Show RATS SWARM DERELICT ADRIFT IN N Attempt to 10 teU IC r Crew Is Unaccounted Unac- Unac counted Fi For S 'S New Nw York April 1 17 of or Ih the hue steam freighter vol fem fem- which nr armi- armi ivec i- i vec lucre here from mum the tw far east cast ull report t havIng having hav hay In ing sighted on March Marc 21 the time derelict ct steamship Dunmore e whose crow elOw was WaR landed at nt Bremen Brenion on January 3 off oI the Grand banks In latitude longitude lude 1502 Although she had lund hadI I listed listeth ted badly bUly to starboard tho ho Dunmore still Ul looked able to weather a stiff gale ale without foundering which makes the lie the mystery of or her hl abandonment still sill tl greater It I was wag about 1 p. p pm p.m. m. m said First t r C. C V. V Phare when we sighted sight sight- ht- ht ed el the thc Dunmore ten miles mies off oui Ol starboard bow Tim The TIl e 1 Hamburg Hamburg-Amer Arr mner- mner ican len liner Calabria picked il her luer up with wih the gla glass the sm sank same time we wo did anti and ant both of u us raced under till full steam for foi forthe the abandoned ship When we came caine alongside we ivo could see ser that Kl she haci lund had i 1 bad I list t to starboard but her funnel fun un- un nd nel and anch masts were wore Intact and there seemed eclet to be lie no good reason why her crow crew should hm have hp c I loft C her Imer S With Hats Bats She Shue was wa as literally swarming with will wil huge rats which set get up a most unearthly un mimi- tl- tl earthly squeaking when they their caught of or us UR They Timey swarmed up iii 1 tho time masts and amid crowded together on the lit roll rail ri as If IC they were trying to make mali tip tp their minds to jump lute Into the tIme sea am and amI wlm to us Never Neter Nc I In my life have I 1 seen anything anything any any- thing which presented a scene of su atm S 1 utter loneliness s A ns as that deserted ship Somehow how the gibbering of oC those thos rats only made matle the absence ee of any sl signs ns of oC human unman life on board hoanh the hue more Im un- 11 There were welp plenty of or evidences evi vl- vl dences donces of the haste hem hem- crew hind had math made to leaVe lieu her In the time confusion o of ropes and amid sails Mis upon tt time tho deck dec anti and In the tite wa way the time various tic articles o of clothing were e scattered about It I was waN a picture which will haunt all da wi us mis tS al our lays days Tho Thur Th has had an P vo voyage a since f she hr hf 1 loft left Purt Portland lant Or 01 mi iu 11 October 2 21 1 hound bound for fou Yokohama |