On Monday morning, April 15, 1912, newsboys across the city stood over their stacks of newspapers

and cried out more urgently than usual.

Those newsies who sold the New York Times proclaimed, Newliner Titanic hits an iceberg.

Those who sold the evening world declared, disabled ship is undertow after hitting Big

Iceberg.

In Brooklyn, alarmed residents heard shouts of damaged steamship reported sinking, all

believed to be safe.

By that afternoon, the streets around Bowling Green Park in Lower Manhattan were a swarm

of thousands of people flocked to the offices of the White Star Line at nine Broadway.

The newspapers had all gotten their scoops from wire messages sent to a Marconi signal office

in Halifax.

Employees at the White Star office, however, claimed to have gotten no word from the company.

Just a day earlier, ticket sellers were busy booking passage for the Titanic's April 20

return voyage to Southampton.

Excited passengers would have boarded the ship at Pier 59 at the Chelsea Peers.

Throughout the day, further messages were received with a list of names of those who had

been rescued.

The wealthiest New Yorkers, with family members among the most celebrated names traveling

in the Liners' first class, waited anxiously in their Fifth Avenue mansions.

Loved ones of those who had traveled second class, paced through Battery Park, hoping

for a miracle.

But those awaiting news of those passengers in third class were met with silence.

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