Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-01-28
Had Been in Collision with and
Badly Damaged by the Ital-
ian Liner Florida.
SIX KILLED IN ACCIDENT
AL the other Passengers safely Re-
moved frcm the Damaged steamers
to the naIt,c--Thc Republic
Was Being Towcd to New
York when sunk.

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New York Jan 24-T~e palatia' ocean
steamship. Republic of the White star
line. which was N collision with tho
Italian liner. Florida early saturday
morning off Nantucket. Mass. wei t
down at half past >ight O'Clock to-
night No one was lost. Her passengers
taken off many hours before. arc on
She steamship Baltic. Witch was off
Sandy Hook at a late hour tonight
making for this port
The Republic was IN ,ow Of tia re
venue cutter Gresham and the derelict
DESTROYER seneca proceeding 80 New
York when she went down. on board
Icy was Cantain Seaihv with a volun-
teer detail Of % of her crew. She had
been lowed but a short distance when
SNe p"Eah 10 settle rapidly. Seeing no
nope ot saving the snip captain seal
~ gave inc or"er 10 apandoh snip ana
me crew was taken or ny the ores
num- ""i'h '"s' 'o"S' from t"e GRIPPE"
I"er ana s'oou ny uh'lI sue SANK ne
heH, ire WIVES
nc ''resHanl ana inc seneca 'heh
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viii await DAYLIGHT before nroceeding TO
Hoy nior
This. IN brief is tho situation late TO-
wight in the stirring story of the sea
following the 9rst wireless fash on the
collision of the two big Sims in the
carly dawn of Saturday morning off
-Nai'u aNe'' Mass. For 80 hours me suS-
P"So Oh we P"pHc was uhaAaNeo 10Y
almost every "our since 'ie ilrS' naSh OF
'he "hSnaP came from the hcpunlc
""eiesS "p'r"'"r' mas brought connect
INK repor'S from many PolhtS' al giving
o'i'reHt phase 10 the Shl'thg scenes
anu ''hu'nS 10 COW use 'he stuauoh'
MT 'hefe was loss or IRE attend
Ing the coIlsion was not known nm
III an carly hour sunday morning
Then the wireless, which has had its
ilrst great trial and proved its utility
in the Republic accident, brought the
news that MG Eugene Lynch of Bos-
ton and ". j. Mooney. banker of
Iangdon, y, D., had been killed and
Mrs. NJ NJ. Murphy wife of the fnan-
cial agent Of the Union Central Life
Insurance company Of Grand Forks, y
r.. and Eugene Lynch of Boston, in
jured. IN addition to these casual
ties among the passengers on the Re
nublic. If was renorted that four mem.
hers Of tha rlorida's crew had me,
doa,h Tho hodies of the dead and
tho injured norso,s wera transferred
to the Baltic.
a REMARKABLE MISHAP