New-York tribune., 1922-12-28
=. Sayoie Passengers, in
Crave Danger Them
elves, Pray for Those
N Disabled Freighter
Peril Turns Hair
OF Woman Gray
Mount Carroll and Ca
rOnia Also In After
Worst Storm in Years

~1,.. more liners. delayed for days
A. ,,mpe,ts which have been lashing
-. Atlantic for ten days, came into
az. Yesterday, their passengers too
,h,pkiuI At reaching shore to complain
A missing Christmas with friends.
n. ships arriving yesterday are In
s,yoIs Of the French Line, which was
nnv-6vs hours late; the cunarder
c,,sala and the Mount Carroll Of the
usl.ed American Line. which --'re both
.sr.y-sIght hours late. The command
an Of the vessels agreed that never
A,,vrs had they encountered such
vsshef.
Waves ninety feet perpendicularly
hsn crest 20 trough boiled up out Of
IA depths Of midsea In response to
AZ urge Of wind that more than once
slt,ined velocity of f20 miles an
Mar Though at times forced 70 a
rzuling gait, the diners kept to their
s,urses. Port lights we're smashed,
if,Sost tarpaulins ripped 70 shreds and
m, twisted, but no serious damage
vss suffered by any Of them.
Passengers Kneel In Prayer
The wireless, whose aerials were torn
loose time and again and repaired by
plseky operators who ignored orders
u remain under shelter, brought news
q ships laboring in direr straits than
le,et the steadfast liners, and passen-
mr., on Ia Savoie, who knelt for hours
I prayer at the height Of the storm,
b,,ourht Divine aid for others at sea
usnS o S from the British freighter
iuior Star was posted on the bulletin
board.
Il was six days ago. La Savoie.
sbonng and trembling like a thing Of
lie, was held down 90 a three~knot
aIt when the message Of the Tudor
Snf 400 miles east of Ia Savoie's
position, was picked up. It's rudder
iti been torn away, and II was help
lui h the grip Of the storm.
ctptain Henri BOisson, Of La Savoie,
ralisd that II was beyond his power
to rYs help to the stricken freighter,
and sent orders that It's appeal should
Be Sent out broadcast over the sea.
Phek through the telephone from the
wireless room came the news that the
wireless antenna had been carried
sway, ard La Savoie was dumb until re.
pairs could be made. ro Il.
Not until he reached port yesterday
I'D Captain Boisson and the passen-
Fers on his vessel learn that the Tudor
Star had been saved. A message re-
,eiyed from the freighter's agents, the
Oriental Line, OF Liverpool
stated that the Tudor Star was in tow
- another vessel.
Feroeity Awes Veteran
What vessel responded 20 the wal.
lowing freighter's call for help and by
what miracle OF seamanship a cable
was got aboard and the audacious task
o. towing successfully accomplished in
that storm are matters upon which the
Tudor Stars agents wasted no cable
tolls. But, with the curt message OF
the vessels safety before his eyes,
Captain Boisson could not but believe
that there was merit IN the prayers Of
isred BY his passengers.
He has been thirty-two years at sea
and was awed by the sustained ferocity
OF the storm. December 10 his barom-
st.r dropped six points within an hour,
an unpreeedented and alarming phe-
nomsnon. He ordered all passengers
70 thsir staterooms and kept them
there three days.
Mr. ana Mrs. Eugene B. Clark oc-
eupied a cabin on the promenade deck.
On December 20 a great wave swept
the ship, its flank fieking a part OF
The cabin and shattering the heavy
glass with a report like cannon shot.
Green water poured through the aper-
ture and, before the wave had passed
had flooded the luxurious cabin TO the
depth Of the raised doorsill.
A steward carried Mrs. Clark to
sther quarters while her husband
splashed through the inundation be-
hind him.
That night some Of the harder
pirits ventured into the social hall.
hey found II all they could do 70 keep
tie seats they had found on divans
and abandoned an attempt to gather
Eound the piano and sing, which was
kst as well, for La Savoie gave q
Fodigious heave and the piano was
trn from its fHstenings and tobOg-
gsned lumberingly across the room,
bringing up with a crash among a
litter Of devastated furniture IL had
carried before It.
Mrs. James Edward, Of Buffalo, re-
turning on La Ssvoie with her daugh-
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