Show Vessels Rush to Rescue as Boats Send SOS Calls Freig Freighter ter Takes Rammed Destroyer Destroy Lin in in Tow After Losing Line Once Sailors Are Feared Thrown V Into Sea I M j By Associated Press NEW V YORK J Jan n. n 15 Smashed 15 Smashed by a coal freighter as she was slipping through dank fog on the lookout for rum runners runners run run- ners tiers the coast guard destroyer Herndon with five eighty nen and eight officers was being to towed ed to New London Conn today after a period of floundering floundering- helpless and unseen unseen unseen un un- seen sixty miles off New London Conn The Tha freighter i carries carries carries car car- ries a crew of 35 With a r ragged hole in her the destroyer a former navy craft was being towed by the Lemuel Burrows to Norfolk freighter which had hit her when something something something some some- thing happened happen 4 to the towline and the two vessels vessels' were sep sep- in a thick fog After a period of confusion on land came the flash that the tanker Yorba Linda which had sped to the rescue from ten miles away had taken the stricken craft raft in n tow and was taking her to port This proved erroneous 1 however and later the Mackay Radio corporation received a message declaring declaring de de- de- de claring daring the Burrows had succeeded in getting a line aboard the Herndon again and was making for port No lives were lost a message to the owners of the Lemuel Burrows said The only word from the Herndon I was an SOS shortly after the crash which cut off broadcasting for lor 54 minutes but the Burrows poured out outa a stream of staccato messages which were picked up by the Radio Marine corporation and Mackay ASKS FOR FOE HELP Even before the to iov to was lost the I Burrows kept asking for help One message said she had lowered lifeboats lifeboats life life- lifeboats boats indicating some som of the Herndon's Herndon's Hern- Hern dons don's crew may have been tossed into the sea Although realizing the danger coast guardsmen said the Herndon had water tight compartments and probably would not sink The sea is fairly calm The Herndon apparently was hit hard and officials here feared some of the firemen might have been been in in- The The- Yorba-fLinda Yorba a tanker bo bound nd from Tex to Providence R. R L 1 is nearby and the coast guard cutter Champlain and other craft are steaming to the scene First messages from the Lemuel Burrows said she was lowering boats and although the succeeding flashes from the Burrows were not explicit it was believed some of or the crew of the destroyer might have been tossed into the sea by the crash nIT HIT IN 1 She was rammed in the forward fon t on the port side the messages messages mes meso sages said and it was feared here that thata a blow hard enough to cripple her would also result in serious injury to I firemen or other members of the crew The freighter a 7 ton ton 10 steamer owned by the Mystic Mystie Steamship company company com corn pany of Boston is a coastwise vessel She was en route from Boston to Norfolk Norfolk Norfolk Nor Nor- folk with a cargo when the accident happened She is the company's largest largest larg larg- est vessel and carries a crew of 35 |