The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1909, Page 3

| ————————— ~ GRAPHIC STORIES BY BRAVE WOMEN 0 GASH AND RESCUE 4e—-— Miss Mollie Snyder, in a Log Written Immediately After the Collision, Gives a Thrilling Description of the Perils She Escaped NO PANIC AMONG WOMEN | MRS. _ THOMPSON SAYS. Didn’t Show Any Signs of Fear When the Crash Came, and Unfalteringly Took emcee... rememares to the Smail Boats When | ' i Order Came. Thrilling stories of the collision at sea in the fog, of the perils through | which they of their rescue rom danger are told by women | survivors the sinking of the steamship Republic. | Ore @ stories is told in the ae written by | Miss Mollie Sny olland avenue, Middletown, N. Y., who was a passenger , having started on a trip which she had | long been planning. Miss Snyder's g oft i other vessels were searching for us, At which she threw the dec lock th t we heard a| Baltic to a er of T faint whistle, but c nuld see nothing, | Wor'd as The Evening Worlds Twenty minutes later the giant form | alongside the liner off Sandy Hook, of the at Baltic, our savior, loomed | reads as follows Dp out ¢ da ess. We were all “We sailed F r ( appy, for we k fob ony e favorable conditi ut ers of the Ba and the Republic perfect and the s we erred until midnight, when they de- ran Into a fog t y before the acel- cided to transfer us all to the Baltic dent. A little be 6 o'clock we all da was lowering into the were aroused by a te Cries b and was deemed unsafe. of help, sounds of | t Child 7 wild, disordered commands of off Peneilenemeti Gite jand shouts of terrified seamen ts were dropped again | ltated & scene of indescribable put off first, The | All the Lights Out ety dangerous to climb down the Nap “Everything was Into The work of | knew what had struck ight and did f terror, the lights al next morning. | we knew that the & experiences ware re- | the engines and the fers tn being taken rushed into the haliw t the other. The life- | 1 ways, trembling 4 boats ed that the passen- jin thelr night « fers themselves had to help row. More than twenty of us were dropped part- iY into the water | Diack hulk of I ing to climb up the ladder | Florida, backing one woman—Alice M. Earl, a Junge. It was p a writer sank twice before being rescued that we learned t) eh nig fain) as ts from the Florida | Killed. the Baltle many “After the first shock the women ma ean te tained their ness with remarkabl ne nee fortitude. The of the passengers yt ‘ utes after the cras §¢ } fas If they were about to sit downh Lett the Republi in Tears. meal. t of sight of the wh the faces Waiting for Further Ald “One hour after ‘ n we we ‘ A happy time when the transferred to the boat that had rar ash 1 our pleasure into us, The four ! ton thet ing, We have every g of Florida were t om |e te for our splendid ment on comfortable, We wer wide and} and for the generosity and ‘hudadted into corners. Al! this time t rs to make us com- iks, our jewelry, our ot the oats have all gone Jess on where help w “AN day g ( closely as upper deck jgloom for s Ali ihe Women Calm Mrs. Th ‘teams! count of | fter she was put a ‘his story Evening W While we wait jgrant ship T wil a i the pajamas and a full ac- blank barefooted, him; with thick ts about Women with dis- led hair; but every one was calm. woman Was in trouble on the leck. She was a powdered lady, red with jewels and holding a little ne the order to got what Wwhich I hope wil! a usain th needed and get ready for the could not sleep ¢ ne fatal t. boats, Some of ua got our hats and he fog was thick It was so cold 1 jes, Then came land dark. The tog blew all nigit the order for the women and children to to the beats, There was no pante away, Twenty-fly h boat. It gave me land I could not sleep re “T was beginning to rise when T heard er je prolonged row t t hen came a long grinding W the wate jumped up, put o und me. Two of the stoke: * loaks and went outs Poople tn the first boat and ordered off ‘ } tanding about hug another and \1 sking what had hanperet lh wa lora rowed the boat, often- K M. We got Jock and tines the passengers helping, We slow here a steward sald we bad be all Ivy made our way to tl forida wd we reas Inecase anytiilig |apy zed the for Peraiant iowa 0 rooms fooling AG SAW her entire bow ripped off right lupiway, some of the pasvengers light to tho anchor pit, The soa waa per Hng matcher. Hefore we got to on tect f ‘hat ft would have beer ptaterooms a dozen tirew down the ft) a rough tea G knows, We Hee preservers and oid vs to (ake © fast to dhe Florida and. lat ei thera: ered ompanionway. We were ¥ # kindly but aloventy took All Calm In Time of Peril t £ There Woe a tiny tt aloo) } hee found poopie Ing ar rin A few dropa hightgowns acs artinck served ou TO CUNE 4 ¢ PIN OMG DAY the Floriaa Overcrowded q / (Take LAXATIE i i aie Tavera The Flo z a 0 eto hat lt wae awfully uncomfortable. All {the first cheerful words we hea We were | f in a Time of Peril: ja soon became so crowded | THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1909. SURVI VORS TELL GRAPHIC STORIES |Bosion Woman Killed When Florida Siruck Republic ‘Women Show Henry Savage Landor, the African explorer, & passenger on the Baltic, and who has an appolutment with President Roosevelt at Washington in his praise of the p' was emphatte 1 bravery avd the Re- | eh of the American women at public Never in my life,” satd the explorer, have [ seen such splendid nerve ex hibited by human beings as that dis played by the American womer the terrible ordeal throuxl whieh the passengers of the Republi were forced to go. | “Transferred from one sinking ship to] another and finally to the decks of the I felt that strong Itallan hand seize me by the hair when T came up the second time,” sald Mra. Altce Morse Earle, ,the Jauthor, who fell from the dory’ as she | was belng transferred from the Floride | }to the Baltic. | | “[ had about given up hope, and in) \the brief time that I fancied wan al- lowed me before I me unconectous I was trying to resign myself to my fate. I cannot awim, and I knew I could never save myself, but [ felt my- | self rising through those horrible green Mra, FE. McCready and her daughter, ; Misa Grace McCready, of Chicago, were | in stateroom No. 2%, one of the ~“e to recelve the brunt of the collision They escaped without a scratch by what Mrs McCready referred reverently to as an [act of diving Providence he will of God that | soved our lives,’ she declared to an yesterday I kept my back | Evening World reporter, “for we were warm by ng Up against the smoke-| thrown from our berths and piled with | WAS stacks of the boat, We sat on Ife pre-| wreckage. A great plece of Iron be- had turned servers from 4 nnttl IL leantng against | came wedged over us put did not touch | Ey Teas Ro (EO A Ae Gobet fi d we managed to crawl out un- 2 ! vard through the fog a bell, | Us am HeDRLN er RSDUb IIA Souwma venting the thrills witeh and some crusts of passed through as this sound | eated. We could hardly be- “Tt was only of us were wearing our Iife preservers., “All day Some new blankets were given us and that the great Baltic around and was c us on board and to’ Wo got some soup bread, We could not drink the soup but fed on the bread. S “The stateroom in which slept Mr. W Cot GRAD cy dit) CANE J. Mooney and his wife was so demol-| ,,\ 41.7 golock we saw the lignts of the Ra Ve were preparing to spend the ed that it dithoulty that nig of the Florida, while 7 n 4 was with ff in a much Mrs Mooney was pulled Lup in blankets a1 da, not knowing that 1 ‘as instantly killed. She Cockroft, president of the Ed- Crompton Law Book Publishing ny, sald tlrat he was thrown from asking why he did ren tae! ple berth. He was not especially alarmed 1 they told her was Haltio, where we were received with | wtit the ighta went oul. He had in and they were taking better care of phere. | Bitleahelpeds ta) roy: berth two electric storage pocket him on the Republic looking around the ybody Was Kind and gave us He was ne |. A rsets han i One lady had a pair of corsets hang to eat and drink. Many of om with one of these when water ing outstde of her coat for some occult given staterooms on the Baltic ‘i Then reason, One womar s ly cov 8. Wits the Baltle we began to run In under the door ason ni man was car co news that the Republic had ed the other he roused his wife and Jo! passengers on deck, Mrs, Cockroft sald |to an Evening World reporter: phere was one thing that they in- sisted on, All the women and children no matter whether they were cabla pas- ered over with a bunch of violets Coolness of Women Gave Courage to Men Aboard an export Robert Freder{okse as they generally do nad of this, how- s, in thelr night them had efr cabins—stood | Miss Agnes Shackelford, the freezing | West End avenue, this cit ving and some experience on the Republic elr men folks “T have been in three sea disasters— of God's mercy that the once when a ship was on fire and an- y ed after the other where a ship ran aground; then being trans- this one. The first two were trifling That change disorder and better angry sea | at wreck of the Republic I pond was Ittle than in etther of the others d to It we owe) ‘“Thore was fothing overlooked, noth- vid have made | ing done in hysteria o- panic, \ 5 to the Flor- wore atagiing out on dec lives at No. 84 Unt wae bound even of No. 62 sald of her ks in ht T was in an e p rolling and and howls around I was and reallzed that pajamas ai knew where I had p ida With a gale on when we a mat T got Discipline Never Petter, t I was ab 5 hirt, shoes and 4 n “When the passengers were trans. T felt my way out e, ferred to the Floriita ne pepe from the Rept and Ip women Italians from. the ul Reece Florida and the men from the Raltle ‘ world. Lr ay we had y o/ on deck to find ceiertloutiddiny (an cota ere ance Tt seemed remarkable that many of) , © Ba ' ter. [ , public, from the Me tha o | Rolliveterianthere r enw better dlacipl ‘om the Republt +44 essive disp ot The deci minutes 4 especially Wavery than A few un ble passengers—you ys meet this sort where a lot n all parts of the o all there ostuiming, wore flam- neckties as they marched down the aplank of the Baltle, The explan pick ton of this furnished one of the few a, but the ship's amusing tneldents of the catastrophe, G {nsisted on a diae On board the Baltle, coming to visit that went far toward saving our | this country, was Prince Victor, a dusky nabob who reigns over Cooch-Rehar. olliston article of polite impressed me was arith eh ness of the wo! American wome ng after the first shock of the rele no hysteria, tly theler e af people her—tried to us me} aad if the wom Evening World Reporters on Tug Getting Interviews trom the Baltic —— On” %% ug Da? ET ne Toh ‘glo 2.4, a Css sengerts eo Vee Sabe Bravery in Face of Peril. after |! ‘Woman Writer Is Saved After Falling in Water 4 “Tt was a mighty fine sensation when | Tells How Her Berth Was Wrecked by Crash’ | Wen and Children Taken From Ship First This Was Her Third Disaster on the Sea Marvellous | Baltle, they showed marvellous fortitude | and nepye. Tt \vas enough to bring the ears to one's eyes, Lmagine those woien In wet night attire, with hair hanging and wet from the ie complaining or | x. They had lost thelr be their tives had been thrice en but they were actually | it was a spirit that cheered un | heery ‘One of the noblest noble by f shipwrecked humans was © Countess Pasolini, and American kirk the wife of an Ttalian nobleman When she came aboard the ship, wet and bedra«gled, she went at once to the! steerage and began to minister to the | unfortunate women of the steerage, She forgot her own miseries to lessen those of others, It Was a magnificent sight.” spirits of that | depths and then I fett that hand seize me by the hair. [t pulled my hair ter- ribly—I think I lost a lot of {t—but I prayed that it wouldn't let go, and when {t pulled me to the edge of the boat that brown face of the Italian sallor- the firat thing I saw—was the most w come eight in the world. He was a ‘brave and a strong man, and he pulled | me into the dory unaided.” | gn ltting Mre. Harledout out of the wa- ter the sallor used a tached to | @ rope's end, and In noe eagerness to | penetress) her dreas he plerced the skin | of her back. She ts suffering from a| painful contusion, scathed, | “We paved only our dressing gowns jand tur wraps, All my jewelry and ‘other clothing Is at the bottom of the nea, but for that Teare nothing. That we escaped with our lives was a miracle, “Too much praise cannot be given to iene splendid captain and his crew, ‘aptain was col and his men obeyed. {itm Wke wonderfully trained soldiers. 1 ‘could see this out of the bewildering | panorama of scenes that swapt before | my dazed ey: fore we were trans- ferred to the In the darkness | and fog we all seemed Ike ghosts blun- derng about in some future world and there were some moments when I doubted if T had survived.” sencers or stecragce, were pat in the first boat and sent out with the crews, which | were mado tp of the best of the Rnglish sailors, ‘The moving of the passengers from the Republic was managed much more smoothly than the transfer from | ‘lorida to the Baltle. “Some of the Itallan passengers on the Floridu gried to rush the boats at first 1 saw. several who had drawn knives and were bulldozing their way toward the boats. An Itallan officer drew his revolver and put It at the head of tho leader of this band of Itallans and drove them back until the women and children were nearest the boats, Armed men ere put over them to keep them tn or- der after that.” large revers and novelty pockets, also smart “tailormades,” are included in many of us a’most nude, with nothing but our wet nightgowns clinging about us, those stewards came around and served hot coffee to everybody, Juat think of that a all as cheerful as thoug! no danger threatened, and Capt. Sealy made a point of passing Among us, in between all his other dutles every few minutes, heartening everybody up and telling us of the boats that were com- Ing to help us pind that there wasn't the slightest ohdnco of our not belng He was almost Jovial about tt, Tdiink that alone saved a lot of people from going crazy. 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