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The Toronto World	C. M. HAYS' CAREER When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer. Mr. Hays had been in ...	17th April 1912
San Francisco Examiner	HERMAN KLABER ON BOARD THE TITANIC Native of San Francisco, in Business in Portland, Titanic Passenger Herman Klaber of Portland, one of the biggest hop merchants on the Pacific Coast, was a passenger on the Titanic. Klaber was born in San Francisco, went throu...	16th April 1912
Globe and Mail	LAST REMAINING CP STEAMSHIP COMING HOME TO CANADA The SS Keewatin, the last surviving Canadian Pacific steamship in the world, is coming home to Canada, more than 100 years after it was launched in 1907 at the height of the Edwardian era. The elegant ship, with its oak and mahogany dining room and stained-glass windows, ferried passengers and freight from Georgian Bay to Lake Superior for more than 50 years, until it was decommissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1965....	14th October 2011
	PRINCESS SOPHIA OFF TAKU GLACIER Canadian Pacific's liner Princess Sophia is seen off Taku Glacier in this 1913 photograph....	1913
New York Times	CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, has been considered one of the most brilliant and successful of railroad of...	16th April 1912
Gare Maritime	THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED: ONE BLACK WEEK IN 1875 Jim Kalafus The double tragedy of the Pacific and the City of Waco...	28th June 2007
The Times	MR. CHARLES M. HAYS MISSING (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) --- MONTREAL, APRIL 18 --- A message by wireless telegraphy from the Carpatlhia was received at the offices of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in Montreal this morning signed ...	19th April 1912
New York Times	TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ...	1st May 1915
Newark Evening News	WORD RECEIVED HERE OF C. M. HAYS'S RESCUE Among those well known in this city and suburbs whose name has been flashed as among the rescued from the Titanic, is Charles Melville Hays, president of the Grand Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway companies, of Canada, of Canada, a nephew of...	16th April 1912
Hampshire Independent	IN MEMORIUM Barratt, Arthur. Dearly beloved son of Arthur and Margaret Barrett, 164 Northumberland Road, Aged 15 years.[Also 4th May 1912, also Southern Daily Echo 1st and 4th May 1912]...	1st May 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION Rood, Mr. Hugh Roscoe. Missing. Ritz Hotel, London, W. Black Moore & Co., 5 East India House, London, E.C. Hotel Regina, Paris. Seattle. Travelling to USA. Vice president of The Pacific Creosoting Company. Cabin A32....
Tulsa World	ALL ABOARD FOR ONE TITANIC CELEBRATION She left Southampton April 10, 1912, bound for New York, with stops at Cherbourg and Queens-town â€” now Cobh, in southern Cork County, Ireland â€” in between. Before she sank famously about 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the RMS Titanic served, well, the meal of a lifetime....	15th April 2010
The San Francisco Call	SEATTLE MAN ON LINER SEATTLE, April 15 - Hugh R. Rood, vice president and general manager of the Pacific Creosoting company, whose name appears in the list of the Titanic's passengers, is a wealthy Seattle man who had been spending the winter on the continent w...	16th April 1912
ca	HALIFAX EXPLOSION VESSEL'S REMNANTS LIE IN FALKLANDS Built in 1889 by White Star, the same company that built the Titanic, it was first called the SS Runic, then the Tampican, and transported passengers on the Atlantic. In 1912, it was sold to Norway's South Pacific Whaling Company. The Imo amazingly survived its only terrible accident in Halifax but, with its new name, lasted only a few years....	6th December 2011
Southern Daily Echo	DEATH NOTICE Stagg, John Henry. Late of SS New York, Age 37, Dearly Beloved Husband of Beatrice Stagg, 66 Commercial Road, Deeply Mourned by His Sorrowing Wife and Daughter. Liverpool Papers Please Copy. [Also from Southern Daily Echo 11th, ...	10th May 1912
Daily News	LOCALS WITH TITANIC TIES CALL MOODY GARDENS Moody Gardens is looking for Southeast Texas and Southern Louisiana locals with connections to passengers or crew members who sailed aboard Titanic almost 96 years ago. Approaching the 96th anniversary of the ship's maiden voyage on April 10, Moody Gardens is collecting local links to the historic liner....	2nd April 2008
	PRINCESS SOPHIA'S MAST MARKS HER GRAVE For a few weeks after the disaster, the Princess Sophia's mast marked her grave near Vanderbilt Reef. SomeÂ accounts claim that a winter storm toppled the last visible trace of the liner,...
