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Show PASSENGER DESCRIBES THE' THRILLING SCENES ON Men and Women Scantily Clad Rush From State Rooms at Impact Discipline of Crew Is Perfect and Panic Averted Transfer of 1600 People to Baltic Nearly Results in Riot of 500 Italians of them winter around the town of I Gardiner, near the Mammoth Hot ; Springs, and In Hayden valley, in the ; northeastern portion of the park, i where there Is an open country and I plenty of food; more go down into ! i the Wyoming state game preserve, , where a range of more than 600,000 j acres was sH apart in 1905 and others go down Into Jackson Hole, which la being rapidly filled up with settlers, and where for that reason they are no longer safe. "Tho problem before the government," govern-ment," says Mr. Palmer, "Is to find them a permanent feeding ground, where they will be protected during the winter as they are now protected in the park during the summer sea- ; son." j (New York. Jan. 25. The dramatic sea 6tory of the wrecking of the White Star liner Republic by the steamer Florida of the Lloyd-Italian line, in . which six lives were, lost and four people Injured, came to a close today when the big steamship Baltic, of the White Star lino, came into port bear- I ing on board more than 1,600'passen- gers of the sunken Republic and tho crippled Florida. Stories told by the Republic's passengers show that the transfer of passengers from the Florida Flor-ida to tho Baltic In the dark hours of Sunday night came perilously near re- suiting in a riot of the 500 Italian steerage passengers on the Florida who believed that their vrsscl was In Imminent danger of sinking. Only the efforts of the officers aided by several of the Republic's passengers quieted the frightened men, who sought to be the first to board the life boats. The officers of the Baltic report the deaths of Mrs. Eugene Lynch of Boston Bos-ton and W. J. Mooney of Langdon, N. D.. together with four negro sailors whose names are not known. Tho bodies of Mrs. Lynch and Mr. Mooney were placed In sealed caskets which sank with the steamer Republic oft Nantucket It developed late this afternoon from further Information of the collision, col-lision, that Serafino Remolo, a quartermaster quar-termaster on the Florida, was ordered order-ed by the commander of the Florida, when the collision threatened, It la said, to put tie wheel to starboard. Instead In-stead he put the wheel to port and the Florida rammed the Republic. According to the same account, the captain of the Florida picked up an iron spike and dealt Remolo a blow sarlly more dangerous and of longer duration. Thinly drossed passengers crowded to tho Baltic's rail and watched watch-ed the work, while thoso who remained re-mained on the Florida, waiting for tho next boatload, saw their companions lifted safetly to tho New Haven. It was during this that the two passengers passen-gers fell overboard, but were rescued little the worse for their experience. Plecel out into a continuous story the accident of tho collision as related relat-ed to the reporters by Mr. Hover, . was as follows: , "Tho shock came when all of the passengers of the Republic and most of her crew, were asleep. Mrs. Hover Hov-er and I, like most of the Republic's passengers, were awakened by being violently thrown out of the side of our ; bunks. The shock wa6 terrific. Out- side, in the passageway, I could hear the sound of running feet From the deck above came cries and the bhout- ing of orders. I turned on the elec- ' trie light and hastily throwing an overgarment over us. Mrs. Hover and I made our way bareheaded and barefooted bare-footed to the music room on the promenade prom-enade deck. While the alarm gonga were sounding all over the ship, the stewards were going from statoroom 1 to stateroom arousing the passengers. By the time we got to the music room, I the placo was full of men and women, some with nothing over them, but Tho clothes in which they been asleep, others were . wrapped in . ship's blankets blan-kets and steamer rugs, almost frantic fran-tic with fear and shivering with the cold. Tho women huddled together, some weeping, a few hysterical. Most of the men rushed out on deck to as- over the bead at the moment of the ' Impact. The quartermaster, badly hurt. Is said to maintain that he was asleep .in. Jil a bunk at tho time of the accident. New York, Jan, 25. As tha steamer steam-er 'Baltic, carrying the passengers from the steamers Republic) and Florida, Flor-ida, anchored three miles east of the Ambrose channel early today, an Associated As-sociated Pres3 tug ran alongside and succeeded in opening communication with H. J. Hover, of Spokane, Washington, Wash-ington, one of the Republic's passengers. passen-gers. Mr. Hover and "wife planned an extended automobile trip abroad and -were o.utward bound on the Republic Re-public when sho was rammed by tho Florida Saturday morning Through the megaphone Mr. Hover described the transfer of tho passengers passen-gers from the Republic, and later rrom the Florida to the Baltic. The transfer trans-fer of scantllly dressed and frightened frighten-ed men and women from the vessels lasted twelve hours, beginning at 8 o'clock on