In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic slipped beneath the waters of the North Atlantic. More than 1,500 people died in one of maritime history’s most notorious shipwrecks.

It took two days for the full scope of the disaster to hit the United States. The editors of the Scranton Times in Scranton, PA printed this front page on Tuesday, April 16th. The Times sold 46,500 copies of that day’s edition in the Coal Region.

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