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Daily Telegraph (1913) FIRE ABOARD THE "CALIFORNIAN"
A telegram from Vera Cruz reports that the Leyland liner "Californian" took fire in that port and that the outbreak was not extinguished until much damage had been done to the cargo by fire and water. The fire originated in holds number four...
3rd July 1913  
The Syracuse Herald (1912) FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS
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20th April 1912  
Irish Independent (2009) WITNESSES SOUGHT AFTER TITANIC PUB BLAZE
GARDAI have renewed their appeal for witnesses after a fire caused up to €1.5m damage to a bar set up by a Lotto winner.The fire broke out at 9.30pm on April 26 and caused extensive damage to the Titanic Bar and Restaurant in Cobh, C...
5th May 2009  
The Stevens Point Journal (1912) FATED SHIPS HOLD AFIRE
Fireman Details How Flames Broke Out In Coal Bunkers After Leaving Southampton and Steamship Was Rushed Westward So That Blaze Might Be Extinguished in New York Port. ...
27th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) DRESSMAKERS' QUICK FLIGHT
Patrons, Too, Leave Without Ceremony When Fire Threatens --- A small but spectacular fire at 19 and 21 West Thirty-sixth Street shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon caused considerable excitement on Fifth Avenue among...
17th February 1912  
New York Times (1939) MRS. MADELEINE DICK LOSES HOME BY FIRE
$50,000 Winter House Destroyed---$100,800 Jewelry Stolen --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec. 4---Mrs. Madeleine F. Dick’s Winter residence at Dixie Plantation, twenty miles from here on the Stono ...
5th December 1939  
  (2007) THE GENERAL SLOCUM : THE HORROR OF FIRE AT SEA
21st June 2007  
Worcestershire Chronicle (1912) FIRE UP HARD
''Down in the engine-room,'' said John Thompson, one of the surviving firemen, in New York, ''we understood that they wanted the Titanic to make a record run. The orders to us were to fire up as hard as we could. At time the liner made 77 revolutions...
27th April 1912  
New York Times (1925) CLEARS HOTEL MEN IN PALM BEACH FIRE
Florida Commissioner After Inquiry Says That They Provided All Necessary Safeguards --- GUESTS’ LOSS $2,000,000 --- Thousands of Dollars in Scattered Belongings Reclaimed---First of Victims Arrive HERE --- Special to ...
21st March 1925  
Brooklyn Daily Times (1912) WYCOFF VAN DERHOEF HAD BIG CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
Wycoff Van Derhoef, of 109 Joralemon street, was one of the wealthiest and best known residents of the Eastern District and Secretary of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Van Derhoef was on his way from a visit to his sister in Euro...
16th April 1912  
Independent (2008) TITANIC DOOMED BY FIRE RAGING BELOW DECKS,SAYS NEW THEORY
A new slant on and old theory...
13th April 2008  
New York Times (1893) FIREMEN OVERCOME BY SMOKE
Stubborn Fire in the Cellar of 679 Broadway---One Man in the Hospital --- For two hours last evening firemen fought a fire in the sub-cellar of the five-story building 679 Broadway, adjoining the Broadway Central Hotel. Dense, stifling ...
7th November 1893  
New York Times (1925) OBITUARY NOTES [LAURA VAN DER HOEF]
Mrs. LAURA ELLEN NEWELL VAN DERHOEF, widow of Wyckoff Van Derhoef, who was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, died yesterday at her home, 15 Clark Street, Brooklyn. Her husband was Secretary of the Williamsburg Fire Insurance Company in Man...
18th March 1925  
Newark Star (1912) SERVICE FOR TITANIC VICTIM
RAHWAY, April 23---Tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock a solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church for Arthur Keefe, who lost his life in the wreck of the Titanic. The service will be attended by Rahway Aerie No. 1...
24th April 1912  
Brooklyn Daily Times (1912) STILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE WYCKOFF VON DERHOEF HAS PERISHED
President Frederick H. Way, of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company, was not inclined to discuss the fate of Wyckoff Von Derhoef, the Secretary of the company, who is reported to be among the missing of the Titanic passengers. Mr. Way is st...
19th April 1912  
  CAPTAIN SMITH WAS TUSSAUDS EXHIBIT
1919 Madame Tussaud & Sons Catalogue entry 27. Commander Edward J. Smith, R.N.R., born 1853. Commander Smith was Captain of the White Star liner ''Titanic'' which went down in the Atlantic on 14 April, 1912, during her maiden voyage t...
   
