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Worcester Telegram TO FIND BODIES
The Parisian steamed through much he??? field of ice looking for passengers from the ill-fated ship. No life rafts or bodies were sighted among the floating wreckage, which covered a large area. The Parisian reports ...
17th April 1912
Cork Examiner ECHO OF DISASTER : BOAT PICKED UP BODIES ON BOARD
New York, Wednesday The White Star Line has received a marconigram from the Oceanic, dated May 13th, latitude 39.56, longitude 47.01, reporting that she had picked up a collapsible boat of the Titan...
16th May 1912
North American NORTH WALES VICTIMS OF THE TITANIC ARRIVE
NORTH WALES, Pa., May 7---The bodies of Austin Van Billiard and one of his children, lost on the Titanic, which were picked up at sea by the Mackay-Bennett, reached here today and will be buried on Wednesday from the residence of his father, Burgess ...
8th May 1912
St. Paul Daily News TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER
- Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T...
17th May 1912
Newark Star GO TO SEEK BODIES OF ROEBLING AND BLACKWELL
TRENTON, April 24---Believing that they may be able to recognize the bodies of Washington A. Roebling, 2d, and Stephen W. Blackwell, Trenton victims of the Titanic horror, among those recovered and taken to Halifax by the morgue ship, Karl G. Roeblin...
25th April 1912
Halifax Evening Mail THE SEARCH AT SEA FOR TITANIC'S DEAD
THE STORY IN DETAIL OF THE MACKAY-BENNETT'S SEARCH FOR BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS ...
30th April 1912
FILM OF THE MACKAY BENNETT RETURNING TO HALIFAX WITH BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS   FILM OF THE MACKAY BENNETT RETURNING TO HALIFAX WITH BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS
The cable ship MacKay Bennett returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the morning of 30 April 1912. On her deck were coffins, her crew recovered 306 bodies and brought 190 back to harbour. The rest were buried at sea. ...
30th April 1912
Worcester Telegram BODY OF W.C.PORTER REACHES WORCESTER
Identified at Hallifax by Waldo E. Sessions who will have charge of the funeral which will be saturday. The body of Walter C. Porter, 10 Knox street of S. Porter & Co., last manufacturers, 25 Union street who met his death in the Titan...
1912
  60 OF TITANIC DEAD TO BE BURIED TO-DAY
Speedy Interment of Many Unidentified Bodies in Halifax Becomes Necessary --- SEARCH IN MORGUE KEEPS UP --- Funeral Ship Minia, Which Picks Up 15, Ordered to Report No...
1912
Chicago Daily Tribune HORRORS OF TITANIC HAUNT GIRL ILL AFTER HER ESCAPE
Page 1 Miss Anna Kelly, with Chicago Cousins, Beset by Scenes of Wreck and Weakened by Exposure A nervous wreck as the result of her experiences on the Titanic, Miss Anna Kelly is at the home of her cousins, Anna and Ma...
25th April 1912
SILVA LETTER FROM CUNARD LINE   SILVA LETTER FROM CUNARD LINE
Dear Madam,In reply to yours of the 26th- inst. we beg to say that we greatly regret being unable to give you any information in reference to Mr Silva and can only state that up to the present time there has been no indication that any of t...
29th May 1915 Gare Maritime
Asbury Park Evening Press PENSION FAMILIES OF LOST CLERKS
Congress would give $10,000 to Each---Mrs. Gwinn of This City Would Benefit ---------- WASHINGTON, April 23---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the...
23rd April 1912
Salford City Reporter MR. ARTHUR GEE
A wireless message from the Mackay Bennett published by the White Star Line in New York shows that among the bodies recovered and identified is that of Mr. Arthur Gee (who is well known at the Height) of St Annes....
16th May 1912
New York Times MINIA REPORTS TWO BODIES
Ship Returning to Halifax---Patrick O'Keefe's Story of Rescue --- The White Star Line agent at Halifax wired the New York office yesterday that the Captain of the steamship Minia had sent the following message: ["]Returne...
4th May 1912
New York Times 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
Elizabeth Daily Journal RECOVER MARCH'S BODY
On board the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, whicn [sic] is due in Halifax to-morrow with the bodies of nearly 200 dead recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic are the remains of John S. Marsh, of Newark, father of Mrs. John A. Corwin, of 261 Stiles st...
29th April 1912
THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE Gare Maritime THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE
Jim Kalafus
It has been almost 72 years since the Morro Castle, gutted, afire, and carrying the bodies of at least six luckless passengers and crew members was driven ashore, with visual impact worthy of a Hollywood production, just to the north of the new Convention Center at Asbury Park, New Jersey. ...
