Gunnison Gazette | 1914-02-20 | Page 3 | Steamer on Shoals

STEAMER ON. SHOALS. Passengers and Cre.w Have Narrow Escape From Death. New York. Writh 408 passengers and a crew of 1O0 men aboard, the Fabre line steamship Roma was driven driv-en on the shoals of No Man's Land near -Martha's Vineyard Monday. A seventy-mile blizzard needled with snow increased the peril. But at 10:20 o'clock after the "S. O. S.'' call by wireless had been flashing for five hours over sea and land, the high tide, aided by a tug that had battled out from New London, floated the vessel.