The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-02-10
WIRELESS SAVES
FORTY SEVEN
ANOTHER HERO At KEY AS SHIP
"kENTucKY" SLOWLY
SETTLES.
AND GOES DOWN TO DAvY JONES
Alamos Hears Signal and Speeds
Swiftly to Rescus.-Men Taken
OF and Tragedy Of Sea ls Avert
ed OF Cape Hatteras.

New York, Feb. 5.-Thanks again
to the wireless and the international
distress signal IS. o. s." Captain
Moore and his crew of 46 men are
safe on board the Mallory liner Ala.
mos, bound for Key West, while their
vessel, the steamer Kentucky. Is at
the bottom of the sea OF Cape Hat.
teras.
1t Is another case Of a disaster
averted by wireless and told to the
world by the same medium. The Ken.
lucky, a wooden vessel of 996 gross
tonnage and 203 feet long, was bound
from New York to the Pacific to carry
passengers between Tacoma and Alas,
kan ports for the Alaska Pacific
Steamship company.
First news of the Kentucky's dis.
tress was received at the United
Wireless company's station at Cape
Hatteras. There the operator heard
the s. o. S., quickly followed by this
message:
I'VE are sinking. Our latitude ia
s2.10, longitude $780,
Hears Alamos Respond.
Almost simultaneously the operator
heard the steamship Alamos respond
to the Kentucky's call for help, in.
forming Captain Moore that the Ala.
mos was making all speed to the sink.
Ing vessels assistance. Thereafter
no message was received from the
Kentucky, indicating that water had
interfered with the power, putting her
wireless apparatus out of commission.
The navy department at Washing.
ton, in the meantime, flashed wireless
messages along the Atlantic coast dis.
patching the ~battleships Louisiana
and two revenue cutters to the scene,
but word came from the Alamos that
she had arrived first and had taken
on all hands in safety. This is the
message as received in New York by
the wireless company from it's Cape
Hatteras station:
Latitude 32.46, longitude 6,28.
Steamship Alamos has just taken
Captain Moore and crew of 46 men
from sinking steamship Kentucky,
Water had already reached the fire
room and steamer will sink before
midnight. The Alamos is now pro.
ceeding to Key West"
Bad luck was the Kentucky's lot al,
most Immediately after she left New
York for her $4,000 mile voyage on
Jan. %. Good luck was her lot when
the wireless instruments were the last
things installed before she departed.
One hundred and fifty miles off Sandy
Hook the vessel began leaking badly,
but by working the pumps valiantly
Captain Moore was able to reach
Newport News with 1e inches of wa.
ter in the vessels hold. There re.
pairs were made and the ship re.
ceived a certificate from Lloyds and
the United States inspector at the
port, saying that she was sound and
seaworthy.
Notwithstanding this assurance, T..
A. McLarney, formerly the night oper
ator at the Waldorf-Astoria in New
York who had shipped with the vessel
when she left this port, refused to
continue on the voyage because his
parents at Monticello, N. Y, had a
premonition that something would
happen. They bombarded him with
messages to this effect that in defer
ence to their wishes he obtained a
substitute operator, w. D. McGinnis,
who sent out the call which saved the
lives of his shipmates.
The Kentucy vas insured for
$4,000.