THE TITANIC DISASTER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1033, 20 April 1912, Page 2

THE TITANIC DISASTER.

New York, April 18. The newspapers print stories purporting to te the latest wireless news from the Carpathia. These state that the Titanic buckled amidships. Tadies in evening gowns were bundled into the boats, not believing there was any danger. When the danger was apprehended a panic ensued. Scores of injured persons are reported to be among those rescued by the Carpathia, many being nearly insane.

The steamship America warned tbe Titanic of lue icebergs a few minutes before she struck.

LONDON, April 18. Rt. Hon, A. M. Carlisle, managing director of Harlaud and Wolff, declares that the boat accommodation of the Titauic was inadequate. It was a difficult problem to find boat room on the modern mammoth. Mr Carlisle states that when making the design of the Olympic and Titanic, he suggested davits providing for forty boats, and those davits were fitted. The Board of Trade required sixteen, but twenty were supplied. Nkw York iS. The steamship La Bretagne reports having sighted huge icebergs. Forty bears were seen clinging to the surface of one of them.

The steamer Tunisian was 24 hours iu the icefield. Two hundred icebergs were seeu. The vessel stopped at night, and sent a wireless message 10 the Titanic at midnight ou Saturday. London, April 18. Amongst those saved from the Titanic are Mesdames G. Stone aud F. J. Swift, society women: Mr C. E. Stengel, Miss Margaret Graham, Californian actress ; Mr Thomas Cardeza, of Rio De Janeiro and New York ; Mr P. Mareschal, of Washington; Colonel Archibald Grade; Mr W. T. Sloper, ut Seattle; Master Harry Wideuer, ; Mr J. F. Thayer, a railway official; Mr J. and Mrs Synder, of New York.

Among those missing are Mr James Carlson Young, of Minneapolis ; Mr George Eastman; Colonel May; Professor J. H. Ross, of Wisconsin ; aud the following New York residents ; Mrs Eltlinger, Mrs Tigler, aud Miss Eustace.

Montrh.xL, April 18

It is definitely known that Mr Hayes, president of the Grand Trunk railway, has been saved from the Titauic.

London, April 18

The passengers included Mr Thomas Pears, the soap-maker; Mr Parsons, ex-Cougressman ; Mr Warren, ex-Senator; and Mr Hoyt, Protessor of Law at Washington University. Mr Jaques Futrelle, the novelist, was rescued.

EXPRESSIONS OF SYMPATHY.

London, April is,

King George, in a message to President Taft, deplored the terrible loss of life in countries so intimately allied in ties of friendship and brotherhood. President Taft replied: “The appalling disaster has brought both countries into a community oi grief through the common bereavement. Americans share the sorrow with their kinsmen beyond the seas.

All the European Courts have tendered sympathy. Sydney, April 18.

The Governor-General, Lord Denman, has cabled the Secretary of State Australia’s condolences in the Titanic disaster.