REPORTS BY STEAMERS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1421, 23 April 1912, Page 5

REPORTS BY STEAMERS.

OLYMPIC'S SPECIAL EFFORTS. \ MESSAGES CEASED ABRUPTLY. \ (Rec. April 22, 10..15 p.m.) London, April 22. Tho Olympic has arrived. The officers state.they were 500 miles from the Titanic when a wireless was received through the CelHc. Tho Olympic's stokers and engineers worked like Trojans, and forced a speed of twenty-four knots for thirteen hours, when the tension was relieved temporarily by a wireless stating that all aboard the Titanic were sansL but the Carpathia later informed tho Olympic of tho truth. The Olympic then resumed her voyage. Tho Virginian states that she received a wireless from Cape Race, notifying tho Titanic's danger at 12.40 a.m. She was then 178 miles distant. The Titanic wirelessed sinking at 1.20 a.m., and wireless messages ceased at 1.47 a.m. abruptly. FAITHFUL POSTAL CLERKS. : TRY TO SAVE THE MAILS. New York, April 21. Some of the survivors state that fivo postal clerks continued carrying 200 sacks of registered mails to the upper deck until the last. None of them wero saved. SAVED BY SUPERSTITION. AN ALMANAC'S PROPHECY. New York, April 21. Superstition saved the life of Mrs. Fison, a resident of Vancouver, who is visiting' England. When reading an almanac, she saw that a great sea disaster was like.ly lo 'occur about the middle of April, and she refused to return, although her husband urged her to como aboard tho Titanic.

RECOVERY OF BODIES. MANY UNRECOGNISABLE. (Rec. April 23, 0.15 a.nU New York, April 22. Tho steamer Mackay Bennett reports having- recovered sixty-four bodies, which ore. identifiable. Others that were unrecognisable wero buried at sea. PEARL NECKLACES SAVED. LUCK FOll LLOYD'S. (Rec. April 22, 10.35 p.m.) London, April .22. Three pearl necklaces, the property of a survivor, insured with Lloyd's for JJHO.OOO, are believed to have been saved'. "CLASS ANTAGONISM." A BEN TILLETT MANIFESTO. London, April 21. Mr. Ben Tilletr, on behalf of.tho Dock and Wharf Workers' Union, has issued a manifesto protesting against tho vicious class antagonism shown in tho refusal to permit third-class passengers to be saved. "It is a disgrace to common civilisation,"the manifesto says. Correspondents protest nt Mr. Tillctt's"foul insult,'' which, thoy declare, is made in order to gain cheap notorioty. FUTURE PRECAUTIONS. PROVISION OF LIFE-BOATS. Now York, April 21. Mr. Bruce Ismay has given instructions that all liners of the International Mercantile Marino Company, with which the Whito Star Lino is incorporated, are to be equipped with life-boats and rafts sufficient for all aboard. London, April 21. The Hnmburg-Amerika and the Cana-dian-Pacific Company have decided to provide life-boats lor all passengers and crow. OLYMPIC SHIP'S COLLAPSIBLES. (Rec. April 23, 0.15 a.m.) London, April 22. Tho Olympic is shipping sufficient collapsible boats for all aboard.' CHURCH REFERENCES. BELLS TOLLED IN ENGLAND. London, April 21. In numerous churches and chapels references wore n-ade to tho disaster. The "Dead March" was played, mid dumb peals rung on "the bellsSydney, April 21. Pulpit references to tho Titanic disaster wero made in nil the leading churches yesterday.

THE RELIEF FUNDS. (Bee. April 23, 0.30 a.m.) London, April' 22. • Tho "Daily Mail" Fund amounts to ,£13,000, and the "Daily Telegraph's" to ■£9749. STEERAGE PASSENGERS. London, April 21. The steerage passengers included 120 from Marseilles. ' SIZE OF ICEBERGS. CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN INTERVIEWED. 'ißy Telesraoh-Prees Association.) Auckland, April 22. Captain Amundsen, in an interview regarding the Titanic disaster, remarked thai one account said that the berg mot with was one mile in length. This was surely an exaggeration; it was more probable that a lino of bergs was encountered that was a mile or so in length. It did not seem to him probable that very little of the berg could have been showing nbovo tho water, because, if one could depend upon the cablegrams, tons of ice had fallen on to the doc!;, sinking the liner, which was itself particularly hi»h out of the water. It wits exceptionally early in the year to nleot iceberg? off the coast-of Newfoundland; ho could only account for their presence if thoro had been an abnormally heavy wind in the north several weeks previously to thu disaster.

Questioned as to llio facilities, for ascertaining (hat icebergs are in a given vicinity. Captain Amundsen declined to (•ay much on the point. One method was to tako tho tern pern tu re regularly. Ono thin? was certain: When the inou'iry eon> fluked it tvptjld b? found that" thu cap, uiu uu lui oucon tad dun tliolr dutj\