Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-01-29
HEROES ARE landed.
CAPTAIN. MATE AND WIRELESS
MAN or THE REPUBLIC.
FLORIDA ALSO IN PORT
Frenxied Cheers ana Tears Of Thank
i fulness Greet the Survivors Of
the Remarkable Ocean
s Drama.

New York. Less than ~ hours
after the crash between the ocean
liners Republic and Florida of the
Nantucket Shoals, which eventually
sent the one to the bottom and re.
duced the other to state of stagger'
ing helplessness, the survivors of this
thrilling deep sea tragedy found Q
haven. At nightfall Monday 1850 pas
sengers from the two vessels were
safe In this port. brought here by the
Baltic.
u AT nine o'clock the derelict destroy
er Seneca, aboard of which We're Capt
Sealby and his volunteer crew. who
stood by the Republic till she sank
arrived in the harbor.
With Capt. Sealby were Second Mate
Williams, who refused to leave his
captain when the latter ordered the
volunteer crew to the cutter Gresham
and Jack. Binns. the Republics wire
less operator, who stayed heroically at
his post when the collision came and
summoned aid from far and nsai
through his electrical signals sent into
the air.
! At her dock In Brooklyn was the
battered Florida, aboard which heI
crew had remained throughout her
trying experience.
As the stirring story OF what &C.
CURED when the steamers crashed to-
gether In the fog and mist and the dra-
matte incidents which followed ap-
preached completeness, 1t began to be
apparent that the three days witnessed
what is, beyond question, the most re.
markable series OF happenings IN the
history of modern navigation.
Sixteen hundred and fifty persons,
passengers on the Republic and Flori-
da, whose lives were in jeopardy for
hours while the call of the wireless
was gradually bringing aid nearer and
nearer to them, reached New York on
the steamer Baltic. No argosy of the
olden days bringing golden treasure
home was ever more heartily vel
coined. Frenzied cheers from the
/. thousands at the pier when she docked
greeted her arrival, tears of thankful
ness we're shed, affectionate greetings
were exchanged, and only here and
there did note Of sadness intrude
itself upon the scene.
Until an early hour Sunday it was
believed the crashing together OF the
two big ships OF fog bound Nantucke1
Saturday morning had not resulted II
death or injury to a single passenger
or member Of the crews. Shortly after
midnight, however, the wireless tele
graph, that mysterious force which
had apprised the world Of the Repub
lies distress and quickly brought other
ships to her aid, flashed the news that
two passengers on the Republic had
been killed and two others injured
Late in the day another wireless mes
sage told of four deaths on board the
Florida, either of members of the crew
or steerage passengers. The identity
OF these was not made clear. The
message from Capt. Ransom of the Bal
tic to the White Star Company in this
city gave the names Of the dead pas
sengers as Mrs. Eugene Lynch Of
Boston and w. J.. Mooney, banker Of
4 Langdon, N. d. The injured are Mrs
I M. M. Murphy. wife of the financial
agent Of the Union Central Life Insur
ance Company Of Grand Forks, N. D.
and Eugene Lynch of Boston.