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  Bassina, Miss A. Brayton, Mr Geo.

  Baxter, Mrs James Beathem, Miss Lillian

  Beckwith, Mr and Mrs R. L. Blank, Mr H.

  Bowen, Miss G. C. Braham, Mrs

  Bishop, Mr and Mrs D. Brown, Mrs J. M.

  Burns, Miss G. M. Behr, Mr K. H.

  Buchell, Mrs William Barkworth, Mr A. H.

  Bowerman, Mrs Eric Brown, Edith

  Brown, T. W. S. Beale, E. D.

  Beane, Mrs Ethel Buyhl, Miss Dagran

  Bystrom, Caroline Balls, Mrs Ada E.

  Bonnell, Miss C. Buss, Miss Kate

  Chiver, Paul Cherry, Gladys

  Chambers, Mr and Mrs V. C. Carter, Mr and Mrs W. E.

  Carter, Master Cardell, Mrs Churchill

  Calderhead, E. P. Chandison, Mrs Victorine

  Cornell, Mrs R. C. Cavendish, Mrs Turrell and maid

  Chafee, Mrs H. F. Cardeza, Thomas

  Cardeza, Mrs J. W. Cummings, Mrs J. B.

  Carter, Miss Lucille Carter, William

  Casselbere, Miss D. D. Chibenaco, Mrs B.

  Chibnall, Mrs E. M. B. Clark, Mrs W. M.

  Clarke, Mrs William Connell, Miss C.

  Crosbie, Mrs E. G. Crosbie, Miss E. G.

  Crosbie, Miss H. E. Cummings, Miss

  Collyer, Mrs Charlotte Christy, Mrs Alice

  Christy, Miss Lulu Clarke, Mrs Ada M.

  Cameron, Miss Clear Collett, Mrs Stuart

  Caldwell, Mr Albert F. Caldwell, Mrs Sylvia

  Caldwell, Master Aiden G. Carmacion, Benardom

  Charles, William Dessett, Miss

  Duff-Gordon, Sir Cosmo and Lady Dodge, Mrs Washington and son Dick, Mr and Mrs

  Daniel, Robert W. Davidson, Mr and Mrs Thornton

  Douglas, Miss Walter Daniel, Sarah

  Drachensted, Alfred Douglas, Mrs Fred C.

  Durante, Leonora Asuncion Douglas, Mrs Robert

  Doling, Mrs Ada Doling, Miss Elsie

  Drew, Mrs Lulu Driscoll, Miss B.

  Davis, Miss Agnes Davis, Master John M.

  Duran, Miss Fiorentina Davis, Miss Mary

  Ellis, Miss Earnshaw, Miss Boulton

  Emock, Philip Fortune, Mabel

  Fortune, Mrs Frauenthal, Henry W.

  Frauenthal, Mrs Frauenthal, Mr and Mrs T. G.

  Francatelli, Miss Flegenheim, Miss Antoinetta

  Erohliche, Margaret Futrelle, Mrs Jacques

  Flynn, Mr J. Fortune, Miss Alice

  Faunthorpe, Miss Lizzie Formerly, Miss Elein

  Googht, James Gracie, Colonel Archibald

  Graham, Mrs Wm. Graham, Margaret

  Graham, Mr Gibson, Dorothy

  Goldenburg, Mrs Samuel Goldenburg, Ella

  Greenfi eld, Mrs D. Greenfi eld, Wm.

  Gibson, Mrs Leonard Genivez, Mr Argene

  Garside, Miss Ethel Gerrcai, Mrs Marcy

  Harris, Mrs L. Y. B. Hays, Mr C. M.

  Hays, Mrs C. M. Hays, Miss Margaret

  Hogeboom, Mrs J. C. Hawksford, W. J.

  Haren, H. Hoyt, Mr and Mrs Fred M.

  Hewlett, Mrs Mary D. Harris, George

  Herman, Mrs Jane Herman, Miss Kate

  Herman, Miss Alice Hold, Miss Annie

  Hart, Mrs Asther Hart, Miss Eva

  Harper, Miss Hamalainer, Anna

  Hamalainer, Master Hocking, Mrs Elizabeth

  Hocking, Miss Nellie Holverson, Mrs A. O.

  Homer, H. Harder, George

  Harder, Mrs Hippach, Mrs Ida

  Halverson, Mrs Alex Harris, Mrs H. B.

  Henry, Mr and Mrs L. Healy, Miss Norah

  Hanson, Miss Jennie Hososons, Miss E. Fame

  Hippach, Miss Jane Hooper, Mrs W. A.

