• April 14, 1912: The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg and begins to sink.
• April 15, 1912: The top headline on The Everett Daily Herald’s front cover reads: “TITANIC HITS ICEBERG—IS SINKING—PASSENGERS SAFE.”
• April 16, 1912: The extent of the disaster was announced with the headline “1,350 GO DOWN WITH TITANIC.”
Check out The Everett Daily Herald’s front page from April 16, 1912 – only two days after the tragedy – republished below.
Ships Cruise About Spot Where Titanic Sank, But Only Wreckage Is Found
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Survivors Number 668… No Details
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Majority of Those Saved in the Life Boats Are Women and Children… Prominent Men Victims
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The appalling magnitude of the wreck of the liner Titanic has been but little mitigated by fragmentary information which has filtered in today.
The rescuing steamer Carpathia, according to the latest advices, has 668 survivors on board. This increases the list of saved by about 200 from the number first reported, but except for this, favorable details are insignificant compared with the fact that the Titanic is at the bottom of the Atlantic and that the shattered wreck took with her about 1,350 victims to death.
The Carpathia is coming in slowly to New York. All hope for details of the tragedy and its effects are centered on this ship. She will be in wireless communication with Sable Island tonight, with Mantucket on Thursday and will reach New York Thursday night.
All hope that the steamers Virginian and Parisian may have picked up survivors has been abandoned.
At London, New York, Paris, Southampton and Cherbourg grief is keen and, overwhelmed by news of the disaster, tearful crowds await tidings of relatives and friends.
Passengers and crew throng steamship offices waiting hour after hour for news that more often than not mean bereavement and sorrow.
People in Paris and London went to bed last night in the belief that all passengers on board the Titanic were saved. This morning brought the appalling truth.
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Majority Women and Children
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Of the survivors on board the Carpathia by far the largest number are women and children. Many men prominent in the literary and financial worlds of two continents are among the missing.
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