Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-10-20
Giant America, a Battered Aerial
Derelict, Abandoned off
Carolina Coast.
ALL HANDS ABOARD STEAMER
Damaged Airship Blown So Fal
from Course That Continue
ton of Trip across Allan
tic Was Hopeless.

New York, Oct 1s.--Man's first at.
tempt 70 cross any ocean in an air
ship has faile6, but Walter Wellman.
five companions and u kitten, who
essaYed the voyage. are safe. The air
ship. the giant America. is a battered
aerial derelict. abandoned at sea nor
haps still in the air. perhaps sunk
beneath the waves with her costly
equipment when deserted she had
been in the air probably 70 hours Il
new worlds record for dirigiblcs and
driven by the wind. has travelled doubt
less 500 miles. Whether the distance
record for dirisibles. $40 miles. also
will be broken. remains to he com
putcd.
Picked up by the steamship Trent
early this morning off the North Car
olina coast, Wcllman and his fellow
naVigators are due in New York Mt
noon tomorrow. They left their craft
| only because she was in distress and
blown so far from the lane of trans
Atlantic steamship travel that a con
tnuation of the voyage. with the
British Isles as the objective point,
wireless, the difficult and dramatic
transfer to the Trent was accomplish
ed and tho America was left to the
fate of the winds.
For an incident without a parallel in
history, the transfer of passengers from
an airship to n steamship, meagre We're
the details obtainabe by wireless during
the day. Wireless. at all times more or
less uncertain. was rendered more 50 by
the tropical storm which swept north
ward. but Tonight wireless stations in
the vicinity of New York picked IN from
the Trent a word here ana a word there,
simplifying the earlier dispatches.
HAD TO DROP THE GASOLINE.
1t was learned that Welman had found
it necessary to rid the airship of the bur
den of most of its gasoline retaining only
enough to reach land in the event the
Trent had not come to the rescue. When
the steamship needed the calls of distress
and drew near its aerial sister. Wellman
shouted his predicament through "A mega
phone and decided that he would lower
his life boat which swung from the diri-
bles bottom. As IA prccaution the Trent
lower her lifeboats which stood by until
!
and his companions. even down to the
, frightened kitten. We're safe on board the
liner surrounded by the excited passen-
gers.
The rescue was accomplished at time
when two continents awaited GREATNESS
~ the fate of the dirlgiblc and crew a
feeling that had become so acute here
that President Taft had authorized the
4.
service to send out vessels in search of
the missing airshp, which prior to the
rescue, was last il communication by
wireless with the Marconi station at
Siasconsett, Nantucket. At Atlantic
city Mrs. Wellman and Mrs. Melvin
Nanman. wife Of Wellmans chief en-
gineer, were torn with anxiety. while
every wireless station on the Atlantic
coast was exertins efforts to pick up
some news of the nayigators.
: LOCATION y SURPRISE
Having been spoken by wireless pre-
sumably in the vicinity OF Nantucket at
l2:45 ?. m on sunday, it was surprise
whom the me- came 1i.t H., -.'..
had encountered the Trent. homewarj
bound from Bermuda, in longitude and
latitude nearly 100 miles southwark and
only 80 miles northWe of Bermuda
Thrilling must have been the experiences
; OF the Americas comma uder and crew
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Further wireless messages regchin.
New York tonight say that one Of tn
Americas motors had broken which mad
more serious the predlcament created
when all the gasoline that could b.
I probable that the craft had suffered
severely from the Jerking OF ilS sfea
!at-hke tai or elu'llorator "h'| se'Ne'
'he 'lpie purpose III eioHs"'e" "'So'"
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CAUSED CONTINUED TROC BILE.
Siascousett that this immense appendage
- battered by the waves, had caused trOu
Bile and anxiety necossiratius shuUini
, OF the motors at times hNiieted rs IN
craft was by the winds, 1t is likely tina