HUNDREDS DROWNED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 93, 19 April 1912, Page 7

HUNDREDS DROWNED.

MAJORITY OF TITANIC’S HUMAN FREIGHT LOST.

London, April 16. Members of the House of Commons stood bareheaded as Mr Asquith read the latest telegrams. He said: “All the .boats are accounted . for and 675 souls arc saved. We must brave ourselves to confront an event''which appals the imagination.” He expressed the House’s deep admiration for the manner in which the best traditions of the sea had been uphold by the saving of those least able to save themselves. Piteous scenes are being witnessed at the White Star Co.’s offices in Cockspur Street, relatives waiting for hours. Many people from the provinces, failing to get news from Liverpool, came to London, but the officials are only able to point to the Carpathian’s wireless message that she had found the boats and wreckage only. Similar scones arc occurring at Southampton, of which place practically the whole of the 905 of the crew are natives, and scarcely a family in the town has not lost a relative or friend. SCENES*” iF”:PARIS. Paris, April 16. The office of the White Star Co. is 1)0 sieged by weeping inquiries. Bunting on shipping at Continental ports is half-masted. and in! New york.;; Nefv ( York, April . 16.

, There were pathetic scenes! fill night 1 outside the White r Star Ch.’s "office. Vincent Astor/ 'soii of Coldhef John Jacob Aster, conferred for an hour with the vice-president and departed in tears. It is understood, that all the women and children in tho steerage as well as saloon were given a chance for life. The men behaved gallantly and wdht'dowiV with "the ’ship. The Virginian qrrSypd too late./ No hope remains noiv that there,ore. any survivors other than The 650 first rescued. The ice-cold water made it .impossible for any 'survivors clinging to wreckage to escape. The women and children spent hours in the open boats exposed to hitter winds before being picked up. The wealth aboard is estimated as representing two millions sterling in cargo, jewels, and passengers’ personal belongings. A TARANAKI TRIBUTE. Ha worn, April 18. The Taranaki executive of the ] I timers’ Union to-diay passed a resolution of sympathy with British and American subjects in connection with the foundering of tho Titanic an dexpressed ids admiration of the action of tire men on the steamer in upholding the best traditions cf the sea.