The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-11-18
BOAT MAKES 50
MILE DASH TO
BREAKWATER
Passengers Jump Overheard
or Take to LifebOatS and
Are Rescued
ONLY THE HULL LEFT
Steamer Left New York Tues.
day Bound for Jackson
vile. Florida
ONLY THE HULL LEFT
ONE PASSENGER DROWNED

ONE PASSENGER DROWNED
LrweS Del. Nov. lS.-LP)-
One life was lost in the race
with death by the blazing Clyde
liner Ienapr off the Delaware
caprs early today.
All the remainder Of her pas
sengcrs and crew, numhc ring
367. were safely accounted for.
OF these. about nine passengers
and crew members suffered cx.
| p0surc and burns and were TAX.
en- to 4 hospital here.
The man who lost his life was
identified as Robert LevertOu,
about 80 years old, believed to
be Of WiIIiamasett. Mass. lie
| came panic stricken as flames
burst through u deck while pas.
sengers were being taken off the
; burning ship. and jumped over
board. He was not missed by
the ships officers hut his body
was picked up in Delaware Bay
by fisherman hours after all
! hands had been landed here.
Lcwes, Del, Nov. lS.-(P)-A 80
mile dash o. blazing steamship end
! ed early today in safety, apparently.
, Tor passengers and Il crew of 100.
ike Jim Bludso, who "hcld her
nozzle agin the bank till the last
| galoot was ashore the navigators
and engineers of the Clyde line
steamship Lcnape, New York for
Jacksonville, for some five hours
guided the flaming, smoking Graf,
| from off the Jersey coast into the
| Delaware break water, where at Lewcs
passengers took 90 the lifeboats and
were picked up.
| The 5,l79 ton liner, blackcned
| hulk, had nearly burned itself out
| before daylight, the steel hull re
maining afloat with the revenue cut
ter kickapoo standing by. Rescued
passengers were transferred from III"
| Lcnapc's lfeboats and other rescue
craft, reported to number several al
legged rum runners, to the pilot boas
| Philadelphia.
Flames Sweep Ship
The Lcnape had steamed into the
| breakwatcr with her fire, which at
| midnight had been visible from the
boardwalk at Atlantic City. appar-
! emily under control. She had picked
up 4 pilot from the Philadel pin ia and
| had steamed to anch orage without
aid. Shortly after she hove to, the
"
| ship from stem to stern.
! The klckapoo, Il coast guard patrol
, boat from the Lewes station, and
; several small craft, Immediately dash
! ed for her sides. With 4 strong
wind whipping the flames over the
, liners stern, passengers could he
Gisccrncd from shore, dropping over
| the sides and sliding down ropes in.
to the water.
Crew Saves Passengers
The crew Of II pilot sailboat, the
| only craft able to reach the dock be-
, fore daylight, told of II heroic battle
, amid the flames on the Lenapc'S deck
when the rescue craft came along
! side. The crews Swarmed over the
Clyde liners smoking rails, fought
their way To passengers who had
| been cut off in the interior of the
| ship and dragged them to the sides.
Lines were attached to them and they
were ordered to jump. From shore
they could be dsccrned dangling
| above the water as the lifeboatS and
other craft ran up under the Len
apes blazing stern to pick them up.
The I.enapc's difficulty first was
sighted from Atlantic City, eight
miles southeast of Five Fathom
| IiSHt, ptl'tt IL u. ne
of the Old Dominion line, and the
Clyde liner Seneca, 4 sister ship,
started for the burning vessel. Both
were out-distanccd by the l.cnapc.
| however, in her desperate run Tor
| cover.
As the burning vessel ncared the
| Delaware brcakwater the fire ap-
peared to die and she refused offers
of aid from ships steaming toward
her. She came inside the breakwa-
| ter at 2:30 a. H., after 4 four and Il
! half hour race for shelter. At this
time the Lenape, while still smoking,
apparently had won, and she hove TO
and lay quietly until shortly after )
a. m., when she burst into flames
from end to end.
Hull Stays Above Water
When the last of the passengers
had been lowered or had jumped
over the sides, the superstructurc
Of the liner appeared half consumed.
The steel hull held, however, and she
did not sink.
The Lenapc was the sixth of the
Clyde liners to face the fire menace
within six years. A month ago the
Comanche was burned to the waters
edge, it being afterwards learned
] lnal SUc CiTElcu I'LL ldItlNldDlS car
go of naval stores. One man peA
ished.
Last spring the Mohican was beach
cd off Cape Canaveral, 130 miles east
of Jacksonville, on the Florida coast.
She was swept by fire and abandoned
after the crew of "a had been taken
off by the cutter Tulsa.
The Mohawk was scuttled in Della
ware Bay after fight with fire and
u raging storm on January ?, last.
near here, after 200 passengers had
been taken off by coast guard cut
ter and two tugs. The scacocks of
the Mohawk were opened and she was
sunk to extinguish the flames.
i On March II, 1924, the Apache blaz-
ed up off Atlantic Highlands, N. j..
!. while en- route to Charleston from
New York with 200 passengers. This
fire was brought under control and
the Apache proceeded on her way.
While the Clyde liner Inca was in