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Titanic Commutator (1993) THE NIGHT GOD CHOSE BETWEEN THE QUICKS AND THE DEAD
  1993  
New York Times (1912) SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT
Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went...
19th April 1912  
The Toronto World (1912) SHOCK WAS FATAL
BOISSEVAIN, Man., April 16---J. P. Alexander, ex M. L. A. dropped dead today when told of the Titanic disaster.  He was troubled with heart disease....
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) VETERANS HONOR THE DEAD
Seventh Regiment Men Attend Memorial Services --- Memorial services were held yesterday afternoon by the veterans of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., in St. Thomas's Church. The Rev. Claudius M. Roome preached the memorial sermon. Mr....
29th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) MR. STRAUS'S HORSE DEAD
Found Lifeless in Stable the Morning After the Titanic Sank --- Friends of Isidor Straus, who, with his wife, perished in the Titanic disaster, told yesterday of a peculiar coincidence concerning Mr. Straus and his favorite horse Bess. ...
26th April 1912  
New York Times (1936) TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD
  NICE, France, Oct. 12 (AP)---Samuel Goldenberg of New York, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic, died here yesterday. He had lived in France for fourteen years. His age was 76. ...
13th October 1936  
BBC News (2007) RECOGNITION FOR LANCASTRIA DEAD
Victims of Britain's worst maritime disaster are to be officially recognised for their wartime sacrifice after a long campaign.An estimated 4,000 people died when the Clyde-built liner the Lancastria sank during World War II....
6th December 2007  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) 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  
Chicago Sun-Times (2008) ST. PAT'S QUEEN HONORS GREAT-GRANNY'S COURAGE
Nearly a century ago, 15-year-old Anne McGowan sat freezing in a lifeboat in the middle of the Atlantic. Her aunt, Katherine McGowan, was dead more than 2 miles below with the wreckage of the Titanic as young Anne waited for a rescue ship to arrive....
12th March 2008  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1945) THAYER FAMILY GETS BACK MISSING WATCH
Timepiece, Gone when Body was Found, Returned Mysteriously The missing gold watch of John B. Thayer, 3d, who was found dead in his parked automobile last Friday, has turned up. The watch was missing when Thayer's...
24th September 1945  
The Times (1956) TITANIC SURVIVOR DEAD
One of the few surviving members of the crew of the liner Titanic, Mr James Crimmins, died suddenly at a Southampton Salvation Army hostel yesterday, at the age of 65. (The Times of London, February 17, 1956, p. 3) * Cri...
17th February 1956  
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) 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 Sutton, one of the...
27th April 1912  
Standard Union (1912) COL. ASTOR BURIED IN GRAVE BESIDE MOTHER
Body Brought to Manhattan After Funeral Services at Rhinecliff --- The body of John Jacob Astor was buried this afternoon beside the grave of his mother in Trinity Cemetery, on Washington Heights. The funeral services were held at Rhin...
4th May 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) UNTITLED
In many cases reference was made to the disaster in the sermons, and the Dead March in ''Saul'' or another of the classic funeral marches was played. Memorial services were conducted in Maxwelltown Parish Church, of which Mr. Thomas Mullins, one of t...
  1912  
  WEIKMAN HEADSTONE
WEIKMAN AUGUSTUS H. WEIKMAN 1860-1924 MARY WEIKMAN 1860-1926 GEORGE W. WEIKMAN 1865-1952 (On reverse) WEIKMAN FRANK S. WEIKMAN 1890-1962 A. HARRY WEIKMAN...
   
Western Daily Mercury (1912) ARTICLE
Frederick Harris, 57, Melville-Road, Mill-lane, Gosport, had also a graphic story to tell. When the last moment came, and it was found that all the boat[sic] were gone and the vessel was going to sink, there was wild confusion. Deck chairs, and anyth...
29th April 1912  
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (2008) THE RMS TITANIC
Grab your boarding pass, it's time to embark on an exhilarating voyage aboard history's most notorious ocean liner.By now, the tragic events surrounding the Titanic's maiden voyage and catastrophic sinking, which left 1,523 people dead, are well-known.Countless books, expeditions and motion pictures have meticulosity analyzed, theorized and re-created every aspect of the "unsinkable" passenger liner that hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912....
