The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-05

sIsheszaloniki into port Capt. John EzoNlandis yesterday morning sum znoned by wireless the ScandlnaVlan- American liner United States, which was on her way to Norway, and ask cd her to take off ninety of the Greek crew, as he wished to abandon the crippled liner
 The message said that the Thessa- EIonikfss passengers, of which her own CTS admitted yesterday there are more 4han 300, were on the Greek steam ship Patris, due here this morning It is thought thirty of the Thessalonf-
 kTs cfew are on the Patria, probably having been taken aboard after trans ferrfIlg the passengers
 Has the Greek ship Sunk? sI 1t was figured from the positions of the Fhessaloniti and the United States l when the messages were exchanged and the announcement of the Scand1-
 navian-Anerican Liner that she was making for the Thesaloniki, that they
 would meet at 3 p. rns The United States Wirelessed atenoon that she was only forty-fhre miles from the other Ship IL Railing for the ThessaIpniki. and there
 were fears that the Greek liner had
 gone down Starting at Nantucket
 Shoals Lightvessel at a. m, the I United States had searched TOT her down to point off Chincoteagues Isl and, off the Virginia coast
 f4 At 9-46 D. nl- the following message was received from the United States: @Am still looking for Thessaloniki
 she gave us three different positions l Have been at them all .The last at e. D. En- Am searching the ln- stnrvals High northerly winds" s Strange to say no wireless came from the Patris- She failed to send
 aEen word that she had the Thes- l sa1onilxi's lpassengers and the only as ss-- rAf hal Emitted States messages. It was learned that the Patria, after picking i 4zp the Thessaloniki, tried to tow her, but the line snapped twice, the see- onf time in the gale early yester- ] day when she turned and headed for ] the TheEsa1pnikL "A fSaIanos general manager of the line here. finally admitted that no
 word had come to the line from either the Thessaloniki or the Patria to that effect At 10 D. m Friday the Paula I had sent word she was standing by to 1 take ofp passengers On Sunday a wireless from the Fsatria had been re- scezved to the effect that she had been towing the Thessalonik1; that the tow ing lines had broken Saturday night I and had been patched up. Then on Monday noon therAe came the wireless snessage which he shoyed and which Iead=
 eve are or Sandy Hook 2so miles s4SLEOL5 nGAHA W Wl4lA. 4IC<aNS SC0a7- 5H | ceedfng half 1sneed." The message was aigned. @Patria, Thessalonikl s Early yesterday the Greek line re- cefved its last message from the Pa trta. via Siasconet, which read-'
 The 1atter's position in the message from tEde 4JzazTsds St at8s s1as 260 miles from tHe A7aBrese 7fglft vessel, off the l ha9a11rs herus3 serr a line east of Cape Hen1cpen, Del, and south of point : Just west of Bars Harbor, Me That d. fFa in in | Longitude sixty miles east of Nan Bucket Island and 1z0 miles from the 4 Shoals light vesseL an eight-hour run for the United States
 Ready fo Abandon Ship.
 At noon Capt Gotsehe of the United States sent the message:
 Our noon position S9.85 N, 6e-14 w., 4s miles from Thessaloniki, who has ninety of crew left on board and want to abandon ship. Passengers on, board Patfis.''
 Steam Navigation company of Greece which o7yhs the Thessalonold and has offices at No. 20 Pearl street, had said : her passengers were on the Patria. N.
 Could Not Give Tow.
 Tuesday, 1 a. m--Tow1ng ropes broke and lost Impossible for us to tow her, Thessalonild is calling sotherfs steamers Weather snowstorm. Patris-''
 MT. Ga1onos said he was certain there were 12O in the Thessaloniki's l crew, and that word had been srece1v- ed from the home office in Ath ems l that there were morerthan 300 pass Singers on her, but no names were given.
 Capt. F. M. Dunwoody, in charge of the Coast Guard here, said that the gutter Seneca, which went to the aid 1 Of the Thessa1oniki and was unable to 1 h0r finally eaffi57<y a ;. by New Year and Thanks from- her 1 after a battering in the sea, had gone l 10 the Navy Yard for repair estd- mate and coal, and if called upon 1 eou1d not go to sea again before this The Mohawk relieved her yesterday | on duty off shore, but the Mohawk is | capable of cruising only 700 or 800 i miles and could hardly tow steam l ship here from a far point
 Broke Down in Nfid-Ocean.
 On her last previous voyage the | ThessaIonflxf left the Piraeus on July 20. Her engines broke down in mid- ocean, She sent out S o s calls, but | her wireless was too weak to. reach | any other vessel. Einal1y the Brit | fsh freighfer Baron Cawdor came | upon her. and towed. her into Bermuda l where her engines were patched up | ], and she continued here, arriving Aug. 20.
 Fire broke out on her while she , lay at her Brooklyn pier on Sept. 12, but was put out
 She left here Sept. IS for the Pir- aeus, arriving there Oct. 13. taking 15 days for the voyage. This time she left Gibraltar on Dec. 1 and has broken her own record for slow pass ages.
 At Seas Mercy Many Days
 What happened then is not clear be- yond the fact that the Thessa lonili ]. was calling other steamships and it was supposed the Patria had headed for New York, leaving the ThessaIon-