Loss of the Titanic
! COLLIDES WTTH AN ICEBERG. \ AN OCEAN TRAGEDY. SINKING BY THE HEAD. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 16, 12.20 a.m. New York, April 15. The steamer Titanic, inward bound to New York from Southampton, communicated by wireless telegraphy that she kad collided with an iceberg and asking for urgent help. The liner Virginia is hastening to the Jlid of the wrecked vessel.
THE WOMEN FIRST. THREI THOUSAND SOULS ON BOARD Received 15, 12.55 a.m. London, April 16. The Titanic was off Cape Race, at the south-east extremity of Newfoundland, when she collided in the dark with an iceberg. The steamer telegraphs the is sinking by the head^« ilia i hat tne women are being ta>« r 'off in the boats first. The>** <!m ed steamer has a complement thousand passengers and crew. The Titanic left Southampton on (Wednesday, and was making her first voyage across the Atlantic. (The Titanic was the latest addition, to the White Star Company's fleet, and was the largest vessel afloat, being of 10,000 tons burden. She was a sister B-hip of the Olympic, and was supposed to be unsinkable.)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 245, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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186Loss of the Titanic Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 245, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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