Look Back: Titanic Sinks, P-D scoops
Date: 4/15/2009 Album ID: 732407
Photos by Post-Dispatch files
Post-Dispatch reporter Carlos Hurd was taking a vacation aboard the ship Carpathia when the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank April 15, 1912. Hurd scooped the rest of the world with his interviews of survivors when they boarded the Carpathia.
FILE PHOTO, (date unknown) - The TITANIC: the most infamous liner in maritime history
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - Waiting to get news of TITANIC. Huge crowd gathered in front of the White Star Line office in New York's lower Broadway to get the latest news on the sinking of the liner Titanic on April 14, 1912. The ship, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, went down after striking an iceberg off Newfoundland. It was one of the sea's greatest disasters: 1513 were lost of whom 103 were women and 53 were children.
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - White Star Steamship TITANIC. Largest steamer in the world.   46,328 Tons Gross Register.
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - The TITANIC disaster.  Photograph of the magnificent Grand Staircase in the main salon of the ill-fated Titanic, which went to the bottom of the sea, with more than 1,200 souls, after ramming the iceberg in mid-ocean.
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - The TITANIC disaster. View of the promenade deck of the ill-fated White Star Liner Titanic, which foundered at sea after striking an iceberg.
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - The TITANIC disaster. Photograph of the main dining room on the salon deck of the ill-fated White Star Liner Titanic, which foundered in mid-ocean after raming an iceberg
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FILE PHOTO, (date unknown) - Captain of the TITANIC, Edward J. Smith. 1,635 died in the disaster. The ship sailed her maiden voyage from Southampton, on April 10, 1912, filled with some of the most famous men and women in the world. Four days later an S.O.S. was received from the vessel which was at that time off Cape Race, Newfoundland. When rescue ships rushed to the scene they found nothing but floating wreckage and the 705 survivors clinging to whatever they could lay their hands upon. The Titanic had collided with a gigantic iceberg, slid part way up the berg and then, in slipping off, had ripped off part of her keel. The boat filled and sank in a few minutes taking with her to Davy Jones' locker such men as Isidore Straus, John Jacob Astor and the captain of the beautiful ship, Edward J. Smith (pictured)
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FILE PHOTO (1940s) - Carlos F. Hurd, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, had the scoop of the century. After the TITANIC disaster, the Post-Dispatch sponsored a fund drive for destitute survivors.
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - Rescue of the TITANIC survivors. One of the Titanic life boats alongside the S.S. Carpathia. The boat has just been made fast to the rescue ship and the survivors were taken up the ladder one by one and given succor by the passengers of the rescue ship. Most of the women survivors were lifted aboard the ship in a hysterical condition.
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This photo, now creased and torn by age, was published by the Post-Dispatch on April 21, 1912, with the caption, Caring for Titanic survivors on board the Carpathia.
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - TITANIC
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - TITANIC survivors: A newlywed couple, left, visits with former St. Louisan Clara Hayes, right. The photo was taken by a passenger on the Carpathia.
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FILE PHOTO, (date unknown) - The TITANIC
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - Survivors of the TITANIC disaster sit on the deck of the Carpathia wearing garments lent by passengers on the rescue vessel.
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - Crowd waiting to meet relatives ( Titanic survivors ) on Carpathia
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FILE PHOTO, (date unknown) - Harold McBride ( Bride ) - wireless operator - Titanic
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - People lined the streets to watch the procession to the cemetery for the bandmaster of the Titanic.
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This is the a copy of the cover of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on April 19, 1912, a few days after the Titanic struck an iceburg.  This edition includes an account of the disaster by Carlos F. Hurd, on the rescue ship Carpathia.
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FILE PHOTO, (date unknown) - J. Bruce Ismay (facing camera, with mustache), one of the TITANIC survivors, testifies at the U.S. Senate inquiry into the catastrophe. It was Ismay, as managing director of the White Star Line (which operated the Titanic), who ordered the Titanic's speed ranges during the various stages of the ill-fated maiden voyage. It was Ismay who knew about the iceberg warnings but made no suggestion to Captain Smith for slowing the vessel down, even though he had issued plenty of other orders during the trip. And, according to witnesses, it was Ismay who climbed into a lifeboat when women and children still were aboard the sinking Titanic. After his rescue, Ismay was bitterly criticized by press and public although the official inquiries made on both sides of the Atlantic made no specific charges against him. Embittered, ashamed and emotionally ruined, Ismay became a recluse and died in 1937.
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FILE PHOTO, 1912 - Katherine and Carlos Hurd gave the first detailed account of the sinking of the TITANIC.
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