The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-17
WIRELESS RESCUE
, OF ship REPUBLIC
Famous Story OF Jack Binn's
&C. Q. D." Which Brought
Aid.
BALTIC RUSHED TO HER SIDE
Through the Fog She CROPPED
Her Way to Sister
Vessel.

New York, April ls.-Early in tn,
morning OF Saturday January 49, 1909.
the white Star liner Baltic. witch was
ready TO lend hand ycs:e-day to tho
ofoHfa Titanic. was rounding the Nan
tUcket shoals lightship, inbound Fog
lay SO heavily on the Atlantic ina, al,
fhips weFs moving war!ly. knowing
mat others We're shoulder 20 shoulder
ws,h them in the crowded ,ratiic WAYS
go dangerously near that deadly harm
migat DO done before he!msman
could edge or his ship 10 csca ne a blow
u lew minutes before 6 O'Clock the Bal
tics wireless man heard something
through the fog which made the amin
turn about AID 80 OF on the same
eFrn!td that she undertook ycsteraay.
what Jack Ta;tersalI. the wireless
OPERATOR. heard was tina, the White
s'aF i1!ne'a steamship Republic OF for
4 cruise in the Mediterranean. had bcen
struck BY the Florida, an Italian ship,
ard was IN danger OF sinking Tho
Dag balt!c forSoi about the fog and
went OF full tilt IN search OF her
stricken sister.
II was q long CHASE. The Baltic
went u The point on the map which
the Republics wireless man had inal-
ehted-lat!tudc 40. longitude 7o--but
the Republic was not there The air
MAS iu!l OF wireless messages STAG
conset was trying TO reach The Republic.
dclen other ships were trying 10 reach
'He Republic, and Jack Binns, the Re-
puD!lcs operator. WAS trying 10 answer
ne wireless tang!e was complete But
at last Tattersall heard from Binns
mat the Baltic IVES very oIose-so close
indeed. that she ought 10 gee thu Re
pubiic's rockets
But me fog was still heavy. and
the Baltic could not make the Republic
out. She crcpt In the direction Htnns
suggested, until warning crackled I'm
Tattersails ear:
gu arc too close TO us for safety"
inc Baltic eased on her speed TO mere
sea"ay. sounding her whistle. Cap
tain Sea!hy, on tho bridge Of tho RE-
pupiic' heard the screech through the
1os ana vas able TO send wireless d.
recttons back to Captain Ransom. Of
the Baltic In a little while Tat1ersall
heard Blnns Say:
Steer east-southeaet. Listen to our
bells"
Then In minute came othar steer
ING orders. fast on one another's heels:
Steer northeast" and steer sou,b
east Al almost the same instant ne
caught message from thu Cunarder
Lucania, which sent chills up and down
his back: "Siasconset says: Hear from,
Kepuoiic Says to Baltic 10 hurry.
Sinking fast"
And then, at o'clock in the eve
aing' twelve hours after she first picked
up word that the Republic was In trou
BILE. the Baltic pushed aside the foS
mat oloaked the Republic and came
alongside. Captain Ransom asked Can
tain Sealhy, Of the Republic, to com.
aboard. but tho Republics captain re-
fused, Earlier in the day he had s.n;
MS passengers aboard the Florida, and
Is
2ho Italian ship, too, in order to be
On the right side of safety
Two hours after Captain Ransom had
made out the Republic and the Italian
ship which had hurt her, he began 10
take passengers off the Florida and
give them more comfortable quarters
on board the Baltic II was the second
transshipment that the r epublics pas
aensers had made that day, and the
ntories they told when they came safe
ly ashore at New York two DAYS later
showed that the strain of two boat
trips from ship 10 ship on the rolling
Atlantic was hard to endure Seven
tenths OF the Republics first cabin pas
6engers were women, many off to the
Mediterranean TO rest. Tho passengers
OF the Titanic were more fortunate. for
they had to undergo only a single
transshipment.
1t had taken about ten minutes for
Iattersall on tho Baltic to get word
from the Republic that she had been
struck. The Republic was abont Ia
miles to the southeast OF Nantucket
and was already swinging on the
great circle which would take her to
the Azores. the first land ON her vow
age to the Mediterranean. CAPTAIN
William I. Sealby, who had work ed
for the White Star Limo all his life.
had stayed on the bridge all night,
and was looking for the first streaks
OF gray light In tho banks OF fogs.
The first intimation he got that
another ship was near at hand was
,the tolling OF bell. So muflied was
1t In the fog that he could not tell
from what direction it came. He
passed the word to his uartermaster
to sound the whistle, ono long un-
broken soreech last note of
warning. The answer was Immediate.
The shrek of ship's whistle came
through the fog. and while the sound
OF It was still hanging in the air
sealby's eye picked out a blur to port
that was darker than the fog Itself
Signals flashed to the engine room
that Captain Sealby wanted tho Re-