The New York herald., 1920-01-20
CEDRIC TAKES OFF
SHIPS PASSENGERS
Effects Transfer fromC Crippled
Transport Powhatan 200
Miles Off Halifax.
MANY VESSELS DAMAGED
The Yarmouth Towed In, While
Freighters Are Driven Aground by
Storm Sweeping Seaboard.

BOSTON, Monday.-The White Star liner
Ceiric reported by radio tonight tina.
she had taken off the passengers from
the army transport Powiiatan, disabled
two hundred miles southeast Of Halifax,
and was bringing them in" The Cedric
is bound from Liverpool for New York.
The transport Powhatan was but one of
half a score Of vessels which met with
serious trouble in the storm which has been
sweeping the Atlantic seaboard during the
last forty-eight hours. Other ships dam
aged were the Yarmouth. bound from New
York city to Havana with 81. .ooO, 900 worth
Of liquor and which was towed to Ambrose
Channel lighthouse by the Coast Guard
cutter Seneca; the Independence, the VIII
helm Jebson. the Lake Harvey, the Wa
kulla and the Sankaty . No Coast Guard
cutter was available to send to the aid of
the last named vessel. which was calling
for help last night, and the aid of private
ly owned craft had to be enlisted.
The Lake Harvey, which is a Mississippi
River freight vessel, was reported ashore
on Great South Beach, opposite Patchogue.
She was said to be broadside on the beach,
where she went aground at half-past three
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The vessel,
which is about 900 feet long and of steel
construction, was bound from New
Orleans to New York city in ballast
The freight steamship Lakeville, which
went aground in Jones Inlet last Satur-
day night, was reported still hard and fast
on sandy shoal late last night.
a wireless despatch from the Noordam,
Of the Holland-America line, said that
she was putting into Halifax with her
coal supply almost exhausted after her
long battle with the storm.
The plight of the transport Powhatan,
abroad which were 271 army and civilian
passengers, including eleven women and
eight children. caused the gravest con-
cern here. After her passengers had been
taken off safely by the Cedric, the trans
port, lightless and heatless, her engines
dead as n result Of the leak which flooded
her boilers. was struggling last night in
q storm-swept sea about 200 miles south
east of Halifax.
A majority OF the women and children
who left here abroad the Powhatan arc
relatives Of army officers and enlisted
mon, or OF tho civilian detachment de-
tailed to prepare for the return OF soldier
dead from abroad. The army force, as
shown by records here, consists of four
officers and 10 men. The civilian pas
senser list contains eighty-eight names
Among the passengers are Colonel John
NJ. Dunn, detailed 20 Italy. and his wife
Captain Oscar 4. Rails, Jr., on his way
10 Madrid 90 become assistant 10 the
military attache Of the American Lcga-
ton: Lieutenant Charles Mckinley, a
Lieutenant Commander Howard
N. Crosby. L. :. N, on leave, Captain S.
IA. Weston, Quartermastcr Corps; Captain
e. A. Holiday. Medical Corps; Lieutenant
Goidberg, dental service, and
Captain Thomas Dempsey, chaplain.
women and Children Aboard.
Among the women and children listed
are:-Mrs. Maude I. Freamsters wife OF
Captain Freamster. and two children. of
san Antonio. Texas; Mrs. Margaret y.
Shipp. of Raleigh, N. c.. who is accom-
panying her son, Captain William T.
Shipp the wife and three children of
Lieutenant Colonel Henry L. worden, Of
Mckinney, Texas. and Mr.. and Mrs. Fay
ette w. Airport, OF Cleveland. Ohio.
The names Of Miss Dorothy NJ. Dunn
and Miss Edith Gardner. army nurses.
and Mrs. J. Gayle. stewardess. appear
among tho list OF women on board. Many
Of the enlisted men are from Camp Meade
and are listed as replacement troops.
The Powhatan, IL was learned yester-
day. steamed for Europe practically out
u her drdock. and investigation is being
made az 10 how the leak In her engine
room could have happened after her thor
nurh overhauling. The transport was I'm
the Morse Drydock and Repair Yards, I'm
South brooklyn, for twenty-five days, and
was supposed 20 DO IN fine shape when
She left the yards for her pier In Hoboken.