Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-04
HER CAPTAIN AND CREW
TRYING TO KEEP AFLOAT
Revenue Cutter Yamacraw Only
Fifty Miles Away.
BATTLESHIP SENT TO RESCUE
Liner Alamo Receives Distress Sig
nal and Hurries to Aid of Foun-
dering Sister-Chapter Of Mis-
haps on Trip From
New York

NEW YORK, February 4.-The steamer
Kentucky of the Alaska Pacific Steam
ship Company is sinking while struggling
through heavy seas forty miles southeast
of Cape Hatteras today.
Her captain and the seventy-five men Of
her crew meanwhile are endeavoring by
every possible means to keep the vessel
af1oat until aid can reach her.
News of the kentucky's desperate
plight was received here in a dispatch
from the United States Wireless Tele-
graph Company's station at Cape Hat
teras.
Alamo Heeds Distress Call.
lucky was received by the Mallory line
steamer Alamo She Immediately pro-
ceeded to the rescue. heading for latitude
32.ls. longitude 76.43, where the Kentucky
reported her position.
The message was the new international
distress IS. 0. s." signal, the most ur-
gent call that can be sent for aid to q
disabled craft.
The Kentucky was recently bought by
the Alaska-Pacific Steamship Company
| from the Eastern Steamship Company.
| for the passenger trade between San
Francisco. Seattle and Alaskan ports
She was fitted out here for the trip to
| the Pacific,
| Just before sailing a complete wireless
apparatus was installed in her. To this
precaution the Kentucky owes her ability
to summon speedy aid today. and il is
hoped will be the means of saving the
| lives of all on board
Mishaps on Voyage.
! The Kentucky is a steamer somewhat
over 200 feet in length, in command Of
Capt. Moore For her trip around the
| Horn she shipped a crew of seventy-five
| men. She sailed from New York to Seat
tie on January %.
Six hours after she passed. Sandy Hook
a wireless dispatch was received here
from her saying that she was leaking
badly Before she reached Newport
| News. where she put in for repairs, she
nearly turned turtle during a heavy
storm
Repairs were effected at the Virginia
port. She sailed on February = from
Newport News in continuation of her
long voyage down the Atlantic coast and
up the Pacific shore.
Since her departure from Newport News
seas, which battered her side and opened
her seams. The weather off Hatteras-the
graveyard of the Atlantic coast-has been
heavy recently. Fears were expressed that
| the steamer might not successfully make
the trip
Operator Abandoned Job.
II. A. McLearney, according to wireless
reports, the wireless operator who manip-
ulated the key on the Kentucky between
here and Newport News. declined to con-
tinue with the steamer on her further
voyaging. his place being taken by W. G.
Maginnis. who sent out the IS. o. S"
distress call when the steamer began to
sink today.
On board the ship when she left here
was the superintendent engineer of the
Alaska-Pacific Steamship Company. L.
Paiaskett of Seattle. who superintended
the refitting of the steamer at this port.
The Kentucky was built in 1897 at Bath.
Me-, and christened the Lincoln.
She ran between Boston, Bath and
Booth bay for the Kennebec Steamship
Company, which sold her to the Flagler
interests for service in Florida. The
steamers name was changed to the Mar
Unique
After some service between the ports
of Miami. Nassau and Key West, the
Martinique sold to the Eastern
Steamship Company for service between
|rechristened the Kentucky.
Revenue Cutters Advised.
CHARLESTON, S. c., February 4.-The
wireless station here today intercepted a
message from the steamship Kentucky of
the Alaska-Pacfic line. on her maiden
voyage from New York to the Pacific
ports, saying she is sinking In latitude
20 ~ longitude III 4.,.
The Mallory liner Alamo is proceeding
with all haste to, it's assistance. The
United States revenue cutter Yamacraw
is in the vicinity of the Kentucky, and
may have picked up her IS O. s.
According to the Kentucky's reckoning,
she is about 120 miles east by south of
Charleston.
The revenue cutter service. informed of
the sinking condition of the Kentucky by
the Associated Press. Immediately gave
orders to the wireless stations at Sayan-
nah and Charleston to pick up the Yama-
craw and order her to the vessels as
Sistance.
The Yamacraw left Savannah yesterday
afternoon to hunt for d derelict reported
In just about the latitude and longitude
at which the Kentucky is sinking.
Battleship Louisiana to Aid.
The battleship Louisiana, now in the