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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1914
Page
1
In dense fog the steamers Monroe and Nantucket collide near Norfolk. Forty-one persons perish while ninety-nine survive, with heroic efforts by a wireless operator and crew to save passengers. The event unfolds as fog shrouds the sea and both ships list and sink.
Survivor Sally McCombs recounts a brutal lifeboat assault by a crewman before she was forced to fight for freedom. One of nine Macaris company members to survive, she credits Charlie Sutton of Hertford North Carolina, a Monroe’s crewman, for pulling her from icy waters and keeping her hidden until a lifeboat reached safety near Nantucket.
A lengthy passenger roster lists cabin steerage and crew members from Newark New Jersey New York Baltimore Norfolk and more among victims and survivors. Notable entries include Mrs W L Bolton First Lieut LeGrand B Curtis Mia D Gibson J Haskell O Wagner and many Macaria Theatrical Company members. Continued on second page.
Federal steamboat inspectors launch a full inquiry into the Nantucket Monroe collision off Hog Island. Officials in Norfolk summary focus on crew discipline and vessel positions while awaiting reports from H B Walker and Edwin F Sweet as the investigation proceeds.
Miss Helen Brown of Philadelphia dies in hospital from hydrophobia traced to her brother who died eleven years earlier after a mad dog bite. Doctors could not explain transmission until she stated her brother bit her on the arm before his death. Earlier she denied bites or scratches.
The president expressed enthusiasm for the nominees who are expected to be especially valuable as major railroad investigations proceed, highlighting their representation of both eastern and western interests and their potential impact during this critical period.
President to send to the Senate the names of Prof Winthrop M Daniels of Princeton and Henry Clay Hall of Colorado Springs as interstate commerce commissioners. Daniels, 47, Princeton professor and public finance author, chairs New Jersey public utilities. Hall, 54, Amherst graduate, formerly counsel at the U S legation in Paris, based in Colorado Springs. Names urged by New Jersey and Colorado senators amid pending railroad investigations.
Eugenie Marridge Too Expensive for Wisconsin Couple. Peter Berg and Bertha Rhodes wed under a common law contract drafted by attorney W H Stafford charging $3. The recording fee was 50 cents and health certificate costs ranged from 3 to 20 dollars with doubt over validity. Berg chose the inexpensive route as travel to Minnesota was unaffordable.
Dr Martin Griffith a leading Monessen physician tells of a home confrontation in which he says he struck a music teacher from Pittsburgh, A M Robertson, with a fist after finding him assaulting Mrs Griffith. Robertson is in Charleroi Monessen Hospital in serious but improving condition. police report no complaint yet.
Dr. Elizabeth Pearring swore to a complaint alleging offense against her 17 year old daughter Ida Pearring. A warrant was issued for Maury I Diggs former State architect and for John Gillian and John Dee Fisher alias Fisher in connection with the affair New Year Eve timing cited Diggs case under Mann act on appeal.
Paris authorities seek Princess Mestchersky a noted Russian dancer in a missing person case after she vanished three days ago after leaving her apartment telling her maid she would go to the bank. No further clues have been found.
The foreign relations committee reported 24 general arbitration treaties headed by Britain and Japan. O Gorman and Smith opposed, Borah favored, as allies and toll questions loom. The move aims to ease US European tensions and extend pacific relations amid Mexico Japan and Panama issues.
The issue outlines a range of items from a period at sea and a federal inquiry into a sea horror. It lists names such as J C C members and notes about a doctor slashing a man. Additional entries cover treaties, immigration bars, pageants, hotel deals, masons events, and various societal items.
Cambridge reports Rev. Dr. Max Kellner receives word from Jerusalem of discoveries at the Siloam site. Excavators uncover a Greek inscription mentioning the presbytery and fathers with Simonides, the synagogue foundation, baths, caravansary, a circular tower base, and a conduit from the spring, reshaping views of the ancient water system.
Berlin reports an effort by Emperor William to regain Alsace support after the Zabern incidents by appointing a royal prince as viceroy Prince Frederick William son of the late Prince Albert of Prussia is named as likely successor to Count Wedel A second candidate Prince August William has been mentioned but his success risks the emperor’s prestige Wedel to stay on briefly until new ministers settle in
A Rome dispatch reports Cavalier Passa jacque director general of the Hamburg American Steamship Company and five others were poisoned in the restaurant car on the Genoa Milan express. Four, including Passa jacque, are seriously ill. Belief points to poison in the salt used by the men.
A huge meteor fell in the Sandia Mountains 25 miles east of Albuquerque last night and exploded a dynamite magazine at the La Luz mine. Mine foreman Donald Brown and two Mexican miners, who arrived in Albuquerque, said the blast wrecked the mine buildings. They heard the roaring sound, saw the meteor strike near the camp, and noted the cabin housing them was destroyed. A stove was flung 200 yards into a tree. Dr. George T. Kirk and a geology party have gone to inspect the meteor.
The Swiss federal council recalls Dr Ernest Baumann secretary of the Swiss legation in Washington and he has already departed. The legation in Geneva does not know his replacement yet. Also reported is Sotheby’s sale of Rowlandson’s Dance of Death originals for $1,925.
President Wilson's immigration policy and a literacy reading test dominate a House session as Burnett pushes bills to restrict entrants. Debates feature Sabath, Manahan, Dies, Brown, and others arguing origins, literacy, and loyalty while a late vote on the measure is anticipated.
Cambridge Massachusetts reports a will filed today leaving one sixth of the estate of Mrs Caroline H Lee at Chestnut Hill to her granddaughter Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Longworth is among ten grandchildren to receive a special bequest of $10. The estate value is not known. Longworth’s mother was the first wife of Col Theodore Roosevelt and a daughter of Mrs Lee.
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