The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-26
WILDLY CHEER THE HEROES OF
 THE REPUBLIC
Great Crowd Carries Capt. Sealby and Jack Binns
 on Shoulders.
WHILE STEAMERS ' SHREK WITH SIRENS

Capt. Sealby's Story of the
 Sinking of His Ship Sun
 day Night Thought He
 Would Drown, But Was
 Picked Up By Life Boat
 -Binns Says But Little
 Expects Another Ship
 Especial from United Press.)
 New York, Jan. 26.-The shrinking
 md unwilling heroes of 500 sailors of
 he il1-fated White Star liner Republic
 md the Baltic. Captain John Sealby If the lost liner, and Jack Binns, the
 wireless operator who was one of those
 tos stick on the job', were carried
 tshcre from the revenue cutter Man
 aattan today on the shoulders Of tht
 wildly enthusiastic crowd.
 A great crowd was at the pier to well tousing cheer. Buglers sounded their
 ,alls, steamships shrieked their well
 tome and bells changed. Both men
 ried to escape the crowd but were aoisted to the shoulders of their admir-
 ITS before they could set foot on land,
 ind with six hundred sailors and long phoremen surging about them and Cheering like mad, they were carried Eom the pier into the street In the mad demonstration rank was forgot len, commanding officers and long shoremen dancing round and round the yv, 1bxy 6 Binns finally freed themselves they vent at once to the companys office Rhere the captain talked to the news paper men of his experiences.
 isAppreciating the possibilities of com- ,lications at the court of inquiry the Iaptain would not say anything about he collision and spoke of the last mo- nents before his good ship went down beneath him.
 From 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon un- dl o'clock Sunday night but two men remain ed on the rapidly sinking Re- public. They were Captain Sealby and Iec0nd Officer Williams, whom Sealby those to keep the final watch with bim. Of those hours Captain Sealpy joday said:
 About the ship listed badly. Will Eams and myself were on the bridge md said to Williams: Let's take to he rigging, but the Republic then be- tar to sink rapidly and we ran for ward. The incline was so steep that ke found ourselves slipping back and Fe could hardly keep on the deck. The last saw of Williams was when he taught the port rail and was hanging )ver the side. I climbed to the signal lights in an attempt to light the final hgnai of distress. but the lights were vet and would not burn. I fired the Iazt shot had in the revolver to at k,,ox o%f md Q water caught me. My great coat bore ne up and floated. I was caught h a whirlpool and churned about in the sea. managed to hold on to borne debris and wreckage from which attracted the searchl. ghts which had been playing on the ship. It seemed ln interminable time before they saw ne. I grasped a floating hatch and ay on 1t spread eagle style till the kfeboat from the Gresham found me- found Williams in that boat. He had dropped forty feet from the rail of the Republic into the water and had been picked up by the lifeboat. I had thought that would surely drown"
 Second Officer Williams said that when Sealby found him in the lifeboat he captain huggedt him and exclaim- cd: Game to the last, Williams. Well, the went down with her colors fly mg."
 Williams told of Sealby sending him 10 the kitchen for victuals Sunday aft srnoon about 5 o'clock and the two men had their lonesome lunch on the binking Republic. Sealby said that he attributed his good luck,' as he call sd it, to the passengers and crews of !fle vessels.
 Binns, the wireless operator, had but ittle to say. The crowd pressed around him at the pier. He dismiss Al fIaa o,f ho YI in ho 6roY nf ihe sea by saying: : T did my work. Of course I was In danger but think of Sealby and Williams. It seems a long time before we picked up the first answer to our e o D.. and when we did there was work to do. The credit belongs to Captain Sealby and his crew. What Ebout my plans? I will report to the wireless company and likely be as- signed to some other ship. That's all 1 [ know now"
 The Italian members of the crew of | the Republic will be sent to Boston to- morrow and will ship for Naples | members of the passengers. who form ed the majority, will sail Saturday on the Baltic.
 Eugene Lynch of Boston. whose wife was killed in the collision between the l steamers Republic and Florida last 5aturQay, O1eQ LQlS morning in the l Long Island College hospital from in- ,Iries received in the crash
 Bodies of the three men. members of | he crew of the Florida who were .r.1shed to death when the Republic | vas hit. were prepared for burial to- lay.
 The Florida with her bows stove in, les at Pier 42. Brooklyn. The officers # the company to-day expressed that Captain Ruspini ac- ,uitted himself well. The body of the ate Eugene Lynch. the Boston whole Jale liquor man who was crushed in 1is stateroom in the Republic. when he was hit by the Florida and who lied at the hospital in Brooklyn this was claimed by his relatives. The remains will be taken to his home 1 n Boston this afternoon. The Arbuckle Wrecking Company nay be given a chance to raise the 1 Republic. Officers of that company were in conference with the White Star officials to-day and it was said hat there is a possibility of saving ,art of the cargo of the vessel. The United States stores on board for the ,attleship fleet consisted largely of uGar and flour and are totally de- troyed. It was learned to-day that ,efore the crew of the Republic de- xA I L .