Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-01-28
NOT: DEAD
Mrs. M. F. Murphy Not Dead in
Steamer Collision as First
Reported.

Steamer OOlnSlOu rs FlISt
Reported.
Monday the information reached
relatives in Jamestown that the wife
of M. F.. Murphy, Of Grand Forks
had died from injuries received in
the steamship collision between the
Republic and the Florida. This re-
port has proved incorrect and Mon
day evening about O'Clock, Micheal
Murphy received a telegram from
New York City, from M. F. Murphy,
stating that the latter's wife was
alive and resting comfortably. The
first report was that she died soon
after the collision. The bodies of W.
J. Mooney of Cavalier and Mrs. Lynch
of Boston, the only two passengers
who lost their lives, we're given sea
burial and having been placed in
leaden caskets, sank with the ship.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Murphy are in
St. vincent's hospital, New York.
Mrs. Murphy has broken leg, the
result of the accident and Mr.. Muir
phys face is cut and his body consid-
erably bruised. Both Mr.. Winship
and Mr.. Murphy related the news
paper interviews incidents of the col
lision. Mrs. Mooney, wife of the
banker who was killed, escaped from
the ship in her night clothes with a
blanket wrapped around her but once
on board the Florida was made COM
Portable. The Associated Press has
the following:
New York, Jan. 25.-Michael F.
Murphy, president of the bankers
association of North Dakota. Of
Grand Forks, N. D., who, with his
wife was injured on the Republic
during the collision, made q state
ment during tonight at st. t.Vincent's
hospital, where he and his wife are
being attended, he for lacerated
face and foot, and his wife for COM
pound fracture Of the right leg and
contusions Of the body.
Mr.. Murphy spoke in glowing terms
OF the behavior of the crew Of the
Italian vessel. .I am glad, ,"he said,
''to get an opportunity to say few
words of praise for the Italian crew
of the Florida. I had to take my in
jured wife on board and I can truth
fully make the statement that our
treatment aboard the Florida was
much better than that accorded us
on either of the other vessels. The
first real medical attention to my
wife, was that which she received
from DR.. Alderiorinaldi, ships sur
geon on the Florida, and when one
considers that there we're only five
persons injured aboard the Republic,
it is impossible to enthuse over the
efficiency of the medical service
aboard that. ship. When I tried to
get my wife to the deck Of the Bal
tic, officers of that ship told me pos
itively that his ship would receive no
injured person. That was at 5 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon and it was II o.
clock before, by continued and per-
sistent efforts, 1 was able to make
arrangements to have my wife taken
aboard the Baltic. She.was strapped
to stretcher and taken across on q
life boat and then, although we were
first class passengers abroad the Re-
public, we were assigned to- quarters
in the steerage of the Baltic and it
was almost 2 O'Clock in the morning
before l could arrange to have my
wife again removed to quarters
above. This may be chivalry and
system but I am unable to appreci-
ate 1t. - K e!
Mrs. Murphy was better tonight.
She was resting quietly and the sdoc-
tor said that he had every hope that
she would recover.
George Winship is quoted in .
different vein and is reported as say
ing:
New York, Jan. 28. ~" The immi-
grants on board the Florida took
precedence Of the Americans by force
during the transfer from the immi-
grant ship to the Baltic. saw some
Of the men draw their stilettos in
their panic and haste
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