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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1912
Page
9
In Washington reports reveal fear and hope as Maj Archibald Butt and Clarence Moore’s fates hang on wireless updates from the Carpathia. President Taft orders cruisers Salem and Chester to contact the liner, while White House telegrams express dwindling hope for Butt amid survivor lists.
Mica Marie Young, survivor of the Titanic wreck, lived in the District until a year ago and formerly gave music lessons to members of the Roosevelt family. Her mother died recently, she moved from Portsmouth to visit a brother in New York, and she survived the voyage with Mrs. J Stewart White aboard the Titanic in Paris and back.
New York witnesses a young bride and groom on the Titanic first cabin deck after a five week marriage in the city. A moving picture machine recorded the ceremony as Mr G W Marvin and his bride, both 18, prepared to sail to Europe. Marvin’s father Henry R. Marda heads a Biograph company. the groom’s name did not appear on the saved list at press time.
Report details survivors awaiting their full account of the disaster as thick weather hinders wireless links. Rescue attempts shift to Carpathia and other ships while Mackay Bennett begins body searches near Halifax and ships relay survivors' lists from the Olympic.
President Taft ordered the Navy to rush scout cruisers Salem and Chester from Hampton Roads to rendezvous with the Carpathia and wire a list of Titanic survivors. Chester sped 20 knots 40 miles off the Chesapeake to reach news as Salem moved north from Hampton Roads. Two revenue cutters were placed on standby and North Carolina could be dispatched if coal ran low.
An April New York report states that experts estimate the Titanic at speed around 16 knots struck the iceberg with an impact force about 13 500 000 tons, likened to thirty seven Empire State Express trains traveling 70 miles per hour. Naval architect Henry J. Giglow asserts no ship could endure such a force.
The Treasury through customs orders expedites landing of Titanic survivors upon Carpathia arrival in New York Thursday afternoon. Customs rules suspended and officers will help survivors find relatives. Cunard agent Sumner says Carpathia was 60 to 70 miles from Titanic when it struck the iceberg and denied any Boston landing plan.
The Washington Post London reports in its April 16 edition that The Tendon Standard will publish under a headline about who sent false wireless news on the Titanic. It notes claims passengers were saved, the Titanic afloat, and transshipment rumors, followed by the sinking at 2:40 am and calls for inquiry into the deception.
Miss Helen Gracie of 1527 Sixteenth Street plans to travel to New York with relatives after receiving conflicting telegrams about Col Archibald Gracie and Titanic survivors. She learned a New York aunt believed he was safe, then was warned to be hopeful by a special delivery letter.
J P Alexander, former Manitoba provincial parliament member, collapsed and died upon learning of the Titanic Gleuster. He had a heart condition and was in Boissevain Manitoba this April 16 when the shock proved fatal.
Reports from Washington and European liners detail signals believed to come from the Titanic before it struck an iceberg. Messages from German steamer Amerika and sightings by La Touraine and Niagara describe ice fields near latitudes around 41.4 north 50.: east and a danger zone as ships passed near the disaster site.
The Hamburg American Line ships President Lincoln and others reported entering a large field of ice on April 18 with many icebergs drifting in all directions. Lat 41 35 N long 50 14 W near the area later associated with the Titanic strike. Captains described navigating ice and shifting courses southward to clear the field. Other vessels, including the George Washington and St Laurent, saw similar ice regions and a long ice tunnel reported by the Btonian.
Friends of West Virginia Representative Hughes fear his son in law Waden P Smith and his wife Miss Hloise Hughes Smith were aboard the ill fated Titanic. Their names appear among rescued passengers, though the list is incomplete due to Cherbourg boarding. The couple married recently and planned a world voyage before likely returning home.
Ann Arbor April 37 Captain Man Sealby commander of the steamer Republic describes a theory that early spring brought more ice, suggesting the Titanic struck a submerged iceberg and was glanced, then struck again tearing a large hole. He notes Titanic’s safety and ice may have come down in large quantities recently.
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