Show insist in s 91 mascot be saved firel crew refuses to budge fro from M sinking ship until small dog Is rescued K BECOMES HELPLESS IN GALE italian freighter montello mantello succumbs Succumb i to mid atlantic storm after days and nights of ceaseless struggle new crork york the giuseppe verdi steamed into port two days late into from naples with graphic details of tho rescue rescue of the crew of the Ita italian lihn freighter montello which succumbed to a mid atlantic storm tho the rescued men 33 in all were aboard abot ird ono one of them in sick bay with a cracked skull and smashed shed feet act on january 10 the montello sailed from philadelphia for marseilles alies her wheat filled holds pushing her far down into the he water waier two tw days later about miles nordi of bermuda it encountered a whistling I 1 norl wester for three bleak days with her I 1 crew never out of oilskins oil oll skins skills straining engines shoved the montello Mun tello ahead abend at eight knots on alona monday y night at 10 she heeled over her rudder rudder chains had biad jammed then they had bad broken the vessel was helpless miles front from land and in a sen seh then the bulked grain shifted and d the ship listed ship fills waves washed the deck at every lunge thecial The coal bunkers bunke F ra eatedal water poured into the 8 ship hip faster than the lie exhausted men could pump it out ot it was not until 8 0 cl ac k tuesday in morning ornIng that capt St urese permitted wireless Oper operator tomasco Tr masco mon montanara Monta narl to ask aid tho the verdi miles away answered and arrived at 3 that afternoon it was Impo impossible imposible sible to launch boats in that sea so the verdi with passengers aboard spent the night c circling bout about the waterlogged Alon montello tello whose decks decka now were continually under water the verdis passengers knelt in prayer among them knelt our nuns ns the ships chaplain gluseppe giuseppe verdi chanted the to deum and plaintive italian voices repented repeated it boat la Is launched the sea thwarted an effort to io launch lunch a boat at dawn at 7 30 the Mon montello telio gut got a boat overboard the first lowered into the heaving slid shell was the Montell Qa mascot N nit netti a water spaniel twenty two men inen followed tile tho dog the idrew crew lintl had refused to budge until the pu pup p wils saved A battle of an hour and a half brought the weary close to thu the verdis side As they grasped for fineg and life belts a n swell washed over their boat und and eleven went overboard all were saved A halt half hour later first ameer and members of the verdis crew rescued the eleven remaining aboard tile the montello the freighter sank as aa the verdi turned her nose toward new york |