Laguna Beach Post	TITANIC SURVIVOR MEMORIAL SERVICE Lilian Minahan Obituary...	25th January 1962
	QUEEN MARY AT SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS A panoramic view of Southampton Docks circa 1956, with RMS Queen Mary alongside. The small shunting locomotive visible in the centre of the picture was a former USA Transportation Corps "switcher", one of several that had been sold...	1956
New Mexican	BEMIS: LATEST LUSITANIA EXPEDITION WAS 'VERY USEFUL' Gregg Bemis arrived home to Santa Fe on Thursday night after spending two weeks off the southern coast of Ireland, where he explored the ruins of a ship sunk in the prelude to World War I. Bemis, a 79-year-old venture capitalist, estimated he has taken 30 trips to the area since he became interested in the Lusitania in 1969. In 1982, he became the sole owner of the wreck 300 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean, about 12 miles south of County Cork in Irish territorial waters. ...	14th August 2011
San Francisco Bulletin	LOCAL MINING MAN IS ON TITANIC'S DEATH LIST Colonel John Weir, a well known mining man of the Pacific Coast, was one of the victims of the Titanic horror. It has been learned by his friends that he took passage on the ill fated steamer on an unexpected trip to California, probably on urgent bu...	20th April 1912
New York Times	FIERMONTE BUYS ESTATE Husband of Former Mrs. Astor Gets Southern Plantation --- CHARLESTON, S. C., Nov. 30 (AP)---The purchase of Dixie Plantations, a 600-acre estate on a high bluff overlooking Stono River, by Enzo Fiemonte of New York was announced here t...	1st December 1935
San Francisco Chronicle	DR. DODGE AND HIS FAMILY ARE SAFE Page 1 Assessor Sends Two Messages From Carpathia to His Son Here-- Mayor Wires Reply Relieving the deep anxiety of his relatives and thousands of friends in this city, Dr. Washington Dodge, Assessor of San Francisco, ...	18th April 1912
Daily Telegraph	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
Bay Area News	15 TONS OF TITANIC ON DISPLAY IN CALIFORNIA LATER this week a huge piece of history is expected to be suspended over downtown San Francisco.A 15-ton section of the Titanic's hull - the largest piece of the sunken luxury liner ever recovered - will be lifted four stories by crane and installed at the Metreon as part of the show "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" opening June 10.The hull, most recently on view in Las Vegas, is sitting in a Southern California warehouse, waiting to be delivered to San Francisco by flatbed truck. It's part of an exhibit of hundreds of items recovered from the ship, which sank April 15, 1912, killing 1,522 of its 2,227 passengers. ...	16th May 2006
Titanic Research	A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Gavin Murphy How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters....	9th July 2002
New York Times	DYING MAN'S SON FOUND Potter Coming from Alaska to Atlantic City to See His Father --- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 28---For more than a month the family of Col. Thomas Potter, who is dying at his seaside home here, has been searching for his favorite ...	29th October 1910
The San Francisco Call	WALTER M. CLARK A PASSENGER Walter M. Clark of Los Angeles, son of J. Ross Clark, the railroad official of that city and a well known figure in San Francisco as well as in the southern metropolis, was a passenger on the Titanic and supposedly is among those lost. ...	16th April 1912
Montreal Gazette	HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY Railwayman's family passes along prized artifacts to museum Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail Font: * * * * ALAN HUSTAK, The Gazette Published: Thursday, August 03, 2006 Valuable family memorabilia once owned by industrialist Charles Melville Hays was donated to the railway museum in St. Constant yesterday by his great-granddaughter to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-born railwayman's birth.Until Hays drowned in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, he was one of Canada's leading magnates. As president of the Grand Trunk Railway, Hays was the architect of a second transcontinental railway line to rival Canadian Pacific, and the person responsible for building the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa and the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg....	3rd August 2006
Toronto Daily Star	JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER Canadian Press Despatch New York, April 19.---Col Gracie, U. S. A. who was the sole survivor of those who went down with the Titanic, and was rescued, gave this remarkable statement last night:...	19th April 1912
Brooklyn Daily Times	BROTHER OF BROOKLYNITE, A PRIEST, WAS ON TITANIC Two of the visitors to the White Star line offices were Laurence M. Byles, Vice President of the W. E. Byles Company, Ltd., of 90 Wall street, Manhattan, and his brother, W. Hunter Byles, of Omaha. They went to inquire as to the safety of another bro...	17th April 1912
New York Times	A. A. STEWART LEFT $276,974 Titanic Victim's Estate Goes to His Widow and Daughter --- An appraisal of the estate of Albert A. Stewart, who perished on the Titanic, was transmitted yesterday to the Surrogates' Court under transfer tax proceedings. Mr. Stewart was f...	1st February 1913
	NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS The Los Angeles Times of April 17th 1912 stated that he was a brother of E. D. Rood of El Centro, California. The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) of April 13th 1992 stated that he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Pacific Coast Creosotin...
