The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-02-05
WONDERFUL
Wireless Telegraphy Saved Hun
breds of Lives From Sinking
Vessels.

| A'alAdu htSalntl rluIluut 20 luies
south of Nantucket Shoals Light.
ship in a dense fog early Saturday
morning and so badly damaged that
she was reported sinking. The pas.
sengers and crew We're all believed L
have been saved,
AS soon as the Republic had been
struck and the extent OF the damag,
had become known, wireless calls fol
assistance We're sent broadcast ever
the Atlantic. All vessels within
range of the mysterious pulsations
were asked TO hasten TO the scene
/ The call for help which the Repub,
lie had been sending into space was
first recorded on land at the Char
lesion navy yard at s o'clock Satur-
day morning. 1t said: ITO revenue
cutter Gresham, Boston, Steamer Re,
public in distress and sinking. Lat
itude 40l7. longitude 20; 26 miles
northwest Of Nantucket"
The Gresham was not at the navy
!ard, but intercepted the appeal in
Proylncetown harbor. She started i'm
nediately for Nantucket other wire
less apparatus also caught the mes
sage and in a short time the cutter
Acushnet was on her way out from
Woods Hole; the Mohawk. another
revenue cutter had started from New
Bedford, and the Seneca had been
ordered out from New London Conn.
The Mohawk soon ran aground, while
the Acushnet did not get outside Of
Vineyard Sound, and later came hack
TO assist another vessel in distress.
In the meantime the Baltic aud
La Lorraine, both Of which had pass
&C the Republic a few hours earlier
and were speeding into New York,
needed the call for assistance and
put about.
The Lucanla which was 10 the
eastward of Nantucket lishtship, also
catching the message out Of the air,
Lit up her speed and pressed on TO
the assistance OF the Republic
Thus relief came and not soul
found a watery grave, Two are re-
ported killed BY the crash, and the;
empty vessel sank while being low
ed to harbor.
The NEWS believes that all this
will be OF much interest to its read
ers, and 1t reproduces from the
Courier-Journal short editorial
concerning the part wireless teleg-
raphy, that mysterious something
of which we know nothing, played 81
this miracle Of the sea.
do fairy legends hold more stir
ring or miraculous records than that
revealed in real life when the steam
er Republic, in distress, turned her
wireless messages loose upon Allan
tic ether and, 10, from various dlrec-
lions FASTENED big ships and little
ships to her rescue?
you have 10 rub your eyes and
imagine long TO take the episode
In. You have to picture the lonely.
isolated vessel, rent below the water
line and fast filling. You must mag
Inc the fog encompass ng her like a
shroud, her passengers all desperate
with the expanse OF sea about them,
death and destruction looming Big,
There was time when such an ac-
ctdent would have meant hopeless
ress for all Remote and linking,
the ship would have had to await
her fate, those aboard would have
had to yield to the worst, and the
world would have gone around in ig-
rorance, perhaps, of what had befal-
IOhs oul NhNlC tAibtb luc NiEeltbS
telegraphy. Mareonl, wizard, miracle
worker, achiever Of the impossible,
has given the sea-going ships a
voice by which they may reach the
land. Upon being rammed the Off
GERS Of the Republic set free upon
the air. TO drift whittier they know
not, and to- reach whom they cannot
guess, appeals for help. The voice
travels over the sea. 1t is heard
aid headed From various quarters
hurry the ships to relieve the dis
tressed. It Is thrilling, astonish-
ing in It's magic.
What great world this is to-
day. What wizards the race has
produced Think of talking around
the world on air Aladdin rubbed
his lamp and brought the good ge-
nil. The wireless instrument is
the Aladdin's lamp Of the present.
1t extends everywhere. It brings
good genii to the help of the doom
ed 1t is greater than Aladdin's
lamp, for II is; Aladdin's lamp new
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