6th October 2008  
Southampton Times and Hampshire Express (1913) DEATH NOTICE: KIRBY & MCMULLEN
In loving and honoured memory of our dear cousin THOMAS KIRBY also our dearest friend JACK McMULLEN who both laid down their lives at Duty's call on board the SS Titanic, April 15, 1912. Greatly missed but never forgotten by all of us at Sholi...
19th April 1913  
  (2000) MEMORIAL TO ROGER BRICOUX, TITANIC CELLO PLAYER
On November 2nd 2000, the Association Francaise du Titanic unveiled a memorial plaque in memory of Roger Bricoux in Cosne-sur-Loire, the city where he was born on June 1st 1891. In 1913, Roger had been considered a desertor by the French army, and it...
2nd November 2000  
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) 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  
Newark Evening News (1912) MORE FROM JERSEY MAY HAVE PERISHED IN SEA
PATERSON, April 20---Some residents of this city and of Hawthorne fear that several persons near to them perished on the Titanic. The supposed victims are John Mechan, of this city; Arthur Ford, formerly of th...
20th April 1912  
Royal Cornwall Gazette (1912) ST. AUSTELL
The most impressive gathering was that at the Baptist Sunday School, with which the family of the late Mr. W. H. Nancarrow, one of the Mount Charles victims, was connected. As the children were being dismissed the members of the adult classes lined u...
25th April 1912  
New York Times (1913) SIR WILLIAM ARROL
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 20.-Sir William Arrol, biggest of British bridge builders, is dead. He constructed the present bridge over the Tay and that crossing the Firth of Forth. He was made a knight in 1890 a...
21st February 1913  
Daily Mirror (2006) FAULTY RIVETS SANK TITANIC
FAULTY rivets were to blame for the Titanic disaster, a 9/11 scientist says. Metal pins that should have held the hull together snapped after the liner hit an iceberg. They allowed it to open up like a zip when it sank off Newfoundland in 1912, leaving 1,523 dead. US forensic expert Tim Foecke, who probed the World Trade Centre terror attack, said the rivets were made from sub-standard wrought iron which snapped under pressure....
1st November 2006  
  NORA FLEMING PHOTOGRAPH
Photograph of Irish steerage passenger Nora Fleming, one of 14 third class passengers from the village of Addergoole, Co Mayo, who boarded the Titanic at Queenstown. It was Nora's 22nd birthday on the night the vessel struck ...
   
New York Times (1912) ONE VICTIM LEGALLY DEAD
Surrogate Accepts Proof That William F. Hoyt Perished in Disaster --- The first victim of the Titanic disaster to be pronounced legally dead was William F. Hoyt.  Surrogate Cohalan accepted proof of Mr. Hoyt's death y...
27th April 1912  
Dallas Times-Herald (1935) LADY DUFF GORDON, LEADING LONDON MODISTE, IS DEAD
London, April 22 (AP) - Lady Duff Gordon, 71, known for many years as one of the world's foremost modistes, died yesterday in a nursing home in Putney. She was the widow of Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, with whom she escaped in a lifeb...
22nd April 1935  
'Berth 44' (2009) CARL SPENCER ~ A TRAGIC LOSS
Sunday 24 May 2009, whilst diving on the wreck of the Britannic, 37 year old Carl Spencer part of the expedition team exploring the wreck site in the Agean sea, 150 nautical miles south-east of Athens, was taken ill with Decompression sickness (the bends). Carl was airlifted to a Naval hospital in Athens but never regained consciousness, he was pronounced dead at the military medical facility. Carl father of two was from from Burton-on-trent, Staffordshire, I only met him once, he will be a great loss to us all, our deepest sympathy to his family....
25th May 2009  
Telegraph.co.uk (2009) RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION
By Andrew Alderson The key and other artefacts were recovered when Mr Stone's dead body was recovered from the water Photo: Christopher Jones The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could s...
11th April 2009  
Canada.com (2006) LILLIAN GERTRUD ASPLUND, LAST U.S. SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 99
Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died, family and friends said Sunday. She was 99.Asplund, who was five years old that night in 1912, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. "She even said she saw the ship slip into the water," said Philip Maloof, her lawyer and close friend. "She was the last one (left) in the world to actually see the disaster." ...
8th May 2006  
New York Times (1946) OBITUARY: MRS. DOROTHY BRULATOR
By Wireless to THE NEW TORK TIMES --- PARIS, Feb. 20---Mrs. Dorothy Brulator, an American who was residing here, was found dead in her hotel room today. Physicians reported that she had died of a congestion, having suffered recently fr...