Rahway Daily Record (1912) SERVICES FOR ARTHUR KEEFE
Solemn Requiem High Mass Is Celebrated At St. Mary's Chrch Today ---------- In memory of Arthur Keefe, who went down when the steamer Titanic foundered, a solemn requiem high mass was celebrated in St. Mary's church this morning...
24th April 1912  
New York Times (1919) 25 DEAD, 100 HURT IN BIG EXPLOSION AT CEDAR RAPIDS
Fire Follows, Causing $1,500,000 Damage to the Douglas Starch Works --- SCORES ARE STILL MISSING --- Company of Soldiers Hold Back Relatives of Workers and Assist Rescuers --- CAUSE REMAINS UNKNOWN --- Windo...
23rd May 1919  
  (2005) OCEANIC
White Star Line Not only was Oceanic operated by the same company that operated Titanic, she was also directly associated with Titanic at the beginning of her maiden voyage as well as during the first weeks following...
11th July 2005  
Barking Chronicle (1912) THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING
We learn that Mr and Mrs R.J. Rogers, of 11 Southchurch Gardens, East Ham, have a son and a nephew amongst the crew of the Titanic, the deplorable sinking of which has created such widespread consternation...
19th April 1912  
  (2004) TITANIC (1888)
Smith & Service (1888-1903) Port of Registry: Belfast , Ireland Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Black ...
22nd November 2004  
New York Times (1919) 12 DEAD IN CEDAR RAPIDS
But Searchers Still Hunt for 20 More Missing --- CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 23---With twelve bodies recovered from the ruins of the Douglas Starch Company's plant, wrecking crews today and tonight searched the debris for the...
24th May 1919  
Semi Weekly Iowegian (1912) FRENCH CHILDREN MAY BE HIS - FRANK LEFEBRE GOES TO NEW YORK FROM MYSTIC TO IDENTIFY TWO UNKNOWN FRENCH CHILDREN
Believing that two unknown French children saved from the Titanic are his, Frank Lefebre has started from Mystic for New York to identify them. The two little tots are in the hands of Miss Margaret Hays, a survivor of the Titanic, who took them in...
23rd April 1912  
New York Times (1923) R. W. DANIEL WED TO MRS. CAMPBELL
Vice President of Liberty National Bank Marries Daughter of W. C. Durant in Newark *** Robert W. Daniel of 19 West Sixty-ninth Street, Vice President of the Liberty National Bank of this city, and Mrs. Marjorie Durant Campbell of 635 P...
7th December 1923  
The Times (1934) THE LOSS OF THE MORRO CASTLE
FIRE DISASTER AT SEA AMERICAN LINER OVERWHELMED - 180 LIVES LOST About 180 people are believed to have lost their lives when the SS Morro Castle, bound from Havana to New York, was destroyed by fir...
10th September 1934  
New York Times (1912) STRAUS MEMORIAL MEETING
Mayor Gaynor, Bishop Gailor, and Andrew Carnegie Will Take Part in It --- A civic memorial meeting for Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus will be held in Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon, May 12, at 4 o'clock. Justice Samuel Greenbaum, President ...
4th May 1912  
La Voix du Nord (1972) MME BOURLARD, LAST FRENCH SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, PASSED AWAY AT 88 IN OUR CITY
Mme Bourlard who nearly met her death during two tragically famous accidents, passed away at the Sully home for elderly people in Béthune; she was going to turn 89 years old. Born in Hersin Coupigny in August 1884, the young Berthe Leroy was t...
8th July 1972  
Washington Times (1912) FOUR ARE SAVED IN PHILADELPHIA FAMILY
NEW YORK, April 19---William E. Carter, Mrs. William E. Carter, William T. Carter, and Lucille Carter, all of Philadelphia, were saved. All showed evidence of the terrible strain they had undergone. Mrs. Carter was a nervous wreck, but she bore up br...
19th April 1912  
  ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE
The Hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" was one of those sung at the hymn service lead by Revd. Ernest Courtenay Carter. William Whiting (1825-1878) wrote the lyrics, in 1860, as a poem for a student about to sail for America. T...
   
  MR WILLIAM TAGGART – DELIVERY CREW TRIMMER
Mr William Taggart was born in Belfast in 1889 and began work with the Harland & Wolff yard as an apprentice. He was one of the workers who helped to build Titanic from day one. He had also been a crewmember of the Olympic. When the Titanic was deli...
   
  (1912) CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER.
RMS Carpathia Cunard SS Co. Ltd., At Sea April 27th, 1912 At 12.35 am (ship's time) April 15th (Monday), 1912, I was called by the 1st Officer in company with Marconi operator and informed that the White St...
27th April 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS
New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or...
20th April 1912  
Sunday Press (1952) TITANIC STORY BY CAVAN SURVIVOR
Sunday Press:  Titanic Goes Down- But now comes a story within two stories for the local people have the firm belief that a little earth from the grave of Saint Mogue will, if carried with you, protect you from death by drowning, fire, in air or r...
21st September 1952  
  (1929) GOD MOVES ON THE WATER
Blind Willie Johnson was born in Marlin, Texas c.1902. A Gospel singer and guitarist, he recorded just 30 pieces at a variety of locations between 1927 and 1930. He was accompanied on some songs by his wife Angeline. During the depression reverted...
11th December 1929  
ET Research (2002) TITANIC'S ROCKETS
HOW MANY rockets were fired by the Titanic? "Eight!" It’s one of those facts we have unquestioningly received; an answer that comes automatically from the sam...
15th March 2002  
ET Comment (2006) HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE.
The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible...
6th November 2006  
  (1938) DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE
Dorsey Murdock Dixon (14 October 1897 - 17 April 1968) - Guitar, Vocals Howard Dixon (19 June 1903 - 24 March 1961) - Steel Guitar Dorsey Dixon and his younger brother Howard were born in the South Carolina mill town of Darlington. Th...
25th January 1938  
Belfast Telegraph TITANIC-LINKED SS NOMADIC RETURNS TO BELFAST BIRTHPLACE
The historic SS Nomadic, a tender that ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic, has been moved back to the place where she was built almost 100 years ago. Led by Belfast Harbour and Titanic Quarter, the process has been more than 12...
   
  (1972) ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY
Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his  life. In  February this ye...
18th November 1972  
New York Times (1912) LOST TWO IN IROQUOIS FIRE
Daughters of Rescued Titanic Passenger Killed in Chicago Holocaust --- Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Ill., April 16---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, wife of L. A. Hippach, manufacturer, of 7,352 Sheridan Road, and Miss ...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1925) LORD RIBBLESDALE DEAD; LINE EXTINCT
Widow Was the First Wife of the Late John Jacob Astor, Formerly Miss Willing --- BARON LOST SONS IN WAR --- Aristocratic Appearance Drew Compliment From King Edward---Lady Oxford Kin by Marriage --- Copyright...
22nd October 1925  
 

 
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