The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-31
CRASH CAME UNEXPECTEDLY:
CAUGHT LIKE RATS IN TRAP
STEAMER MONROE VIRTUALLY CUT IN TWO BY NANTUCKET
AND SINKS IN TEN MINUTES-MANY CAUGHT
IN THEIR STATEROOMS.
Widest Scenes Peyaled-Dense Fog Dficu-Nuc
Heroism Displayed by Crew-Thrillng Rescues Enacted
Heart-Renderng Scenes-Company Statement.

NORFOLK, w. Va. Jan. co.
Miss Hilda Haviiand, leading lady
Of the marearia Theatrical COM
psny; Miss Leona soule Of the
same company. who had previous
iy been Identified az Miss Seville;
=. C Davis OF Brooklyn and
George Williamson Of New York,
who had been reported as missing,
are among the saved. Miss HaVi.
land has been removed 20 a hos
pital. She continues to cry:
"The wateri the waterl"
NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 3o.-The
story Of how forty-three souls
went down TO death in the chill
waters OF the Atlantic when the
liner Nantucket rammed and
sank the steamer Monroe early
to-day, was brought to port TO-
night by the eighty-fiVe survivors
OF the sunken ships company
who were rescued and brought TO
shore by the Nantucket u was
a story Of awful and sudden death,
sweeping out of the dark and fog
and taking unawares the doomed
half hundred with the heaViness
OF sleep still upon them. II told
now the stricken Monroe, with her
side gored deep by the knlfe-like
steel prov Of the Nantucket, filled
rapidly, rolled over on her side
and in a few minutes turned COM
pietely over and plunged to the
bottom, carrying with her the H.
fated passengers and members Of
the crew who, had failed to get
clear Of the wreck.
Tonight the revised lists pre-
pared by Captain johnson, who
survived the sunken vessel show
ed:
Lost: passengers, 10; crew, p;
total, ~.
Saved: passengers, 80; crew,
90; total, 90.
Under the thick bank Of fog
that hid the heavily running sea,
both big ships were making their
way slowly and with difficulty In
the early morning. The Monroe
with Captain johnson on the
bridge, and a double lookout peer
inq into the fog ahead was edoing
under half speed to the northward.
having left Norfolk for New York
last evening with a nerve rack
ing fog bound voyage in prospect
The Nantucket, heavily laden
with freight and with but two pas
sengers aboard, was nosinq her
way southwark bound from Bos-
ton 10 Norfolk. Urged through the
dripping fog the two vessels were
slowly drawn toward each other.
while the death spirit waited and
watched.
Crash Came at f:4o.
The crash came about 1:40 o'cloc
warning. Out of the gra,
black fog that shut out even IN
waves from view the CLEAN Of IN
searchlight scarcel
touched the dripping side OF the MOI
roe before the high steel prov Of m
southwark bound vessel cut into IN
Monroe's side with a ripping an
crashing OF plates that threw th
stricken ship back. The Nantucke
with her bow crushed in. backed OF
OF sight into the fog as Captain Johi
son. seeing that his vessel was fatal
stricken. shouted an order for the lif
boats.
When the crash came those alioar
iuF AAUulbt MtAF NuAflg III Utu an
asleep. Only Captain Johnson and IN
watch on deck were mp and abou
But the shivering Of the stricken We
sci and her listing motion as the vi
ter poured through the cash in ne
side awakened the sleeping passei
gers and sent them clambering towar
the deck Warned BY the officer
they hurriedly adjusted life preser'
ers and made for the tilted deck
But the time was an too brief Thos
rescued agreed that from the time m
Monroe was struck until she settle
beneath the waves not more than
short ten minutes elapsed
Everything Forgotten.
Baggage. clothing and valuable
were an forgotten in the flight froi
The staterOOms Of the sinking shil