Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-02-04
MOTHER HORROR AT SEA.
sEerty-Nine Persons Lose Lives in
Collision on the Deep.

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 30.-Forty-nine
,ifersons went down to death to-day
When the Merchants and Miners
.liher Nantucket sank the Old Domiu-
ionsliner Monroe. Wireless lists for
Manroe, returning with the survivors
on the Nantucket, show:
Lost-Passengers, %; crew, "a;
total, 40.
Passengers, 80; crew, 55;
total, S5.
Eighty-Fire Saved.
Eighty-five survivors, picked up
from the sea and huddled on the
'Naotucket, which was proceeding
slowly with crumpled bow toward
| Ncpfolk to-day, are the only ones
who know all the story Of how the
twp big ships, picking their way
Through a blanket Of fog-one bound
north and the other bound south
crashed near the Winter Quarter
Sh,sal lightship.
| se fragments OF the wreck narrative
lireaching here by wireless told how
the Nantucket backed off,. lowered
| bcats and began sweeping the misty
sea with her searchlights; then,
iWifhin ten minutes, the Monroe, her
4 ipassengers pitched out Of berths in
lniSht clothes, went down.
! S9nthe swirling vortex Of the sink
Ein&s ship men shouted and women
1safaamed through the mist The
! Monroe went down so quickly that
Ithare was little time for launching
4 be4ts, and it is believed that the only
Zones saved were those picked up at
once by the Nantucket.
The Monroe's panic stricken pas
i lseligers, awakened from sleep by the
/ Icolhson rushed to the decks, and
most Of those who were saved leapci
,linteS the sea in their night clothing
I to- De picked up by the Nantucket's s
4 bopts.i A dense fog that enveloped
i the sea, and the panic that followed
sEths collision, made rescue work haz-
i Ear1ous. With water pouring into the
Il ld9omed Monroe. her frightened pas
\ Sc gets rushed to the decks and
Il & No g2li helplessly about in the dense
i Many hurled themselves over
Il b9a,ys 9 The lSantuckes's boats had
4 low cred la] mo Il I iIiineii lately AFT
guided hv the
q 81 3 u a rs u 1 N,
iEoresy who had taken tie desperate
chance Of leaping into the icy sea
they pressed the work of rescue
Searchlights that were aimed through
the wall Of fog were ofafeeble help.
Cutter Heard S. o. S.
Meanwhile the wireless began hiss
ing. out it's call for aid. The revenue
cutter Onondaga, cruising off the
Virginia capes, heard, and under
forced draft sped northward From
her Norfolk berth the wrecking tug
| rnif
The Old Dominion liner Hamilton
not far from where the Monroe wenl
down, was headed for the Nantucke et
and other ships turned their prows
to the rescue.
Sinks i'm Ten Minutes.
Ten minutes from the time wher
the Merchants and Miners boat AM
the Old Dominion liner collided, the
Monroe had disappeared beneath thl
waves. There had not been time LC
launch life-boats; not time enougr
even to bring a semblage of order out
of disorder, although the captain and
his officers, in that brief space be.
tween the crunch of steel on stee
and the last plunge Of the Monroe
had kept cool heads and had started
their well ordered routine for lower.
ing the boats.
Sumter Man Among Dead.
Sutmer, s. c., Jan. 30.-William
Il. Ingram, lost in the wreck of the
steamship Monroe, left here Wednes-
day evening on a business trip 70
New York. The first news Of the dis
astcr was received this morning III
a press dispatch. The last news came
in dispatch this afternoon to r. O.
| Purdy, Mr.. Ingram's brother-in-law
from Rev. G. C. Covington. of Nor
folk, formerly rector of the Episco-
pal church at Sumter, this sayin,
that there was no hope that Mr.. In
gram had been saved.
Mr.. Ingram was a capable man
and a popular citizen, and the COM
munity that has known him for so
many years was shocked and sor-
| rowed by the news. He was real
estate handler and was owner him
self Of considerable tracts. He was
about 55 years of age. He is sur
yived by his wife and several broth
ers and sisters.
Bearing Wife's Body Home.
New York, Jan. 31.-SiX surviv-
ors of the disaster to the steamship
Monroe reached here to-day over the
Pennsylvania railroad from Norfolk
Among them was Thomas Harring-
ton, of Bridgeport, Conn, accompa-
nying the body Of his wife, who died
after being taken aboard the rescue
ship Nantucket.
Il am too weak to talk" he said.
All that | know is that my wife is
dead"
harrington father and brother
met him here. Tell them what hap
pened, Tom" said the father. I'VE
all want to know, ard it will get IL
off your mind"
Then, In a dull monotone, the