According to the stories of the survivors the last scenes of the wreck of the Titanic presented an agonising array of horrors. As the ship split her stern rose ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Christchurch Press Company, Ltd., New Zealand, has forwarded £400 to assist in relieving the distress caused by the recent coal strike. The sum has been ...
Article : 63 wordsAnother wireless message from the Union steamer Moana says that the Clan Ogilvy is sale. Her damaged propeller shaft has been repaired. ...
Article : 42 wordsSuperstition saved the life of Mrs. Fison of Vancouver. This lady was visiting friends in England, and on reading in an almanac that a great sea disaster was likely ...
Article : 58 wordsAdvices received in Sydney report a robbery of silks from the steamer Empire, which is now steaming down, the coast to Sydney from China. It is supposed they were ...
Article : 76 wordsThe service at St. Mary's Church yesterday morning was conducted by the Denn of Newcastle, Rev. C. M. Golding-Bird, and in the evening' by the rector, Rev. A. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Hydrographic Department has issued an order moving the innes of the trans-Atlantic liners 180 miles to the southward of the course taken by the Titanic. ...
Article : 32 wordsMany friendly society officials and others in all the constituencies are joining an "Amend the Act League," with a view to securing improvements in the Notional ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Weather Bureau to-day predicts the possibility of flood downfalls within the next 24 hours. with strong gales and rain coastwise. Heavy falls are expected over the Central ...
Article : 36 wordsIt now transpires that Mr. Charles Williams, the racquets champion, is among the rescued. Some of the survivors think that both ...
Article : 245 wordsThe two wings of the Conservative and Liberal-Unionist organisaton are amalgamating their headquarters into a National Unionist Council, with optional fusion in the ...
Article : 33 wordsIn his sermon at St. Paul's Church yesterday, Canon Rushforth made touching references to the loss of life occasioned through the wreck of the Titanic. He condemned the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe trial commenced in the Central Criminal Court to-day of Frank Denison Brown and John McPherson on a charge of conspiring to defraud the Singer Sowing Machine ...
Article : 57 wordsColonel Gracie states that when he reached the surface, he found the second officer, Mr. Thayer, and a junior, swimming near him. He says that one of the Titanic's funnels fell. ...
Article : 109 wordsA shoe-maker's shop at Chelsea was burnt down, and four septuagenarians were incinerated. ...
Article : 20 wordsAt the various Masses in St. John's Cathedral yesterday, Rev. Father Peters, Adm., made sympathetic reference to the appalling loss of life that occurred in the loss ...
Article : 121 wordsDuring a fierce gale this morning a large two-storey factory in the course of construction at Waterloo, was blown down, and several narrow escapes were witnessed. The ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Football Association cup final at Crystal Palace, between West Bromwich and Barnsley, resulted in a draw, neither side scoring The game is to be replayed on ...
Article : 38 wordsAfter the impact with the iceberg many of the passengers retired to their beds, convinced that the vessel would not sink. Others stood at the rail ridiculing us "land-lubbers" those ...
Article : 40 wordsAll the survivors commend Captain Smith's heroism. They declare that he was literally washed from his post. When the limits wore clear of the ship the captain ...
Article : 108 wordsWilliam Tebbitt, who recently shot at Mr. Leopold Rothschild, has been commited for trial. He resented the suggestion that he was insane, and stated that he would fully ...
Article : 41 wordsThe recent burglary boom has been responsible for many strange experiences, but perhaps the strangest experience of all is that which is related as having fallon to the lot ...
Article : 306 wordsThe boat commanded by the purser capsized owing to three women rushing to the side to bid farewell to their relatives who were left aboard. ...
Article : 45 wordsAt the Congregational Church yesterday the Rev. E. L. Coulter made touching reference to the catastrophe which had befallen the mammoth White Slur liner, the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Chilian Government is considering the proposals of the French, Belgian, and United States financiers, in regard to leasing the State railways with a view to improving the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Countess" of Rothes, who is an expert oarswoman, practically took command of the boat in which she found that the men could not properly. Several women ...
Article : 47 wordsLady Cosmo Gordon stales that a few men rushed the boat in which she had been placed, but an officer drove them off with a revolver, all except, one, who. on persisting ...
Article : 113 wordsDuring the fighting between the soldiery and the workmen at the Jena company at Irkutsk, 150 were killed and 250 wounded. The miners were subjected to a merciless fire, and ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Senate's investigation committee commenced to take evidence in regard to the disaster yesterday. Mr. Bruce Ismay, of the firm of Messrs. ...
Article : 397 wordsLady Duff Gordon supplied the following narrative to the "Daily News":— "I was asleep when the crash came. Previously I was watching the fields of ice. An ...
Article : 748 wordsRev. A. S. McCook, B.A., at the Presbyterian Church yesterday, said the whole civilised world had been appalled by the wreck. Never had a greater disaster ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsThere are many gruesome rumours as to atrocities committed by frenzied members of the crew, including the shooting of passengers in the boats and braining swimmers ...
Article : 51 wordsSome of the survivors declare that the Titanic was steaming at the rate of 21 knots in accordance with instructions to keep up speed and break the first voyage ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Totalisator commission commenced taking evidence in Sydney to-day. Robert Mostyn, sporting writer to the "Daily Telegraph" stated that the ...
Article : 195 wordsRev. G. W. Payne also made brief reference to the disaster. during the service at the Methodist Church yesterday. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. Phillips, the Titanic's wireless operator, stuck to his post until the dynamo ceased to revolve, and the, water invaded his room. He, and his assistant, Mr. Bride, ...
Article : 229 wordsThe river dykes broke near Beulah yesterday, and a heavy volume of water swept over the country. Many persons were drowned. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe residence of Mr. Bower, George-street, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire. It appears that a neghbour called early this morning to borrow an appliance for easing the ...
Article : 126 wordsPresident Taft is about to send a warship to the west coast of Mexico to take off some United States subjects who are isolated in the distributed districts. ...
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Advertising : 45 wordsAt the instance of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, says the "Daily Mail," Ada Tyivell, married, and Edward Nunn, a pensioned first-class naval ...
Article : 194 wordsLieut Villedavray, while flying at Verdun yesterday fell from a height of 150 feet, and was killed LONDON, April 20. ...
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Advertising : 66 wordsThe committee at first refused to allow Mr. Ismay or any of the officers or crew of the Titanic to return to England, but afterwards it was decided that Mr. Ismay ...
Article : 134 wordsThree French survivors' state that they were playing cards when they heard a violent noise as though the screws were racing and on looking out they saw ice ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsMr. Bruce Ismay has issued instructions that all the liners of the international cantile Marine Company, of which he is president, must be equipped with lifeboats und rafts to afford sufficient accommodation for all on board. ...
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The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Mon 22 Apr 1912, Page 5
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