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Show TWO SCORE MEET DEATH WHEN SHIP GOES DOWN Two Liners Collide in Fog, the Passengers Pas-sengers and Crew of One Being - Thrown Into- Icy Waters. Norfolk, Va. The story of how forty-one persons went down to death in the chilly waters of the Atlantic when the liner Nantucket rammed and sank the steamer Monroe early Friday, was brought to port by the eighty-five survivors of the sunken ship, who were rescued and brought to shore by the Nantucket. The revised lists prepared by Captain Cap-tain Johnson, who was saved, showed: . Lost Passengers, 19; crew, 22; total, to-tal, 41. Saved Passengers, 39; crew, 60; total, 99. The two vessels were making their way slowly in a dense fog when the collision occurred, the injured vessel ves-sel sinking within ten minutes. Many of the passengers had no chance for their lives, many being caught in their staterooms and drowned. Meantime the Nantucket, herself badly damaged, had stood by, and Captain Berry had aroused his sleeping sleep-ing crew. As the ineffectual rays of the searchlight, failed to nierce the blanket of fog, Captain Berry ordered out his lifeboats, and one by one they slipped away into the fog to search for the Monroe. They found only the struggling survivors "afloat In the icy sea, crying frantically lor help. May of those picked up were exhausted, ex-hausted, unable to help themselves. Several had to be hauled over the side of the Nantucket with ropes. Thomas R. Harrington kept his wife afloat by almost superhuman efforts, swimming with her hair in his teeth, only to have her die a few minutes after she was hauled aboard the Nantucket. Nan-tucket. Lieutenant L. B. Curtis,- U. S. A., kept himself afloat until rescued, res-cued, but died after reaching the Nantucket. Wireless Operator Kuehn gave the first S. O. S. call, and after adjusting a life preserver, which would doubtless doubt-less have saved his own life, removed re-moved this from his body and put it on a girl. Kuehn was lost. His assistant, as-sistant, R. L. Etheredge, was saved. |