Chicago Daily News

Chicago Daily News CLAIMED TO BE THE OLDEST SURVIVNG MEMBER OF THE CREW OF THE TITANIC
Deaths Elsewhere Jacob Gibbons, 89, who claimed to be the oldest survivng member of the crew of the Titanic; an engine room worker who was one of the last to leave it when it sank; in Studland, England....
2nd March 1965
Chicago Daily News CHARLES WILLIAMS OBITUARY
Williams—Charles Williams passed away Oct. 27, beloved husband of Lois Williams, fond father of Eugene, Ninian, John, Dorothy, Jean and Hilda. Funeral services Wed., Oct. 30th, at 2 pm, from residence, 5524 Lakewood av. Interment Rosehill ce...
29th October 1935
Chicago Daily News SAVED BY MRS. ASTOR FROM DEATH IN OCEAN
Ernest Person, Titanic Passenger, Arrives at Indiana Harbor And Relates Rescue Struggled in the Water Declares Widow of Millionaire New Yorker Begged Crew to Drag Him Into Lifeboat ...
27th April 1912
Chicago Daily News TITANIC RESCUED HERE
TITANIC RESCUED HERE Five Left of Party of Ten from Sweden Arrive on Way to Pacific Coast Tells of their Escapes Companions Lost After Entering Li...
24th April 1912
Chicago Daily News ICE KEPT AID FROM TITANIC
Ice Kept Aid from Titanic [By The Associated Press] Maasluis, Holland, April 23—Masses of ice prevented the Russian steamer Birma, which left New York for Rotterdam and Libau April 11, from reaching the Titanic in repl...
23rd April 1912
Chicago Daily News MELLEN IN TITANIC STATEMENT
Offers Evidence as to Time Officials Knew the Vessel Was Lost [by The Associated Pres.]   New Haven, Conn., April 23—In connection with the question at the time at which the White S...
23rd April 1912
Chicago Daily News KARL MIDSTJO AND OTHERS ARE TO BE ASKED ABOUT RUMORS OF DISCRIMINATION
Third cabin passengers on the lost Titanic who arrive in Chicago during the next few days will be met by representatives of the Immigrants’ Protective league and closely interrogated in regard to treatment received at the hands of officers a...
22nd April 1912
Chicago Daily News BOY FAILS TO TAKE SHIP
After searching the list of survivors in vain for the name of her brother, John Meehan, Miss Mary Meehan, 4458 Drexel boulevard, was overjoyed last night when she received a cablegram from her mother in Ireland saying that the boy had no...
19th April 1912
Chicago Daily News SEEKS NEWS OF BROTHER-IN-LAW
“Is my brother-in-law alive? His name is C. Joughin, and he was a baker on the Titanic.” This question was asked of The Daily News to-day by G. Woodward, 2520 Washington boulevard. Names of members of the crew of the Tit...
19th April 1912
Chicago Daily News CHICAGOAN'S KIN TITANIC STEWARD
A brother of William J. Stroud, 217 East 31st street, was a steward on the ill fated Titanic. Today Mrs. Stroud, sobbing tearfully, begged for news of her brother-in-law, Harry Stroud, of Southampton, England. “If Harry is dead,...
18th April 1912
Chicago Daily News MESABA WARNED DOOMED TITANIC OF ICEBERGS
Mesaba Reports That It Warned The Doomed Ocean Vessel of Presence of Icebergs in Vicinity and Got "Thanks" ...
18th April 1912
Chicago Daily News ASKED TO MEET TWO WOMEN
Green Bay, Wisconsin., April 17--A wireless message from the steamer Carpathia, received here this afternoon by V. I. Minahan, requests that he meet Mrs. W. E. Minahan and Miss Daisy Minahan at New York city on the arrival of the steamer. ...
17th April 1912
Chicago Daily News FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY
FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY      Willaim Haines, a publisher, father of Mrs. Marion Smith, who was reported rescued from the doomed vessel, was prostrated with grief when ...
17th April 1912
Chicago Daily News “EARS” OF TITANIC FAIL
Local Hydrographic Experts Tell of Device on Bows to Catch Vibrations. Iceberg’s Drift Noiseless Operator of Submarine Phone Probably Crushed At His Post When Prow Was Smashed A ship’...
17th April 1912
Chicago Daily News LA TOURAINE IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE TITANIC
Havre, France, April 16--La Touraine ws in communication with the Titanic the afternoon of April 12.  The Presse Nouvelle quotes the captain of La Touraine as saying that he sent a wireless  dispatch reporting the presence of icebergs...
16th April 1912
Chicago Daily News LEARNS OF RELATIVE'S RESCUE
Daniel Tobin of Denver, Col, now in Chicago and a guest at the Palmer house, passed most of the morning in the offices of the White Star line seeking information in regard to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Brown, also of Denver. When finally a report...
16th April 1912
Chicago Daily News TITANIC : NAMES NOT ON SAILING LIST
List of survivors whose names do not appear on the original sailing list, probably includes a large number of those who took the ship at Cherbourg...
16th April 1912
Chicago Daily News LINER PARISIAN ASSISTS IN TASK
  Another liner, the Parisian, of the Allan company, which sailed from Glasgow for Halifax April 6, is close at hand and assisting in the work of rescue. The Baltic and Virginian also are near the scene and the Olympic apparently ...
15th April 1912
Chicago Daily News PASSENGER WED A CHICAGO GIRL
Mrs. Nelson L. Barnes Discusses Trip of J. Clinch Smith J. Clinch Smith, artist, reported to be on board the Titanic, is the husband of a former Chicago girl, Bertha Barnes, sister of Nelson L. Barnes, a broker in th...
15th April 1912
Chicago Daily News LINER OLYMPIC HITS A WRECK
Ship Due at Southampton on Its Way To Belfast for Repairs. Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 27---The White Star liner Olympic, which left New York on Wednesday and was due in Southampton today, stru...
27th February 1912
 

 
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