The Sentinel=record., 1910-02-05
CAPTAIN AND CREW TAKEN OFF BOAT AS IT WAS SINKING,
 BY THE ALAMO.
Ship Got Wireless Message, "c. 0. D.,p and Arrived at Side of Doomed Ship in Time to Save
 the Crew.

savannah, Ga, Feb. 4.-Sayed from the decks of their sinking vessel, the captain and crew of the steamship I Kentucky, owned by the Alaska Pacific Steamship Company, en route from New York, around the horn to Seat tie, are on board the Mallory Line Alamo tonight, speeding toward Key West. Forty-six men. all told, were transferred from the Kentucky 70 small boats and in turn to the Alamo late this afternoon.
 More than a hundred miles of bhe South Carolina coast, the Kentucky. Sler seams open and the sea pouring into her, awaits the revenue cutter Yamacraw. which is proceeding with all haste toward the derelict with or \ ders to sink the steamer and rid the seas of dangerous menace. Standing on the deck of the Alamo. \ Captain Moore of the Kentucky look ed back at his laboring vessel and made this prediction:
 "She will go to the bottom before midnight"
 The foundering ressei, when the Alamo reached her at 350 o'clock this afternoon was in latitude 32:46. longitude 76:42, according to wire q less message receiving from the res cit!ng steamer as she came alongside the Kentucky
 Then came the electric flashes to the station of the United Wireless Company at Savannah telling of the rescue in small boats of Captain Moore and his men. First word of the plight of the Kentucky was received at 8 o'clock this morning. Sharp calls
 SOS which hes taken the place of the famous "CQD" as the insistent call of ship in distress. was rece,y- el and immediately the local operator Repeated the call The bombardment of the call reached the liner Alamo. bound from New York to Galveston.
 The Alamo put on full speed, point ing her nose in the direction given by the Kentucky, and as she drew within range of the latter's position, began to send thick. black smoke from her Tunnels to give heart to the crew of the disabled vessel and warning the hpproach of rescue.
 In the wireless room of the Ken lucky sat Operator W. c. Ginnis, ham mering 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 arive them. Captain Moore, when on the Alamo. publicly thanked the ope- rator for his work and the rescued crew cheered him.
 McGinnies remained at his instru- ment until water rushing in drowned out the dynamo that enabled him to send out the signals. Then the wire less was choked and the Kentueky's crew could but wait and hope. AL most immediately, however, the first { n of smoke from the Alamo's fires |<A as heralded
 The work of transferring the crew fVas attended with little danger, Wire less reports received here are to the Effect that no one was injured.
 The Alamo did not stand by until the sea had claimed the Kentucky, hut proceeded towards her destina- tjpn. It was evident the Kentucky 90uld not stay above water long. EAptan Mcintosh of the Mallory Line I6arned that the revenue cutter Yana- craw, which was intercepted at sea, Xhile in search of a derelict, was filshing towards the Kentucky and HI to the government vessel the task of seeing the end of the steamer. The Kontucky thIs morning began leaking / very hadly and Captain Moore saw It
 ald be useless to attempt to navi'