Toledo Free Press – April 15, 2012

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Volume 8, IssUE 16

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Sunday Morning, April 15, 2012

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Titanic Sinks!

‘Indestructible’ ship hits iceberg More than 1,500 killed on ship’s Reflecting on the 100th anniversary maiden voyage Toledoans Among Missing

By Jeff McGinnis Toledo Free PRESS POP CULTURE EDITOR news@toledofreepress.com

Local artist Ralph Henry has spent years chronicling the maiden and final voyage of the most famous ship in history. Working in colored pencil, Henry has drawn more than a dozen portraits of the Titanic — depicted everywhere from the docks at Southampton, England, to its final resting place at the bottom of the sea. His works have been displayed in various locations around the area since 2006, most notably in a regular exhibit at the Lucas County Fair. But as the great ship’s voyage came to a sudden end, so too will Henry’s work in tribute to it.

By Caitlin McGlade Toledo Free Press Staff Writer cmcglade@toledofreepress.com

On her maiden voyage, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Wreckage found in Atlantic Carpathia rescues survivors Interview with Robert Ballard, See page A3

Maumee man’s grandmother was eyewitness

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When the Atlantic Ocean swallowed all 46,328 tons of Titanic, a poor immigrant sat waiting thousands of miles away for her fiancé to join her at their new Toledo home She would never see him again. Another local woman would soon have to identify her husband’s body — only to learn he shared the last hours of his life with a mistress. A woman who convinced her brother-inlaw to visit her from England would discover she inadvertently coaxed him to his icy death. And in Fremont, beet farms would forever lie waiting for the hands of workers from Belgium to unearth their produce. The ship crashed thousands of miles away but Northwest Ohio felt the waves.

Chaos through a porthole

The death and wreckage washed up in the nightmares of some Toledo residents for their entire lives.

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