The Mercury (Hobart)	THE TITANIC'S COMMANDER BRISBANE, April 24 For some time past there has been in Brisbane Captain Anning, who at one time was commander of the White Star liner Persic, trading to Australia. He said, in...	25th April 1912
New York Times	ADRIATIC GOT ON A MUD BANK White Star Liner Stuck Fast Five Hours Till a Tug Hauled Her Off --- The big White Star Line steamship Adriatic, incoming with many cabin passengers, spent five hours early yesterday morning on a mud bank on the so...	5th November 1909
Newark Evening News	SURVIVOR VISITS MONTCLAIR One of the survivors of the Titanic, Miss Edwina Trout, of Bath, England, is the guest of Miss Jennie Holwell, of 209 Bellevue avenue, Upper Montclair. “I can never forget the experience,” said Miss Trout today. “As we pulled away fro...	20th April 1912
New York Times	OLYMPIC CARRIES PIRRIE'S BODY HOME White Star Liner Was Biggest Ship Ever Built in Viscount’s Yards --- DIED ON WAY FROM TROPICS --- Great Shipbuilder, Near Death, Insisted on Being Carried Out to See Panama Canal --- The body of Viscount Pirr...	14th June 1924
	MANSION HOUSE FUND ETC. Wardner, Fred Albert. Lived at 45 Endle Street, Chapel, Southampton. Occupation - Fireman. 39 years old. (Born in Hampshire). (Wife: Nellie). (Death Notice Southern Daily Echo 30th April 1912 an...
New York Times	WILL PAY A BET TO MORGAN Gen. Gill to Give Him a Fine Maryland Dinner To-night --- Special to The New York Times --- BALTIMORE, Md., Jan 14---Gen. John Gill, while returning from Eur...	15th January 1910
New York Times	ISMAY IS TO QUIT Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ...	1st January 1913
La Voix du Nord	SHE NEARLY DROWNED IN THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC... André Pelletier ...and almost was burned to death in a Florida hotel Mme Bourlard, 80, now lives peaceful days in Béthune Sunday May 9th and Monday May 10th, 1965 Mme Bourlard, who was born in Hersin-Coupigny, near Béthune, 80 ...	9th May 1965
	RIO CRUISE BROCHURE - MAP AND ITINERARY CRUISE PROGRAM New York . . . . Sail on Feb. 5,Â 1 p.m. Nassau, Bahamas . . . Feb. 7 A forenoon to see the island, its fashionable hotels and splendid bathing beaches. Port of Spain, Trinidad. . . Feb. 9 & 10 An afterno...	1937
Chicago American	TITANIC SAILOR SAVED BY MOUNT TEMPLE LIFEBOAT The Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple, en route from Antwerp to Boston, was so close to the sinking Titanic on the night of the disaster that the passengers heard the creaking of the chains as lifeboats were lowered, heard the cries of passe...	25th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	LAST MALE SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES One of the last known survivors of the Titanic, Michel Navratil, has died in southern France at the age of 92. He was just three years old when the ship hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sank shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912. ...	2nd February 2001
	WALTER BISHOP INFORMATION (Death Notice - Southern Daily Echo 30th April 1912, and Hampshire Independent 4th May 1912) Bishop, Walter Alexander Under Castleman, Edward ...
Standard Union	FUNERAL OF HERO OF LOST TITANIC Sante Reghini, Who Gave His Life for a Woman, Buried from Sister’s Home --- WAITED ON DECK FOR DEATH --- Services for George Nasser, Another Victim, To-morrow --- The funeral of one of the victims of the Tita...	4th May 1912
	THEODOOR DE MULDER'S CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To Be Given To The Person Naturalized No. 3637076 CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP Petition No. 71418 Personal description of holder as of date of naturalizatio...	5th December 1932
La Voix du Nord	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
Elizabeth Daily Journal	ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC News of Relatives Anxiously Awaited by Families In This City ---------- William E. Carter, 37 years old, of Philadelphia, a nephew of Joseph W. Carter, of 43 South Broad street, a well-known Elizabeth resident, is one of the pas...	16th April 1912
New York Times	LORD PIRRIE DIES ON SHIP BOUND HERE Head of Harland & Wolff, Shipbuilders, Stricken With Pneumonia --- ON TOUR OF SOUTH AMERICA --- A Leader in the Formation of the International Mercantile Marine --- Viscount Pirrie, head of the famous firm of...	9th June 1924
Voyage	TUNISIAN John P. Eaton Eastbound, St. John, New Brunswick to Liverpool. On 10 April reported heavy ice in the vicinity of an area that was later the disaster site. Port of Registry: Glasgow ...	12th November 2005
	HOLD FAMILY INFORMATION In this article, to avoid confusion, the Stephen Hold lost on Titanic is referred to as Stephen jnr and his father as Stephen snr. Porthoustock in the parish of St Keverne is a small fishing village located close to the southern tip of...
The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882)	SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes...
