The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1914-02-07
BOATS IN CRASH,
Al MEET DEATH
MANY PASSENGERS IN lLL-FATEC
Boat ARE TRAPPED WHILE
STILL ASLEEP.
HEROIC RESCUES REPORTED
Wireless Operator Gives His Life Pre-,
server to Girl and Goes to
His Death.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

''N''AH t''NHl"P'A AlllDH N'NN D'lNlCts
Norfolk, Va.-The story of how Al
persons went down to death in the icy
waters Of the Atlantic when the liner
Nantucket rammed and sank the
steamer Monroe was brought to port
by 80 survivors Of the sunken ships
passengers rescued and brought to
shore by the Nantucket, 1t was a
story of awful and sudden death,
sweeping out Of the dark and fog and
taking unawares the doomed half hun.
dred with the heaviness OF sleep still
upon them.
1t told how the stricken Monroe,
with her side gored deep by the knife
Ike steel prov of the Nantucket, filled
rapidly, rolled over on her side and in
a few minutes turned completely over
and plunged to the bottom, carrying
with her the Inflated passengers ana
members Of the crew who had failed
to get clear Of the wreck,
The revised lists prepared ny Cap
tain Johnson, who survives the sunken
vessel showed
Lost-Passengers 10, crew 90; total
Al,
Embellishments 81, crew Ct; to,
tai 9S.
Comes Without Warning.
The crash came about 1,4O o'clock
in the morning without warning out
Of the curtain Of mist and fog that
shut out even the waves from view,
the CLEAN Of the Nantuckets search.
light scarcely touched the dripping
side Of the Monroe before the high
steel prov Of the southward.bound
vessel cut into her side with n ripping
Of plates that threw the stricken ship
aback, The Nantucket with her bow
crushed In, backed out OF sight as
Captain Johnson, seeing that his yes.
sci was laundering shouted an order
for the lifoboats,
When the crash came but few Of
those aboard the Monroe we're awake.
Only Captain Johnson and The watch
were on deck, But the listing Of the
stricken vessel as the water poured
through the cash In her side awakened
the sleeping passengers,
Warned by the officers, they hurrl.
edly adjusted life proseryers and hnr.
rled TO the tilted deck, But the time
was all too brief Those rescued agreed
that from the time the Monroe was
struck until she settled beneath the
waves not more than ten minutes
elapsed,
Some Escape In LlfeboatS,
As the excited throng Of 9as5cn.
gers reached the deck they were herd.
ed toward the llfcboats by officers
and crew Those Of the llfoboata from
one side Of the crippled vessel were
urehpped and Cotton away, lreIgoied
mostly with women, BY that time
II was impossible to launch the other
boats,
With urch the liner now fNst
filling, rolled over on her side, throw
ing MP her uninjured side, submerg.
INK cabins and salons with chorus
Of shrlchB the unfortunates left on the
sinking vessel turned and crawlod
over the suporslructuro, through port
holes windows and compOnonwOys
until they rested just out Of reach OF
the waves on the upper side Of the
half capaI2ed vessel But even this
slippcry security was not long avail.
able with u rumbllng sound the big
vessel plunged beneath, the waves,
leaving her human freight OfloOt on
the icy bosom Of the ocean,
Meantime the Nantucket herself
badly damaged, had stood by and Cap.
tain berry had aroused his sleeping
crow, A the lnolfccuol roy3 OF the
eoarchlIght failed TO pierce the blanket
Of fog Captain berry ordered out hls
lIfohoala, ADD one by one they slipped
away 10 search for the Monroe They
found only The struggling survivors
aroat In The Icy sea, crying ironllcol.
~ for help
Many Of those picked up were utter
" exhausted Several had to be haul
cd over the side Of tho Nantucket with
fonca
Thomas Il, Harrison kept hla wife
atloal by swimming with her hair IN
his teeth, only to have her die q rev
minutes after she was hauled aboard
tho Nantucket Lieut. h. u, curtis
Il, Il, A, was rescued but died after
reaching the Nantucket
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