The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-18
WELLMAN is SAFE
Crew of the Airship America
Rescued by Steamer
At a Point $50 Miles East OF
Cape Hatteras.
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS
Were BEING Sent Out by the
Wireless Operator.
Everybody on Board Saved, In
Guiding the Cat.
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS

New York, Oct 1s.-A wireless mes
sage to the New York Times from
Captain Down of the Royal Mail
steamer Trent says that the Trent
picked up Wellman and the crew of
the America at o'clock this morn
ing. The airship had been abandoned.
The rescue was made in latitude
/ 35.43, longitude 68.18.
The position reported by Captain
Down indicates that Wellman and his
crew were picked up at point about
on the North Carolina coast. The
wireless message received by Sandison
| & Son. local agents of the Royal Mail
| steamhsip packet line, plying between
New York and Cuba and Bermuda was
| signed by Commander Down of the
steamer Trent and read as follows:
| "At a. m. today sighted Wellman's s
airship America in distress, signals by
Morse code, that she required assist
ance. After hours of maneuvering
and fresh winds blowing got Wel1man
with entire crew and cat They were
hauled to safety on board. All well.
America was abandoned in latitude
35.43 north, longitude 6S.1S 4 ;.
How Rescue Was Made.
On Board Steamer Trent. Oct. 18.-
BY United Wireless to New York. The
crew of the airship America, in aban-
doning their craft lowered themselves
into the life boat which swung be-
meath it. They then cast the life boat
off and were afloat in the sea. The
airship, relieved of the weight of the
life boat shot up high into the air
and was rapidly blown away. The
transfer of the Wellman party from
the life boat to the Trent was affect
ed with much difficulty
Mrs. VyelIman Hears the News.
Atlantic City, Oct 1s.-when in
a. 1fT 10. Ta11
man and his crew Mrs. Wellman ex-
claimed:
THANK God for the good news
am overjoyed to learn that my hus-
band and the brave men with him are
safe"
Mrs. Wel1man was eager for partic-
ulars and expressed deep regrets when
informed the America had been aban-
doned.
Another Liner In.
New York, Oct. 18.-Another ocean
| liner came in today with the report that
| she had seen, or heard nothing of wal
| ter Wellman's dirigible balloon America
| along the transatlantic steamer lane.
| The arrival was the Kron Prinz Will
| helm from Bremen which passed in
| shortly before 8 o'clock.
| In the absence of definite word from
| the America this morning it could only
! be assured that she was still pursuing
/ her flight somewhere in the broad At
| lantic presumably well to the east Of
| the mainland.
Wireless Can't Find Him.
Boston, Oct. 1S.-Many hours of anxi-
| Gus inquiry for news OF the transat-
! lantic bound Wellman airship America
at the wireless stations on the New
| Engffland and Nova Scotia coasts at
Cape Race, and on nearly dozen ocean
liners traversing the transatlantic
steamer lane, were without result up to
%fn11
The wireless combing of the seas fail
ed to locate the America beyond 12:45
p. m. Sunday. The weather condition
of that part or the Atlantic which Well
man probably is cruising either in the
air. or on the water to which he would
take in his lifeboat in the event of mis-
hap continued fair today with moderate
northwesterly winds
Northwest Gale Blowing.
Sable Island, off Nova Scotia, Oct.
I1S.-At a. m. today the wireless sta
Ition here was in communication with
the steamer Ivernia weStbOund for
IBoston She reported her position east
of Sable Island, approximately as fifty
miles. There was no information con-
cerning the Wellman airship America
1.-THE steamer reports clear weather
with northwest gale prevailing.
At 1850 the steamer President Grant
from Han4burg to New York reported
so miles east of the station without in
formation of the airship.
| The report from Sable island comes
from the locality where the Wellman
lairship was supposed to be today
Sable island is a rocky ledge in the
Atlantic 100 miles off the Nova Scotia
coast.
Too Much Anxiety.
| New York Oct. 18.-A new sxplana-
ton of the difficulty which ocean liners
have experienced in getting any wire
less communications from the Well
man airship, is given by Ernest Blake
| the wireless operator on the White Star
| liner Arabic, which arrived this week
from Liverpool. The failure to hear
from the airship America, he says, is
probably due to the great amount O1
wireless interest displayed in the
: Americas whereabouts. Blake says
that he caught a feeble message from
, the WeIIman expedition telling about
! the conservation of their wireless
juice'' but that a few disconnected
words were all that he could pick up
While waiting patiently to hear more
from the America, Blake said, the ali
was suddenly filled with a confusion oi
wireless waves and that it was i'm
possible to catch the wireless on the
| airship.
Brings No Tfdings.
Sable Island, Oct. 18.-The steamer
Pannonia, from Naples for New York
| reported at $40 a. m. but had no news
of the America.
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