The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-27
SEAFARERS HOME
AFTER ship CRASH
Passengers and Crew OF Ryn-
dam Transferred Four Times.
Freighter CuneO Creeps in With
Crumpled Bow.
WaRSHIP CLIPS SPEED RECORD
South Carolina Outstrips 9th
ers i'm Dash to Aid.
Fearful Tragedy Narrowly
Averted i'm Daylight Collision.

New York, May 27.-The Holland
American liner Ryndam was safe II
port here today with passengers and
crew once more on board after a COL
lision and a narrow escape from de-
struction early Wednesday morning
off Nantucket shoals light ship The
Norwegian freighter Joseph j. Ounce,
which rammed the Ryndam aba1t the
foremost, was creeping in with ten Ieei
of her bow crumpled by the impact
Four transfers, two at sea and Two
in New York harbor, left sixty-tWo OF
the seventy-four passengers VINO sa1led
from New York on the Ryndam Tues
day afternoon, back again aboard the
Dutch liner
Make Four Transfers.
These passengers and $50 members
of the Ryndam's crew We're taken
aboard by the Cuneo at 4:5o O'Clock
Wednesday morning, half an hour
after the two steamers collided- AT
$3.50 a. m. the Cuneo transferred the
rescued passengers and seamen to the
United States battleshlp South Car
olina which distanced three other pat
tleships of the Atlantic fleet IN a race
started by the call for help from the
wireless aboard the Ryndam. Inc
South Carolina brought the ship
wrecked company to this port and
transferred them at 1880 a. m. today
to the steamer Thomas j. Willard off
Tompkinsvil1e, Staten Island Mean
while the Ryndam, with fifty of her
crew still aboard, came under convoy
of the battleship Texas and anchored
in the harbor off South Brooklyn.
There she received all but a dozen of
her passengers and the rest OF ner
crew from the Willard.
This last transfer was made at 2 a.
m, and later in the morning the DIS
abled steamer started up the river 20
her dock in Hoboken. The twelve
passengers who stayed on the Willard
were landed at Hoboken early in the
day The Holland-America line will
forward all the passengers VINO wish
to go to Rotterdam on their steam
ship Rotterdam, due to sail Tuesday.
Battleships to Rescue.
Four battleships. the South Caro-
lima, Louisiana, Kansas and Michigan
were on their way to Norfolk, Va,
from the war game of the last week
off the North Atlantic coast, when
they picked up the Ryndam's S. o. s.
call shortly after 4 o'clock wednesday
morning. Immediately they changed
their course and rushed at full speed
to the aid of the stricken ship, sixty
miles away.
one of the South Cardinals officers
said she made the sixty miles at an
average of 19A knots per hour, a
speed, he said, better than her best
previous record.
Officers of the Ryndam said when
the two ships collided it was daylight
and that little fog or mist prevailed.
The Ryndam was rammed by the
Cuneo they declared, and the water
entered rapidly through large hole
and broken plates in her side, caus-
ing her to sink to a registered draught
of 81 feet
Immediately after the blow the
Cuneo laid to and took aboard the
Ryndam's passengers and three-quar-
tiers of her crew, transferred in the
Ryndam's lifeboats. H. d. BoS, purser
of the .Ryndam, said the passengers
were asleep at the time of the acct
dent.
Collision in Broad Daylight.
"I was in bed and asleep myself"
said Mr.. Bos. 81 was awakened by
the jar and got up to see what it was
l looked out through my port and saw
the Cuneo backing away from us. 1t
was daylight and quite clear.
I'm short time the passengers
were awakened and were gathered on
the promenade deck. The lifeboats
were swung out and suspended at the
promenade deck level waiting word
from the captain. AS the ship con-
tinued to settle Captain Van Der
Heuve1 gave the word to take to the
boats, which was done without the
least confusion and in good order.
''Ten boats on the StarbOard side
were used and we rowed to the Cuneo,
where everything possible was done
for our comfort
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