21st July 2006 Gare Maritime
Camden Post-Telegram MR. SUTTON'S BODY TO BE SENT HOME
Dr. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, in Halifax to Care for Corpse of Titanic Victim -- WIDENER'S BODY IS BURIED AT SEA --- Dr. F. H. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, is in Halifax, N. S., to receive the body of Frederick Sutt...
27th April 1912
Orange County Times-Press TITANIC VICTIMS STARVED
That several Titanic victims probably starved to death in lifeboats seemed probable when the White Star Liner Oceanic docked today. The Oceanic picked up, last Monday, a lifeboat containing three bodies terribly decomposed. Each vi...
17th May 1912
ONLY KNOWN PICTURE OF MARIE LEFEBVRE   ONLY KNOWN PICTURE OF MARIE LEFEBVRE
Marie Lefebvre was a 3rd class French passenger...
1900
  HUTCHINSON - BODY 170 (UNIDENTIFIED)
IT IS likely that body number 170 is that of Hutchinson. It was buried at sea. The estimated age was 25, and the corpse had keys marked "Carpenter's locker", with a wood rule, silver watch and chain. The Halifax Coroner's records ...
Newark Star WHY WAS THE NEWS SUPPRESSED
A reporter for The Newark Star managed to get aboard the Carpathia and made his way to the bridge, where he had an interview with Captain Rostrom [sic] as to why the news of the wreck and the condition of the survivors had been withheld. The followin...
19th April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal FAILS TO FIND BROTHER AMONG TITANIC'S DEAD
(Special to the Journal) Rahway, May 11---Mrs. Margaret O’Brien, of 90 Monroe street, returned last evening from a several days’ stay in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she went to see if any trace could be found of her brother, Arthur Kee...
11th May 1912
Hudson Observer MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR TITANIC VICTIM
Family of John Ashby of West Hoboken Abandon Hope for Him ---------- Until to-day the family of John Ashby, of West Hoboken, had some hope for his recovery, but are now convinced that there is no hope of him showing up alive, ...
23rd April 1912
Hudson Dispatch BODY OF WEST HOBOKEN MAN, VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER, FOUND AT SEA
Recovered by the Mackay-Bennett Ship and Will Be Sent Home. --------------- IDENTIFIED BY MARKS --------------- Fifteen More Bodies Were Found by Same Vessel Today --------------- Greenwood Robertson, of 222...
23rd April 1912
Chicago Record Herald NONE PICKED UP CELTIC
General Passenger Agent Jeffries of the White Star Line today denied the report that an officer and woman steerage passenger of the Titanic were picked up by the Celtic, which arrived in this city on Saturday morning, as related in a dispatch last...
23rd April 1912
CLASSIFIED IN DEATH : RECOVERING THE TITANIC'S DEAD Titanic Research CLASSIFIED IN DEATH : RECOVERING THE TITANIC'S DEAD
Brian J. Ticehurst
AFTER the Titanic sank in the early hours of the 15th April, 1912 the sea around the site was littered with the flotsam and jetsam of the liner. Among the broken decking, furniture and fittings were hundreds of bodies floating around. Eac...
31st March 2007
Worcester Telegram STEAD AND ASTOR CLING TO RAFT
New York, April 19- One version of the deaths of John Jacob Astor and William T. Stead was told by Philip Mock, who, with his sister, Mrs.Paul Schabert, were among the survivors. "Many men were hanging on to rafts in the sea," said Mr....
20th April 1912
New York Times POLICE ACT TO SIFT WALDMAN DEATHS
Check Up Statements as to How Guggenheim Heirs Fell From Roof of Hotel --- NORRIS TO QUERY MOTHER --- Wants to Learn Her Version of the Tragedy---Criticizes the Removal of the Bodies --- TO CALL OTHER WITNES...
23rd October 1928
New York Times POLICE ACT TO SIFT WALDMAN DEATHS
Check Up Statements as to How Guggenheim Heirs Fell From Roof of Hotel --- NORRIS TO QUERY MOTHER --- Wants to Learn Her Version of the Tragedy---Criticizes the Removal of the Bodies --- TO CALL OTHER WITNES...
23rd October 1928
  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Brian J. Ticehurst
Mr. William Lahtinen a minister of religion aged 30 years lived in Minneapolis USA. He was returning from a visit to relatives in Kemi, Finland with his wife and Lyyli Silven whose father was Reverend Lahtinens cousin. During the visit...
Weekly Advocate NEWARK WOMAN PASSED OVER TITANIC COURSE THROUGH WRECKAGE
Mrs Henry Buell and daughter, Miss Margaret Buell reached Newark Friday evening after spending a year in Germany and brought back with her the first lucid details following the sinking of the Titanic and scenes prevailing after the disaster. ...
2nd May 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal COMPLAIN OF CONDITION OF BODY OF JOHN MARCH
The body of John S. March, one of the five mail clerks of the steamship Titanic and father of Mrs. John A. Corwin, of 261 Stiles street, reached Newark yesterday from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was taken charge of immediately by the undertaking firm o...
