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T Official Weather Forecast. 10 PAGES TO-DAY. Shower Wednesday and Thursday, except fair in extreme south portion light to moderate variable winds. The Journal's Want Ad Way is the the Easy Way for You VOL. XV. NO. 92. PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1912. PRICE. 5 CENTS. FLOOD CONDITION APE Pf pi Si m If lit J it The Carpathia is Proceeding to New York With 866 Survivors of - the Titanic Aboard. JNO. JACOB ASTOR AND MAJ. BUTTS ARE MISSING WIRELESS FROM THE PARISIAN AND VIRGIN IAN SAYING THEY HAVE NO SURVIVORS OF THE TITANIC DISASTER ABOARD EXTIN GUISHES LAST RAY OF HOPE THAT SOME OF PASSENGERS MAY HAVE SEEN PICKED UP. By Associated Press. New York, April 16. That the final roll of rescued from Titanic disaster had practically been made up was the impression that grew almost into conviction tonight as the hours wore on without a revision of the list adding meas urably to the total known survivors. - Down the Atlantic Coast fog enveloped many places, as reports showed, crept the Cunarder Carpathia, bearing the 868 lives that had been snatched from the waters when the Titanic's, life boats, laden to limit, one by one, made their way from the giant liner as it became known she was ; soon to take the final plunge. lv , But; although the ship was . reported within wireless , range of Cable Island station at an early hour, and every wireless ear was waiting to catch the snap of the receiver which might mean that the great secret of the liner's death was about to be given up, midnight came and went and night began to grow old, and still the word had not been spoken. , , , " ' x ' ' Carefully compiling the available lists, records and names of survivors of the disaster, stand significantly thus: men 79, women 233, children 16, total 328. Of the remain ving 540 known survivors it is estimated that not more than one hundred were seamen required to man the boats. This would leave approximately 440, and in the ordinary "pro , portions women and children in the steerage, where the passengers in the Titanic's .care, nunibered 710, it seems probable the greater part of these, 440 women were little ones. Nothing could. show more plainly the heroism of the crew and men passengers who stood by the doomed ship, facing practically inevitable death and who sent the women and children away in lifeboats.. Some had to be left, that was a certainty. But, to'all appearances the men who were left staid behind deliberately, calmly stepping aside to let the weaker ones take the way to safety. , FAINT HOPE VANISHES. Only faint hope remains tonight that any of the 1302 passengers and crew who have been missing since the Titanic sank,' have been picked up by trans-Atlantic liners. The 866 survivors rescued' from lifeboats by the Cunarder Carpathia, now on the way here, are the only known saved. Brief and meager wireless messages received today pract ically extinguished the hope that some of the ill-fated pas sengers may have been picked up by the steamships, Vir ginian and Parisian of Allan line, butrboth of the steamers sent word they had none of. the Titanic's survivors aboard. Of the 868 persons rescued, by the Carpathia the names of 326 passengers were received bv wireless uo to ' four-thirty o'clock p. m. The Carpathia then evidently got out of wireless range, for after that, efforts to reach her with wireless communications were futile. Captain Bos tron of the Carpathia, reported in his last wireless report, that his vessel was proceeding slowly through a field of ice tovNew York. President Taft, late this afternoon, directed the sec retary of the navy to order the scout cruisers Salem and Chester to the scene at once from Hampton Roads to meet the Carpathia and send by wireless to the government a complete list of the Titanic's survivors. The Chester was caught by wireless forty miles off the Chesepeake Capes and by 4 o'clock was steaming northward to get as soon as possible, in touch with steamers beanng news of the disaster. Revenue cutters were notified to be ready to pro ceed to the Carpathia if necessary.- All day tearful and anxious throngs swarmed the offices of the White Star line (Continued on Bitter Attack Made in House On Minority Leader Marin By Associated Press. Washington, April 18. For the pur pose of making the flat charge that Mr. Mann, the minority leader, "know ingly" had uttered & deliberate false hood In an effort to discredit. Repre sentative Graham of Illinois, chairman of the house Interior department ex penditures committee, took the floor today and delivered a bitter assault on his colleague. The attack grew out of Mr. Mann's allegations of a few days ago that Chairman Graham had be friended and advised Mrs. Helen Pierce Gray, alleged by blna .to be a Second Ps.se) woman lobbyist, active In Indian liti gation. 