Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-05
Danger Signal IS. Q. s." Flashed by Wireless
And a Dozen Vessels Rush to ResCue--Crew
Of 46 Taken Off by Steamer A|amo-.be-
ing Carried to Key West--Fornerp
On the boSton-kennebeC Run.

| New York, Feb. 4.-Thanks again to
| the wireless and the International dis
| tress signal IS. @. s." Capt Moore and
| his crew of 4G men are safe on board
| the Mallory Liner Alamo bound for
Key West tonight, while their vessel,
| the Kentucky, has sunk off Cape Hat
| teras. 1t is another case of disaster
aVcrted by wireless and told to the
world by the same medium. The Ken
| lucky, a wooden vessel of 996 gross
tonnage and 203 feet long. was bound
| from New York to the Pacific to carry
passengers between Tacoma and Alas
kan ports for the Alaska Pacific
| Steamship Co.
| First news of the kentucky's plight
was received at the United Wireless
Cos. station at Cane Hatteras at 113o
| o'clock this morning. There the OPP
orator heard the IS o. S." quickly
| followed by this message:
I'VE are sinking. Our latitude is So 10,
Long. $780,
Almost simultaneously the operator
heard the steamship Alamo respond
to the Kentucky's call for help inform
ing Capt. Moore that the Alamo was
making all speed to the sinking YES
sells assistance. Thereafter no message
was received from the Kentucky, in
dicating that water had interfered
with the power, putting her wireless
apparatus out of commission.
The navy department in the mean
time flashed wireless messages along
he Atlantic coast. dispatchng the
hattleShip Louisiana and two revenue
cutters to the scene, but at 5 O'Clock
this evening word came from the Ala
mo that she lad arrived first and had
taken off ali hands in safety This is
the message as received in New York
by the United Wireless Co., from its
Cape Hatteras station
Lat. 4.46 Long. 1928. Steamship,
Alamo has just taken Capt. Moore and
crew of 4G men from sinking steam
ship Kentucky. Water had ALREADY
reached fire room and steamer will
sink before midnight. The Alamo Is
nov preceding to Key West"
Bad luck was the Kentuckys lot al
most Immediately after she left New
York Jan. % for her 14,000-mile voy-
age Good luck was her TOT when the
wireless instruments We're the last
things installed before she departed
Ore hundred and fifty miles off Sandy
Hook she began leaking badly, but by
working the pumps valiantly Capt
Moore was able to reach Newport
News with 1e inches of water in the
vessels hold. Repairs were made and
the saip-received a certificate from
Llovd's ard the United States inspec-
tor at the port that she was sound and
seawOrthy.
Notwithstanding this assurance T.
A. McLarney, formerly the night oper-
ator at the Waldorf Astoria in New
York. who had shipped with the YES
sci when she left this port, refused to
continue on the voyage, because his
pa, ents at Monticello. n. Y, had a
premonition that something would hap
per. They bombarded him with mes
sages to this effect and in Difference to
their wishes he obtained a substitute
operator-W. d. Maginnis, who sent
out the call which saved the lives of
his shipmates today.
The Kentucky was insured for $780,
900
Savannah, Ga. Feb 4.-Saved from
The decks Of their sinking vessel, the
captain and crew OF the steamship
Kentucky owned by the Eastern
Steamship Co., and on her way from
New York around Cape Horn to Seat
tie are on board the steamer Alamo
tonight steaming to Key West. Forty
six men all told We're transferred from
the ship to small boats and again in
turn to the decks of the Alamo, late
today.
The laundering vessel when the Ala
mo reached her at $50 o'clock this af
ternoon was in Lat. 32.46 and Long.
76.42. according to a wireless message,
received from the rescuing steamer as
she came alongside the Kentucky.
Then, bit by bit came word to the sta
ton Of the United Wireless Co. at Sa-
vannah of the rescue of Capt. Moore
and his men.
The Alamo as she drew near the
Kentucky's supposed position began to
send thick black smoke from her fun
nels to give heart to the crew of the
disabled vessel and warning of her ap-
proach.
Meanwhile in the wireless room of
the Kentucky sat Operator W. J. Nc.
Ginnis. hannmering away on the call
for aid and receiving the assurance
that help was coming as fast as the
engines of a liner and two revenue
cutters could bring it. It is evidence Of
| his bravery that Capt. Moore, when on
the Alamo, publicly thanked the oper-