Spanish Fork Press | 1909-01-28 | Page 1 | Passengers and Crew Saved from the Ocean

PASSENGERS AND CREW I SAVED fROM THE OCEAN Ocean Liners Baltic and Florida Reach Port and 1650 Passengers Are Greeted by Cheering Multitude Now York Less than seventy two hours after the crash between tho ocean liners Republic and Florida off the Nantuckct shoals which eventually sent tho one to tho bot tomand reduced the other to a state of staggering helplessness tho survivors sur-vivors of this thrilling deepsea tragedy trag-edy havo found a haven at last At nightfall Monday night lCBO passengers from the two vessels wore safe in this port brought hero by the Baltic while nearing it wore the rescued res-cued officers and crew of the Republic Repub-lic safe on the derelict Grcsham after staying to tho last moment by their sinking vessel At her dock m Brooklyn was the battered Florida aboard which her crew had remained throughout her trying experiences No argosy of the olden days bringing bring-ing golden treasure homo was over more heartily welcomed Frenzied cheers from thousands at tho pier greeted her arrival