The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-31
FoRTY-THREE DROWNED WHEN ONE LINER IS RAMMED BY
 ANOTHER NEAR NORFOLK.
SANK IN TEN MINUTES TIME
Only Time to Launch Three Lfeboats When Vessel Turned Turtle and Sank-Rescued Are Brought to Port.

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 30-The story of how forty-three souls went down to death in the chill waters of the Atlantic when the liner Nantucket rammed and sank the steamer Mon roe early today was brought to port tonight by ninety-one survivors of the sunken ships passengers, rescued and brought to shore by the Nantuck- ct It was a story of awful and sud den death, sweeping out of the dark and fog and taking unawares the doomed half hundred with the heaYi- ness of sleep still upon them.
 It told how the stricken Monroe with her sides gored deep by the knife-like steel brow of the Nantuck- et flied rapidly rolled over on her side and in a few minutes turned completely over and plunged to the bottom. carrying with her the ill., fated passengers and members of the crew who had failed to get clear of the wreck.
 Tonight the revised lists prepared by Capt. Johnson, who survived the sunken yessel, showed:
 Lost; Passengers, 19; crew, 24; to- tai, 43.
 Saved: Passengers, SG; crew, 55; total, 91
 Under the thick bank of fog that hid the heavily running sea both ships were making their way slowly and with difficulty in the early morn ing. The Monroe, with Capt. John son on the bridge and a double look out peering into the fog ahead, was edging under half speed to the north ward, having left Norfolk for New York last evening. The Nantucket, heavily laden with freight and with but two passengers aboard, was nos ing her way southward, bound from Boston to Norfolk. Urged through the dripping fog, the two vessels slowly were drawn toward each oth- CT.
 The crash came about 1:40 o'clock without warning, Out of the curtain of mist that shut out even the waves from view, the gleam of the Nan mckets searchlight scarcely touched the dripping side of the Monroe be- fore the high steel prov of the south ward bound vessel cut into her side with a ripping of plates that threw the stricken ship aback The Nan tuclket with her bow crushed in, back ed out of sight, as Capt. Johnson, se-- ing that his vessel was floundering, shouted an order for the lifeOoats. When the crash came but few of those aboard the Monroe were awaka. Only Capt. Johnson and the watch were on deck But the listing of the stricken vessel as the water poured through the gash in her side lawakened the sleeping passengers. Warned by the officers they hurried llv adjusted life preservers and rush. ed to the tilted deck. But the time was all too brief. Those rescued agreed that from the time the Mon roe was struck until she settled be- meath the water was not more than ten minutes.
 AS the excited throng of passen- gers reached the deck they were herded toward the lifeboats by of- ifcers and crew. Three of the life boats from one side of the crippled vessel were unshipped and gotten Iaway. freighted mostly with women By that time it was impossible to launch the other boats
 With a lurch the liner, now fast filling. rolled over on her side, throw ing I'D her uniniured side, submerg- ing cabins and salons. With a cho- rus of shrieks the unfortunates left on the sinking vessel turned and crawled over the superstructure' through port holes, windows and com panionways until they rested just out of reach of the waves on the upper side of the half capsized vessel But even this slippery security was not long available. With a rumbllng sound the big vessel plunged beneath the waves. leaving her human frelght afloat on the icy bosom of the ocean Meantime. the Nantucket. hersei | badly damaged, had sood by anu l Cant Berry had aroused his sleep 9 ;ne crew As the intellectual rays f .Lo saarchlight failed to pierce the