Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-01-31

'ne lever when the dull
Nantucket's searchlight
'dge of the Monroe and
~ ~ f'nt there was frightful
"" taVy laden with freight.
I" relentlessly with half
opo"' Eatucket doomed up out
of the glob and with 10, s,o
pio"' cut Plships into the rolling
Monroe.
A ripping I'D crashing If n1ates
told the sto tho Monroe,s doo, a.
s"e eann' Nantucket halted an
ins'dnt' 'rei VI, and then slowly
ore" oach' ing the cash she had
Cut HUI ,le OF the old Dominion
liner through ch torrents If wafer
instantly pouT
ohly Cap.' son and the watch
were on deck n tho crasb oon,o
One glance shd tho comm.ndo,,
that his ship wa komed Flo sbout
ed an order for life boats which
was ALREADY Del arried out when
the passengers b to crowd mo,
the oeck. Llfepe were hurriedly
dlstrlputed. warn hries came from
the officers for HI The hoats
were hurriedly laul Va
The time was all Ahrief Tn tho
nrst shocK OF the col the doomed
snip had swung far on nr never had
rlghted. Tnree min only had
elapsed and the list - growing
greater and the ship beginning
slowly to settle.
Three of the life boat tre hastily
gotten away from the 81 n the rap
idly sinking ship, fro VA with
frightened humanity. B sNis time
the Monroe was rolling IAN he,
side and it was impossible khlaunct
the others. In despair tapped
passengers turned to the rafts
these were launched, and bu lis min.
utes having elapsed since Nan.
tucket had crashed into the Ah q
remarkable thing happened.
With a sudden lurch, the inuroe
now fast filling with water thai NH
ed in through her rent plates, ullk
over on her side, shrowing up Il IL
injured side but submerging d.
and salons. A chorus of shriekdk 2,
groans rent the air. Seven Of IA
passengers were hurled into space n
landed in the water, where later sd
of them were picked up by pic1
boats and carried to safety. But t
unfortunates left in the sinking boz
crawling like rats, made their W
to the superstructure through t
portfolios, windows, companionwa
until they rested just out Of reach
the increasing waters of the uppt
side of the capsized vessel.
And then this slippery security W
snatched from them. With a RUM
ling sound, indicating bursting boile
below, the vessel quivered and shoe
and plunged beneath the waves, lea
ing her human freight afloat on
icy bosom Of the sea. 1t was just t
minutes after she was struck that t
Monroe disappeared within forty fa'
oms of water twenty-five miles
Hog Island.
In the meantime, however, her
work had been done. The rescu
passengers were telling stirring Ia
OF the bravery shown by Capt. Jof
son and the officers and crew. Thu
is the story, for instance. of Fred
]. Kuehne, the chief wireless opera
ON the Monroe, who gave his life b
to a woman and went down with
ship. The last sound heard by p'
sengers going away from the sinki
vessel was the sound of his wirel'
instrument. He was Fl years old.
Passengers Asleep
When the crash came practica
all of the passengers on the Nom
were asleep. The force Of the
pact threw them out OF their bert
Frightened by the shock they rusi
to the deck in their night cloth
only to find the ship was sink
rapidly. Many of the passeng
and the crew Instantly threw the
selves into the sea, seeing that Il
would not be time to lower the
boats and most of these were saw
But there were many passeng
and seamen who went down with
ship before ever reaching the DEF
Captain johnson and all of the
ficers Of the ship. except J.E. Cat
were saved. The officers were pi'
ed up ONT of the sea by small DO
from the Nantucket. All of the pa
engers who were saved were reset
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