After searching the list of survivors in vain for the name of her brother, John Meehan, Miss Mary Meehan, 4458 Drexel boulevard, was overjoyed last night when she received a cablegram from her mother in Ireland saying that the boy had not sailed on the Titanic.
“I am happy,” said Miss Meehan to-day. “I had given him up for lost and then that message came. Oh, I tell you it was fine reading for me. Had he been on that boat he would not have lived, for he was always a fine, brave lad, thinking always of every one but himself.”
Chicago Daily News, Friday, April 19, 1912, p. 3, c. 3: