The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-24
LINERS CAME
TOGETHER IN
A DENSE FOG
White Star Steamer Republic
Given Death Blow Off Man.
tucket LightShip.
OTHER VESSEL CARRIED
ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS
PASSENGERS AND CREWS OF
BOTH RESCUED AND ON
WAY TO NEW YORK.

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Nantucket. Mass. Jan. 2S.-In CROP
ing her way through the dense fog off
Nantucket lightship at dawn today, the
steamer Florida of the Lloyd-Italiano
line. bound to New York from Naples,
dealt a deathblow TO the Outward-bcund
steamer Republic of the White Star
line, laden with pleasure-seekinS pas
senEers for southern Europe, and with
supplies for the United States battle
ship feet.
The steamer Florida. proving to be
less seriously injured than the other
steamer. took aboard the Republics
passengers almost Immediately, and
twelve hours later all the officers and
crew of the Republic, with the eXcep-
ton of Captain Sealby, left that vessel
Captain Sealby in his gig refused to
leave the sight of his beloved ship until
she had disappeared forever beneath
the waves.
The Florida OF Her Course.
The Republic was on her regular
course for the eastward, but the Flor
ida was thirty miles off the prescribed
line for inward-bound steamers. Wheth-
er she was seeking to return to that
course OF was wandering still further
astray in the fog, could not be learned
from the meager dispatches received up
to 10 o'clock tonight.
While the passengers and the crew
of the Republic were saved by the
Florida. the fact that the Republic had
been seriously injured and was sinking
was spread broadcast over the Atlantic
for a distance of more than leo miles
by means of wireless telegraphy. The
mystic hand of the Marconi waves
touched the steamers Baltic and La
Lorraine on their way to New York,
and brought them around to the aid of
the sinking liner
The Republic Kept AfIoat.
The steamer Lucania, four revenue
cutters and a naval collier, we're also
notified of the plight of the Republic.
Stout water-tight compartments pre-
vented a repetition of the Bourgoyne
disaster of ten years ago, and kept the
Republic afiOat for more than fifteen
hours. The water-tight compartment
installation not only kept the Florida
above water, but enabled her TO return
to the assistance of the Republic, after
the fearful recoil of the collision.
The two ships coilided at $50 a. m.
about twenty-five miles southwest of
Nantucket lightship. The next three
hours were occupied in summoning aid
and transferring the 461 passengers, $50
in the cabin and 211 in the steeraSe,
from the Republic to the Florida. Cap
tain Sealby and his officers and crew,
however, refused to leave while there
was the slightest hope Of saving the
vessel.
Hope Diminished Hourly.
During the day frequent messages
stated that the chances of saving the
Republic were diminishing hourly; that
the Baltic, La Lorraine and Lucania
were nearing the scene, and at p. m.
came word from the Baltic that she
was alongside the stricken vessel and
ready to render every assistance.
On h. ha se~1,f
compartments on board the Republic
filled as the bulkheads gave way under
the pressure, and at o'clock tonight
all hands were ordered to abandon the
ship. and the officers and crew went
over the side in their boats.
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