FIFTEEN HUNDRED DROWNED
MEAGRE AND CONTRADICTOR Y DETAILS.
(Received Last Night, 9.-10 o'clock.)
LONDON, April 16. The officials of the .Whit© Star Company believe that 1500 passengers have been drowned. The details to hand are meagre and contradictory. It as believed that tho whole of the first-class,»passen!gers (300 in number) have been rescued. This estimate is based upon the number aboard the steamer Carpathic, to which the steamer Virginian transferred those rescued by lier. It is not known whether the steamer Parisian has saved any. COST AND INSURANCE. The Titanic cost £1,250,000. Her hull and cargo were insured for £2,350,000. Re-insurances have been effected at a premium of fifty guineas per centum. POSITION OF ICEBERGS. . Veteran Atlantic voyagers state that they have never before seen dee so far south, and in vsnch great bulk as now. Th» bergs are mostly, without, tops, the upper surfaces merely being awash-, and difficult to discern.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10610, 17 April 1912, Page 5
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152FIFTEEN HUNDRED DROWNED Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10610, 17 April 1912, Page 5
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