1 An affidavit which Mr. Mann had said roved his allegations, was read vr nraham who said it was neither proof nor even an effldavit as Mr. Mann had aiiegeo- . Mr. Graham, shaking his clean ched first at. Mr. Mann, declared that he was justified in the belief that Mr. Mann "was trying to get these charges before the country when he had knowl edge that they were absolutely false." Mr. Graham charged that Mr. Mann virtually had falsified the records In the case. While Mr. Mann was pil loried, he sat grimly in his seat and i feigned no interruption. LAST MESSAGE FROM TITANIC By Associated Press. New. York, April 16.-"Sinking by the head. . Have cleared the boats and filled them with women and children' - ... This -wfe-s th final message the brave men sent, the world from the Titanic, for it was directly after wards - that their wireless signals sputtered and .then etopped al together. The 'picture that inevitably pre sents itself, In view, of what is known, is of men like John Jacob Astor. master of scores of millions; BenJ. Guggenheim, of the famous family of bankers; Isador Straus, the merchant prince; William T. Stead, veteran journalist; Major Archibald Butt, solider, and Wash ington Roebling, noted engineer, of any, or all of these men stepping aside and bravely and gallantly re maining to die that the place he otherwise might have filled could perhaps be taken by some sabot shod, illeterate and penniless peas ant woman of Europe. The stream of women with toddling infants, babes in arms, perhaps most of them soon to be widowed, filed up from cabins and over the side and away to life. Men, by far greater, remained to die millionaire and peasant, and man of middle class alike, bravely, it must have been, sharing each other's fate" and going to a com mon grave. . AGENTS OF GULF PORTS CONFER Steamship Companies From Pensacola and Other Points Represented in New Orleans. By Associated Preea. New' Orleans, April 16. Steamship companies of a number of Atlantic end Gulf ports were represented at a conference which is being held here for the purpose of discussing the ques tion of "country damage" to cotton, or cotton that is alleged to be damaged before it reaches shipboard. There were about thirty-five agents at the meeting; among the ports rep resetned being Galveston, Port Arthur end Texas City, Tex.: Gulf port. Mo bile, Pensacola, BrunswtcK, Ga., and New Orleans. The sessions are being held behind closed doors, but It was stated yesterday that one of the re sults the conference would be the formation of a steamship agents asso ciation for the purpose of devising plans to avoid claims for damage done to cotton, which annually are said to aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars. WILSON CLUB WILL BE ORGANIZED AT THE COURT HOUSE TOMORROW NIGHT Tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock at the court house a Woodrow Wilson club will be organized. Everybody Is Invited to attend. The Woodrow Wilson supporters in Peneacola are not supplied with a campaign fund with which to carry on their work in Pensacola and conse quently no brass band will be hired and the opera house will not be rented. Neither will it be possible to engage a United States senator to make an ad dress. All of these things cost money and the "Wilson campaign is not being conducted with money. But what the Woodrow Wilson sup GIANT LINER, TITANIC, WHICH CARRIED 1302 SOULS DOWN 7 -fl" 4 it4' ... i ' New York. April 6. Statistical In formation of the life saving apparatus of the Titanic, was given out today by the bureau of inspection of steam ves sels. . The Titanic had sixteen life boats calculated to accommodate 1,171 pe ple. This means about one-third of the total number of passengers and crew together, which was 3,447, could be accommodated. It was stated at :'V.,. J., T. B.V . :"' MAJ. "ARCHIBALD 3UTT MISSING Washington, April ld.4-The flickering hope that Major Archivald Butt, the rr llitary aid to, President Taft and former President Ruosevelt, and Clarence Moore, theAWehirigton capi talist and social leader, have been ssved from -the wreck of the Titanic fied from Washington today when the list ' of rescued was Vmade public 1 he names of neither Butt nor Moore appeared. URGE PROTECT ) OF WATERWAYS Kevanaugh Wants Congress to Pro vide Millions of Dollars for Lakes-to-Gulf Waterway. By Associated Press. "Washington, April 16. Immediate congressional action