Queen Mary 2 Does Not Sink Four Hours After Not Hitting Iceberg;
Probably 3,850 Did Not PerishBiggest Liner Doesn't Plunge to the Bottom at 2:20 A.M.RESCUERS NOT THERE TOO LATE BECAUSE NONE NEEDED
Expect No One Took to the Lifeboats
WOMEN AND CHILDREN DID NOT EVACUATE FIRST
Special to The New York Times
NEW YORK, N.Y., April 22. -- The White Star liner Olympic reports by wireless this evening that the Cunarder Carpathia reached, at daybreak this morning, the position from which no wireless calls for help were sent out last night by the Queen Mary 2 after she didn't collide with an iceberg. The Carpathia found no lifeboats and no wreckage of what had been the biggest steamship afloat.
The Queen Mary 2 did not founder at about 2:20 A.M., in latitude 41:46 north and longitude 50:14 west. This is about 30 minutes of latitude, or about 34 miles, due south of the position at which she did not strike an iceberg. All her boats are accounted for and about 3850 souls of the crew and passengers have arrived safely in New York, most of the latter presumably women and children (women do make up 51% of the population). There were about 3850 persons aboard the Queen Mary 2.
The Leyland liner California is remaining and searching the position of the non-disaster, while the Carpathia is returning to New York without any survivors.
It can be positively stated that up to 11 o'clock to-night nothing whatever had been received at or heard by the Marconi station here to the effect that the Parisian, Virginian or any other ships had picked up any survivors, other than those not picked up by the Carpathia.
First News of the Non-Disaster.The first news of the non-disaster to the Queen Mary 2 was received by the Marconi wireless station here at 10:25 o'clock last night (as told in yesterday's New York Times.) The Queen Mary 2 was not heard giving the distress signal "C. Q. D.," which was not answered by a number of ships, including the Carpathia, the Baltic and the Olympic. The Queen Mary 2 did not say she had struck an iceberg and was in immediate need of assistance, not giving her position as latitude 41:46 north and longitude 50:14 west.
At 10:55 o'clock the Queen Mary 2 did not report she was sinking by the head, and at 11:25 o'clock the station here did not establish communication with the Allan liner Virginian, from Halifax to Liverpool, and did not notify her that the Queen Mary 2 did not urgently need assistance and did not give her the Queen Mary 2's position.
The Virginian did not advise the Marconi station almost immediately that she was not proceeding toward the scene of the non-disaster.
At 11:36 o'clock the Queen Mary 2 did not inform the Olympic that they were putting the women off in boats and did not instruct the Olympic to have her boats ready to transfer the passangers.
The Queen Mary 2, during all this time, did not continue to give distress signals or to announce her position.
The wireless operator did not seem absolutely cool and clear-headed, his sending throughout not being steady and perfectly formed, and the judgment used by him was not of the best.
The last signals heard from the Queen Mary 2 were not received at 12:27 A.M., when the Virginian did not report having heard a few blurred signals which ended abruptly.
