A family's anxious wait for news of the Titanic
- Charlotte Zureick
- Dec 1, 2024
- 2 min read
The story of two Titanic victims of Scranton, Pennsylvania
Picture of William and Cordelia Lobb from The Times-Tribute, Scranton, Pennsylvania April 18, 1912
“Fear For Safety Of Local Couple, Relatives Here Awaiting To Learn Whether Mr. and Mrs. William Lobb Were Passengers on Ill-Fated Titanic, Thought To Be On Ship”
The Scranton Truth, Scranton, Pennsylvania
April 17, 1912
“Two Scranton people, Mr. and Mrs. William Lobb, who, until going abroad a year ago, lived at 1711 Swetland street, may be among the victims claimed by the sinking of the Titanic. Relatives today are anxiously awaiting news from the office of the steamship company in New York city. Letters received here a month ago announced that Mr. and Mrs. Lobb were to sail from Southampton on April 10. Another letter followed last week stating they were ready to take passage.
“Reading of the disaster, Miss Tryphena Stanlick, one of Mrs. Lobb’s sisters, employed as a maid in the office of Dr. G. D. Murray, of 528 Madison avenue, began to worry for the safety of the couple. An investigation disclosed the fact that the Titanic was the only vessel to sail from Southampton on the date that Mr. and Mrs. Lobb stated they would take passage. Dr. Murray made the rounds of the steamship offices here yesterday and learned that no other ships had left Southampton, Plymouth or Liverpool on that date.
Waiting For News
“‘I have nothing to say,’ said Miss Stanlick this morning to a Truth reporter. ‘I am waiting for definite news and can only hope that they were not on the boat.’
“No lists of passengers published yet contain the names of Mr. and Mrs. Lobb. Officials of the White Star Line in New York state that they are waiting for a complete list of the names of survivors and until such is received can give no definite information.
“Mr. and Mrs. Lobb sailed from New York a year ago to visit Mr. Lobb’s family at Cornwall, England. Mr. Lobb for several years was employed here as an engineer in the local Lackawanna shops. His wife is a sister of Mrs. William Barrett, of 1414 Monsey avenue and Frederick Stanlick, of Dalton; Samuel Stanlick, of Green Ridge street, and Misses Edith and Tryphena Stanlick. Mr. Lobb is thirty years old and his wife twenty-nine years. They were married at St. Luke’s church, this city.”
This two-page advertisement for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad was published in a special section of The Scranton Republican commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of Scranton, Pennsylvania. It depicts major station buildings along the railroad's main line from Hoboken, N.J., to Buffalo, N.Y., with special emphasis on the grand station at Scranton, which also served as the company's major headquarters. The document was scanned in 2008 and posted online in September 2009 by Susan White Pieroth. Image via Wikicommons.
Further reading:
Cordelia Lobb biography
William Lobb biography https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/william-arthur-lobb.html
Record of Cordelia Lobb’s body identification
The grave of the Lobbs
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