New York Times	SEALBY DEFENDS ISMAY Tribute from Republic’s Captain, Who Served Father and Son 25 Years --- Special to The New York Times ...	22nd April 1912
Gare Maritime	SWALLOWED IN 14 MINUTES Gavin Murphy Story of the Empress of Ireland whose loss resulted in the deaths of more passengers than the Titanic disaster....	20th June 2001
Indianapolis Star	TITANIC VOYAGE TOUCHED INDIANA PASSENGERS' LIVES Thirteen Titanic passengers had Hoosier connections. Here are six of their stories....	23rd September 2010
Washington Herald	MAJ. BUTT IS PAID TRIBUTE BY MASONS Scottish Rite Order Respects Memory of Aid to President Reported Drowned --- The ceremonies incident to the conferring of the thirtieth degree of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, last night upon a large class of candi...	18th April 1912
	IN MEMORY OF THE TITANIC CATASTROPHE Henry Tiedemann Grand Memorial Fantasie Words and Music by Henry Tiedemann Published 1912 by the Southern Music Company, Dallas, Texas Listen to this Piece...	1912
Philadelphia Inquirer	J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found dead, his wrists and throat cut, in a parked automobile near the P....	23rd September 1945
Philadelphia Inquirer	JOHN B. "JACK" THAYER III:OBITUARY J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found d...	23rd September 1945
New York Times	LADY PIRRIE DEAD; HEADED SHIP FIRM Widow of Belfast Builder of Many Vessels Succeeded Him in Control of Concern --- ADVISED HIM FOR YEARS --- He Had Often Publicly Paid High Tribute to Her Assistance---Daughter of Professor --- LONDON, June 19...	20th June 1935
New York Times	GRISCOM IS NO LONGER HEAD OF SHIP COMBINE J. Bruce Ismay is Chosen for Its President --- FREE HAND FOR THE NEW MAN --- His Predecessor Remains in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors---Ismay to Live in New York --- Clement A. Griscom ...	24th February 1904
New York Times	COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR Wealthy Society Man and an Author and Inventor as Well --- Col. John Jacob Astor, the American head of the Astor family, has held a prominent place in the life of this city for many years. Not alone has he been a conspicuous club member...	16th April 1912
San Francisco Chronicle	GIVES LIFE FOR LOVE OF HUSBAND Relatives Here Believe Wife of Isidor Straus Refused to Leave His Side. That her devotion to her husband, refusing to leave the ship unless he accompanied her from the ill-fated Titanic, cost the life of Mrs. Isidor...	17th April 1912
New York Times	EXPLORER RICE WEDS MRS. G. D. WIDENER Law Requiring Five Days' Delay After Securing License Waived by a Court Order --- PLANS FOR SECRECY FAIL --- Bishop Lawrence Officiates at Ceremony in Emmanuel Church Vestry Witnessed by Twelve Persons --- Sp...	7th October 1915
New York Times	HAROLD SANDERSON, SHIPPING MAN, DIES Former Head of International Merchant Marine Stricken While in North of Italy --- DIRECTED WHITE STAR LINE --- Came From a Family of Leaders in Maritime Matters Both Here and in England --- Special Cable to T...	27th February 1932
Washington Times	ARCHIBALD BUTT, MILITARY AIDE TO PRESIDENT TAFT Major Archibald de Grafenreid Willingham Butt, who was on the Titanic, was returning to Washington on sick leave, and expected to resume his duties as military aide to President Taft at once. Suffering from that mild poisoning which follows an unendi...	16th April 1912
Titanic Review	TITANIC SCANDAL: THE TRIAL OF THE MOUNT TEMPLE Charles A. Haas ...	5th February 2010
New York Times	FRIENDS OF MAJOR BUTT WOULD ERECT A MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM AT HIS ALMA MATER, SEWANEE, ... Friends of Major Butt Would Erect a Memorial Gymnasium at His Alma Mater, Sewanee, to Whose Endowment Fund J. P. Morgan Has Promised $150,000 --- High on the Cumberland plateau, midway between Nashville and Chatanooga, [sic] in ...	9th June 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	THE SAGE FAMILY LOST In the appalling calamity which befell the Titanic on Monday - (pages 7 and 8) - a toll of eleven lives was exacted from Peterborough, and remarkable to say, all in one family. These were Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone Street, an...	April 1912
Titanic Research	THE INFORMATIVE 'MORNING NEWS' Senan Molony TWO years after the Titanic, and Captain Lord of the Californian was still pleading his case. There follows a freshly resurrected article – important for the historical record – published ...	12th February 2009
	THE STRANGE MYSTERIES OF MOVIE MAKER WILLIAM HARBECK John Lamoreau William Harbeck was one of the very first moving picture film makers. In 1911 his film of southern Alaska became the center of a major story. American railroad tycoon J P Morgan and Meyer Guggenheim bought up claims for large tracts of land in Alaska...