Show fRENZIED SCENES ON REPUBLIC Former Salt LaKe Laie Visitor Tells How Passengers Were Cared For CRASH CAME WHILE ALL WERE IN BUNKS Florida Soon Returned to Aid Vessel She Had Rammed H. H J. J Hoover of Hoover and Spokane r I Wash who gives tho tim first interview from a passenger concerning the wreck I of tho the steamship Republic rammed by byth bythe th the Florida Saturday was in Salt Lake City last spring Mr Hoover at that time told of his plans for a trip around tho the world by automobile He had visited visited vis via California a and Mexican points and was returning to his home by way of Salt Lake City before leaving on his Jaunt across America then Africa Africa- Palestine Palestine Palestine Pales Pales- tine India and tho orient Mr Hoovers Hoover's career has been a checkered one A few low years ago ho started In practically penniless to promote promote pro pro- mote moto an irrigation project n ar Wick Vick Wash He Ho is now rated among tho the millionaires who have havo made mado their money in the arid lands of or tho the NEW YORK Jan 25 As As the st steamer amer Baltic carrying carding the tho passengers pa from tho the steamers Republic and Florida I anchored three miles east of the Ambrosa Ambrose Am Am- brose brosa channel early carly today an nn Associated Press tug tug- ran alon alongside and ad succeeded in in opening communication with II H. J J. I Hoover of Hoover Wash ono one of ot tho the Republics Republic's passengers erl Mr lr Hover Ho and wife iCe planned an extended ex ex- tended automobile trip abroad and were outward bound hound on tIme the Republic when I she alma was rammed by y the tho Florida Saturday Satur Satur- day dav ay mornin morning Through h a mc megaphone Mr fr Hoover de described de- de scribed the transfer of the passengers from the Republic and later from tho the Florida to the Baltic Pieced out into a a. continuous stor story tho the account of tho the collision as related d to tho reporters by Mr Hoover er was Tras as follows While Passengers PL Sleep The Tho shock came cam when all of the pas pas- lI Republic and rn her crew ew were ere o 1 Mrs f 9 Hoover timid and nd I like most oC of the Rep Republics Republic's 5 passengers ers w were ro awakened by being violently thrown out of our bunks Tho The shock hoek was wa terrific Outside in iu tho the passageway eway I t could hear tho the sound of running feet leet I I- I From Irom rom the deck above came cries and I th the shouting shouting- of orders I turned on the electric light ht and I hastily throwing an over ii us Mrs Hoover and I mAde mado our w way bareheaded and ana barefoot to tho the music room on tho the promenade deck While tho the alarm gongs w were r sounding sounding- all over o the tho ship the stewards were Join going from stateroom to stateroom arousing the pas pas- Sen IPP rC r. Frantic and Shivering B By the time we got ot to the time music room the place was full fun of men and women some somo with nothing over them but iUt the clothes in which they had bad been asleep in others wrapped in ship blan hian- blankets blankets and steamer rugs almost frantic with fear and shivering with the tile cold The women wore were huddled together some sonic weeping a n few hysterical Most of the men mon rushed out on deck to ascertain what tho the trouble was There Thoro they found the tho crew standing by ready to swing out the tho davits its and life boats oats There Thore was no s sign JIl of 01 an any other ship The fo fog horn born was letting out blasts but hut there thero was no answer Officer Gives Comfort Finan Finally tho the second officer informed us that there thero was no dau danger or of the vessel ves yes sol aol going Join under The majority became composed at hearing this tins but some of tho the women were still beside themselves and refused to return to their staterooms to dress and ana their clothes had to be bo brou brought ht to them theta from their cabins In Inless Inless Inless less than half balf an hour however mostly every ono one had mana managed ed to get at clothing on After a little we wo heard an answering answering answer answer- ing InS whistle and ana tho the Florida came up looming ont out of tho the fo fog on our starboard quarter There Thero was an nn exchange of questions and answers between tho the two captains The injury to the Rop Republic had beon been discovered to be moro mono serious than was wasat wasat at nt first supposed and wo we were told that wo we were to bo ho transferred to tho Plo Flo lorida lo rida nida I This caused more moro terror ter ter- nor than had bad tho the shock of tho the collision even e b but t after a while white comparative o calm cain was as obtained and tho the transshipment transship transship- merit ment was be begun n. n Women Aro Are First The Tho women and children were fir first t of course The Tho Florida could scarcely be I seen een although h less than a cable len length th aWaT away Tho The boats hoats would stand stanel out under tho the searchlight ht and then fade fado away into into into in in- to tho tim mist Tho The Florida's boat had also been een put over the side and it was a sort of contest between tho tIme two crews R as to which would woula take tako over or tho the greatest number of people in the tho lC least le-ast 1st time When it came to the turn of Captain Cap Cap- tam tain and the officers and men of tho the Republic to abandon the tho ship the they ref refused used I I Wo We stayed aboard tho the Florida all allday allday allday day Saturday packed J like Jo sardines At 7 0 o'clock clock wor word crime that tho the Baltic would take tako us off ocr Once Moro Transshipped Once more morn we had to go IJ through h the tho experience of going roin from tho ship to tho the life lIfo boats It waR wan tho the same samue thing as us in inthe the tho lankness darkness of the tho earl early mornin morning except ex cx- that the sea eca was running hi high h instead instead in iu stead of being quito quite still For or more moro than ci eight ht hours the tha little boats hur hur- nid from ono ship to the tho other until 1600 people had been taken over o to tho the Baltic The crow crew of the Florida fol fol- loging los the tho example set b by the tho cr crew w of tho the Republic remained on board hoard as SiR did didone didone one ono of our passengers ers Eu Eugene cne Lynch Continued on page 1320 2 FRENZIED SCENES Continued from pa page e 1 1 who whose e wife wHo h hid had d been killed in the thA crush het between tb the two ships ship and who himself was as too badly injured to b be removed remond Two Fall Fail in S Sea a. a Two of oC the Republic Republics Republic's s 's t passengers a tumbled into the sea while being pl placed erl in in a boat to go 0 from the Florida to the Baltic They were promptly rescued Mr Ir Hover Hoer said laid that the i injury jury to the Republic Republic- was about forward forward for for- war ward of tho the center hatch Staterooms 34 and 28 were WE're stove e in by br the bow of tho Florida which withdrew from tho the gap almost instantly and vanished in the mist astern leaving one of ot her ber an anchors ehora in tho the wreckage recka o of ot the demolished d dst st staterooms of ot tho R Republic The impact and withdrawal were 50 so o swift that no one oon aboard the thA Republic had a chance to identify the steamship In half balf an hour however the Florida picked her way ay through h the murk and came alongside alon Killed in Berth Among Amont the wounded who ho were tere put on the Italian liner was n En Eugene ene Lynch whose hose wife had bad been killed in their stateroom on the Republic Mr Lynchs Lynch's leg was war broken in three places and bew be he w was s otherwise injured At tt is was considered considered con con- unsafe unsafe- to transfer him to the Baltic he was wall left in char charge o of tho the I Florida Florida's fl a surgeon I |