The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-28
8 SEA SWEPT
LINERS DUE
IN n. !.
List Of injured Is Expected to
Grow As Ships Limp in
From Storm
by International News Service.

ny AnOornatlOnal NoWB SerV1Ces
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.-Nine
more transatlantic liners, tossed
by winds that blew more than
100 miles an hour and buffeted
by waves that swept their decks
80 feet high, are expected in port
today with the same tales Of
horror and lists Of injured aboard
as the five badly smashed liners
that made port late yesterday.
The weather bureau has also
issued another warning that trop-
zeal disturbances are occurring in
the West Indies and moving west
ward.
Score In Hospital.
A score of homecoming Ameri,
cans are in New York hospitals and
one hundred more have been treated
by doctors or at hospitals as re.
suit of the terrific gale that dashed
the Atlantic into q fury on Tues.
day on night and caused five trans.
Atlantic liners to limp into port late
yesterday and last night with heavy
lists Of injured on board.
The White Star liner Arabic,
battered badly by the hurricane.
tossed seas, suffered the most seri.
ouSly, and when she dropped an.
Choir at Quarantine with life boats
and RATS smashed, long sections
Of rail broken and much gear on
deck carried away, seventy-five pas
sengerS were stretched out In her
cabins and on mattresses on the
upper decks awaiting medical at.
tention.
Tossed About Decks.
Eight were rushed to hospitals
with serious injuries and many
others suffered broken bones and
bad decorations as a result Of
being tossed and thrown about the
decks and in their cabins by the
mountainous seas that at one time
almost caused the great liner to
founder.
The White Star Liner Homeric
also made port with seven injured
aboard, just behind the Arabic. The
Munson liner Munargo had one man
with broken knee cap, and the
Italian liner Giuseppe Verdi had
three injured aboard, among them
A. L. Mohler, retired railway Off
cial
Among those removed to hos.
pitfalls was Miss Vera Borton, nine
teen, Wellington Road, Brookline,
Mass, suffering from decorations Of
hands and feet.
Among those receiving minor in.
Juries who were treated at hospitals
and later removed to hotels were
Mrs. Paul Aherns, Lyons, N. Y, and
Mrs. A. Taube, Rochester, N. Y.
Injured on Arabic.
The list of injured on the Arabic
also included:
Miss Mary r. Billet, Lancaster
Pa, decorations Of scalp, possibly
internal injuries,
Hertzell avenue, Evanston, ILL.,, frac.
lures OF both knees, bruises on head
and body.
John Barringer, 21OS Walnut
street, Philadelphia, decorations OF
head.
Miss e. Pafenback,' Toledo, Ohio
decorations OF face and injured arm.
Mrs. Henry D. Clayton, Mont.
gomery, Alabama, injured knees.
Miss Ethel Lowe, Pittsburgh, Pa,
badly bruised on body.
Shoulder Broken.
Mrs. E. T. Roberts, Bloomsburg,
Pa, broken shoulder.
Mrs. Matilda Schmidt, Min.
neapolis. Mimi, fractured knee and
shoulder.
Mrs. M. r. Andrew, 1887 West
Seventy-First street, Cleveland,
Ohio.
Miss L. Keller, Footsville, Pa.
Jacob Hirsch and wife, $500
Paulina avenue, Chicago, Ill.
Miss E. Becker, Lebanon, Pa.
Mrs. Margaret Zohn, Santa Rosa,
Calf.
H. R. Shaw and wife, Denver,
Colo.
Listed on Homeric.
Among the injured on board the
Homeric were Doctor E. s. Walls
Pittsburgh, Pa, fractured hip; Doc.
tor Thomas G. Ashton, Philadelphia,
and Miss Mary Ransom, Cleveland,
Ohio.
Captain ]. Madison, master Of the
steamer Nordfarer, was washed over.
board during the storm while the
vessel was enroute to New York
from South American ports, accord.
ing to a radio message received to.
day.