  Ismay, Mr Bruce Jacobsohn, Mrs Amy

  Keane, Miss Nora Kelly, Miss Fannie

  Kenyman (query Kenyon), F. A. Kenehen, Miss Emile

  Keuchen, Emile Kimberley, Mr Ed

  Laroche, Miss Louisa Leitch, Miss Jessie W.

  Lamore, Mrs Louch, Miss Alice

  Lehman, Miss Bertha Lavory, Bertha

  Leader, Mrs A. F. Leader, Mrs F. A.

  Lesueur, Mr Gustave J. Lindstroni, Mrs Sigfrid

  Lindstroem, Mrs Lines, Mrs Ernest H.

  Lines, Miss Mary C. Longley, Miss G. R.

  Longley, Miss G. F. Mare, Mrs Florence

  McGowan, Miss Annie McDearmont, Miss Letitia

  Mellinger, Mrs Elizabeth Mallett, Mrs A.

  and child Mellicard, Madam

  Mallett, Master Andrero Mile, Mr

  Minahan, Miss Maimy, Ruberia

  Maréchal, Pierre Minahan, Mrs W. O.

  Marvin, Mrs D. W. Newell, Miss Madeleine

  Newell, Mrs Newson, Mrs Helen

  Nye, Mrs Elizabeth Omond, Mr Fiennad

  Ostby, Mr E. C. Ostby, Miss Helen R.

  Panhard, Ninette Peasry, Miss Kossi

  Potter, Mrs T., Jun. Potter, Mrs Thomas

  Peachen, Major Arthur Phillips, Miss Alice

  Pailas, Emilio Padro, Julian

  Parish, Mrs L. Portaluppi, Mrs Emilio

  Quick, Mr Janeo Quick, Miss Wennie

  Quick, Miss Phyllis Redone, Mrs Lillie

  Ridsdale, Mrs Lucy Rugg, Mrs Emily

  Richard, Mr and Mrs Emile Richard, Master

  Rothschild, Mrs M. Ranelt, Miss Appio

  Renago, Mrs Maman J. Rosenbaum, Edith

  Rheims, Mrs George Roberts, Miss

  Robert, Mrs Edna S. Rolmane, Mr C.

  Ryerson, Miss Susan R. Ryerson, Miss Emily

  Ryerson, Mrs Arthur Ryerson, John

  Rothes, Countess of Slayter, Miss Hilda

  Smith, Mrs H. Stewart, Mrs J.

  Sharper, H. S. and manservant Simonius, Col. Alfonso

  Sincock, Miss Maude Smith, Mrs Marion

  Steff ason, Mr W. B. Stone, Mrs George M.

  Segesser, Emma Seward, Frederick

  Shutter, Miss Sloper, William T.

  Swift, Mrs Frederick J. Schabert, Mrs Pauline

  Speddin, Mr and Mrs J. O. Stahelin, Max

  Smith, Mrs Lucien Stephenson, Mrs Walter P.

  Salomon, Abraham Silvey, William B.

  Skeliery, Mrs William Stengel, Mr and Mrs

  Spencer, Mrs W. A. and maid Sheddell, Robert D.

  Snyder, Mr and Mrs John Saalfi eld, Adolph

  Silverthorn, R. S. Serepeca, Augusta

  Tauusig, Ruth Thor, Ella

  Taylor, Mr and Mrs E. Z. Tucker, Gilbert M.

  Thayer, Mrs J. B. Thayer, Mr J. B., Jun.

  Trout, Mrs Jessie Trout, Miss Edina

  Tucker, Mrs and maid Taussig, Emil

  Villiers, Mme de Ward, Mr and Mrs A.

  Ward, Anna Warren, Mrs F. M.

  White, Mrs J. Stewart Widener, Mrs Geo D. and maid

  Willard, Miss C. Wick, Miss Mary

  Wilson, Helen A. Woolner, Mr H.

  Walter, Mrs Washington, Mr

  Weisse, Mrs Matilde Webber, Miss Susan

  Wright, Miss Marion Watt, Miss Bessie

  Watt, Miss Bertha West, Mrs and two children

  Wells, Mrs Addie Wells, Miss J.

  Wells, Ralph Williams, Charles

  Williams, Mr Richard M., Jun. Young, Miss M.

  SCENES IN LONDON

  Inquiries of Distressed Relatives

  The disaster of the Titanic made a profound sensation in the Metropolis yesterday, where folk had been reassured overnight by the reported rescue of all the passengers and crew only to be shocked again by the tragic news of the early morning.

  From an early hour the officials were inundated by frantic inquiries by telegram and telephone, while as soon as the offices of the White Star Line in Leadenhall Street were open relatives and friends of passengers poured in and begged for news.

