Sinking of the "Titanic"

April 14, 1912, a Fateful Date--Lulled to False Security--Peaceful Sabbath Ends in Dire Disaster--Hopes Sink Beneath the Cruel and Treacherous Waves of the Atlantic--Man’s Proud...

How Astor Went to Death--“I Resign Myself to My Fate,” He Said--Kissed Wife Fond Farewell--Lifted Cap to Wife as Boat Left Ship--Crushed to Death By Ice--Famous Novelist’s Daugh...

Praises Captain and Crew--Bids President of Grand Trunk Railway Good-bye--In Water for Six Hours--Saved by Cake of Ice--Boats not Filled, she says--Millionaire Died to Save Wife...

Major Butt Martyr to Duty--Woman’s Soul-Stirring Tribute--Died Like a Soldier--Was the Man of the Hour--Assisted Captain and Officers in Saving Women--Cool as if on Dress Parade...

Showed Wonderful Fortitude in the Hour of Peril--Sailors in Lifeboat Tell of Her Heroism--Pleaded to Remain With Husband--Change Clothes to Embark--Seamen Confirm Murdock’s Suic...

Widow of College Founder Scores Management for Lack of Drill--First Thought Damage was Slight--Aid May Have Been Near--No Oil in Life Lamps--Hudson, N. Y., Woman’s Pathetic Reci...

Plunged Into Icy Sea--Did Not See Berg--Parted From Parents--Saw Many Jump Overboard--Leaped Into Ocean--Eight Year Old Boy’s Narrative--Was “Very Quiet After He Was In Boat”--A...

Cunarder’s Race to Titanic’s Aid--Captain Rostrom’s Unvarnished but Dramatic Report--Knot in Operator’s Shoelace Saved Hundreds of Lives--Was About to Retire, But Slight Delay E...

“Where You Are I Shall Be,” Says Mrs. Isidor Straus--He Begged Her in Vain to Enter the Waiting Lifeboat--Women Row Lifeboats--Stokers no Oarsmen--Crazed Men Rescued--Collapsibl...

Says it was as if Giant Hand had Pushed Ship Down--Realistic Picture of Titanic’s Death Plunge--The Long, Dreary Wait--Man at Wheel Tells of Crash--Told by Phone “Iceberg Ahead”...

Senators Hear Startling Stories--Probing Committee Took Prompt Action--Special Investigation to Forstall Spiriting Away of Witnesses--Prominent Persons on Stand--Carpathia’s Cap...

Surviving Operator’s Experiences--Tells Senator How He Escaped--Tale of Suffering and Death--Managing Director’s Flight Balked--Long Hours and Low Wages for Wireless Men--Refuse...

1867, Oct. 29.--Royal Mail steamships Rhone and Wye and about 50 other vessels driven ashore and wrecked at St. Thomas, West Indies, by a hurricane; about 100 lives lost.

April 14, 1912, a Fateful Date--Lulled to False Security--Peaceful Sabbath Ends in Dire Disaster--Hopes Sink Beneath the Cruel and Treacherous Waves of the Atlantic--Man’s Proud...

In the hospital and the public rooms lay, in blankets, several others who had been benumbed by the water. Mrs. Rosa Abbott, who was in the water for hours, was restored during t...

The survivors in the lifeboats saw the lights on the stricken vessel glimmer to the last, heard her band playing and saw the doomed hundreds on her deck and heard their groans a...

This, at least, is the tale told by sailors of the ill-starred Titanic, brawny seamen who only lived to tell it because it happened in the line of their duty to help man the boa...

Outside of great naval battles no tragedy of the sea ever claimed so many victims as did the loss of the Titanic. The pitiful part of it is that all on board the Titanic might h...

One man stands out in a most unenviable light amid the narratives of heroism and suffering attending the great Titanic sea tragedy. This man is J. Bruce Ismay, managing director...

J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, who has been widely charged with cowardice in saving himself when the Titanic was wrecked, has found his first defender...

Standing at the rail of the main deck of the ill-fated Titanic, Arthur Ryerson, of Gray’s lane, Haverford, Pa., waved encouragement to his wife as the lifeboat in which she and...

How Astor Went to Death--“I Resign Myself to My Fate,” He Said--Kissed Wife Fond Farewell--Lifted Cap to Wife as Boat Left Ship--Crushed to Death By Ice--Famous Novelist’s Daugh...

Praises Captain and Crew--Bids President of Grand Trunk Railway Good-bye--In Water for Six Hours--Saved by Cake of Ice--Boats not Filled, she says--Millionaire Died to Save Wife...

Major Butt Martyr to Duty--Woman’s Soul-Stirring Tribute--Died Like a Soldier--Was the Man of the Hour--Assisted Captain and Officers in Saving Women--Cool as if on Dress Parade...

Showed Wonderful Fortitude in the Hour of Peril--Sailors in Lifeboat Tell Of Her Heroism--Pleaded To Remain With Husband--Change Clothes to Embark--Seamen Confirm Murdock’s Suic...

Widow of College Founder Scores Management for Lack of Drill--First Thought Damage was Slight--Aid May Have Been Near--No Oil in Life Lamps--Hudson, N. Y., Woman’s Pathetic Reci...

Whenever men speak of tragedies of the sea, the story of La Bourgogne, the French Line steamship, which was sunk in collision with the British ship Cormartyshire, is always reca...

Plunged Into Icy Sea--Did Not See Berg--Parted From Parents--Saw Many Jump Overboard--Leaped Into Ocean--Eight Year Old Boy’s Narrative--Was “Very Quiet After He Was In Boat”--A...

Cunarder’s Race to Titanic’s Aid--Captain Rostrom’s Unvarnished but Dramatic Report--Knot in Operator’s Shoelace Saved Hundreds of Lives--Was About to Retire, but Slight Delay E...

The story of how Mrs. Isidor Straus, wife of the New York merchant, met death with her husband on the Titanic rather than be separated from him, was rendered complete when Miss...

Says it was as if Giant Hand had Pushed Ship Down--Realistic Picture of Titanic’s Death Plunge--The Long, Dreary Wait--Man at Wheel Tells of Crash--Told by Phone “Iceberg Ahead”...

Senators Hear Startling Stories--Probing Committee Took Prompt Action--Special Investigation to Forestall Spiriting Away of Witnesses--Prominent Persons on Stand--Carpathia’s Ca...

Surviving Operator’s Experiences--Tells Senator How He Escaped--Tale of Suffering and Death--Managing Director’s Flight Balked--Long Hours and Low Wages for Wireless Men--Refuse...

The cable ship Mackay-Bennett which had been sent out to recover as many as possible of the Titanic’s dead, reached her pier in the dockyard at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest...

For more than a week of the two that have elapsed since the Titanic made a record on her maiden voyage--a record never paralleled in marine history for its horrors, its sacrific...