to provide mil lions of dollars for the project of con necting the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico was urged on. the senate committee on commerce today by a delegation, of " the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deeper Waterways Association, headed by President W, K. Kavanaugh. Isham Randolph and Lyman E. Cooley, of Chicago, and others pointed out that the Ohio,. Missouri and Mis sissippi valleys would be vastly bene fited, practically by linking the com merce of the inland waterways and the Panama canal, now approaching com pletion. porters lack In the way of a campaign fund, they make up in numbers and in enthusiasm. The club will be organized Thurs day night and it will then get busy as an organization In carrying on the campaign, which Its Individual mem bers have heretofore been conducting Individually. Woodrow Wilson will carry Escam bia county by a substantial majortty and the work of the club will be to make that majority even bigger than Is now indicated. the bureau that no ship fs required to have sufficient coat room to accom modate all Its complete passenger and crew list. The Titanic carried 3.45o lite pre servers and 48 life-buoys and these equipments . are made in compliance with the regulations of the British board of trade. The United States bu reau has no power except to see that each steamship meets the requirements of its home government. . . '86 ' ' :.v GROWING WORSE DISASTER THE GREATEST EVER TOOCGURATSEA Some Facts as Sifted From Wireless Reports of Ti tanic's Sinking. - STEAMSHIP VALUED AT $10,000,000 AND CARGO AND JEWELS WORTH PERHAPS MORE THAN $10,00000 A TOTAL LOSS CAPT. SMITH PROBABLY MET DEATH AT HIS POST" AS A GALLANT SKIPPER SHOULD. By Associated Press. New York, April 16. These pin nacles of fact concerning the world's greatest steamship disaster the sink ing oX the great White Star liner Ti tanic off the bariks of New Foundland stood out prominently early today as sifted from the wireless reports: Revised estimate loss of life, 1,302 souls. The $10,000,000 steamship with cargo and jewels worth perhaps $10,000,000 more a total loss. No mention among the survivors of Colonel John Jacob Astor. His bride, nee Miss Force of New York, has been saved. Major Archibald Butt, Presi dent Taft's aide, is still unaccounted for as are many other persons of in ternational Importance. J. Bruce la ma y, president of the International Mercantile Marine, owners of the White Star Line, is among the survivors, as is his wife. Captain E. J. Smith, commander of the Titanic, probably went to his grave with his. ill -fated vessel' without once being able to communicate direct with the agents of his line. Aside from the C Q. D. message by his wireless op erator not one word from him was re ceived np to the time the Titanic sank bow foremost In the ocean. The presumption is that he met death at his post as a gallant skipper should. ENFORCED UNWRITTEN LAW. That he and his crew enforced rigid ly the unwritten law of the sea wom en and children first is plainly indi cated by the preponderance of women among the" partial list of survivors that the wireless has given. Although rated aa one of the most able . commanders since the advent of the modern steamship. Captain Smith's career had been recently marred with 111 luck. He was in command of the Titanic's sister ship, Olympic, when that vessel was in collision with the British cruiser Hawk. Exonerated of all blame of this occurrence, he was placed in charge of the Titanic only to graze disaster when his new charge fouled the steamship New York in the Solent after leaving Southampton on her maiden voyage which has ended so disastrously. He had been in the line's employ for more than thirty years. His first important command was the Majestic. Although 868 souls are reported to be on the Carpathia, It Is apparent that all of them are not passengers for it was necessary for members of the Titanic's crew to man the life boats which set out from the sinking liner. How many of the , crew were assigned to each boat -is a matter of conjecture. A similarly unsettled mat ter is the percentage of first class passengers among those saved. While the names' of survivors obtained are largely those of salon passengers, the rule "women first" should apply equal ly to wie second cabin and steerage, a regulation which may have cost the lives of many prominent men above decks. It Is natural also that the names of the more obscure survivors would be slower In reaching land. CROWDS BESIEGE BULLETIN. False news and false hopes and ar international belief that the palatial Titanic was practically