  The flags of all the big shipping houses in Cockspur Street (where the West End offices of the line are situated) were flying at half-mast, and outside the offices of the White Star Line a crowd of continually increasing proportion gathered.

  Many fashionably dressed women called at the office, and the red eyes of som
e betrayed that they had been weeping. All came with the hope that the names of their relatives were included with the lists issued, and when they learnt that this was not so, their emotions were touching to witness. One young lady burst into tears and had to be led outside.

  The distress of the ladies was pitiful to see, and formed a striking contrast to the quiet way in which the men, with tight lips, received the news.

  A dramatic incident was brought under the notice of a Press representative who was seated near a lady waiting at the office. She asked the reporter if there was any later information, and received a reply in the negative. He inquired if she had any relatives on board the Titanic and the reply was, ‘Yes, my three children were going out to join their dad, and I was following next week.’ On being informed that the name was ‘Davis’, the journalist scanned the list, and amongst the survivors found the names of Miss Agnes Davis, Miss Mary Davis and Master John Davis. He drew the lady’s attention to the fact, when she almost collapsed with joy and exclaimed, ‘Thank God, thank God.’

  An athletic girl in a Harris tweed costume had her hopes dashed, but was told there might be better news if she came back in an hour and a half.

  ‘How can I wait all that time?’ she asked in agonized tones. ‘It’s an eternity.’ Nevertheless she returned two hours later and when the name, which meant so much to her was not on the lists again, her composure gave way and she left sobbing.

  (Daily News, 17 April 1912)

  PATHETIC SCENES

  INQUIRIES AT THE WHITE STAR OFFICES

  Yesterday there was a constant stream of callers at the White Star offices in Leadenhall Street, City.

  Unfortunately the London offices of the company seemed to be getting very little information, and little was known except that which was being received from the principal news agencies.

  Information concerning seventy passengers had been received, and this was quickly typewritten and distributed.

  Among those who called for news concerning relatives or friends, several were French people who had relatives who had embarked on the Titanic at Cherbourg.

  Some pathetic scenes were witnessed. One elderly lady for some time walked up and down disconsolately in the offices, her eyes red with tears. Two nurses in uniform, after inspecting the list of those known to have been saved went away very agitatedly, one remarking to the other, ‘I told you so. He is gone.’

  Several shipping offices in the vicinity of the White Star premises are flying their flags at half mast.

  A large crowd of people assembled outside the White Star offices in Cockspur Street yesterday, having been gathering since an early hour. Many of them had tear-stained eyes as they waited for news.

  (Western Daily Mercury, 17 April 1912)

  LONDON OFFICES BESIEGED

  Scores of anxious inquirers paraded the front office of the White Star Company’s premises up to a late hour last night. Many had waited from the early hours of the morning nursing the hope that the particular friend or relative in whom they were concerned might appear in the lists of the survivors. Some were doomed to disappointment, and as each additional list of saved passengers was posted their concern was tragically evident. Hopes which had been sustained during the long anxious day could be kept up no longer, and as the night hours advanced, and the cabled reports became fewer, optimism gave way to the worst fears.

  One elderly woman, who with quiet fortitude and calm had waited for hours in the precincts of the offices, was almost overcome with joy after the sustained agony of the day, when late in the evening she found in one of the lists the name for which she had so long sought in vain.

  Many who waited anxiously during the evening seemed prepared to maintain their vigil throughout the night, and every facility and comfort was given by the sympathetic and kindly disposed officials who sought as best they could to ease their anxiety.

  (Western Daily Mercury, 17 April 1912)

  CROWDS STAND ALL DAY IN RAIN, ANXIOUS FOR NEWS; MANY RUSH HERE FROM FAR-OFF CITIES

  The crowds of anxious relatives and friends thronging the offices at the White Star Line at No. 9 Broadway in search of the latest tidings grew bigger yesterday and last night. The first contingent of out-of-town people, rushing frantically here to get information at first hand, reached Bowling Green Park, opposite the doors of the White Star Line, early yesterday morning.

  New Yorkers who had inquired vainly the day before were there, but the poignancy of their grief had turned to settled gloom and hopelessness of manner.

  The newcomers from the West, from New England and the South – white-haired mothers and fathers, young wives striving to suppress the outward signs of their mental torment, young children seeking information of parents, and now and then a young man anxiously asking concerning his sweetheart who was on her way to marry him in the new land where he had started a little home – renewed the scenes of unutterable sadness that had shattered the nerves of the White Star clerks and officials the day before.

