From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
There was a terrible accident yesterday. A big ship called the “Titanic” was sunk. It was a beautiful ship, like a hotel floating on water. Maybe it is like a palace too. It had a ballroom and a big play room for children and kennels for their dogs and the people dressed up every night in evening clothes and they had music with their dinner and wonderful things to eat and bubbly wine to drink. Every day and night is like a party when you travel on the ocean.
The front page headline from the San Francisco Examiner on April 15, 1912:
