The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-28
HURRICANE ENDANGERS MANY SHIPS Ambulances Await Arri- val Of White Star
 Arabic WIND ATTAINS
 12O-MILE VELOCITY Life Rafts Are Swept Away And Cabins
 Flooded
  PANIC SEIZES
 ALL ON BOARD Captain Of Dannish Freighter Washed Overheard By . Mountainous Sea
PANIC SEIZES
 ALL ON BOARD

NEW YORK, August 27.- Atlantic shipping paid heavy toll to the hurricane which ragged over the seas from the south to the north Atlantic for the better part of the last three days.
 With the arrival in port late today of the White Star liner Arabic, bearing more than 50 persons injured in a the 1O0- mile gale, shipping officials learned that the hurricane had caught many vessels in it's sweep. At least five large liners heavily loaded with home coming passengers, fought their way through the gale that at times whipped the waves into battering hil- locks between 40 and 30 feet in height.
 The Arabic, her sick bay filled with injured, her decks stripped of hfeboats and her port holes smashed, was the hardest hit. The Homerie, also of the White Star Line, ran into the giant storm in it's waning strength but had eight injured and suffered damage to her super-structure. The Munson liner Munargo, from Nassau, and the Ori- zaba of the Ward line made port badly battered.
 AmbuIances Await Ship
 Of the fifty-two persons who received injuries necessitating the doctors care aboard the Arabic, seven were 50 badly hurt they had to be removed to hos pitals. Ambulances awaited the ship at her North River pier. Of the Arabic's injured 35 were passengers nine of them in third cabin-and IT were members of the crew. 4 score OF more others suffered minor hurts.
 One man was reported dead, victim of the gale. This was the only fatality reportedI The steamer Eliza Walker picked up a wireless message from the Danish freighter Nordfarer, en route here from South America stating that a wave had hit the 2,500 ton vessel, smashed its bridge and swept overheard it's master, Capt. J. Madsen, who was piloting the steamer.
 A wireless request for an ambulance was sent tonight from the Munson ship Mundella, inward bound, from San Pedro, saying the captain, J. F. Smith, was injured during the gale. The Arabic, which sailed from Ham, burg with 616 passengers August 16, left Halifax for New York at 2:30 o'clock Monday. Captain Hickson re- ported ideal weather was encountered until Tuesday noon when the barom- eter dropped and the wind began to freshen. By o'clock, he said, the wind had attained a velocity of 12O miles an hour and began to kick up veritable pyramids of water which tossed the 16,000 tons of steel and wood about like a canoe in a river rapids.
 Cabins Flooded
 Shortly after o'clock the hurricane with no warning lifted a gargantuan sea which slapped the Arabic abaft the bridge on the starboard side and piled a hundred screaming, frightened men, women and children into q kick ing heap in a corner of the main lounge. Mixed with the squirming hu- man pile were articles of lounge furn- iture, paintings from the trembling walls, tapestries, hangings and chunks of the half inch glass smashed out of the portholeS. The water rushed over the decks in a torrential flood, sweeping all before it, crushing life
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