unslnkable fol lowed the slowly unfolding accounts of her loss in a way without precedent. Eager crowds In a dozen cities in the United States besieged bulletin boards when it became known that the giant liner had really sunk with terrible loss of life and In New York city hysteri cal men and women crowded Into the White Star Line offices seeking news of relatives. Vlnoent J.l tor. Colonel Aster's son, spent the entire night waiting for some wireless tidings of his father, alternately visiting the White Star Line headquarters and the newspaper offices. The speed at which the Titanic was going when she shattered . herself against the Iceberg will perhaps not te known until the first of her sur vivors reach port. Whatever her rate of progress, however, shipbuilders here and abroad must admit that while the modern steamship may defy the wind and weather. Ice and fog remain an ever present element of danger. No ship, they point out. no matter how staunchly built nor how many water tight bulkheads protect her, m.ty plur.jre headlong against a wall of Ice without grave results. The general opinion is that the Titanic's equipmeM was put to an extraordinary test which no vessel could have withstood. "Under ordinary circumstances these watertight compartments will preserve a ship from sinking, said A. L. Dop kins. vice-president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Iry Bock Co. in New York, "but smashing into an Iceberg could produce shattering ef fects that would render a ship help less beyond the protection of any de sign yet known- In fore and after J collision where the comportments are C Continued on Page Nine) In Some Sections Communi cation is Suspended and Supplies Exhausted. A DOZEN OR MORE PARISHES IN NORTHERN LOUISIANA ARE UN DER FROM FIVE TO TEN FEET OF WATER, AND UNLESS ATD IS RENDERED AT ONCE THERE WILL BE UNTOLD SUFFERING, ESPECIALLY AMONG NEGROES. By Associated Press. New Orleans, April 16. Although the general flood situation along the Mississippi river south of Vlcksburg has materially Improved, conditions In the vast territory of northern Louis iana, where a dozen or more parishes are partly under from five to ten feet of water, are steadily growing worse. The Salem crevasse near Alsatia, La., continued -to empty its eighteen foot wall of muddy water over some of the finest grazing and farming lands in the state. At Tallulah the flood had spread to practically all parts of the town and Is still rising. Rail com munication Is suspended and provis ions are about exhausted. Unless aid is received immediately there will be untold suffering among the negroes, who, as a rule, are destitute. For al most the entire distance between Tal lulah and Lake Providence the tracks of the Iron Mountain Railroad are washed out. Three hundred people were rescued yesterday at Sondheira and brought to the levees to await boats to take them to emergency camps along the river. HEAVY RAINS FALL ALL ALONG MISSISSIPPI RIVER Vicksburg, Arril 16. Rain fell in volume along the southern stretches of the Mississippi river today, adding to the discomfort and peril of those marooned in the overflowed sections of southeastern Arkansas and north ern Louisiana, but without materially affecting the dikes in the district. Re ports as far south as Natchez tell of the levees holding and general im provement In the situation. Rescue parties from the territory inundated by water coming through the Panther Forest. Ark.. crevasse report the drowning of seven negroes in too vl clnlty of Lake Village, Ark. GREAT CROWD HEARS WILSON In Atlanta the Governor Speaks sod Calls for a Return to Democracy in Fact as Wall as Name. ty Associated Press. Atlanta, April 16. Woodrow Wilson repeated his attack on the social In terests, their control of the govern ment, called for a return to Democ racy in fact as well e in name and lauded the south's Industrial and po litlcal rejuvenation In a speech before a great crowd here tonight. MORE MONEY FOR FLOOD DISTRICT Congress Appropriates $300,000 More and President Taft Approves Meat ure at Once. By Associated Press. Washington, April 16. The senate today passed the house bill to appro prlate $300,000 In addition to the $860, 000 already provided, to maintain and protect the levees on the Mississippi river against the Impending flood. The bill then went to the president who urged this action in a special message and who approved It. MUST ACQUIRE SELF GOVERNMENT President Taft Gives Ha Views on Granting American . Citizenship to Porto Rieana. By Associated Preaa. Washington. April 1. President Taft today gave hia views on the sub ject of granting American