The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-19
aver Being in the Air for Three
navs and travelling 800 Miles,
Was Picked up
At Sea.
|A1R SHIP GOES UP
After Party Boarded the Ship, the
Balloon Went Flying OFF Into
the sky or The
Sea.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19-Man's first
attempt to cross the ocean in an air
ship has failed, but Walter Wellman,
five companions and the kitten who
escaped the voyage are safe. The air
ship-the giant Americas a batter
ec derelict, abandoned at sea, per.
laps still in the air. perhaps sunk be.
reath the wases. with its costly equip /
ment. When deserted she had prob. /!
ably been in the air 72 hours, a new
worlds record for dirigibles, and,
driven by the wind, had travelled
doubtless 500 miles. Whether the dis
lance record for dirigibles-S70 miles
also will be broken remains to be
computed.
Picked up by the steamship Trent
off the North Carolina coast. Wellman
and his fellow afr navigators are due
in New York at noon today.
They left the craft only because she
was in distress and blown so far from
the line of transatlantic steamship
travel that the continuation of the
voyage, with the British Isles as an
objective point, was hopeless. So,
sunmonng aid by wireless, the diff.
fcut and dramatic transfer to the
Trent was accomplished, and the
America was left to its fate. For in
n cident without parallel In history
q the transfer of passengers from an
airship to a steamship meager We're
the details obtainab.e by wireless
on account Of the storm sweeping
north from the tropics.
Welman had found it necessary to
rid the airship of most of its burden
of gasoline, but there remained enough
to reach land in case the Trent had
not come to the rescue. When the
steamship needed the calls Of distress
4 and drew near Wellman shouted his
predcament through magephone and
decided he would lower his life boat
which swung from the dirigibles
belly.
The steamship Trent lowered heI
life boats, which stood by until the
transfer was effected and Wellmar
and crew were safe on board the
liner.
Having been spoken to by wireless
| presumably in the vicinity Of Nan
tueket, Sunday night it was a sur
prise when news came that thu
America hoI ~
homeward bound from Bermuda, il
longitude and latitude nearly 40
miles southwark and only 250 mile
northward OF Bermuda.
The wireless message reaching Ney
York late last night says one OF th
americas motors had been broker
while more serious predicament wa
created when all the gasoline tina
could be spared was cast into the SCI
PROBABLY, also. the craft had suffere
severely from the jerking Of its ra
llke tail or equilibrator, which serve
tne triple purpose of an elongate
sssoilne tank, balance and wir
ground.
viii Try Again.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., Oct. 49,
another attempt will be made to eros
'he Atlantic in dirigible balloo
within the next year. according to
wireless message received by Pres
oent Joseph S. Saulus, of the Wei
inston syndicate. A message fro
emef Engineer Melvin Vanman W;
IN answer to query sent by Saul,
as TO whether arrangements shou
pe started for a new ballo.n tran
Atlantic trip.
saulus flashed the following me
sage by wireless to Wellman:
Thank God you and crew are sal
nave greater confidence in you tn;
ever Will expect you back in Alta
lc City to arrange for future attem
10 cross the Atlantic in dirigible. y
Plans for Future.
oN BOARD STEAMER TREN
va Wireless to New York, Oct. 10.
"eilman and party are safe on boa
.ue Trent on their way to New Yo
sAu already Wellman is making pla
.oi tne construction of new type
uifigiole balloon with which he W
asaih attempt to sail to Europe T
accident which stopped the fight
ne America was the disabling of t
notor and the balloon drifted with
M,hu' Had they not been rescu
mhen they were, they would ha
united into the southern hurrical