100 YEARS AGO
Friday, April 19, 1912
Reuters news agency, in its second report on the wreck of the Titanic, called the disaster that befell the great floating city "the most appalling on record." There is no longer any doubt that this accurately describes what happened in the early hours of Monday morning.
One may well doubt if there is a poet living powerful enough to do justice to the dramatic scene of hundreds of men and women who, but a moment before, were slumbering with no dream but ease, luxury and safety, being suddenly crushed by vast masses of ice in the northern sea.