The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
BIG STEAMSHIP SINKS AT SEA White Star Liner Re public Goes Down ALL ON BOARD WERE SAVED Six Persons Lost Their Lives In
 Collision
 -e-- Tke Passengers sf the Republic and s1eriaa Are Enroute To Port
 Q. The Steamer
 @f'-si Baltic. t aa . II
ALL ON BOARD WERE SAVED


 
 New York, Jan. s4-The paiAtiai ocean steamship Republic of the White Star Line, which was in collision with 1he Italian liner Florida early satur- day morning on Nantucket. sMass., went down at e:30 o'clock tonight.
 No one was lost. Her messengers are on the steamer Baltic Esiich was off Sandy Hook at a late hour. making for this port. H '
 The Republic was in tow of the revenue cutter Gresham. and the De. reliet Destroyer Seneca, proceeding to New York. On board was Captain Sealby, with volunteer crewsof fifty. The crew was taken off by the Gres- ham which stood by until she sank be- nsath the waves. The Gresham and the Seneca will land Captain sealby and his crew at Gay Head. Mass. or Newport R. I,
 The Florida is slowly steaming to- wards New York. conveyed by the American liner New York. Her pas. senGers also are on the Baltic. The Baltic is nearing the harbor of New York late tonight.
 This in brief is the situation late tonight in the stirring story of the sea, following the first flash from the wireless operator on board the Repub- lie at the early dawn of Saturday morning.
 That there was loss of life attend Ing the collision was not known until an early hour Sunday morning. Then the wireless which has had it's first great trial, and proven it's utility. brought the news that Mrs. Eugene Lynch. of Boston. and W. J. Mooney,l of Langdon, N. D., had been killed, and Mrs. M. M. Murphy of Grand Forks. N. D. and Eugene Lynch, of Boston. injured.
 It was reported further that four members of the Fiorlda's crew had met with death. The bodies of the dead and injured persons were transferred to the Baltic.
 Series of Events.
 The ramming of the White Star, liner Republic, early Saturday morning by the Italian liner Florida, of Nan tucket. Mass, has been followed by a series of events constituting one of the most remarkable ocean mishaps on record. <zF
 No less than seven ocean liners, the Baltic, New York, Furnessia, La L6r- ratne-and Lucania, and the two crip- pied ships, Florida and Republic, fig ured in the stirring story. The 442 passengers and part of the crew of the Republic have undergone two trans fers~on the open sea. first to. the crip- pied Florida, and then today to the more connmodlous Baltic, to which, also was trausferred the4S0O and more pas- sengers from the Florida.
 With this great human cargo of res. cned persons, besides her own list of 9S0 passengers, the Baltic wiII arrive on Sandy Hook about II o'clock to- night. E
 The Republic, shortly after the ac- cident, believed to be sinking, with a volunteer crew, was limping back to New York tonight. lowed by the reve- nue cutter Gresham, and steered aft by the Anchor liner Furnessia.
 The Florida, with her bow rent, is slowly steering under her own n-steam for this port, conveyed by the Ameri- can liner New York,
 Until an early hour today it was not believed the crashing together of the two big ships had not resulted in death or Injury to a single passenger or member of the crews shortly after midnight, however the wireless tele- graph flashed the news that two pas- sengerB on the Republic had been killed and two others injured. Later ip the day another wireless message told of four deaths on board the Flor ida, either of members of the crew, or steerage passengers. A message from Captain Ransom of the Baltic gave the names Af the dead passengers as Mrs. Eugene Lynch, of Boston and w. J. Mooney of Langdon, N. D. The injured are Mrs. M. NJ. Murphy of Grand Forks, N. D., and Eugene Lynch Of Boston.
 MT. Mooney and his wife were bound, with Mir. and Mrs. Murphy, on . pleasure trip from the west to Medi- terranean, and occupied state rooms on the top deck aft, on the port side. Mir. and Mrs. Lynch occupied an -ad- joining stateroom.
 The feeling of elation among the steamship officials early today when Captain Ransom wired that there was an excellent chance to save the Re- public, gave way to regret, when the news came that there had been loss of life.
 Details of the collision at sea, in the dense fog, came fitfuly by wireless today from many receiving stations along the New England coast line The story told in brief but potent messages how the passengers of the Republic and the Florida spent the many anxious and uncomfortableT hours following the collision after the transfer of passeR- gers from the Republic to the Florida, which had no accommOda ations for the 400 and more additions to her already heavy list, Captain VOltolin of the Italian ship gave orders to stand by, unti1 further he'S arrived. An exam nation of the Florida showed that her cutwater and bow had been crumpled. as if she had crashed into stone wall, and her two forward compart- ments were filled with water. How ever, she showed no signs of sinking But 1t was deemed best at a late hour, to transfer all those on board the Florida to the Baltic.
 Shortly before midnight Saturday night, the re-transfer of the passengers began. Fortunately, the sea was placid as lake. The ships boats, working in the flare of night lights. made their way back and forth be- tween the steamships in the fog.