The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-02-04
HERO Of MONROE DISASTER
BA1TlED WITH SAILORS
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myself and tho wife against it by
clinging to the stairway rails. A
woman and a little baby clinging to
her nightdress bumped against US,
swept into the cabin from outside. L
might have saved them If I had dared
to let go Of Margaret, but I didn't
because she had tainted and couldn't
take care OF herself.
"It was that rush Of water that
saved US. When 1t filled the cabin
there was a back wave. We fioated
out on it. The water made Margaret
feel a little bit more alive. We
found ourselves 'clinging to the deck
rail with our feet supported by the
rope netting under the rail. I un.
dressed myself down to my UNDER
and tore off Mafgaret's clothes
down to her chemise.:AThe we let
e ana the. ship went awey from un-
Held Her With Teeth.
eat first I tried to hold the poor
girl up by her arm. but it panied her
horribly and she screamed and
wrenched SO that I saw 1t would not
in shivers and struggles OF pain the
next. So I did the next best thing.
I twisted her hair into a tight rope
as close to her head as I could and
then took it in my teeth, and tried
to keep her head above water by
keeping it On my chest while I swan
on my back. That must have hurt
her too, but she didn't say anything
except that's better, Tom
I'VE had been getting along that
way for about fifteen minutes-it'
when a lifeboat came along. They
went within ten feet Of us. I asked
then to take the girl aboard. They
never even answered-just looked at
us and rowed away. Strength SEEM
ed to go out Of me after that and
out Of her too. ] got lower in the
water and her face was under at al
most every wave.
"After a long time-they tell me
it was two hours, but time didn't
seem to count one way or the other
Margaret up to them and a sailor
said:
"sLet her go. She is dead
"'She Is not dead,' I said to him,
and you take her aboard II you do
not want to go to hell with murder
on our SOUL So they took her in.
And she opened her yes and smiled
at me and I made the sailor turn and.
look at her.
Doctor Might Have Saved Her.
"But when they got me aboard the
ship they put her in a stateroom and
left her and put me in another. I
believe that II q doctor had been with
her right away with stimulants for her
poor, overtired body she might be
alive now. But they were all mixed
up. and when I found where she was
lying all alone she was dead.
That's about all, except that a
steward came into the room and said
he guessed we might as well throw
the body overheard and I smashed
him in the y so that he fell out
and locked it, and stayed with her
until We got to Norfolk, ~ :
Many stories Of heroiasn have been
told since the disaster. ona is Of
Ferdinand Kuehn, the chief wireless
operator aboard the Monroe, who
lost his life after he took of his life
belt and, gave It to q woman passen-
ger. He was standing In the door.
way OF The wireless house when a wo-
man stumbled along the slanting
deck.
where's your life prs..rver." ask
e haven't one" the woman an:
"Hers. take. mine" saaa the .oper
ator, and he adjusted the belt abou
the woman
The next minute the boat plungee
The woman was picked up and g.vec
Kuehn went to the bottom a. hero
a insure Is over gave up his life I
save another.
|. Tho only officer Of the Monroe
be lost was Second Ohicer J. ]
Galley OF New York . He WA thirt
three years old and married.
\ Among those. who were saved, b
who narrowly escaped with the
lives. We're Miss Sally McCombs, Mi
Leona 6oule ana Miss EIi4da Thuc
cray.