The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-05
Kentucky Goes Down,
but All on Board
Are Saved.
HELP is BROUGHT
BY IS. o. S. !" CALLS
Operator Stays by Key Till Water
browns His Dynamo, but Sig
nails Are Heard and Vessels
Rush to Rescue-Forty-
six Lives snatched
From Peril.

! snvnnnnh. Gn., February 4.-Snvcd
from the decks Of their sinking ycs-
sci, the captnIn and crew Of the stcnm-
ship Kentucky, owned by the Eastern
Steamship Compmny, and on her way
from New York around the Horn to
Seattle, OH bonrd the Mallory lincsr
Alamo Tonight arc speeding to Key
| West. FOrtS-six men, all told, were
| transferred from their ship to small
bonts and nsnin In turn to the dccks
Of the Alamo. late this afternoon.
More than n hundred mites OFT tho
| South Carolina coast, the kentucky,
| her seams opened ana the sen pouring
! into her, nwnits one OF two fnte..
Either she will plunge to the bottom
of the sen from the weight of yvntcr
that grows heavier ns the minutes
pass. or she Will he destroyed by the
revenue cutter Yamncrnw thnt is rush
Ing towards her, bent on sinking the
steamer und Riding the seas of n dam
gcrous menace.
Standing on tho 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 laundering vessel, when the
Alamo reached her at $50 o'clock this
| afternoon. was III latitude 3c.46 and
4 longitude I6.42, according to a wire
4; less message received from the rescn-
ing steamer as she came alongside the
II Kentucky. Then. bit by bit, out or the
Il air came the electric flashes TO the
T station OF the United Wireless Com
Il pany at Savannah. telling of the res
4 cue in small boats of Captain Moore
and his men.
4 ..S. o. S." Call Sent Out.
/ First word OF the plight of the Ken
tucky was received here at o'clock
this morning. The sharp call IS. o. S
was received. and Immediately the
local operator began repeating the
call. The bonlbardnent of the cali
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 supposed posi-
ton began to send thick. black smoke
from her tunnels to give heart to the
crew of the disabled vessel and a /,
warning of the approach of rescue
In the wireless room of the Ken
lucky sat Operator w. G. McGinnis.
hammering away on the call for aid.
and receiving the assurance that help
was coming as fast as the engines of
liner and two revenue cutters could
drive them. 1t is evidence of his hero
ism that Captain Moore, when on tho
Alamo. publicly thanked the operator
for his work, and the rescued crew
cheered him.
Operator Hero.
He sat at his instrument until water
rushing in drowned out the dynamo
that enabled him to send out his sig
lnals. Then the wireless was chokcd.
and the kentucky's crew could but
walt until the vessel IVES found. Just
as the electricity failed the first sign
Of smoke from the Aiamo's fire was
seen.
| The work OF transferring the crew
was attended with little danger. Wire
less reports here are to the effect that
no one was injured, the boats OF the
| Alamo and the Kentucky being used to
transport the tortysix men,
The Alamo did not stand by until the
sea had claimed the Kentucky but pro-
ceeded towards her own destination.
HIT was evident that the kenuteky
could not stay above water Ions Ions. Zap. Gap-
! tain Mcintosh. of the Mallots Iasi'
4 learned that the revenue cutter Yam
arraw. which was Intercepted at sea
1 while in search OF u derelict WAS rusa
ling towards the Kentucky, ana lsle 70 70
The government vessel the task ol
seeing the end of the sinking steamer.
Ran Into storms.
! The Kentucky sntted from sew
| York January -. having been soiu "
| the Eastern steamship GolipuIS m anu
/ the Lincoln and was in service on tne
| Florida coast sailing from New YORK,
| she touched at Newport News, leaving
there February :.
Almpst immediately she found her.
said in rough seas, which buffeted
her sides aud opened her seams. Heavy
weather Was encountered. OF Cape Hat
tcras and grave fears We're telt lest
the steamer might add her bones "
the hundreds already in the graveyard
OF the Atlantic. ne kenlueky then
began leaking very badly, and tfaptain
Moore SAW it would be useless 10
hattenint to navigata his ship further
Then tho sharp calls for aid began
10 go out IN every direction.
'rhe Kentucky was hult IN Bath
feel over all. strangely enough. she
WAS equipped with wireless not morn
than two weeks ago, and was on her
hrst voyage after being equipped when
the apparatus served 10 save the lives
OF all on board There went down
silverware that had Just been placed
on board her.