The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
liner GOES TO BOTTOM OF
ATLANTIC after CRASH WITH
FRE|GHTER;; At BELIEVED LOST
Ward Ship Mohawk Sinks Within 40 Minutes
of Crash Miles Off Sea Grit n. j.;
One Man Is known Dead.
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New York; j HOWE. New York;
Mrs. w. II. Kraemer, Wilmington,
Del; Miss G Cakes. New York.
julius Palmer. New York, Julian
Peabody. Westbury, n. Y; William
Dwight Symmes, New York.
Sea Grit. where the collision took
place, is just u miles down the New
Jersey coast from Asbury Park. Last
September crowds stood on the
beach at Asbury Park and watched
the Ward liner MORO Castle turn
night into day with her funeral
pyre.
Last night watchers stood on the
shore at Sea Grit watching a new
ship disaster.
Decks AblaZe With Lights
These watchers saw the search
nights Of the rescue ships sweeping
the sea like long fingers. Now and
then they fell on lifeboats. visible
through binoculars. These lifeboats.
trailed every inch of the way by
the finger of light, rowed up to the
side of the ship and their human
cargo taken aboard.
The decks of the doomed Mohawk
were ablaze with light Through
binoculars, watchers could make out
dimly boats inching down her sides.
Then the Mohawk seemed to lunge
forward. Then her lights went out.
No one need have said what had
happened, but an oil-skinned fish
erman among the watchers did say
TO his companion:
Thar she went, mate. Another
good ship for Davy."
The Coast Guardsmen returning
from the scene of the disaster re-
ported the two empty lifeboats we're
lashed together and floating near
the spot where the mother ship
plunged to the bottom.
Fresh from a long search for miss
ing passengers and sailors of the
Inflated liner, the Guardsmen were
convinced that some of the miss
ing were dead.
The lifeboats were encountered at
3 a. m. One was so filed with water
that it was kept on the surface only
by the line that held it to the other.
The other was half filled with water.
The Coast Guard surfboat COM
manded by BoatsWain H. B. futile
circled several times, without sight
ing swimmers or bodies.
Enough of Shipwrecks
Tuttle pointed out that the fact
the boats were lashed together was
an ominous indication. If the boats
had been launched empty as a test,
or if they had broken loose from
the Mohawk when she plunged, they
would not be lashed together. But
officers in charge of lifeboats often
lash them together to prevent scat
tering. he said.
Tuttle's surfboat transferred Is of
the survivors picked up by the S. S.
Limon to the cutter Champlain
The men. all Mohawk sailors, were
lowered into the surfboat by ropes
and then hoisted abroad the Cham
plain. Two sailors suffered intensely
from frozen hands. Another had
three broken ribs.
One Mohawk sailor told futile it
was his third shipwreck in five
months. He was aboard the Moro
Castle and the Havana.
That sailor said to me: I'm get
ting tired of shipwrecks, futile
said.
futile said the sea at the scene
of the wreck was heavy and that a
strong wind made near zero tenn
perature almost unbearable. He
did not believe that passengers and
crew floating all night in life boats
could survive.
The Mohawk crew 5ait tie col
iislon was unexpected. They told
Tuttle the ship filled with extra
ordinary speed. The last they saw
of Capt. Wood he was or his bridge,
still thinking of Bleaching his ship.
They believed he and some men,
bers of his crew had gone down
with the ship.