8th May 1912
New York Times MILLET'S BODY CREMATED
BOSTON, May 2---A throng of men and women stood with heads uncovered in the train shed in the North Station to-day when the coffins containing the bodies of Frank D. Millet, the artist, and Richard P. [sic] White of Winchenden ...
3rd May 1912
New York Times ROUSED BY WHITE STAR LINE
Liverpool and Queenstown Protest Against Change to Southampton --- LIVERPOOL, Jan. 9---Because of the strong feeling aroused locally by the statement that the White Star Line purposed to divert its steamers to Southampt...
10th January 1907
OCEANIC Voyage OCEANIC
John P. Eaton
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
  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...
Semi Weekly Iowegian GIVES UP HOPE OF CHILDREN - MYSTIC MAN FINDS THAT THOSE FROM TITANIC WERE NOT HIS - RETURNS A SAD MAN
With the hope gone that the French children rescued from the Titanic and under care in New York might be his, Francois Lefebre, the Mystic man who started east with hopeful anticipations, has returned without the children. He stopped at C...
30th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper OLDEST TITANIC SURVIVOR PLANS VISIT TO SITE
Ceremony will honor tragic sinking BOSTON -- The oldest living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic wants to visit the site this summer and throw a rose into the Atlantic Ocean where her father went down with the ship 84 years ago. ...
10th April 1996
The Times THE FINDING OF A TITANIC LIFE RAFT
BODIES RECOVERED BY THE OCEANIC A letter has been received in Birmingham from Mr Harry C.Church, of Moseley, who was on board the Oceanic on May 16, in which he describes the finding of one ...
30th May 1912
St. Ives Times & Express MR. CARBINES INTERRED
Through the courtesy of Mr. Carbines — brother of the late Mr. William Carbines, a passenger on the "Titanic" and who has only just arrived in St. Ives from America — we are able to give some information from a letter which Mr. William Cogar, loca...
10th May 1912
  AN ECHO OF A PAST TRAGEDY
The Diary of Frederick Hamilton (Cable Engineer: MacKay Bennett) The White Star Line, owners of the SS Titanic chatered two cable-laying steamers Mackay-Bennett and Minia to locate and identify bodies, including. Two...
April 1912
Windsor, Eton & Slough Express UNTITLED
The old churchyard of Clewer has witnessed many strange and touching scenes during the long roll of centuries that is has borne the designation of "God's Acre", still, perhaps never one so unusual or pathetic as that which occurred on Wednesday, when...
25th May 1912
The Times ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA
HOW THE PASSENGERS WERE RECEIVED A passenger on board the Carpathia made the following statement:- I was awakened at 12.30 in the morning by a commotion on the decks which seemed unus...
20th April 1912
AN ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER BY A SURVIVOR The Sphere AN ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER BY A SURVIVOR
Joseph Scarrott
"The night of April 14, 1912, will never be forgotten. It was a beautiful starlight night, no wind, and the sea was as calm as a lake, but the air was very cold." "Everybody was in good spirits and everything throughout the ship ...
1912
New York Evening Journal ASTOR TO DYNAMITE TITANIC
A plan to blow up the wreckage of the Titanic with a powerful explosive in order to recover the body of John Jacob Astor, one of the passengers who was carried down, is being seriously considered to-day by Vincent Astor, son of the late Colonel....
20th April 1912
TITANIC'S UNKNOWN  CHILD   TITANIC'S UNKNOWN CHILD
Sandi Krawchenko Altner
A small pair of brown shoes have provided the determining factor in deciding the true identity of Titanic's Unknown child. ...
28th April 2011
Antioch News DEATH OF ELSBURY POSITIVE
Dispatch From the White Star Line Says That Elsbury is Not a Survivor ALL HOPE IS ABANDONED Gurnee Man on Titanic Not Among Survivors--Family Now Compelled to Give up Hope. The last hope of the James El...
2nd May 1912
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
New York Times AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS
Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne...
9th January 1911
New York Times DEATH OF BOYS HELD ACCIDENT BY NORRIS
Medical Examiner Announces Finding After Iquiry Into Waldman Tragedy --- HEARS SEVEN WITNESSES --- Absolves Police for Moving Bodies and Says Their Inquiry Was Thorough --- WORKER TELLS OF FALL ---...
25th October 1928
New York Times THE CRINOLINE QUESTION
THE CRINOLINE QUESTION --- Some Modistes Scout Idea of Suggested Revival---Others Like It --- Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Sept. 4---The question whether the crinolin...
17th September 1911
Unidentified Newspaper OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DEAD AT 100
SOUTHAMPTON, England -- Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor from the sinking of the Titanic, has died at 100. Mrs. Haisman died Monday at a nursing home in Southampton, 80 miles southwest of London, her family said. Mrs. Haisman r...
