The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-31
HURLED FROM BERTHs PAssEN
GERS Haze LITTLE CHANCE
FOR THEIR LIVES.
DARKNESS PREVENTS RESCUE
The Monroe Went Down SO Quickly
that There Was Little Time for
Launching Boats and Some of Those
Rescued Died from the Exposure.

Norfolk, Jan. 30-With heavy can
vas awning covering a gaping hc'a in
her bow and with a partially shifted
cargo, causing a list to staIboard, the
steamer Nantucket, bearing the ill-fat-
ed steamer Monroe's rescued passen-
noon. several thousand people were on
the water front to watch the steamer
pass into her slip. Many Of the rescued
stood ul : the deck of the Nantucket
wrapped[.l blankets as their only gar
ment. There were two dead. These
were Mrs Thos Harrington, daughter
Of j, Kelly. No 55 Stevens st, Nor
walk, Conn, and First Lieut.. Leg. b.
Curtis, Of the second coast artillery,
!!Watervliet Arsenal, New York. Mrs.
Harrington's boy. placed in a tempo
rary coffin, was borne from the Nam
tucket with the husband, refusing to
leave it until the body had been
brought ashore.
The body of Lieut.. Curtis was iden-
lined by a handkerchief found by Cor
oner Knight in the pocket of his paja-
mas marked Curtis" This was the
only Identification to be found. Mrs.
Harrington and Lieut. Curtis both died
after being rescued from the water.
Thos. Harrington, of Bridgeport,
Conn, husband of the dead woman
told a thrilling story of the experiences
of himself and wife. Harrington and
his wife were long in the water, and
the man was swimming with his
wife's hair between his teeth when the
two were picked up. Mrs. Harrington
Led from exhaustion after being haul
ed aboard the Nantucket
With every barrier being thrown in
the way of the newspaper men it was
difficult to get information Represen-
tatives Of the press were all barred
from the Nantucket when she landed,
it being explained by e. c. Law, gen
eral agent of the Merchant and Min
ers Transportation company, that this
was by order CT r. E. Tapley local
steamboat inspector.
By some of the rescued leaning
over the deck rail of the Nantucket as
the steamer docked, it was told to the
newspaper men on the wharf that the
Nantucket raked and rammed the Mon
roe in a dense fog at a m. today, and
that the Monroe careened and turned
turtle within 10 or 12 minutes after
the impact
AS the Monroe turned on her side
the passengers and crew crawled over
On the upside OF the vessel and walk
ed along this until finally washed off
as the steamer turned down side up
and went to the bottom.
But for the fact that there had been
time to adjust life preservers many
mere lives would have been lost. AS
1t was those rescued remained in the
water from half to three-quarters of
an hour before they we're gotten out
Norfolk, Jan. 30--'f'orty-nine persons
lost their lives when the Old Dominion
liner Monroe was rammed near Win
ter Quarters at O'Clock this morn
ing by the Merchants and Miners liner
4'antucket The Monroe sank in d
short while. The Nantucket rescued
So OF those aboard. OF those lost 25
were passengers and "a Of the crew.
The two great vessels met in a
dense fcg, the Monroe sustaining a
great rent amidship. The Nantuckets
bow was crumbled and she was 9TH
erwise damaged, according to wireless
advices The latter Immediately began
the work OF rescue. The Nantucket is
now bound for Norfolk with those res
cued. Capt. Johnson Of the Monroe, and
all the officers Of his crew were saved
except one. Second Engineer Gately
was lost.
Fragments of the wreck narrative
reaching here told how the Nantucket
had backed off, lowered her boats and
began sweeping the misty sea with