Evening journal., 1914-01-31

the waves, leaving her human freight
affoat on the icy bosom of the ocean.
Meantime the Nantucket, herself
badly damaged, had stood by, and Cap
tain Berry had aroused his sleeping
crew. As the Intellectual rays of the
searchlight failed to pierce the blanket
of fog Captain Berry ordered out his
liieboats, and one by one they slipped
away into the fog TO search for the
Monroe. They found only the strug-
J Cling survivors ahoat in the icy sea cry.
ing frantically for help.
Many Picked Up Helpless.
Many Of those picked up we're utterly
exhausted and unable to help them
selves. Several had TO be hauled over
the side of the Ma tucket with ropes,
unable to climb the rope ladder. Thomas
r. Harrington kept his Wac ailuat by
superhuman efforts, swimming with her
hair in his teeth, only to have her die
a few minutes after she was hauled
aboard the Nantucket
Lieut.. legrand B. Curtis. L. ). A.,
kept himself anost until rescued, but
luieu NittI IedtuluI lllt -NHUlutktls
Captain Johnson, of the Monroe, and
all Of his officers got away from the
sinking vessel and were rescued. All
OF the officers and the crew of both the
Monroe and DE Nantucket were held
here tonight to await an investigation
of the catastrophe. which will be begun
immediately by the Federal Steamboat
inspection Service.
Eight wrongly on Death List.
Thrilling were the stories told by the
rescued who were brought to Norfolk by
the Nantucket Revised lists put the
loss VI life at 81, of which 10 were pas
senecrs and 22 members Of the Monroe's
crew
Eight of the Monroe's passengers.
whom wireless reports had put in the
list of the lost. walked or were borne
from the steamer Nantucket when the
latter landed the rescued at Norfolk
thos afternoon. These were George NJ.
NARROW. of New York; Mrs. John NJ.
Ray. of New York; +. p. Lyons, of New
-lrk; b. y. Vernon, of New York; W..
T.. Claussen. of Milwaukee; L. Gorman.
iof Philadelphia; W. Albert Snyder, OF
East Orange. \. j.. and G. W. Poole, OF
GRAY, Va.
Mrs. RAYS husband was lost and she,
without friends or means.
! The Old Dominion Steamship Com
panv through its assistant general man
arcr. r. L. Palen. took charge OF the
survivors and Mrs Ray is being cared
for at a hotel until she can communi-
cate with her friends and determine
when she viii proceed to New York.
Identified BY Handkerchief.
Lieutenant Curtis was taken from
] the water unconscious and badly in
. iured. and the only mark Of identi1-
cation found on the body was the
: name Curtis" upon a handkerchief
taken by the coroner from the pocket
p of the army officers pajamas.
Harrington. himself overcome when
lifted aboard the Nantucket, revived
2 10 6nd his wife dead With blanket
about him. he remained by her body
: until II was. in his presence, borne
from the Nantucket Mr.. Harring-
2 ton will today accompany his wife's
2 bodv to the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Kelly, 90 Stevens
street. Norwalk, Conn.
} Wireless Men Heroes.
There we're notable ldeeds of hero
ism by Assistant Engineer Oscar Per-
e kins and First Wireless Operator
. Ferdinand ]. Kuehn. Perkins, when
the inrush of water put out the main
8 dvnamo and left the Monroe in com
r. piete darkness. rushed below and put
= to work an emergency dynamo. he
, is among the rescued.
[. Wireless Operator Kuehn gave tne
: first S. o. S. call, and after adjusting
a life preserver. which would uoupt-
= less have saved his own life, removed
! this from his body and put II on a
!. girl. Kuehn was lost. his assist
= ant 'R. |. Etheridge, was saved ana
y walked into the arms of his wife, who
4 stood to greet him as the Nantueket
! docked with the rescued this after
: noon
J, Nife and Child Washed From Arms.
G. w. Poole. en- route from Gray,
/, Va. with his wife and two-and-a-half-
: vear-1ld boy. 10 visit in Massachusetts,
!, had his wife and child washed from
- his arms over the rail Of the sinking
Monroe. Poole. completely crushed,
d, told tonight the story OF his great
sorrow. He will return to his Nlr-
!. ginia home tomorrow.
y Ed German. of New York. told OF
. narrowing scenes of women scream
ing for help in the cabin of the Mon
i. roe. Walking upon the side OF the
l. carecncd sinking ship. German met
! a girl, when he begged TO jump with
= him into the sea. She refused and
s persshod German was picked up
r. by a passing lifeboat
= J. Gaitley. second officer of the
4 Monroe. gave his life preserver up
TO a woman who had none. and after
" being washed into the water saved
D. himself by seizing a floating ladder.
d Though some of the negroes lost
n their heads in the erd. there has been