Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-19
Navigators Still Believe
Dirigible Can Cross
Atlantic.
RESCUE WAS CREWS MOST
EXCITING EXPERIENCE
Men in Lifeboat Narrowly
Escaped Being Run Down by
Steamship Trent.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Walter Well
man and the members of his ill-fated
transatlantic expedition in the dirigible
America, who were rescued from I'M
pending death at sea 800 miles east of
Cape Hatteras yesterday, believe that
a voyage in an airship across the At
lantic may be yet accomplished. The
Wellman party are aboard the steam
the salvation of the Adventures. The
Trent will dock this afternoon.
Shortly after o'clock the Trent
came to anchor below Sandy Hook be-
cause h y fog.
A wireless message was received this
morning through the United Wireless
system from Operator Ginsberg, on
the steamer Trent, giving further de-
tails of the rescue of the America s
crew at sea. The message was as fol-
lows:
''STEAMER TRENT, a. M, fifty
FIVE miles southeast of Sandy Hook
The crew of the America, after resting
all night, are feeling none the worse for
their thrilling experience, From what
can gather in conversation with Irwin
CHE wireless operator on the America).
the most exciting moment of the three
days was after the launching of the
America's lifeboat. The Trent bore
down fl speed upon the small boat.
Danger From steamer.
Irwin declares for the moment il
looked as if she would cut her in half
Tho Trent appeared to him the size OF
the Singer building, and he was pre-
pared to jump overheard and swim
o.e,sf - III propeller. Fortunately, this
s ,sars
'The 1.,at passed the lifeboat, dan
gerpusly rocking her. A rope was
thrown and caught by the men, who
however. could not hold on, owing tc
rough SEA. rhe Trent ran ahead of the
lifeboat. which dropped half a mile
astern. As the big steamer turned III
her wake t. return to the lifeboat II
vas seen that the airship's men had
gotten out two oars and were strug-
Cling to keep her head up to the sea.
'NNe were now alongside the craft
Again lines were thrown. but were
dragged from the airship mems hands
Ir hanging to the rope Mr.. Wellman'i
little finger was badly cut. Again the
maneuver was repeated, this time with
SUCCESS Loud, Simon and Irwin were
straining on two oars. The small boat
was gotten close enough to seize and
make fast to the Americas boat. Two
ropes were thrown from the steamer
Trent.
''The crew of the America climbed
ND the rope ladder, and each was glad
lv cheered as he was helped over the
rail.
so ended one of the most thrilling
and daring feats in the annals of the
sea. (Signed) LOUIS GINSBURG.
Wireless Operator Steamer Trent"
Nearly struck Schooner.
The America almost had the unique
experience of colliding with four
masted schooner on Saturday night neal
Nantucket The schooner's outlook evi-
IDENTIFY did not sight the airship, ano
when Pilot Simon on the America made
out the four-master the motors were
quickly stopped, but the schooner al
most grazed the America as 1t passed.
The schooner's crew must have beer
frightened in the fog to see the flashing
sparks of the engine and hear the noise
of the motors overhead.
Aeronauts pointed out today that the
America, the plaything of the wind
nearly described a circle in her course
Ivhe total distance covered was about
I 900 miles, which is one-third the
distance across the Atlantic, which
wellman essayed to cover. The circline
course brought the America up 35C
miles off Cape Hatteras, but had the
l,000 miles covered been made in direct
course along the transatlantic steamer
lane 1t would have carried the airshir
about 200 miles eastward of the banks
Of Newfoundland.
There is the remotest possibility
that the America, relieved of the weight
of the crew and lifeboat, may in some
unvarying westerly blow be waited
across to Europe. though this is re-
garded as unlikely, as the dirigible,
weakened by the pounding equilibrator,
was losing gas. The gas bag may find
herself caught in some tropical gale
and be blown over the Atlantic sea-
hoard. The best belief among aeronauts
TODAY is that she will never be seen
again.
Wellman says that after working
we'll to sea on Sunday the dirigible
was caught in a thirty-mile northwest
blow. which carried the America clear
off her course. Night came, ana the
eduilibrator jerked and bumped over
the waves, threatening the America
with constant destruction. The crew
were calm, but greatly exhausted, ana
one after the other went to sleep ex-
pecting to wake up in the sea. Every
effort was centered on keeping the
America anoat and gasoline was tossed
overheard The equilibrator kept up
its incessant pounding and threatened
to sweep away the lifeboat
Wellman told the Trent's passengers
that course was laid for the Azores
but yeering wind made IT Impossible
to reach the islands with reduced gaso-
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