Saturday night and ead-ing ead-ing at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. During the night, the searchlights of the Baltic illuminated tho sea; making mak-ing a. weird picture as boatload after boatload were safely gotten on board the Baltic, two of the Republic's passengers pas-sengers tumbling into the Beaywhilc being placed in a boat, but wero promptly rescued. Mr. Hover Bald that the injury to the Republic wag abaft midships of the port side Just forward of the center cen-ter hatch. , State rooms 34 and 28 wei stove in by the bow of the Florida, which withdrew from the gap almost instantly and vanished in the mist astern, leaving one of her anchors In the wreckage of the demolished stateroom of tho Republic. The impact im-pact and withdrawal were 60 Bwlft I that no one aboard the Republic had a chance to Identify the steamship. In half an hour, however, summoned by the distress blasts of the Republic, the Florida picked her way through the murk and came alongside. Captain Cap-tain Soalby had his own boatB lowered, lower-ed, and in these, and thoso of the Florida, all the , passengers of tho wounded liner were put aboard the Florida. TJa operation took two certain what tho trouble was. There they found the crow of the Republic taking the tarpaulins from the lifeboats life-boats and -utandlng by ready-to swing out the davits. There was no sign of any other ship anywhere. The fog horn of the Republic was letting out shrill blasts, but there was no answering an-swering whistle. I don't know how long we were left to wonder what had happened. Finally the second officer informed us that there was no danger dan-ger of the vessel going under,- The .majority became composed at hearing this, but still some of the women were beside themselves and rofused to return re-turn to their stateroom to dress, and , their clothes had to be brought to them from their cabins. In less than half an hour, however, mostly everyone every-one had managed to get clothing on. "After a little, I heard an answering whistle and tho Florida came up. looming loom-ing out of the fog on our starboard quarter. There was an exchange ot questions and answers between the two captains, and the Injury to the Republic having been discovered more serious than was at first supposed, we were told that wo were to be transferred to the Florida. This announcement an-nouncement caused more terror than had the shock of tho collision even, but after a while, comparative- calm was obtained and the trans-shipment was begun. Tho women and chiLVen were first, of course. The Florida could scarcely be seen, although less than a cable-length away. Tho boats would stand out under the searchlight and then fade away Into the mist, j The Florida's boats had also been put over the Bldo and it was a sort of contest con-test between tho two crews, as to which would take over the greatest number of people in the least time. "When it cam to the turn of Captain Cap-tain Sealby and the officers and men of the' Republic to abandon the ship, they refused. "WTe stayed aboard the Florida all day Saturday, packed like sardines. At 5 o'clock, word came that the Baltic would take us off. Once more wo had to go through the experience of going from the ship to the life boats. It was the same thing as in the darkness of the early morning except that the seas was running high Instead of bo Ing quite still. For more tnan eignu hours, the little boats hurried from one ship to the other until 1,600 people peo-ple had been taken over to the Baltic. The crew of the Florida, following the example set by. the crew of the Republic, Re-public, remained on board, as did one of our passengers, Eugene Lynch, whose wife had been killed in the ; crush between the two ships and him- j uelfy who was too badly injured to be , removed " , ' hours in a placid sea. Among the wounded who were put on the Italian liner, was Eugene Lynch, whose wife had been killed in their stateroom on the Republic. Mr. Lnch'a leg was broken in three places and he was otherwise injured. As it was considered consid-ered unsafe to transfer him to the Baltic, Bal-tic, he was loft in charge of the Florida's Flor-ida's surgeon. Mr. Hover said there was very little lit-tle panic aboard tho Republic, although al-though many came on deck In theln night clothes, and that the discipline of the crew wae perfect. The collision, collis-ion, he said, occurred between three and four o'clock on Saturday morning, when everyone was in bed. A great many passengers were thrown from their bunks by the. crah, and 'many niBhed wildly on deck In their bare feet. With the return ot the Florida, the transfer of passengers began. Car- j rylng out the rigid rule or the sea, the I women were placed in the boatn first; and in two hours all were safelv on ' board the Florida. That ship 'was terribly crowded, however, and at' tho conference bfiween the captains of tho Florida and the Baltic, it wasdccldM that another transfer ot paftgfngevs " was necessary. Accordingly thin second hazardous undertaking! was begun. While i the na had ben smooth during the trans-' trans-' Ter of passengers from the Republic to ihf Florida, the waters were now '. rough and the iteration was neces- |
