New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-02-04
I W0 SCORE
LOSE LIVES
Steamers [ }! | 5 Crash Off
Virginia Coast.
COLLISION DURING FOG
Liner Nantucket Rams and Sinks
Steamer Monroe.

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 3I.---The story OF
how forty.three persons went down
to death in the chill waters of the At,
lantic when the liner Nantucket ram.
med and sank the steamer Monroe
was brought to port by the ninety.
nine survivors of the sunken ships
company who were rescued and
brought to shore by the Nantucket.
1t was story of sudden death,
sweeping out of the dark and fog and
taking unawares the doomed half hun.
dred with the heaviness of sleep still
upon them. 1t told how the stricken
Monroe, with her side gored deep by
the knifelike steel Prov of the Nan.
tucket, filled rapidly, rolled over on
her side and in few minutes turned
over and plunged to the bottom. car
ryiDg with her the i'll fated passen-
gers and members of the crew who
had failed to get clear of the wreck
Under the thick bank Of fog that
hid the heavily running sea both big
ships were making their way slowly
and with difficulty. The Monroe, with
Captain Johnson on the bridge and a
double lookout peering into the fog
ahead, was edging und~,r half speed
to the northWard, having left Norfolk
Tor New York with a nerve racking,
log bound voyage in prospect
The Nantucket, heavily laden with
freight, and with but two passengers
aboard, was nosing her way south
ward bound from Boston to Norfolk
Orders Lifeboats Lowered.
The crash came without warming
Out OF the gray black fog that shut
out even the waves from view the
CLEAN of the Nantucket's searchlight
| scarcely touched the dripping side OF
the Monroe before the high steel
PROV Of the southwark bound vessel
cut into the Monroe's side with a rip
ping and crushing Of plates The
Nantucket, with her bow crushed in
backed out Of sight into the fog, as
Captain Johnson, seeing that his YES
sci was doomed shouted an order for
| the lifeboats
When the crash came most Of those
or board the Monroe were in bed and
! asleep. Only Captain Johnson and
| the crew on watch We're up and about
| But the shivering of the stricken yes
! sci and her listing motion, as the
| water poured through the cash in her
side, awakened the sleeping passen-
! gers and sent them clamberina to-
ward the deck
Warned by the officers they hur-
riedly adjusted life preservers and
! made for the tilted deck But the
time was ell too brief Those rescued
agreed that from the time the Monroe
| struck until she settled beneath
the waves not more than a short ten
minutes elapsed.
| Baggage, clothing. valuabIes-all
were forgotten in the flight from the
sIaterooms of the sinking Monroe,
| Night clothing and blankets were
| the common apparel of those who
made the slippery up ended deck be-
fore the water trapped them below.
| AS the half clad. excited throng of
passengers reached the deck they
were hurried toward the lifehoats by
the officers and the crew Three of
| the lifeboats from one side of the YES
sci were unshipped and got away
| from the side, filled mostly with wom-
en-, shivering in the wet and cold in
their fimsy night clothing,
Unable TO Launci, Other Boats.
! By the time these were away the
Monroe was rolling over on her side
and it was impossible to launch the
ether boats.
With a sudden lurch the liner, now
fast filling with the water that rushed
through the rent in her plates. rolled
over on her side, throwing up her un-
! injured side, then submerging cabins
and saloons
| With a chorus of shriekS the un-
! fortunates left on the sinking vessel
turned ami crawled over the super
structure. through portfolios, windows
and companionways, until they rested,
just out OF reach of the waves. on the
; upper side Of the half capsized yc:;.
sci.
! But even this slippery security was
not long available. With a rumbling
sound the big vessel shivered and
shook and then plunged beneath the
waves, leaving her human freight
ahoat in the icy ocean.
Meantime the Nantucket, herself
badly damaged, had stood by and
Captain Berry had aroused his sleen-
| ing crew. IS the Intellectual rays of
the searchiight failed to pierce the
blanket of the fog Captain Berry or
dered out E;s lifeboats and one by one
they slipped away into the fog tt,
search for the Monroe. They founG
only the struggling survivors atloat il
the icy sea, crying frantically for help
Many of those picked up were ute,
y exhausted and unable to help them
selves. Several had to lie hauled over,
he side Of The Nantucket with rope S.