Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-01-29
LINER REPUBLIC
FOUNDERS At SEA
Tragic Scene in Drama
of Shipwreck and
Wireless

New York. Jan. 81. The palatial
ocean steamship Republic of the White
Star line, which was in collision with
the Italian liner Florida Saturday
morning off Nantucket. Mass. went
down at $3.50 tonight. No one was
lost. Her passengers were taken off
many hours before and are on the
steamship Baltic. which was off Sandy
Hook at a late hour. making for this
port.
The Republic was in tow of the
revenue cutter Gresham and the dere-
lict destroyer Seneca, proceeding to
New York, when she sank. On board
her was Captain Sealby, with a voIun-
teer detail of the crew. They had
towed them a short distance when she
began to settle rapidly. Seeing no
hope of saving the ship, Captain Seal
by gave the order to abandon the ship
and the crew was taken off by the
Gresham, which cast loose from the
crippled liner and stood until she sank
beneath the waves.
The Gresham and Seneca then head
ed for the Massachusetts coast and will
land Captain Sealby and his brave
crew at Gay Head, Mass. or Newport.
r. |. As to the exact point of land
ing wireless advices differ. The
point where the Republic went down
| is described in brief wireless messages
received here tonight as off No Man s
land, a small island south of Martha S
Vineyard island, off the Massachusetts
coast.
The Florida is slowly steaming to-
ward New York, conveyed by the Am
ercian liner New York
The Baltic was in wireless commun-
ication with the Fire island station at
II o'clock. but did not define her posi-
ton. The weather was thick and she
could not be sighted from the station.
1t was considered likely that the
Baltic would await daylight before
proceeding to her pier
This in brief is the station late
tonight IN the stirring story of the sea.
of which the first wireless flash of the
collision of the two big ships was re-
ceived yesterday morning.
The ramming of the Republic early
Saturday morning bv the Italian liner
Florida off Nantucket, Mass. has
been followed by series of events
constituting one of the most remark
able ocean mishaps on record.
Not less than seven ocean liners -
the Baltic. New York, Furnessia, La
Lorraine and the Lucania, and the two
crippled ships. Florida and Republic
are figuring in the stirring story.
The 442 passengers and some mem
bers of the crew Of the Republic have
undergone two transfers on the open
sea. first to the crippled Florida. on
Saturday morning and again early to-
day to the more commondious Baltic.
Until an early hour today it was be-
LEVIED no one was killed or injured
but shortly after midnight the wireless
telegraph flashed the news that two
passengers on the Republic had been
killed and others injured Late in the
day another wireless message told of
| four deaths on board the Florida. The
identity of these was not made known.
The message from Captain Ransom
of the Baltic of the White Star line
in this city ave the names of the dead
passengers on the Republic as Mrs.
Eugene Lynch of Boston and w. K.
Mooney a banker of Langdon N. d.
The injured were Mrs M. M. Murphy,
wife of the financial agent of the
Union Central Life Insurance company
of Grand Forks N. D., and Eugene
Lynch of Boston.