How did people find out when the titanic sunk?
Most people found out the Titanic had struck an iceberg from newspapers but the newspapers headlines were raving that the Titanic had hit an iceberg and that everyone survived and the ship was being towed to New York by the Carpathia. This made many people very optimistic about the collision thinking everything was alright. In fact, 2 out of 3 was completely untrue. The first newspaper to proclaim the truth was The New York Times. The headline on April 16, 1912 was, “TITANIC SINKS FOUR HOURS AFTER HITTING ICEBERG; 866 RESCUED BY CARPATHIA, PROBABLY 1250 PERISH; ISMAY SAFE, MRS.ASTOR MAYBE, NOTED NAMES MISSING.” After that headline people started to lose their optimistic hope about the outcome of the collision. By now many other newspapers were changing there headlines. This is how many people heard of the Titanic disaster.
