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Show GREW OF GREEK STEAMER TAKE TO LIFE BOATS Wireless Messages Picked Up in New York Indicate All Hands Have Left Craft. SHIP BELIEVED IN SERIOUS DISTRESS Dispatches Are Received in Fragments and Belief Is That Vessel Is Probably Proba-bly Sinking. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. A wireless message mes-sage which came in fragments at 8:35 o, lock tonight from the Greek liner ThessalonikI said that the crew had taken to the lifeboats. The manner in which the message was received indicated that the disabled ahlp, conrj-ning whose movements there has been mystery for several days, was In serious trouble and probably sinking. A wireless message received earlier In the evening indicated that the steamer United States, winch went to the Thessa-loniki's Thessa-loniki's aid yesterday, probably was in the vicinity of the disabled Greek liner. Whether the United States reached the ! ThessalonikI before the boats were low- ered could not be ascertained: j The captain and ninety members of j the crew were reported to be on board i the Thessalonikf. Her passengers, 300 in ! ail, had previously been transferred to the steamer Patris, a sister ship of the same li$e. F"or ten days there has been much mystery concerning the disability of the Greek liner. She has repeatedly sent out distress signals, but 'Vessels have reported report-ed she did not give her exact position. The first "S. O. S." sent out by the T sessatoniki was answered by the coast guard cutter Seneca, which searched many hours for the disabled steamer, but failed to .find her and put back to port. The ThessalonikI was known to have suffered from engine trouble, and wireless reports were to the effect that her engine en-gine room was flooded. Until the Patris reported she was alongside and had taken off the ThessalonikI 's passengers, fear waj felt for their safety. |