21st February 1946  
Newark Star (1912) MEMORIAL SERVICES ARE PLANNED FOR TITANIC DEAD
ELIZABETH, April 22---Memorial services for Peter Reniff and Thomas Gavey, of 21B Florida street, and Clifford and Ernest Jefferies, who were lost while on their way to this city in the Titanic disaster, will be held by the local lodges of Sons and D...
23rd April 1912  
Newark Star (1912) FATHER TITANIC VICTIM; SON LOSES HIS MIND
JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 18---Frederick Myles, 30 years old, of 256 Grove street, whose father, Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., was a passenger on the Titanic, is today locked up at the Seventh street police station for safe keeping because he...
19th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MAJ. BUTT TO BE HELD MAY 5TH
President and Senators Pay High Tributes to Dead Hero --- Memorial services for Major Archibald Butt, whose name is one of the most prominent among the Titanic’s heroic dead, will be held in this city on May 5 under the auspices of Temp...
19th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) ASTOR'S OLD BUTLER A HERO
Special to the Star by a staff reporter New York, April 20. --- In the register of the Titanic's heroes the name of Robbins should appear.  He was Colonel Astor's old butler, and like the Colonel's valet, always travelled wi...
20th April 1912  
Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville KY (1912) DR. ERNEST MORAWECK NOW COUNTED AMONG THE DEAD
F. Leingruber, manager of Dr. Moraweck's farm near Brandenburg yesterday gave up all hope for the safety of the former Louisville man who was a passenger aboard the Titanic and who is reported as missing. Mr. and Mrs. Leingruber learned through a mut...
  1912  
New York Times (1914) TRIBUTE TO TITANIC DEAD
East Side Children Honor Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus --- On the eve of the second anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, in which Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus perished, 1,000 children, mostly public school boys and girls, gat...
15th April 1914  
Fulham Chronicle (1912) ARTICLE
One of the stewards on the ill-fated Titanic was a Fulham man and fortunately he is among the saved. His name is Mr. Frank Morris, of 46 Delorne [sic] Street, Fulham Palace Road, and he came of a family long resident and well known in the borough....
26th April 1912  
  PLOT MARKER
FREDERICK SUTTON TOMLIN MARCH 2ND 1910-OCT. 26TH 1911 FREDERICK SUTTON JUNE 15TH 1850-APRIL 15, 1912 LOST AT SEA ON S. S. TITANIC ELLEN C. SUTTON MAY 27TH 1852-APRIL 2ND 1931 1879 FRANCIS H. TOMLIN...
   
Daily Sketch (1912) MAN WHO WAS PULLED BACK
Says Officer Shot Two Men Who tried to Enter Boat A graphic description of the scene on the Titanic after the boats had gone is given by an Athlone survivor, Mr Eugene Daly, in a letter to his sister. He says he arouse...
4th May 1912  
New York Times (1968) R. NORRIS WILLIAMS 2D, TENNIS TITLIST, DEAD AT 77
Survivor of Titanic's Sinking Was on 7 Davis Cup Teams---Pennsylvania Historian --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, June 3---R. Norris Williams 2d, former national tennis champion and a survivor of the sin...
4th June 1968  
Associated Press (1912) PROFOUND GRIEF FELT OVER PARIS - LADY DUFF GORDON AND HER HUSBAND PROBABLY AMONG THE DEAD
By Associated Press. Paris, April 16. - The American colony in Paris was plunged into profound grief by definite news of the stupendous loss of life caused by the wreck of the Titanic. Hundreds of prominent American residents and Ameri...
16th April 1912  
Chicago Daily Tribune (1912) MERCHANT FAINTS FROM JOY
page 3 Business Man Swoons on Learning Relatives Were Rescued from Titanic Wreck Aurora, Ill., April 17- [Special]- Oscar W. Johnson, 32 years old, a business man living at St. Charles, Ill., fell over in a dead faint ...
18th April 1912  
Waterford News (1912) ASPERSION CAST ON FRANK DWAN
AMONG THE TITANIC'S PASSENGERS One of the men connected with the alleged pilfering at Bonmahon mines is also stated to have been on the Titanic. ------ [Theft cases at Bonmahon copper mines occupied newspaper co...
