Show STEAMERS COLLIDE IN FOG passengers and crew are rescued from sinking vessel nantucket mass in groping her way through tho the dense fog off nantucket lightship at dawn clawn saturday tho the steamer florida of the lloyd italiano line bound to new boric from naples dealt a deathblow to the outward I 1 aund steamer republic of tho the white star line laden with pleasure passengers for southern ru etl rope and with supplies for the united states battleship fleet the steamer florida Flor lda proving to be less seriously injured than the other steamer took aboard the republics passengers almost immediately and twelve hours later all the off officers leers and crew of the republic with the exception of captain left that ves iel eel captain in his gig refused to leave the sight of his beloved shift until she had disappeared forever beneath tile the waves |