22nd January 1997
Rahway Daily Record NO TRACE IS FOUND OF KEEFE'S BODY
Survivor of Titanic Wreck Tells of Being With Him In a Life Boat ---------- It had for several days been hoped that among the bodies recovered from the wreck of the Titanic would be found that of Arthur Keefe. This hope is now ...
26th April 1912
New York Times GUGGENHEIM, DYING, SENT WIFE MESSAGE
Tried to Do His Duty, He Asked Steward to Tell Her --- “GO DOWN LIKE GENTLEMEN” --- He and His Secretary, Facing Death, Wore Full Evening Dress---Brother Bitter Against Company --- James Etches, assistant ste...
20th April 1912
New York Times 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
Jersey Journal FEAR JERSEY CITY GIRL'S FIANCÉ WENT DOWN WITH THE TITANIC
A few hours after the Titanic with hundreds of her passengers and crew went down to their ocean grave a letter was received in this city by Miss Sarah Weir of 173 Clendenny Avenue, from her sweetheart, Peter Sloan, chief electrician of the ill-fated ...
23rd April 1912
  SISTER OF PLAINFIELD MAN SAVED LITTLE BOY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilson of Chestnut St. are home from New York where they had a meeting with Mr. Wilson's sister, Miss Helen Wilson, one of the survivors of the Titanic, who came in on the Carpathia. Miss Wilson is at the Hotel Seville, with Mr....
22nd April 1912
The Times LADY PIRRIE
WIDOW OF THE GREAT SHIPBUILDER --- Viscountess Pirrie, widow of the famous Belfast shipbuilder and shipowner, died yesterday at her home in Carlos Place, W., at the age of 78. She was Margaret Montgomer...
20th June 1935
  LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO DOROTHY OCKENDEN
Richmond County Country Club, N.Y.: ''Dear Dorothy (Ockenden), I was so pleased to receive your letter and to find you had not forgotten me. I had intended writing to you before but I was ashamed of my writing. You see ...
9th May 1912
Western People THE TITANIC DISASTER
Moy Salmon
The lamentation, mourning, and woe for the ill-fated Titanic shall rise in hundreds of sorrow-stricken hearts for at least half a century. In a little while and its unparalleled awfulness shall be well nigh forgotten by the world at large --shall be ...
11th May 1912
Akron Beacon Journal AKRON WOMEN TELL THRILLING STORIES OF THEIR RESCUE FROM THE DOOMED SHIP
HOCKING AND RICHARDS FAMILIES SAT IN WATER A FOOT DEEP IN A LIFE BOAT Mrs. Emily Richards Tells a Thrilling Story of the Escape of Herself and Her Relatives From the Titanic (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal)...
20th April 1912
The Times OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS
NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...
20th April 1912
ON ROOTING ABOUT IN A SWEDISH TITANIC FAMILY TREE Titanic Research ON ROOTING ABOUT IN A SWEDISH TITANIC FAMILY TREE
Alan Ruffman
The search for geneaological data relating to the Palaeo-DNA Project...
10th May 2002
  REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT]
Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th...
  VIOLIN PLAYED AS TITANIC SUNK IN 1912 FINALLY DISCOVERED!
A new book to be published this week, The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic by Steve Turner, claims that the violin which band leader Wallace Hartley played as the Titanic sank in April 1912 survived, and may be offered for sale at the time of next year's centenary....
28th March 2011
New York Times WALDMAN DEATHS AGAIN HELD ACCIDENT
Police After Second Inquiry Stick to Original Theory of Children's Fall --- WORKMEN TELL OF TRAGEDY --- Describe the Mother's Frantic Efforts to Save Sons---Norris Investigation to Go On --- The second police...
24th October 1928
CSI TITANIC : WHO DIED HOW? Titanic Research CSI TITANIC : WHO DIED HOW?
Luke Owens
One of the iconic images many of us carry from the sinking of Titanic is of the 705 people in lifeboats listening to the death cries of 1,500-plus people drowning in the North Atlantic after the ship sank. The trouble is, that&rsq...
26th June 2007
  CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HERBERT JUPE'S FATHER AND THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY, NOVA SCOTIA
July 19th 1912 74 Bullar Road Bitterne Park Southampton Dear Sir, I have been informed by Mr. F. Blake, Superintendent Engineer of the White Star Lines, Trafalgar Chambers, Southampton, that the body...
19th July 1912
New York Times 2 GUGGENHEIM HEIRS DIE IN 13-STORY FALL
Baby Boy and Brother Drop From Arms of Mother on Hotel Surrey Roof --- SHE IS STRICKEN BY SHOCK --- Mrs. M. S. Waldman, Daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, Unable to Explain Accident --- Terrence and Benjamin W...
20th October 1928
 

 
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