Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-30
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ant Engineer William Spruill, Second
Assistant Engineer Oscar Perkins.
Chief Wireless Operator F. ]. Kuehen.
Junior Wireless Operator R. LETTER.
idge. Chief Stewart J. P. Sullivan.
Captain Picked Up Exhausted.
That the loss of life, heavy as it
was, did not reach greater propor-
lions was due to the fact that the sea
was calm. The Nantucket had a ten
loot hole in her bow extending be-
meath the water line.
Most of those saved were picked up
from the water. Many of them were
suffering badly from exposure when
taken on board the Nantucket. and
had to be treated by the ships sur
geon.
Captain Johnson was found in the
water, clutching piece of wreckage.
He was nearly exhausted when picke6
up by lifeboat When the Monroe
sank she disappeared completely. with
no Vestige of her rigging remaining
above the water. Only scattered de-
bris marked the grave.
That the death list was not much
greater was due also to PROMPT ac
ton on the part of the crew of the
Nantucket, which herself was dam
aged badly in the collision. They
lowered lifeboats with a rush and
picked up many survivors who had
flung themselves into the water when
the Monroe plunged to the bottom.
Wireless Tries TO Summon Aid.
While others of the crew were res
cuing all they could find in the water,
the wireless operator flashed IS. o.
s. into the darkness, summoning aid
for the crippled Nantucket.
The disaster occurred at 1880
o'clock while the passengers were
asleep Captain johnson, Of the
Monroe, was rescued three hours aft
er the disaster and sent the follow
ing wireless message from the Nan
tucket, which was picked up. by the
wireless station at Virginia Beach:
Forty mine drowned. Nantucket
badly damaged. Steamship Hamilton
standing by us"
1t was later found that only AZ
were lost
The Monroe was bound from Nor
folk to New York, was feeling her
,c1x IT,, f1,a %
Nantucket suddenly doomed up out of
the mist. The sharp prov of the
Nantucket ripped into the Old Do
minion liner, opening an enormous
cash and rolling the vessel over on
her beam ends.
Panic Follows Crash in Dark.
Panic followed upon the Monroe.
Terrified men and women, aroused
from sleep, began scrambling to the
decks.
Immediately after the collision the
Nantucket's crew began lowering the
lifeboats, while the vessels search
light was turned upon the sinking
Monroe.
So thick was the fog that the pow
erful light cast only murky glow,
and the sailors in the boats could
barely distinguish floating objects in
the water Many drowning persons
were located only by their cries.
Within a few minutes half dozen
lifeboats from the Nantucket sur
rounded the Monroe, while the sea-
men of the latter ship were filling
and lowering their lifeboats as fast as
the panicky conditions on board would
permit.
The horror OF the situation was IN
tensified by the gloomy curtain of fog
through which the screams of terror
the shouts of the officers and the
booming of the fog sirens mingled.
After the Monroe had disappeared
the Nantucket cruised about in the
neighborhood searching for other
survivors, but her own conditions
was so dangerous that she was head
ed for Winter Quarter lightship,
where there is life saving station.
U. S. Cutter Rushes to Aid.
Throughout narrowing minutes OF
rescue the wireless operator on the
Nantucket continued to lombard the
gloom with help calls.
Tho United States revenue cutter