The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-01-31
PEOPLE
WENT DOWN IN
THE MONROE
Revised List OF Fatalities In
Collision at Sea
WOMEN AND chill 0REN FIRST
Given First Place in the Lifeboats--
Time for Rescue Was
Short

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 30.--The story OF
how ii victims went down 10 death
in the chill waters or the Atlantic
off Hog Island, when the liner Nan
tucket rammed and sank the steamer
Monroe early today, was described
tonight by the survivors of the sun
ken ships company who were rescu-
ed and brought to port by the Nan
mcket. 1t was a recital OF sudden
and awful death sweeping out>of the
dark and fog and taking unawares, a
doomed half hundred human beings
with the heaviness of sleep still upon
them.
Tonight, the revised list prepared
By Capt Johnson, who survived the
sinking CT his vessel, showed:
Passengers, 10; crew. p;
total, Al
saved-Passengers. SO; crew. GO;
total, 90
The crash came about lao o'clock
and without warning. The Nantuckes
with her bow crushed in, backed out
of sight into the night even as Capt.
Johnson OF the Monroe seeing that
his vessel was hopeicssly damaged
shouted an order for the lifeboats.
When the crash came, almos, all
those aboard the Monroe We're asleep
Only Capt Johnson and the watch on
deck We're ABOUT. But the shiyoring
of the rammed vessel and her listing
as water poured Though the side.
awakened the passengers aud sent
clambering from below,
Warned by the officers. they hur-
rledly adjusted life preservers and
made for the tilted deck. But the
time Was all zoo brief.
Those rescued agreed that from
the time the Monroe was struck until
she settled beneath the wayes not
more than a scant 10 minutes Gaps.
ed
As the half clad. excited throng OF
passengers reached the deck OF the
Monroe they we're herded toward the
lilebca,s by the officers aud The
crcN.
Three CT the lifoboats were ". ship
ped and rowed away from TIE side
freightod mostly with women. SILVER
ing and frightened in the cold and
da knese.
BY the time these were away, the
Monroe was rolling on her side and
It was impossible to launch the other
boats.
Then. with n sudden lurch. the lin
e.. now fast nlling, turned up her
uninjured side and then suddenly
plunged beneath the waves, leaving
human freight helplessly afioat.
Meantime, the Nantucket, herself
badly damaged, had stood by and
Cap. Berry had summoned his crew
to quarters. As the sea.chlight was
OF little avail. Capt. Berry ordered
out the lifebosts and. one by one,
they slipped away into the fog to
search for the Monroe. They found
only the struggling survivors IN the
icy sea. crying frantically for help.
Many of these picked up were ut
terly exhausted. SIEVE al had 20 be
hauled over the side of the Nantuck-
ct with ropes.
Thomas n. Harrington kept as
wife afloat by superhumaa efforts,
swimming with strand of her hair
olenched in his teeth, only TO have
her died a few minutes after she was
hauled aboard the Nantucket.
Lieut.. l.. b. Curtis. L. :. T.. swan
until rescued. but died after rolch-
ing the Nantucket.
Englnee Oscar Perkins and First
Wireless Operator Ferdinsnd J.
Keahn. whc1 the thrush OF water
put cut the main dynamo and left the
Monroe in complete darkness. rushed
below and started an emergency dy-
namo. Perkins Is among the rcscu-
Cd.
Wireless Operator Kaehn gave the
FIRST $. o. 5. call and. afie adjusting
a life pr,servcr. which would un-
dnubied'y have saved his own life.
removed IL and put q on a girl pas.
serger Kuehn vas lost.
Ills assistant Y. l.. Etheredge was
saved and his vile greeted him as
the Nantucket dccked this afternoon.
=. ID. German of New York. told OF
girl whom he begged % jump with
him into the seattle girl refused
and persisted.
J. Gately. second officer OF the
Monroe. gave his life preserver 10 a
woman who had none and after be-
ing washed into the wafer saved him