Evening star., 1935-01-25
"a MISSING, Z DIE
IN SHIP DISASTER
Ward Liner Mohawk Goes
Down After Crash-117
Are Rescued.
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persons listed as missing might still
be drifting in that boat.
The news of the deaths was
brought here by the boatSwaln OF a
Coast Guard motor boat one of six
which patrolled the scene of the dis
aster for more than eight hours.
"One of the picket boats picked up,
I should say, about II persons out of
the water and put them on the
Champlain," said Boatswain w. F.
Burton
Burton and his crew of two we're
covered with ice, their fingers so
numbed by the near-zero weather that
they could not button their jackets.
1T was so misty that we ran into
f1shtraps on the way in," the boat
swain said.
THE skipper of the Talisman
seemed pretty excited" said Burton,
but he seemed to be doing everything
he could"
Picked Up by Liner.
The liner Algonquin picked up 81
passengers and 81 members of the
Mohawks crew and fastened them to
New York, where ambulances were
awaiting them.
Wireless reports from the Mohawk,
which was abandoned an hour after
the collision. and from the rescue
ships. gave no hint of the manner in
which the vessels rammed.
Chief BoatSWain'S Mate Melvin Hy-
Af rI
Der of the MohaWk's crew gave a brief
but graphic account of the crash.
The sailor said he was on watch
in the control cabin of the liner"
said Hymer, "and that the freighter
loomed up suddenly through the night
The sailor said it was impossible to
avoid collision and that the bow of
the Mohawk was stove in.
In the collision the seaman said
he saw two members of the crew on
the forward deck of the Mohawk
crushed to death"
Near Moro Castle Scene.
The hunt for the missing persons
went on ceaselessly during the morn
ing, only 6 miles south of the spot
where the Ward liner Moro Castle
burned with a loss of 124 lives last
September.
AS 5000 Jersey residents lined the
snowbanked shore during the night
to watch searchlights from the rescue
ships, all lights on the Mohawk wen'
out. Failure of wireless operators tt
raise any response from the vessel in.
dicated she had been abandoned
An Associated Press photographer
flying over the scene shortly after day.
break reported no trace of the Mohawl
was visible.
The United Fruit liner Limon pickec
up more than 20 of the survivors. bu
transferred them to the cutter Cham.
plain in order to continue her voyage
south.
Meanwhile Red Cross workers anc
ambulances rushed to the foot of Man.
haitian to meet the Algonquin. Thirt,
patrolmen commanded by six ser.
geants haStened there to keep in lint
anxious relatives and friends.
Within a short time after diStreS!
signals and then an o were inter.
cepted ships stood near the sinking
Mohawk and others knitted through
the waters toward the scene.
The TaliSman, able to proceed un-
der her own power after the collision
put about and headed for New York.
Both ships we're of steel construc-
tion. The Mohawk had a gross ton
mage of 5,897 tons, was 387 feet in
length and was an oil-burner. The
Norwegian boat, commanded by Capt
Wang, is 400 feet long and is of 4,765
gross tons.
Coincidence and i'll luck that has
pursued the Ward Line during the
last several months figured ironically
in the disaster.
Fourth Liner Stricken.
The Mohawk is the fourth Ward
liner to come to grief since last Sep
tember The luxurious Moro Castle,
pride of the line, burned, with the loss
of 124 lives, on September 8. off the
Jersey coast not far from last night s
accident.
Her rusted, f1re-twiSted hulk lies on
the beach at Asbury Park-a stark
reminder of the tragedy and an eye
SOic W ClIy' NoIlc AcoIS JuSG dUOuG SIX
miles from Sea Girt and one of the
tugs engaged in salvaging the wreck
steamed to the aid of the Mohawk
last night.
On December 8, 1884. the Ward
liner Cauto lost her propeller off the
coast of Florida, and last January 8
the Havana, another ship operated by
the Ward Line, grounded on coral
reef off the northern tip of the Ba-
hamas.
The Havana is still fast on the reef
and to replace her in the service the