The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1909, Page 1

WEATHER-Falr and colder tosnight and Tueslay. Rainn K_RESULTS EDITION W 86 CHIE Rescued Survivors of Ship Crash Cheering = iq nay BuIG | Saye Ranson on Br ‘idge as Baltic Reaches Pier NY SEARCH LAD TO MAN AT ar It : OR THE REPUBLIC ORDA WHEE Capt. Ranson Tells How Groping in| ‘Romola, Nodding at Post, It Is Said, Fog for Disabled Vessel He Was Gave Wrong Turn—Laid Out With | Guided by Messages From | the Sinking Craft. | pe | Marlinspike By Captain Mo- | ment After Crash. | | | a Circulation B Books Open’ to All.” | NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1909. PRICE ONE CENT, es ea Capt. Ranson, of the Baltic, after the big ship had been docked and | | the survivors of the wreck and her own passengers had dispersed, sat in | his cabin and gave an Evening World reporter some additional details | of his rescue work after the call by wireless sounded in the room of his | operator Saturday morning, stating that the Republic was in distress. | The Baltic was off Montauk Point, bound for New York, at about BALTIC BRINGS SURVIVORS; FLORIDA COMES INTO PORT. cee es daylight Saturday morning when her wireless operator first picked out of | S aIEEEEEERIEeEEEaee the fog the startling news that the Republic had been in collision and was) Cowardice Charged Against Men Passengers in Ce an ue Ms sited notified. By his orders the | | Thrilling Stories of Wreck and Rescue course of the Baltic was changed. She made a wide turn at half speed i i and in a few minutes was churning back to the eastward over the course | by Survivors Waites Attacks i she had just covered. : Liner’s Crew. of The messages came rapidly and digs SoS | i jMnetly,” sald Capt. Ransom. “They ao rhet. . . : . . : ' Pl Gh coiiigion ua: cesar charts WAITED ON PIR ' The White Star liner Baltic, bringing the survivors of the \ latitude 40.17, longitude 70. ‘3 ; ah q Re iey cur cairad eri varlsaneer | wreck of the Republic and the Florida, to the number of Base ie Lee IN VAIN FOR BODY | 1,500 or more, docked shortly after noon, From members f Bd various ve alt an the shore | of the crews of the Republic and the Florida the first story of j ¢ fox wa very thick, and we had to| | ‘ i) : i : Proceed with caution (F THEIR SISTER the cause of the collision was obtained. | “At IL o'clock Saturday morning we | v jgot a message that caused me a great | According to this relation a quartermaster on the Florida, i ideal of worry loperator at Siasconset, and stated that the Republic wanted the Baltic to hurry, as she waa sinking “When we made the point described fas the scene of the collision there was ino sign of the Republic. We could jacarcely see a.ship's length off into the fog. There was no wind and the sea was calm. I tell you {t was rather faqueamish out there, looking for a big vessel with a-hole in her, unable to i ny trace of her and afraid to think @ might have gone down, “We sounded our whistle regularly jand made slowly in the direction in which the Republic would likely have drifted. This proved to be a good |move. At about 1 o'clock In the after- |noon the Republic's wireless man told us he could hear our whistle very ‘faintly. to seem to be off our starboard It was from the wireless | Women Overwhelmed When | They Learn Mrs, Lynch’s Re- CART RANSON named Serafino Romolo, was at the wheel from midnight on Friday to the time of the collision Saturday morning. The commander of the Florida was on the bridge navigating the | mains Sunk With Republic. CONGRESS HEARS. EULOGY OF BINKS, THE OPERATOR All morning long, until the arrival of j the Baltic at her pler, Mrs, P. J. Finne- gan, Finnegan, of Cam- bridge, Mass, and Mra. John A. Bryan, | sisters of Mrs. Eugene Lynch, the only | woman passenger on the Republic to loge her life, waited In the expectation | | of taking their kinswoman's body to | Boston with them. | Both women were haggard and tear- wife of Dr, SEA AS THE at C * RPLLES CREW WORRIED ONLY FUR PASSENGER vessel. |GA VE VESSEL WRONG TURN. Suddenly the Republic was seen close by, The sound lof her fog signals had been heard for some time before. The quartermaster, it is said, was ordered by the captain to put hi wheel to starboard. Instead he put the wheel to port land the prow of the Florida jammed into the hull of the Republic. publi alt ey aarsietene the Re-| stained, and thelr husbands, who vere [Bontell, of Illinois, Declares | Went ey to Breakfast The captain picked up an iron spike and struck