Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31
NINE GALE-LASHED
SHIPS IN DISTRESS,
TWO ARE WRECKED
Schooner and Tug Sink Off
Florida Coast-Part of
Crew Still Adrift.
ONE CRAFT is TOWED
IN AFTER LOSING SAILS
Roosevelt Reaches Queenstown
With rs Rescued Men-Is Given
Tremendous Welcome.


NEW YORK. January 30-The
nav of the Atlar+tc's week-long gale
has slapped at nine more ships. send
ing them reeIluG and calling Tor help,
ONE. a sailing ship. was being towed
:" port tonight with her sails gone
ard her sides battered. Z so other
~.llinG ships hove to until the storm
1T them alone. Another was drift
ing with the wind. fifth. Il Ger
man tug. was being sought in reply
to her sos, still another had patched
her injuries and was limping INTO
port. The crew OF still another. a
little schooner, had been transferred
to another ship. A schooner and a
Ila., and part Of the crew of the
schooner was adrift in lifeboats.
Though the toll OF the storm to-
day did not compare with its de-
s5trIction of the freighters Iariston
and Antinoe earlier in the week, re.
ports from the ships in distress said
the hurricane had lost little OF its
terocity.
Two ships put out to sea again
from New York. the Cunarlar AcQui-
tania and the French liner France.
EOth ara going back INTO the storm
area. through which they battIed
only few days ago. Half a dozen
inbound ships reported they would
=" delayed.
The five-masted schooner Bright of
Georgetown, Me. cried for help to-
day when she was 120 miles of Am
brosc Light and the Coast Guard cut
ter Seneca went to her aid AL her
the high seas, 50 that the crew could
neither raise nor lower her sails.
The winds had stripped her sails
away and she was drifting helpless
when the Seneca took her in tow.
Two Forced to Heave To.
The ships which hove to we're the
E"d Cross liner Rosalind, from st.
johns, y. f., and the City of Mel
tourne, from Calcutta Both are
bound for Halifax.
\ German ship giving her name
a. the Calus, but believed to be the
tug Caurus. sent out an s. Q. s.. CIV
ing her position about 100 miles off
the tip of the Spanish Peninsula.
She said the storm was uuabated
No ship CauluS appears IN shipping
registers. The Carus is owned by the
peutscheWerks Go. and her home
port is kiel.
The steamship America picked up
The captain and three Of the crew OF
the four-mastcr Tifton of Boston.
which had turned over in the gale
off the Florida coast.
The America reported the remainder
of the crew was left in lifeboats.
The tughoat Endurance was wrecked
+ miles out, the America reported.
All the crew was saved, the master
said. The tug was left with all lights
showing.
Freighter Resumes Way.
The freighter Errington Court,
bound from Swansea. Wales, to New
York, with u load of coal, reported
today that she had patched up her
steering gear and was on the way
again. She notified her agents here
Thursday that she had broken down.
The Canadian government steam
ship Canadian Settler, reported her
engines aud boilers had gone bad, and
that she was drifting with the hur'
riCdne.
The rescue of i've men aboard the
schooner Simmons off the Florida
coast was reported in II brief radio
message by Capt. w. II. Maxwell OF
the Pure Oil Co, tanker W. W. Mills.
MEN HAILED AS HEROES.