Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-06-26 | Page 1 | Bravery of the American Women

88AM OF THE AMERICAN WOMEN !lS DESCRIBED BY CREW OF THE J WRECKED SLAVONIA. i i Women Sang Popular Songs as They 1 Were Being Rowed to Safety in Life Boats. New York. June 26. Members of the crew of the Cunarder Slavonla. ! w'.ilch was wrecked. Juno 10, on the rock-hound coast of Flores, Azores, returned re-turned to this port yesterday, on tho steamship Pannonian, telling Interesting Interest-ing stories of the remarkable, bravery of the American women passengers following the wreck. "I never saw men ho eeoLand brave as were those American women paa- sengers." Bald one of the British ( crew. "They sang popular songs to us while we rowed them through tho breakers in tho lifeboats. When the Slavonia ran on the rocks at 3:30 o'clock in the morning, most of the women came on deck in their night-clothes, night-clothes, but they accepted the assurances assur-ances of the officers that there was no danger and returned to their staterooms state-rooms and dressed. Later they went about the decks spreading cheer and hopefulness everywhere. I did not see a hysterical woman on board. Not one of them bothered the officers or crew with questions and all of them accepted the orders given with magnificent mag-nificent grace. "When wo, landed them on the cliffs at Flores, they fell among friends. A colony of Portuguese, m&t of whom had made comfortable little fortunes in America and who had returned to Flore's to live in comparative luxury and peace, made them very welcome and extended every courtesy to them."