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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1912
Page
13
Survivors recalled the great ship sinking beneath the waves as panic spread aboard. The band was reported playing Nearer My God to Thee as the vessel disappeared, leaving lifeboats and shattered hopes in its wake.
New York reports recount the Titanic disaster with 1595 souls aboard and 745 survivors from the Warpathia. Survivors describe rapid sinking after iceberg collision at 21 knots, with captain and crew guiding women to lifeboats, and Carpathia rescuing the survivors in bitter cold hours.
Special to The Sentinel describes the Twelfth district republican convention in Auburn Indiana endorsing Roosevelt delegates to Chicago in June. It notes Roosevelt forces control, Taft sentiment lacking, and lists electors and committee members. The Fort Wayne delegation traveled by interurban, while Judge Walter Olds backed Taft but joined Roosevelt supporters.
Hammond Indiana reports reformer Virginia Brooks of West Hammond elected president of the board of education after a spirited campaign. She defeated Frank Wiland Constance Grobesezka and Frank Tikonski, who were unaware his name appeared on the ticket until after the vote.
Fred G. Schneider a prominent cigar maker died suddenly at 3 o clock Tuesday aboard a train en route to Fort Wayne from Colorado Springs where he had gone for throat trouble. News reached relatives by telegram and friends were shocked by the sudden death. He had recently traveled to West Baden for treatment and to Colorado Springs for relief. He was forty seven years old and resided in Fort Wayne.
Rail heads are expected to follow engineers in accepting the tender offered to Judge Knapp and Mr Neill. The discussion centers on mediation terms and the acceptance path for the contract.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers accepted mediation from labor commissioner Charles P. Neill and Judge Martin A. Knapp after threatening a strike over wage gains. The conference aims to set arbitration with each side naming an arbitrator, potentially affecting 54,000 engine drivers and 200,000 other railroad workers. Railroads listed span Baltimore and Ohio to Indiana lines, with firms across the Northeast and Midwest involved.
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