How El Paso Became Home For Titanic Survivors

The anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is coming up. You may not know it but some of the survivors of that terrible night wound up in El Paso and remain here to this day.

April 15th, 1912, one of the greatest maritime disasters in history happened in the Atlantic, about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland; around 1,000 miles from New York.

That’s where the Titanic, a ship so well built and designed that it was deemed “unsinkable”, struck an iceberg and did just that. The Titanic sank, taking over 1,500 people to the bottom with it…

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