19th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) SENATOR GUGGENHEIM FEARFUL THAT HIS BROTHER IS DEAD
Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado waited eagerly and anxiously today for some word that would indicate the fate of his brother, Benjamin, who was a Titanic passenger. Senator Guggenheim this forenoon had not given up all hope, but he was fearful t...
16th April 1912  
Chicago Tribune (1912) ANOTHER CHICAGOAN STILL FEARS
Some Chicagoans do not know yet whether their relatives were saved by the Carpathia or not.  Edward Manion, who lives at 1848 Lincoln avenue, does not know whether his sister, Miss Margaret Manion, Castle Bar, Ireland, is on her way to Chicag...
21st April 1912  
New York Times (1912) FUTRELLE'S MOTHER IS DEAD
Sinks from Grief Following Loss of Son on the Titanic --- Special to The New York Times --- ADRIAN, Ga., July 29---Grief over the death of her son, Jacques Futrelle, the author, who went down in the Titanic disaster, is be...
30th July 1912  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) 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  
Chicago Tribune (1912) OCEAN WRECK SURVIVOR DEAD
John Conley, Last of Passengers on the Steamer Arctic, Succumbs at Age of 80 John Conley, last of the survivors of the Arctic, which sank on Sept. 20, 1854, near t...
24th December 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE
New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...
20th April 1912  
  CROW'S NEST TELEPHONE KEY
RMS Titanic: Second Officer David Blair OBE. Iron key with brass oval tag attached "Crows Nest Telephone Key". Research by Henry Aldridge and Son, and eminent Titanic historians has established that the key was either to the portable Grah...
   
New York Times (1931) WIDOW OF TITANIC'S COMMANDER IS DEAD
Husband Was Captain E. J. Smith, Who Went Down in Sea Tragedy of 1912 --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 29---The Titanic disaster was recalled today with the death of Mrs. Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow of C...
30th April 1931  
New York Times (1983) ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90
ROCHESTER, Sept. 19 (AP)---Ethel Beane, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912, died over the weekend in a Rochester nursing home. She was 90 years old. The Titanic sank the night of April 14 on its maiden voyage from So...
20th September 1983  
New York Times (1912) ANDREW SAKS DEAD AT 65
President and One of the Founders of Dry Goods House of Saks & Co. --- Andrew Saks, President and one of the founders of Saks & Co., the dry goods house, died yesterday morning in his apartment at Sherry's. Death followed a long illness...
9th April 1912  
Brooklyn Daily Times (1912) BROOKLYNITES ARE LOST AS TITANIC SINKS
Several Are Believed to Have Sunk With Ship --- According to the latest reports from the White Star officials there were Brooklyn and Long Island people among those who were lost when the ill fated Titanic sank. The dead ...
16th April 1912  
  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...
   
Unidentified Newspaper (1982) FRANK GOLDSMITH, TITANIC SURVIVOR
A former Detroit resident who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912 is dead at 79. Frank John William Goldsmith died Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., where he had lived since 1979 after retiring from business. The funeral will ...
  1982  
  (1912) 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  
Daily Mirror (1937) TITANIC SURVIVORS PRISON CELL CLAIM
Survivor of the Titanic disaster, Charles Hichens will be released in a few weeks from Maidstone Gaol, where he is serving ten years' penal servitude for shooting another seaman dead. Hichen who seeks only to end his days in "peace and quiet", is cla...
26th July 1937  
Brooklyn Daily Times (1912) LONG ISLANDERS WHO WERE ON TITANIC
Some Whose Names Are Not on the List of the Saved --- GREENPORT, April 17---All Greenport is fearful that James V. Drew and Marshall, the 5-year-old son of William J. Drew, brother and partner of James Drew, are among the Titanic’s dead...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1955) EDWARD MAYER IS DEAD
World War I Air Veteran Had Been Investment Broker --- Special to The New York Times --- SCRANTON, Pa., June 10---Edward B. Mayer of Dalton, a veteran of World War I and a retired New York investment broker, died today in ...
11th June 1955  
Steubenville Herald-Star (1957) DEATHS AND FUNERALS : WILLIAM COUTTS
Police said William L. Coutts, 55, of 561 S. Negley Ave., Pittsburgh, was found dead at 11.31 p.m., Tuesday, between two houses in the 100 block of S. Water Street. Coutt's body was discovered by Alfred Rhea of 155 S. Wter St., who told po...
