Greatly relieved, Margaret quickly made plans to greet the major when the rescue ship Carpathia docked in New York City, an event scheduled for the evening of April 18.
Arthur Peuchen was indeed one of the 705 survivors. Was the major one of them? Finally, on this day 104 years ago, she received a telegram from the ship’s owner, the White Star Company, confirming that Maj. For the next two days Margaret and her two children fretted as they waited for news. Peuchen, the only thing that really mattered was the fate of the major. The only change to the liner’s schedule was its port of arrival and the time.īut it wasn’t long before the sheer magnitude of the disaster was confirmed.
Her concern was real even though one or two of the earliest reports stated that all the passengers and crew members were safe and the damaged ship was being towed to Halifax. Having received a telegram five days earlier in which her husband confirmed that he was able to book his passage home on board Titanic’s maiden trip, she was fretful that the major might be involved somehow. One of those Torontonians whose fears grew as unconfirmed stories of the mighty ship’s sinking after it collided with an iceberg was the major’s wife, Margaret. On April 15, 1912, rumours of a disaster at sea involving the new White Star liner RMS Titanic began to circulate throughout our fast-growing city that now boasted more than 400,000 citizens.
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