The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-25

sarily moro dangerous and OF longer
duration. Tninly dressed passengers
crowded to the Battles rail and watch
ed the work. while those who re-
mained on the Florida waiting for the
next boatload, saw their companions
lifted safety to the New Haven. IT
was during this that the two passen-
gers fell overheard, but were rescued
little the worse for their experience.
Pieced out into continuous story
the accident Of the collision as relat-
ed to the reporters by Mt. Hover
WAS as follows:
The shock came when all OF the
passengers OF the Republic and most
of her crew. were asleep. Mrs How
or and /, like most of the Republics
passengers, were awakened by being
violently thrown out OF the side of our
hunks The shock was terrific Out
side, IN the passageway, l could hear
the sound Of running feet From the
| deck above came cries and the shout
| Ing of orders. | turned on the cleo
! trio light and hastily throwing an
| oyergarment over us. Mrs. Hover and
| made our way bareheaded and bare
footed to the music room on the prom
enade deck. While the alarm gongs
were sounding all over the ship, the
stewards were going from stateroom
| to Stateroom arousing the passengers.
| BY the time we got to the music room,
the place was full Of men and women,
| some with nothing over them, but che
clothes In which they been asleep,
others were wrapped In ships blan-
| kntc and almost fran
tic with fear and shivering with the
cold The women huddled together
| some weeping, few hysterlcal. Most
of the men rushed out on deck to as
certain what the trouble was There
they found the crew Of the Republic
taking the tarpaulins from the life
| boats and standing by ready-to swing
| out the dayits, There was no sign OF
any other ship anywhere The fog
! horn of the Republic was letting out
shrill blasts, but there was no an
! swering whistle. / don't know how
! long we were left to wonder what had
| happened. Finally the second officer
informed us that there was no dan
ger Of the vessel going under The
majority became composed at hearing
this. but still some of the women were
beside themselves and refused to re-
turn to their stateroom to dress, and
their clothes had to be brought to
them from their cabins. In less than
half an hour however, mostly every
one had managed to get clothing on,
After a little, heard an answering
whistle and the Florida came up. loom
ing out Of the fog on our starboard
quarter There was an exchange OF
questions and answers between the
two captains. and the injury to the
Republic having been discovered more
serious than was at first supposed
we were told that we were to be
transferred to the Florida. This an
nouncement caused more terror than
had the shock of the collision even
but after while, comparative calm
was obtained and the trans-shipment
was begun. The women and chll;~en
were first, of course. The Florida
could scarcely be seen. although less
than a cable-length away. The boats
would stand out under the searchligh'
and then fade away into the mist
The Florida'e boats had also been put
over the side and 1t was sort Of CON
tea between the two crews. as to
which would take over the greatest
number of people in the least time
when 1t came to the turn OF Cap
tain Sealby and the officers and men
OF the Republic to abandon the ship
they refused.
1--WE stayed aboard the Florida al
day Saturday packed like sardines Al
S o'clock. word came that the Baltic
would take us off. Once more we hac
TO go through the experience of going
from the ship to the life boats. Il
was the same thing as In the darkness
of the early morning except that the
seas was running high instead OF be
Ing quite still. For more than elgh
hours, the little boats hurried from
ono ship to the other until 1,600 peo
pie had been taken over to the Baltic
The crew of the Florida. following tht
example set by. the crew of the Re
public, remained on board, as did on'
of our passengers. Eugene Lynch
whose wife had been killed in thu
crush between the two ships and him
self who was too badly injured to b'
| removed" ..t.