25th December 1957  
Times-Tribune (1962) 50 YEARS AFTER: A MEMORY OF THE TITANIC
BY ROSEMARY MOSSIEN Vivid memories of the horror of the sinking of the "unsinkable" ocean liner Titanic 50 years ago April 15 are recalled by Mrs. John Black, 11 Kay Terrace, only Rochesterian who is a survivor of the tragedy....
  1962  
Chicago Daily News (1912) 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  
Southern Evening Echo (1952) UNTITLED
GOING through the contents of a war damaged safe after returning from his recent Australian tour Mr. Hector Young, O.B.E., former Southampton Mayor, came across a tattered postcard and a letter which brought back memories of the ill-fated White Star ...
9th December 1952  
Rahway Daily Record (1912) WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW
Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the public schools were half-staffed by order of Councilman-at-Large John Farrell. Rahway has felt the fo...
18th April 1912  
Windsor, Eton & Slough Express (1912) 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  
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  
Southern Daily Echo (1913) LINK WITH THE TITANIC: DEATH OF LOOK-OUT MAN AT SOUTHAMPTON
A notable figure among the survivors of the Titanic has been removed by death at the Sailors' Home at Southampton on Tuesday of Reginald Robinson Lee, on whom an inquest was held by the Borough Coroner (Mr. H. K. Pope) yesterday afternoon. Le...
8th August 1913  
New York Herald (1912) MR. W. ROEBLING, 2D, AMONG PASSENGERS
TRENTON, N.J. Monday - Washington Roebling, II a son of Charles G. Roebling, president of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, the Roebling Construction Company and the New Jersey Wire Cloth Company, who was a passenger on board the Titanic, togethe...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1987) S. MARSHALL KEMPNER DEAD; LONGTIME INVESTMENT BANKER
S. Marshall Kempner, an investment banker, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at his home in San Francisco. He was 88 years old. Mr. Kempner was a native of New York, where he began his career after graduating Phi Beta Kappa fro...
4th August 1987  
New York Times (1907) LADY DUFF GORDON SEES CHNIATOWN
Ciceroned by Chuck Conners, "an Admirable Character in His Place" --- COMPLIMENTS BY BOTH --- Mr. Conners Says He Always Did Like Socialist Hair and Mrs. Glyn Reminded Him of "Her Nobs" --- Lady Duff Gordon of Londo...
23rd December 1907  
New York Times (1946) CAPT. HADDOCK DEAD, OLYMPIC EX-MASTER
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Oct. 5 (AP)---Capt. Herbert James Haddock, a former commodore of the old White Star Line, died today. His age was 85. During the first World War he commanded a dummy fleet of wooden dreadnoughts and battle cruise...
6th October 1946  
Ilford Graphic (1912) ILFORD PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC
Ilford has her part to play in the latest tragedy of the ocean. On April 2nd last, Mr and Mrs Ben Hart were present at the "Cauliflower" in their honour prior to their departure for Canada. During the evening they were the recipients of a beautiful I...
19th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY
J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ...
29th April 1912  
Washington Post (1937) OWNER WHO FLED STRICKEN TITANIC DIES AS RECLUSE
London, Oct. 18 (Monday).—Joseph Bruce Ismay, 74 years old, former owner of the White Star Line and former president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., who survived the Titanic disaster, d...
18th October 1937  
New York Times (1965) VICTOR SALVATORE, SCULPTOR, IS DEAD
Victor Salvatore, a sculptor, died Saturday at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He was 80 years old. Mr. Salvatore is represented in the collections of a number of museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Ar...
12th April 1965  
Unidentified Newspaper (1945) MRS DOUGLAS DIES AT 81
This unidentified press cutting (most certainly from a Minneapolis paper) was found in Berthe Leroy's Titanic related items. Berthe had been Mrs Douglas's traveling companion for years. MRS DOUGLAS IS DEAD AT 81 Survivor...
  1945  
New York Times (1912) CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS
Flood of Telegrams of Sympathy Reaches Them from All England. --- Special Cable to The New York Times. --- LONDON, April 20.--Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Phillips of Farncombe, Godalming, parents of "Jack" Phillips, the hero...
21st April 1912  
Jersey Journal (1912) BAYONNE MAN SAVED, HOBOKEN BOY LOST
Joy and Sorrow in Hudson County Homes---Son of Victim Temporarily Insane from Grief ---------- With the latest revision of the lists of saved and lost from the Titanic disaster, joy and sorrow were brought to several ho...