  A drizzling rain turned all outdoors to a grey and depressing nightmare, but the people kept coming in automobiles, carriages, on street cars and afoot and after inquiring in the offices and getting scant information, because there was little news to be had, joined the crowds outside in the rain, seemingly unable to leave the neighbourhood. From time to time they came back, asking over and over for further details. To the credit of the clerks be it said that those repeated questions were answered over and over with never failing courtesy and kindness.

  In the early grey dawn Henry W. Taft, brother of President Taft, made his way up to the steps of the building and waited his turn to speak to the clerks. He was about to hand in his card when a young woman with tear-stained face hurried in and rushed up to the desk. Mr Taft drew back deferentially and waited while she volleyed hysterical questions about a brother who had been a passenger.

  Finally he gave his card to the clerk and asked to see Vice-President Franklin. No one recognized the President’s brother till then. He was instantly taken to Mr Franklin’s offices, where he remained a short time and came down looking very sober.

  He said that among other persons he had asked for information of Frank D. Millet, the artist, whom he had known well, and K. H. Behr, the tennis player, the latter reported as saved. Especially he had wished for information concerning the fate of Maj. A. W. Butt, the President’s military aide. He shook his head sadly over the probable fate of Maj. Butt.

  Mrs Benjamin Guggenheim, and her brother De Witt J. Saligman, who had spent most of the day previous at the offices waiting for information, were there again early yesterday, Mrs Guggenheim wearing the look of one who had not slept, but who was determined not to give up hope till the last.

  Having assured themselves that there was no news from her husband, Mrs Guggenheim spoke sympathetically to several other waiting women and then went away. She returned during the day several times.

  Though the crowd in the offices sat silent and wrapped in gloom between times, it took but the least rustle of excitement to throw it into a fever of expectancy. So when a clerk came out to say that word had been received that the Mackay-Bennettcable boat had left Halifax at 11 o’clock to go to the scene of the wreck and cruise about to pick up bodies, there was a rush in his direction that nearly took him off his feet.

  One woman who had been told again and again as gently as possible that her husband was not on the list of those saved, overheard that the boat was ‘to cruise and pick up bodies’ and seeming for the first time to realize the awfulness of the reality, dropped suddenly in a pathetic little heap upon a bench.

  Her head dropped to one side, and for a minute or two she was fanned strongly with a newspaper while a glass of water was pressed to her white lips. Then she came to, smiled faintly and whispered, ‘How terrible it all is.’ In a little while she was trying to encourage an old lady who had tottered in to ask about her daughter.

  There was a note of rejoicing when a white-faced young man pressed about the bullet
in board looking for the names of Mr and Mrs John Snyder of No. 61 Snyder avenue, Flatbush, Brooklyn, who had been passengers. Finally he found their names among those saved and rushed pell-mell out of the office crying to someone outside: ‘They are safe! They are safe!’

  A pathetic atmosphere, suggestive of the friendliness of the immigrant in a strange land, hung over the steerage class offices on the floor below. Though the list of steerage passengers had been printed in the morning papers only two persons called to ask after relatives before noon.

  (New York World, 18 April 1912)

  THINK FIVE CARD SHARPS LOST

  New York, April 17

  Three and possibly five of a band of seven professional card sharps and confidence men who were aboard the Titanic when she struck an iceberg last Sunday night are known to be among those who went to the bottom of the ocean with the ship.

  News of the drowning of ‘Tom’ McAuliffe, William Day and ‘Peaches’ Van Camp was received from George Homer and Ralph Bradley, two other members of the band, who sent wireless messages to friends in this city today informing them that they were aboard the Carpathia, but that McAuliffe, Day and Van Camp had gone down with the Titanic.

  Another wireless message, which was received from the gamblers on the Carpathia by a well-known New York sporting man early this evening, said that the remaining members of the band, ‘Buffalo’ Murphy and James Gordon, had not been seen aboard the Carpathia, and that they, too, must have been drowned.

  That the messages are authentic has not been doubted by those who received them as it is known to the recipients that the gamblers were aboard the Titanic when she left Southampton on April 10. Just before sailing one of the band cabled a friend in New York that they were about to sail and asked the friend to meet the band at the White Star Line pier with two taxicabs.

  When the White Star Line officials made known the initial sailing date of the Titanic more than a score of New York confidence men and gamblers, who are known to the police of Scotland Yard, as well as New York, made a hurried trip to England.

  Friends of the men in New York declare that at least three bands of card sharps were aboard the Titanic when she sailed. None of them sailed under his real name as that is not the custom with ocean gamblers.

  (Boston Post, 18 April 1912)

  CARPATHIA IN ROUGH WEATHER

  Only Five Officers of the Titanic Saved

  Official messages received yesterday hold out no hope that there are any survivors of the Titanic disaster beyond those on board the Carpathia.