Romolo Wicelese Guided Rescuers, |TH" them. had not the heart to tel] His Name Should Be When These Had Been |oyer the head at the moment of the collision. The quarter ‘Mt was plain that the only way we could locate the Republic was by giving her our location by whistle and then letting her guide us by wireless, But a ‘whistle in a fog !s an uncertain thing, and the process was long and nerve- | racking. “Goon after we first got into touch ‘gith the Republic we got a wireless | measage stating we were probably mak ling in her direction, Then came an- ‘other, reading. them that Mrs, Lynch's body had gone | down with the Republic. The sisters | had planned to take Mrs, Lynch's body | with them on their return to Boston, and an undertaker’s wagon was waiting with them on the plier. They first learned the truth a short |time before the Baltic steamed up the |river, and were so overwhelmed with | this further grief that they had to be} Remublic, who remained at his post un supported to a carriage. Both women /til the ship went down, Immortalized. WASHINGTON, Jan. %.—Pausing for |A moment in Its legislative activities, the House of Representatives to-day listened to a eulogy of John R. Binns, |tbe Marcon! operator aboard the Iner following her | NI TO Tht BOTTOM Climbed Higher ee ieher Into! Rigging as Waves Closed Over the Ship—Mate Remained with Transferred to Florida, | master fell to the deck unconscious with the side of his head ‘crushed. He was on the Baltic to-day,a bloody, incoherent An Indication of the coolness and aya- tem that prevailed all through the try-| little man who cowered in a corner and protested he was ing scenes that followed the coillsion ac ad. the apeoch made ty Capt, seaipy,asieep in his bunk at the time of the accident. But his own comrades on the Florida told the story to to the Republic's officers and crew after ‘the men of the Republic when the latter went aboard the the passengers had all been safely put |aboard the Florida Saturday morning. He assembled the sailors, who had “You are getting louder. Steer south: | are past middle age and gray-haired. [collision Saturday with the Florida worked like heroes from 6.30 to 8. A . Sa ay evening. east. Listen to our bell. The news was broken as gently as pos-| Mr. Boutell, of Illinois, was given . - Raieakhiniroakingithentranateemorathe Italian liner Saturday even Ing é “REPUBLIC.” | sible by the Rev. James Lee, of Boston, {unanimous consent to address the 1m to the Last. forward deck. Not a passenger re- The Republic sunk fifteen miles west by south of Nantucket South A “you see, Sealby and his officers /and the Rev. Father J. F. Kennedy, of |House “on a matter of public intorest.’, maine on the Republic—only her of- «| iohtehin in thirtvecieht fathoms (228 feet) of w i janéw the sound of our whistle, They} st. John's College, Brooklyn, Tha two pea ‘ a ani ue fers and cre ; Shoals Lightship in thirty-eigt : (22 ) of water, t out from the other blaring | prieste had gone down the Bay ina tug|Boutell, amid loud ap e, sald that Men, I want to thank you for the aN q a ZADS. 1 Hifedsy Felgnaie sounding in that vicinity I acrrent the Batic at Quarantine and ta; throughout the who teal period Capt A. W. Perry, of the revenue cutter Gresham, who resened the! niandid manner in which you have be-| MEN LOST THE IR HEAL ‘trom the sirens of vessels closing about |take Mr. Lynch off the Florida ecake a eri alsa pet Ea the tras officers and crew of the Republic before she sank, at 8.15 o'clock last night, haved,” sald Capt. Sealby. “You stood Women survivors of the disaster, speaking to Evening World ree the wreck. The priests learned while down the © Pee eaevcally mentioned Binua | "4 Who arrived with the Gresham at Wood's Holl, Mass, at 10 o'clock this by me in the how f need, and I belle | porters on the Baltic, referred in terms of scorn to certain of the men Bay that Mr. Lynch was not mortally !e4 T can depend on you to stand hy me “tn eompliance with our orders from ly, Mey deinen honte Sep rernial EY CELIA lhe Republic we steered southwest. | hurt and that under the skilful care of DY Name, and in conclusion sald: morning, after transferring the Republic's crew to the derelict destroyer a1 one ship at present 18 not sinking assengers who lost their heads completely after the collision and tried to r 4 time we got this message a murgeon on the Florida he was getting| “Binns has given the world @ splendid | Seneca, told over the tong distance telephone to The Evening W ‘orld the fol- ang 1 am sure she te safe for awhile, | P' th fon the boaten Onereah Watch for our Illustrations of the heroism that dwells | lowing thrilling story of the part he took in the reacue of Capt. Sealby and We will now have breakfast.” | push women and men aside in the rush ne gray-bearded ‘oll are very close. rockets. Republic.’ “We sent back word by wireless that we could see no rockets, They answered telling us to keep a sharp lookout. We sounded our whistle at regular Intervals and all at once we were shocked by along nicely Mrs, Finnegan and Mrs. Bryan tn- sisted on remaining at the pler until the Baltic docked so as to meet their friends, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Pren- dergast, of Boston, and learn from them more details concerning their sis- not an in- t there noticed tasky of life, Is It splration for all of us to feel t Jare heroes for every é¢mergency, and {that {n human Ilfe no Ker reat that some ‘Jack’ Binns !8 not ready to thee it" {n many who are doing the quiet, un- | | Ate mens BY CAPT, A, W. PERRY. (By Long Distance Telephone from Wood's Hole.) At § o'clock on Saturday morning, while at anchor off Provincetown, I recelved a wireless message from Wellfleet, Maas., stating thet the Re- from rough handling, Then, after he had given an order to ang the lifeboats back on the ship's davits, Capt. Sealby went below, and all hands had breakfast quite as {f nothing out of the ordinary had happened. After breakfast th jembled the ‘New Yorker had a narrow escape On the way up the bay, while the hundreds of excited survivors were telling their stories, James B. Connolly, the President's friend, who was on the Republic, bound to board the battleship fleet in the Mediterranean, the uppe on crew forw self in loud tones on t ck. He criticise thi message; ter's deat! © [public was in distress twenty-Ava miles gouthweet of Nantucket Light. The Cee to be trana.( Was declaring him elf | RENE the bepeaee the Meiiene ES For wets ane, Hrehdeemaera ted been with sity ‘SLAYER OF POLICEME |fog was thick as a wool blanket at the time, but I put out to nea under a fp hel sailors and officers of the Republic for no the baggage, and ace " Ray wal nabe aaa MUST DIE IN THE CHAIR, | fait head of ste T mean to he ship's company of cowardice That was the wa the colliata did not learn of full hea ‘am cused the ship’s ¢ Ings Wet the talon Vand Mr. 1 — 'BLUNDERED ABOUT IN FOG. ; Snpsertominecine) — MllirlleG: S. Carlisle, a purser te Saturday after iries s Refuses to Interfere ‘ Pipatitifiad taTmeaue int ara reckon! t feare and crew brok t Hs rlisle steppe r { sai area rey Aer Area ta Gov. Refus : i i The mist w k that T had to grope my way by dead reckoning, | ReltCeea ale areN ABRs ROTA Voni(helBalticrm| arlisle stepped \ t aids that night we lost her again. When wel dergast in Execution of Gove Who Jand [ blundered abe the fog all day, blowing my whfstles and making | resgi"éios gee AMER! “ft doesn't sound well for you to talk al . Mr. Connally, close by our sister ship, the Pur-|gown and fy ak, Mr. Prender Killed Sellick and Sehler. poss.ole use of my wireless. | got message after message by wire- (oo eee 1d by men of good repute that i a rd after IAand the City of Everett, alpajamas and an overcoat. Both auf. none of them helped me in locating the Republic. Some of the! 59,990 Boies in Messina Ruins Yet, lam told pie yautih whalebitck, vine the American flag, | fered from exposure es said she was in one place and some in another Mazza Reports, the collision, that you ran around wt a razy man; ime 8 the spot” it went on until night, when I was still ploughing about in the J Mazza tele-| tried to get to the boats ahead of wome and then tried‘to or Fine New Tarkish Ba el iurk, vainly endeavoring to get some trace of the distressed steamer iolttth yesterday| aycuse yourself on the plea that you were he ir wife and child.” (ag COMPLETE FLORIDA TRAIN va doth club car and observation ca: eearg Wisgide Ltd. Quickest train ‘ WM ee Ct | t Qaly | week beginning Feb. 1 for urder of Yolicemen George Sehler and Alfred A. ioe Nick im New York City om April 14, ‘ the new Bas Pte 1 burned Coston lights all night and just before dawn yesterday put (Ooadinued-on Second Peas) © bodies have been taken from |the ruins here. and that the estimated number of those still under the wreck~ age io 60,000, Connolly expressed a desire to slug ¢ arlisle and Carlisle invited him to try it. The barber of the Republic, a man named Fletcher, broke b ‘