 0 T M ? Steamer Carpathia Can Send Messages Only About 150 Miles. ' (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Time.) NEW YORK. April 16. The Carpathla's wireless has a range of about one hundred and fifty miles. Owing to the large number of boats carrying wireloss on Atlantic waters, their range Is not as great as vessels plying In thq Pacific) whero tho num ber of vessel? Is small, maKing neces sary a wldo rango in wireless com munication. PEOPLE'S B. 10 and 15 CENT STORE, Phone 283-J. Prominent Americans Reported Among Those Lost On the Titanic. VntRT DEFINITE REPORT CAPE RACE, N. P., April 15. Tho stoamor Olymplo roports that tho stoamor Carpathla reached tho Tltanlc's position at daybroak today but found boats nnd wrockngo only. Sho report- ed that tho Titanic had found- orcd at about 2:40 o'clock a. m. in latitudo 40.16 north and longltudo 50.14 west. Tho mos- sago adds that all tho Tltanlc's boats woro accounted for and "about 675 souls saved out of crow and passongors, tho latter nearly all women and chlldron," thero woro about zzoo porsons In all, crew and passengorB on board tho Titanic. The report from tho Olymplo stntea that tho Leyland llnor California was ro- malnlng nnd searching tho vl- clnlty of tho dlBastor. The Car- pathla, It was suld, was return- Ing to Now York with the sur- vlvors. (Dy Assoclatod Press to Coos Day Times.) NEW YORK, April 16. Accord ing to estimates early today 1234 lost tholr lives on tho Tltanlo disaster, among whom appear to bo Colonol John Jacob Astor, Major Archibald Dutt. President Taft's aldo, and many others of International promlnenco. Astor's wife, who was Miss Force, is among thoso saved on board the steamer Carpathln, which Is now headed for Now York with tho re ported 866 survivors on board. WJro les8 mossages to St. Johns, N. P., are that the steamer Virginia Is on routo thoro. That sho carries any survivors Is not confirmed but as sho was outward bound, It would seem strange sho would turn back, to tho American coast unless it wus for humanitarian reason. Tho Titanic had on board 1470 passongors und a crow of 860 men. Tho point whero tho Titanic strucK tho Iceberg is 1150 miles duo oaBt of Now York City and 450 miles south of tho Capo Raco wireless sta tion. Virginian Too Lat The Allen Lino has isbuod tho fol lowing bulletin j "We aro In rocelpt of a Marconi messago via. Cape Race from Capt. Gumboil,, of the Virginian, ointlni- Hint hn arrived on the BCeno of disaster too lato to bo of sorvlco ana is pruceeuuig uu un "& "i Liverpool." Practically All of Them Resided at Southampton, England. NATION'S SYMPATHY EXPRESSED BY PREMIER Declares Best Traditions of Sea Seem to Have Been Sustained. (Dy Assoclatod Press to The Coos Day Timos) SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., April 16 Distressing scenes "woro witnessed to day 4n tho Whlto Star offices, where gathorod throngs of relatives of thje erow ot tho Titanic. This town la stunned by tho dUaBtor which Is trxo greatest blow Southampton over bub tnlnod. Evory mombor of tho crejf had his homo horo and a largo por tion of thorn woro natives of the town. (Dy Assoclatod Pross to Coos Day Timos.) LONDON, April 10. Promler Aj qulth In n brlof statomont In the Houso of Commons this nttoraoon gavo public expression to Groat DrlU nln's sympathy In connection with tho Titanic disaster. Aftor reading tho already published account, tha promlor contlnuod: "I'orhaps the Houbo will allow mo to add this, that. I am afraid wo miiBt brnco oursolvea to confront ono of thoso torrlbla ov ontB In tho order of Provldonco which bnnio tho foresight, which appal thjj Imagination and mnko us roallzo the inndoquacy ot words to do Justice to what wo fcol. "Wo ennnot say moro nt this mo ment than to givo a nocoasarily Im perfect oxprosslon of our sonse of admlrntlon that tho host traditions of tho sou Boom to havo boon observed and that, allowing for tho chances oY sacraflces offorod, tho first opportun ity of snfoty was given by ablor ones to thoso who woro loast ablo to holp thomsolvos and hoartfolt sympathy of the whole nation to thoso who And1 thoniflolvoH suddenly boroaved of tholr nonrest nnd dearest." Tho flags on ninny publio buildings aro half mast today . SYMPATHY IS EXPRESSED German Empire's Sentiments Voiced In Reichstag (Dy Assoclatod Prow to tho Coos Day Time) DERLIN, April 16. Spoakor or tho Reichstag, Johannos KaompL with tho rooponlngs of tho sessions today aftor tho Easter vacation ex pressed tho sympathy and grief of tho Gorman Emplro over tho loss of the Titanic and tho largo number of lives. MUCH MAIL LOST Over :500 Socks Containing Seven Million Piece (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Times.) NEW YORK, April 16. Postmas ter Edward M. Morgan said today that 3,500 sacks of mall wore on the Titanic. Ho estimates sovon million pieces of mull will bo lost. DELAY SAVED HACON American Ambassador to Franco Nearly Sailed on Tltanlo (Dy Associated Pross to Coos Day Time) PARIS, April 16. Robert Dacon, United Statos ambassador to Prance with his wlfo and daughter had plan nod to sail on tho Tltanlo but tho delay in tho nrrlval of Marlon T. Hor rick, his successor, caused Dacon to postpono his doparturo GREAT FIELD B RG5 Floating Ice and Bergs Makes Vessel's Path Danger ous One. (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Times.) NEW YORK, April 16. A wlres sent by Captain Rostron of the Car puthlu to tho Cunard Lino horo from latitude 41 15 north, lougltudo DO. 20 west, roads as follows. "Am proceed Itifr tn Nmv York unless othorwlso or dered with about eight hundred, Af tor having consulted wuu Air. ismay nnd considering tho circumstance with bo much lea arouud. considered Now York best. Largo numbor of icebergs and twenty-miio uoid of ice with many bergs in It."