The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-17
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IN. SIASCONSET, Mass, Oct. l6-
Somewhere east Of Nantucket island,
off the coast Of Massachusetts, aud ap-
City, the starting point, Walter Well
man > airshir America signaled a
wireless tall S well " and "goodbye :"
al 12:i5 o'clock this afternoon and
! swung up the coast through the fog.
This message. tho last of the day S
wireless conversations, WAS received
4 here by A. II, GInman, the MarcoDi
operator
At u clock this morning Siascouset
\ frr5t came III touch with the dirieible.
lheu. although the wireless range of
The craft is comparatively short, owing
70 necessarily limited power and an
tenoac. .thCs station was surprised to
hear its call" NJ. s. C.'-cIcar and
Strong, followed hy "W,' the code sig
nature of the airship. Judging from the
strength Of the Signals, il was assumed
that the America was IN close prox~
4 Unity to Nantucket and Immediately all
the l'vesaving stations and lighthouses
4 on the island were notified by telephone
4 TO keep sharp lookout.s
Hidden by Fog.
But the fog. which had cpshrou1ed
the America since her departure yes
terday morning, still hung over the
ocean, shutting off the view. The Mar
COM station, however. began rapid
fire of luterrogations and learned from
Jack Irwin, the America 3 operator,
that the ships motors had been stopped
and the drigibIc was heading east.
northeast and making twenty five miles
an hour with the wind. Nantucket IS oX
citement was acute, but with motors
idle. the airsbip sailed along as silent
~ as phantom IN the sky, where or
dinarIly the engines exhaust could
have revcrberated along the coast.
However. the electric voice of the
Marconi station filled in at times what
Inc eve and car were denied aud in
4 trrrntteniIr the operators here eX-
changed greetings with their late asso-
elstc. the man who received at this sta
IN !jon the dramatic sc. Q. D. from the
lii-fated steamship Republic At l0:30
a. no signals from the dlrigIhle became
eudoenly stronger and il WIS momentar-
4 liy expected that the America would
come IN sight of the station Irwin.
IN met. iashed that he thought he
gould hear the sound of the breakers,
put the fog effcctually shut the craft
from view, although she was probably
passing over the shoals surrounding the
island.
Cheering Goodbye
From that time on, tho signals from
INC a'rshjp steadily grew weaker. until
finally at l2:f5 a message was flashed
from here asking If everything aboar rd
Vas " n Family came tho reply.
yes, then fainter still, the two let
tcIA e. b., meaning goodbye"
Unable TO take observations in the
Iog, the Americas exact position re-
19hlncd unknown throughout the day.
LEI course, however. has been along
@ @tne Steamship lines and as no word to
Lhs contrary has been received, the as.
SUMPTION is that Mr.. Wellman, with
1ilty days fuel and fifty days' pro.
Visions aboard, Is adhcripc TO his plan
OF crossing the Atlantic and landing
OIL The British isles. 1t is likely thai
10 further wireless word from the air.
sn'p VIII be received here, but dozen
~ moro liners titted with wireless wcre
IN her zone tonight
Eleven Miles an Hour.
when last heard from during tbs
IaN-iZ:i3 p. m--tbe America had
been in the air lust eighteen minnfo.
less than twenty nine hours and hay
hg covered approximately 200 miles
mus nave averaged in forward progress
pctween ten aud eleven miles an hour
az inns rate the craft would not mass
Saole Island t450 miles distant from
Nantncket) until 9 clock Tucsda,
molnlna and Cape Race, $50 miles fur
ing. morn
BRISK. westerly winds aided tbe ma 6
sSge today and with engines Idle, Will,
It Nhntucset. the wireless must hay,
[SESu operated by storage battery. Thi,
,opaply accounts for the briefness Of
t"'n messages for he was doubtless
Continued on Pngo Two.