The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-02-06

Fowty.seven LlvesMere tostBe.
fore Aid Is Extended

Norfolk, Va, January 30.-Forty-
seven lives we're lost in the Icy
waters OF the Atlantic at two o'clock
this morning when the Old Dominion
Liner Monroe was rammed amid
ships. practically cut in two and
sunk within ten minutes, twenty
miles southeast OF Hog island by
tire Merchants and Miners Liner
Nantucket. The forty-seven dead was
comprised OF twenty.three passen.
gers and twenty.four members of
the crew, according to official wire
less reports thirty-one passengers
and fffty-five OF the crew were
saved, making the total rescued
eighty.sTx. These including Captain
johnson OF Monroe, were huddied
on the Nantucket, which Is limp.
ing into Norfolk with a crumpled
bow and is due to arrive at or 2
p. m.
Bump In a Fog.
The boats were picking their way
through a blanket of fog, one going
north and the other .bound south,
and they met with a crash near the
winter quarters OF the shoal light.
ship IS. o. s." Calls reaching out
to the. coast stations started every
available agency of rescue into nc.
tion, but not soon enough. While the
Nantucket backed of and lowered
boats, she began sweeping the misty
sea with searchlights. The Monroe
her passengers pitched out of their
berths in their nightclothes sank
like rock. In the swirling vortex
hof the sinking ship men shouted and
women screamed franticalIy through
the mist and there was terrible con
fusion. The Monroe went down Sc
quickly, II Is believed the only ref
ugees are those saved by the Nan
tucket.
A later dispatch says there are
corty-nine dead in the Monroe dis
,aster OF. which twenty-five we're pas
sengers and twenty.four were mem
bers Of the crew. -t go
| n Headed For Hampton Roads.
~ Newport News, January 30.-The
steamer Nantucket, loaded with sur
vivors from the liner Monroe, pass
cd into the Virginia capes just be
fore. noon headed for Hampton
Roads. according to wireless in
terchange with this station. The
Nantucket is conveyed by the OLE
Dominion Steamer Hamilton. .s
Norfolk, January 30.-Telling on,
Of the most dramatic sea rescue,
and death stories OF a decade
cighty-iiye survivors from the line
Monroe arrived here this Afternoon
aboard the steamer Nantucket. TIL,
survivors suffered great exposur,
which may result in Increasing IN,
death list from the present forty
nine. The women are still hyster
zeal. Some are unable to talk s,
, greatly has the sad tragedy affecte,
/ them. Many we're taken to. hospi
. tails for care and treatment.
, Fram Fridays Daily. q. ..-
2 Had II not been for the alarm
given by night linotype operator
In the composing room of the. plan
. 'owned by Charles K Mayer las
night, there would probably hav
| been a serious fire on jackson
: street. An oyerheated stove In th,
Office OF the Wysong laundry cause,
the boards in the wall back OF tn
, metallic partition guarding the wal
} from the stove TO. take flre. Tn,
lire gradually ate its way through
the wall and the floor.. Tire smok
: found its way through the floor int
The Free Press building. Here tn
. night workers took alarm, thinkin,
the building was on fire, and a tele
phone call was sent to the fir
station al 1880 a. m. The firerfiei
quickly responded TO the call, and
thorough search was made OF Tn
, Free Press building without dis
. covering the cause of the fire. Tn
, next building. where the laundry |
'located. was entered through tn
, coal chute. There was less smok
there than In The Free Press build
| ing, but slight tell-tale gimme
: from Under the edge or the fnetalii
! partition back of the stove, shove
, where the fire was. The fire wn
. distinguished with chemicals befor
any great damage was done.
=
. From Frlday's csIiy.
! Washington, January 30.--Di
} Charles Wood, Presbyterian clers,
, man and a>close friend of forme
) Senator sChliom, was telling toda,
! how Mr. oullom had changed his bt
lief IL eternity. after writing hi
memoirs.
The former senator concluded tina
work with an expression of doub
: that he had found any in his read
!. ing OF the Scriptures to warran
! belief In a hereafter.
? "In the last few months his fee
I ings changed completely" said ID
I Wood. He told me he believed &
]. God and Christ and immortality
o and added:
D 4 want TO make al the first OF
lrortunity statement of my simpI
3 creed. to be inserted after the las
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