The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-26
CRv the Associated Prcss.p

it0N lIt RS>OAIdt'' E+E
New York, Jan. 2".-GraNe @LNtlE
oroyafled here today and tonight as
The result of the thrilling maritime
drama being enacted of N~ahiuCN'1
on Ihc coast OF New England. j'ipM
ing the ramming early To-Day Ot tH1
big White Star Liner RepubIic. WIN
-61 souls aboard, by the steamer
Florida. of the L~Ioyd-Italjan line. me
wireless telegraph played an import
ami part in the grave incidents nap
prning at sad, far from lHv SIloI'9'
and proved its utility as It hau never
done before.
nounciug the news OF the colIlsloh
and the plight of the liner, when
news came direct from the injured
shin itself. Then it told of the rescue
of The Republic passengers, the comm
ton from time to time OF the SINKING
ship and finally, summoned from the
adjacent seas the White star inner
Baltic. the French steamer La LOr-
raine. the Cunarder Lucania and the
revenue cutters Acushnct and
Gresham.
Tonight at s o'clock the wireless
brought reassuring news from zap
tain Ransom, of the steamer Baltic.
He said that the Republic was still
afIoat; that the Florida with her
. own people and most of those OF the
Republic aboard, close 1000 souls IN
all, was near by, and that the Baltic
was near the scene standing ready to
lend aid. The steamers La Lorraine
and Lucania, Captain Ransom said,
were also in the vicinity, and the Re
public, through her wireless outfit,
was directip@ the movements OF the
ships Of rescue. s.4AAKl
IT is pr>a....ed here that the gfta
load Of human freight aboard tn
Florida will be transferred during the
night. weather permitting, 10 tn
three staunch liners, and that all the
nue. cutters and wrecking vessels,
which have been despatched, can
reach the scene.
The Florida has her bow crushed
in. wireless messages stated tonight
which would lend color to he belize
that she was the vessel that crushed
into the Republic in the early hours
of the morning in the thick of the
fog.
The fog is still heavy tonight al
along the coast but the weather /:
mild and there is comparatively littl,
wind and sea, d blessing III h face o
the serious situation.
A harhor steamer, the General Put
nam, has been chartered and is wait
ing at the White Star pier ready t
steam to sea to meet the Florida ol
any other vessel that may bring tn,
IoSSCiio(iS ~ t'OI II ~
is to Y the teamer meet the res
cue vessel III the lower bay, take OF
the shipWrecked passengers and briu.
them to the city where they will re
celNe every care.
The White Star offices will remain
open throughout the night and all o
Sunday for the purpose of eNpeditin.
relief matters and keeping the publil
informed of the situation.
Among those on the Republic wer,
James b. Connolly, the writer of sea
tales.
Boston, Mass, Jan. 23,-The White
Star Line steamer Republic. bound
from New York to the Mediterranean
having on board 761 souls of whom
250 were American cabin passengers
was rammed during a thick fog a
go a. m. today by an unknown vesse
off Nantucket Island and only es-
capped immediate sinking by the
prompt closing of her water tight
compartments.
All OF her passengers, including 21l
IN the Storage, We're transferred three
hours after the accident to the Italian
steamer Florida, bound from Naples
10 New York, but the officers and crew
OF the Republic refused to leave the
shIp so long as there was a chance
OF keeping her ahoat.
wireless telegraphy played an i'm
4ortant part in the cciden to the
for i summoned about her
i'll Al ~t1aqs.ss a fleet of three large
ag-ff.-s1 Iarrainn-af tie
ST. me- me Baltic, OF the White
90 Line, and the Cunarder I,ucania
II IS apparent that the Florida mnst
nave peen betWeen 80 and 40 miles off
net course in being nav
~ as the East bound ana
,hhaf' pound steamer lanes here are
Na Instance apart.
AS soon as the Rap,bIia
IuIch ana the extent of the dan,aga
~ peeh known, wireless cans To-
~ %I We're sent broadcast over
wero Aal s All vessels within range
~ d9hed TO hasten to the scene
= can Tor help was first recorded
WIZ ldhd at the Charlestown Nav
-" at . O'Clock this forenoon II
p@uiu 10 revenue cutter Grnsbam
a n"1'oH steamer Republic in distress
nd S77nah55hns. Latitude 40.17: longi-
tucket." 9'"'n"eSt OF Nam
n Gresham was not At tho N,
T%Iu, out intercepted the arnaai ~
nIoNlncetoWn harbor. She ST.
immediately for Nantucket 9'"i' eu
Tho tGt wireless apparatus also caueh+
~ nftLs message and in a short I'm
Cn nt Eulter Acushnet was on her ,-nr
ouI from Woods Hole. the NobW3y
aIiotnef revenue cutter, had St"rWh;
Gnu Ihe Seneca had been order I
ION New London. Conn. tn va
Acrshn@t 0H ran around while IN
TcuShilet did not get outcidn re
- rineyard sound n later came ba ,le
~ 4ssist another vessel in distrasi
LORRAINE anime the Baltic and Ia
vme l~tepublic a few hours earifarr 's ae
Tho SPeedlns into New York. beo%dtn,Gd
can Tor assistance and put abont
var ne Lucania which was to the east
mafd OF Nantucket light sbin east
b f2iCcn1ng the message out Of tho ais" IS
+be ap = speed and pressed ON f.
me assistance of the Republic. .
i lae eIil+sion being amidship, almost
and. of course. rendora 81 me
"GSoiutely helpless. Fortunately ~.
with e'eSs was well s1InpIied
I'm storage battery and thasa 49,
USED Tor more than six hours nan WtITFe
hat bst'ualdy became exhausted. All,
Of subm neonrse TO signaling BY means
III tne middle of the ,,ra