Show i I ypii J ONT TPIP FAilS r ALTER < WELLMAN ABANDONS ATTEMPT TO CROSS OCEAN IN AN AIR CRAFT irrigator and His Crew of Five 1 picket Up by Steamer They Had Telegraphed for Aid After Af-ter Being Driven from Course by Wind New YorkWalter Wellmans at IemPI to cross the Atlantic ocean In a r has been abandoned Well Ifcilloon > > ian and his five companions are safe Ht the airship the giant America Is i battered aerial derelict abandoned ll t ea perhaps still In the air per ups beneath the waves with her costly equipment They left their craft only because Ihe was In distress and blown so far froIIl the lino of transatlantic steam iMP travel that a continuation of the f fOrage with the British Isles as the objective point was hopeless When deserted she had been In theft the-ft probably seventytwo hours a new worlds record for dirigibles r nd driven by the wind had traveled 1 foubtless 800 miles Whether the distance record for dirigibles 870 dies also will be broken remains tote to-te computed d Wellnmn summoned aid by the fIreless the steamer Trent responded respond-ed and the irjen were transferred from the balloon to the steamer the iilloon being abandoned to its fate |