What a difference a day makes. The other day a young researcher came in asking to see what we had on the Titanic in our newspaper archives. I went down to the vault and pulled one of our bound copies of the Everett Herald for him to look at. As you can see in the first photograph, there was some confusion about what had happened with the Titanic when the disaster was still breaking news. On April 15, 1912, the Everett Herald reported that the Titanic had hit an iceberg but all passengers were safe. It was initially believed that the ship was in tow, but later reports stated that she was sinking.

Sadly the April 16, 1912 copy of the Everett Herald announced the grim fate of the Titanic and many of her passengers.