Mexico Missouri message., 1914-02-05

praise the crew for their splendii ts
havior.
Testimony Of Collision Kept se.r,,
Testimony of officers Of both SHIN.
some OF Il taken while the Napurs.,
was bringing in survivors. after tho
steamer Monroe had been sunk .r
collision with the Nantucket. is ba.,,
kept secret. No official statpman,
could be obtained, but 1t is said gt.
nesses testified Capt johnson STONED
the Monroe's engines when he hoard
the Nantucket's answering siren sig.
nal and the lost ship was practically
standing still when the NantuCkat
rammed her amidships and cut her IN
two.
Other witnesses testified II Is SAID
that the Nantucket continued to steam
toward the Monroe after the Monroe
had blown two whistles three tines.
II is said that the testimony shrVsS
that Capt. Berry, the second officer
and the quartermaster OF the Nan.
tucket, were in the pilot house OF their
ship when the two vessels came TO-
gether. and that the lookout on ths
Monroe saw the lights on the mast OF
the Nantucket about two minutes be-
fore the crash.
The Monroe met light fogs Intermit.
entity after passing out OF the capes
and had stopped frequently while they
! surrounded the ship. The Monroe
was equipped with an automatic dine
| Eox1 tla.
walls Of one minute.
Death List 10 Al.
While the general investigation 10
place responsibility for the wreck mas
not been started, officials OF the Old
Dominion line are blaming Capt. Der.
~ of the Nantucket for at least al
error Of judgment. His action IN Sig
mailing full speed astern Immediately
following the smash pulled the Nan.
tucket's bow out of the rent In the
side of the Monroe and let the water
in. Had he simply reduced speed and
kept the two vessels locked everyone
on the Monroe could have clambered
in to the Nantucket before the Old
Dominion liner finally went to he
bottom.
The revised list OF the missing
showed that the death toll claimed by
the Atlantic was 40. OF these 10 We're
passengers and q members o. the
crew.
Thirty-nine passengers and SO mem
bers OF the crew were landed here by
the Nantucket.
The government investigation Of
the wreck was begun at once. Despite
the most positive denials by the Of
ficials of the line, the rumors pre-
vailed here that the Monroe was in.
clined to topheaviness. Officials OF
the federal steamship inspection serr-
ice, however, examined the Monroe
only three months ago, and passed
her with a clean bill of health.
Captain Is Exonerated.
Despite the fact that so many were
lost, passengers refused to blame eth
er Capt. Johnson or his men. They
said that they did everything posi-
Bile, but that the time between the
. crash and the sinking Of the Monroe
was so short it was impossible to dc
more than was done. Discipline, the
rescued passengers assert, was never
= relaxed.
Secretary of Commerce Retfir.i
, has wired the federal inspectors .ha.
, the inquiry must be thorough anu
that all responsibility must be fixed
Ed German OF New York told of
4 e
= for help in the cabin of the Moato.
: Walking upon the sid } of the Car'an"n
; sinking ship Goldman met girl whom
: he begged to jump with him into me
sea. The girl refut ed and is suppose"
3 to have persisted, German was al once
[ picked up by passing lifehoat
James NJ. O'Connell. a member oil
: the federal Industrial commission
+ who had been trying to straighten on
the strike of the boilermakers at N.
: Newport News Shipbuilding Co
a plant, had a most remarkable expert
a ence in escaping from the doom'.
/. ship.
9 Thrown Into Lifebost.
AS soon as | realized what hi'
J. happened | rished to deck and RAJ
o right into Capt. Johnson,
v Suddenly the ship began to thr'
f over on her side. In my haste MAJ
forgotten TO grab a life preseryer.
e man rushed up to me and said: TAN
e this, I've got two pointing to his U.
l. preserVer.
'. Before l had an opportunity TO pu'
n the preserver on my body wa
e thrown upon my back, got all mike
up in the life preseryer and boun'.
n up and down on the deck, strikInI ID
h sorts of things as the ship FOUNDER
t about She took a plunge and | ~.
r, thrown overheard right into a liieoo'
l. II really seemed too strange.
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Just Like Father
p 81 never saw boy so much Ike h'