18th April 1912  
  ADDERGOOLE'S ANNUAL RINGING OF THE TIMONEY BELL
The Timoney Bell was erected by the renowned Addergoole Irish scholar, Míchéal Ó Tiomanaidhe (Michael Timoney) in the 1930’s in St Patrick’s Church grounds, Lahardane. In days past...
   
The Times (1895) HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J.
OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill...
25th December 1895  
  ON THE RESURRECTION MORNING
The Hymn "On the Resurrection Morning" was one of those sung at the hymn service lead by Revd. Ernest Courtenay Carter. The words were written by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) and the music "Resurrection Morn" by Ira David Sanke...
   
"The Independent" newspaper of London, UK (2006) ROBERT FISK: IN THE TITANIC CEMETERY, A DAY TO REMEMBER
Saturday, 24 June 2006I look at their graves again: what was their world like, when my Dad was 13 years old?It comes as a shock to walk through the Titanic cemetery. Of course, we all knew that a Canadian cable ship brought ba...
25th June 2006  
Washington Post (1912) TITANIC'S WIRELESS CHIEF DIED ON A LIFERAFT
New York. April 19.—Philips [sic], the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post till the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life raft, and died before rescuers reached him, according to th...
20th April 1912  
Western People (1912) THE TITANIC DISASTER
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  
Newark Star (1912) 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  
The Times (1912) 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  
  (1963) BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
DIVISION OF RECORDS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN CERTIFICATE OF DEATH # 1...
  1963  
  (1910) SAMUEL GOLDENBERG'S FIRST DISASTER
The French paper Le Journal, on 20 April 1912, read: "Mr. S.-L. Goldenberg crosses the Atlantic three times a year; he was a passenger on the liner that caused the Pluviôse disaster. As an important lace importer, he is well known on t...
26th May 1910  
Castle Carey Visitor (1912) CARYITES ON BOARD
The loss of the Titanic has been keenly felt in Castle Cary: as apart from its being a National Disaster, there were a number of Caryites on board. Mr. Sam Herman, for many years a butcher in the town, and for some years proprietor of the Britannia H...
  April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1997) 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  
New York Times (1926) CARLISLE, DESIGNER OF TITANIC, IS DEAD
Member of Privy Council and Noted Engineer Stricken at 72 --- DISASTER BROKE HIS HEART --- Recently Visited Old Friend, Ex-Kaiser---Wanted “Merry Widow Waltz” Played at Funeral --- ...
6th March 1926  
New York Times (1912) PHILADELPHIA SURVIVORS ILL
Two in Hospital, Hysterical---Mrs. Widener Has Severe Cold --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Philadelphia survivors of the Titanic are under the care of physicians, several of them in a serious...
23rd April 1912  
New York Herald (1912) BRIDE WHO WAS RESCUED FROM DEATH FINDS SHE IS DESTITUTE WIDOW
MRS ARGENIA DEL CARLO AND SISTER OF SAN RAFFAELE HOME...
22nd April 1912  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1945) THAYER WATCH FOUND IN HOME
A gold watch, reported missing following the discovery of the body of John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania , in his parked automobile last Friday, mysteriously turned up at his home yesterday. A f...
22nd September 1945  
Southampton Echo (1965) TITANIC SURVIVOR FOUND HANGED
Mr. Frederick Fleet (76), Titanic survivor-the lookout who said at the Inquiry he could have saved the disaster-was found dead, hanged, at his home in Norman-road, Freemantle, Southampton, yesterday. His brother-in-law with whom he lived, Mr. ...
11th January 1965  
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  
Jersey Journal (1912) 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  
New York Times (1912) WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
*** --- TWO YOUNG MEN'S HEROISM --- Woman Tells How Roebling and Case Saved Her---Others' Tribute to Dead --- Among the chivalrous younger heroes of the Titanic disaster were Washington A. Roebling, 2d, of Tr...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) TRIBUTE TO STRAUS PAID IN SYNAGOGUES
Family of Philanthropist Who Died on Titanic Present at Temple Beth-El --- SERMONS ON CATASTROPHE --- Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim, Made Widow by Wreck, at Temple Emanu-El---General Services To-day --- Services...
21st April 1912  
  ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW
'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a...
   
  (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...
22nd April 1912  
New York Times (1965) TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o...
12th January 1965  
 

 
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