citizenship to Santiago Iglesias, president of the Free Federation of the Working Men of Porto Rico, he said: "As fast as the instinct and habit of self-government is acquired by the people at large and faster, the fullest possible measure of local and fiscal self-government should be granted." The president said he was glad to see that neither Americans or Porto Ricans entertained Ideas of statehood. Mrs. Grace is Bound Over to Await Action of Grand Jury By Associated Press. Atlanta, Ga., April 16. Mrs. Eugene H. Grace was today bound over to await the action of the grand jury on the charge of shooting her husband with intent to murder. Her bond of $7 600 was continued. Mrs. Grace was Bolting Florida Republicans Call Another State Convention By Associated Press. Jacksonville, Fla April 16. The revolting Florida Republicans issued a call today for another state conven tion to be held here on April 18 and decided to repudiate the action of the SI RAW VOTE 71 FOR UN UPIDERWD0D27 Ballots Come From All Over Third Congres sional District. INDICATIONS ARE THAT WILSON WILL CARRY DISTRICT BY AL MOST THREE TO ONE OVER UN. DERWOOD AND HE WILL SWEEP STATE BY EVEN A LARGER MA JORITY. Twelve votes received yesterday la The Journal's straw ballot from the third congressional district bring the result to date as follows: Underwood ..M....M.M.....M.2T Wil&ou . . ... ...... aw. -. . 7 1. Total . . The votes received yesterday came from Escambia, Santa Rosa. Walton. Holmes, Calhoun, Liberty, Washing ton, Leon and Jefferson counties. J. H. Donaldson of Jeffereon, J. L. Miller of Santa Rosa, and O. W. Youngblood of Escambia vote for Un derwood. . Robert Lambert and R. E. Johnson of Washington county are for Wood row Wilson. Mr. Johnson writes that his precinct is "very strong for Wood row Wilson." M. C Pitman of Holme county Is for Wilson and writes: "I am heartily in favor of Wilson as between thes two candidates.' P. D. McDonald of Walton county la for Wilson, and W. H. Hatchett of Liberty county votes for Wilson and writes: From what I can learn Wil son will carry thle county." M. C. Pippin of Calhoun county writes: "I say Woodrow Wilson first, last, and all the time, and this is what I think Calhoun county will ay." B. F. Maxwell of Leon county votea for Wilson and says: Our precinct will go aU right. You bet" And so they come. The returns In dicate a sentiment In the third con gressional district of mora than two and a half votes for Wilson to every one vote that Underwood gets. The people are not to te footed by the Inconsistent and foolleh arguments being advanced by the Allies. The people are not yet where they can all be led around by the nose nor driven Into the aupport of a man who Is not even In the running simply because h few men In Washington or Wall street frame up a combination to make them do it. . And the best part of It all Is that the sentiment for Woodrow Wilson In South Florida Is even stronger than It Is In West Florida. The natlon-rld southerner candidate will sweep every section of Florida. CONFERRING OVER MEXICAN SITUATION,; President Calls Cabinet Together and Later Gen. Wood Hold Eamait Conversation With Stimsen. By Aieoclated P ". Washington. April 1. Apprehension In official circles over the Mexican situation was indicated today by con ferences at the White House in which President Taft and the cabinet. Huntington Wilson, acting secretary of state, and Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the army, par ticipated. Gen. Wood reached the White House soon after the cabinet assembled, and. held an earnest conversation with Secretary Stimson in an adjoining room. Mr. Wilson then was summon ed from the state department and the three officials went into the cabinet room. RAILWAY SHOP CRAFTS MEET Representatives of 200,000 Members West of Mississippi Resume Their Conference. By Associated Preaa. Kansas City, April 16. Representa tive of 200.000 members of the five railways shop crafts west of the Mis sissippi river reaumed their conference today with the expectation that final steps toward the federation of the crafts would be taken before the meet ing adjourned. The first discussion was on admit ting painters, steam fitters and othT allied trades. rresent, but did not take the stand. She showed no emotion at the state ments of witnesses that her husbanf accused her of trying to kill hlra. Two physicians testified that Gra-Ci i doomed and might die In two week or six months, but could not re cover. Republican state convention at Pa latka on February It was stated the action of today Tas under direction of Ormaby Mc Harg, campaign manager of Roosevelt