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EXTRA EDITION 4:30 A. M.
At 12:27 This Morning Blurred Signals by Wireless Told of Women Being Put Off in Lifeboats --- Three Liners Rushing to Aid of 1,300 Imperilled Passengers and Crew of 860 Men.TITANIC SINKING IN MID-OCEAN; HIT GREAT ICEBERG ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- First News of Ocean Disaster Came in Appeal for Help to Allan Line's Virginian, Which Left Halifax on Saturday and Was 170 Miles from Place of Accident When the Last Call for Aid Came. ---------------------------------------- CAPE RACE, N. F., APRIL 15.--AT 10:25 LAST NIGHT THE STEAMSHIP TITANIC CALLED "S O S" AND REPORTED HAVING STRUCK AN ICEBERG. THE STEAMER SAID THAT IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE WAS REQUIRED. HALF AN HOUR AFTERWARD ANOTHER MESSAGE CAME REPORTING THAT THEY WERE SINKING BY THE HEAD AND THAT WOMEN WERE BEING PUT OFF IN THE LIFEBOATS. THE WEATHER WAS CALM AND CLEAR, THE TITANIC'S WIRELESS OPERATOR REPORTED, AND GAVE THE POSITION OF THE VESSEL, 41:46 NORTH LATITUDE AND 50:14 WEST LONGITUDE. THE MARCONI STATION AT CAPE RACE NOTIFIED THE ALLAN LINER VIRGINIAN, THE CAPTAIN OF WHICH IMMEDIATELY ADVISED THAT HE WAS PROCEEDING FOR THE SCENE OF THE DISASTER. THE VIRGINIAN AT MIDNIGHT WAS ABOUT 170 MILES DISTANT FROM THE TITANIC, AND EXPECTED TO REACH THAT VESSEL ABOUT 10 A. M. ON MONDAY. THE LAST WIRELESS DISPATCHES FROM THE STRICKEN LINER GAVE HER POSITION AS 41:46 NORTH LATITUDE AND 50:14 WEST LONGITUDE. THIS IS AT MOST DUE EAST FROM NEW YORK AND APPROXIMATED DUE SOUTH FROM ST. JOHN'S, N. F. THE DISTANCE FROM NEW YORK TO THE PLACE OF THE ACCIDENT IS APPROXIMATELY 1,200 MILES. THE NEAREST LAND IS SABLE ISLAND, ABOUT 700 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST OF WHERE THE CRASH TOOK PLACE. THE NEAREST PORT IS HALIFAX, ABOUT 900 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST. THE OLYMPIC AT AN EARLY HOUR ON MONDAY MORNING WAS IN LATITUDE 40:32 NORTH AND LONGITUDE 61:18 WEST. SHE WAS IN DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH THE TITANIC, AND IS NOW MAKING ALL HASTE TOWARD HER. THE STEAMSHIP BALTIC ALSO REPORTED HERSELF AS ABOUT 200 MILES EAST OF THE TITANIC, AND WAS MAKING ALL POSSIBLE SPEED TOWARD HER. THE LAST SIGNALS FROM THE TITANIC WERE HEARD BY THE VIRGINIAN AT 12:27 A. M. THE WIRELESS OPERATOR ON THE VIRGINIAN SAYS THES SIGNALS WERE BLURRED AND ENDED ABRUPTLY. ONE REASSURING FEATURE OF THE ACCIDENT OF THE TITANIC IS THAT MANY SHIPS APPEAR TO BE WITH IN THE GIANT LINERS'S CALL. BESIDE THE VIRGINIAN, OF THE ALLAN LINE WHICH APPEARS TO BE THE FIRST TO HAVE HEARD OF THE TITANIC'S DISTRESS, AND THE WHITE STAR LINE BALTIC AND OLYMPIC, BOTH OF WHICH WERE REPORTED ON THE WAY TO THE PLACE, THERE IS ALSO THE CINCINNATI, OF THE HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE, AND THE CUNARDER MAURETANIA. OTHER SHIPS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WERE THE PRINZ ADELBERT, OF THE HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE AND THE AMERIKA, OF THE SAME LINE, AND THE NORTH GERMAN LLOYD LINER PRINZ FRIEDRICH_WILHELM BOUND FROM NEW YORK FOR PLYMOUTH, ALL OF WHICH, AND MANY SMALLER LINERS, ARE SHONW ON TO-DAY'S STEAMSHIP CHART AS IN THE VICINITY OF CAPE RACE. ---------------------------------------- Montreal, April 14.-- The new White Star liner Titanic is reported in advices received here late to-night to have strack an iceberg. The news was received at the Allan Line offices here in a wireless message from the captain of the steamer Virginian, of that line. It was stated that the Virginian had been in wireless communication with the Titanic, that she had reported being in collision with an iceberg and asked for assistance. The Virginian reported that she was on her way to the Titanic. The Virginian sailes from Halifax last night, and at the tme the wireless was sent she is rekoned to have been about abeam of Cape Race. She has three hundred passengers on board, but can accomodate nine hundred more of the >Titanic passengers should their removal be necessary. The message from the Virginian's captain was sent by wireless to Cape Race and thence by cable to Halifax and then by telegraph to Montreal. The Allan Line officials here expect to hear further news at any moment. ------------ Halifax, April 14.-- The Allan Line steamer Virginian, which reply that she has gone to the assistance of the White Star liner Titanic, left Halifax at 9:20 o'clock Saturday night for Liverpool, with mails and 800 passengers. The Virginian's daily runs --- about 850 miles, so that by midnight, the steamer would be about --- miles east of Halifax. The Allan liner Corsican reports seeing thick ice near this coast, which -- the furthest south her officers remember ever having seen ice. The steamer made a wide detour to avoid it. ------------ P. A. S. Franklin, vice president of the International Mercantile Marine said early to-day that it was ------ credit the report that the Titanic met with an accident in view of the fact that the White Star Line had received no wireless message from her. "We received a wireless from the Titanic early yesterday, giving her position." said Mr Franklin, "and I ---- if she had met with any accident, we would have heard from her. "We are absolutely satisfied that she had been in collision with an iceberg she is in no danger. With the serious Watertight compartiments ---------------. |
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