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TITANIC'S PASSENGERS ARE SAFELY TRANSFERRED TO TWO OTHER OCEAN LINERS
Wireles distatches up to noon today showed that the passengers on the monster White Star Liner Titanic, which struck an iceberg off the Newfounded coast last night, were being transferred aboard the steamer Carpathia, a Cunarder which left New York April 13 for Naples.------------------------------------- Picture : WHITE STAR LINER "TITANIC" AT BUILDERS' DOCK IN BELFAST ------------------------------------- Huge White Star Steamship, Carrying 2000 Pasengers and Crew, Strikes Iceberg off Coast of New-foundland and Is Badly Damaged---Bulkheads Hold Against Inrush of Waters and Big Liner Heads fo Halifax---Wireless Calls for Aid Bring Several Large Vessels to the Rescue. ------------------------------------- Already 20 boatloads of the Titanic's passengers have been transferred aboard the Carpathia, and allowing 40 to 60 people as the capacity of each lifeboat some 800 or 1200 people have been transferred from the damaged liner to the Carpathia. |
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