Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-25 | Page 8 | Toll in Storm at Sea Rises

TOLL IN STORM AT SEA SEA RISES RISES Br By Associated Press PressA A howling gale that for tor three days daysh h has s swept north Atlantic shipping lanes Wd the coast of France as it turned through t the e Ba Bay of Basca Bascay Bascay Bas- Bas ca cay into t the Mediterranean added today to it mounting toll of or lost lives and rin-d disrupted dL rup ed shipping Earthquakes along the eastern Med Mcd- shores and an explosion off the off the coast coad of or Tunisia Increased the list of dead Several fishermen were lost when they were washed overboard as the waves waxes lashed their tiny craft craIt in the Bay of ot Biscay Ten were killed ashore in France as winds of or gale force interrupted communication Eight were killed and five injured In earthquakes in Greece Other earthquakes were reported at Malta and Ind Cairo Four persons persons' were reported killed anti and several injured When an explosion explosion sion i smashed the hold of ot the S. S S SG S. S G Gouverneur General in the harbor barbor of or Tunis Tunisia Two ships reported themselves In Urgent need o of assistance w while hi I e dozens of ot others were endangered by byth bythe bythe th the mountainous seas The It Italian S S. S S. S Caterina Madre about 40 west miles miles west of Ide said th that t her propeller was gone and added Dangerous situation Save us The 2993 ton 2993 ton Greek Greck steamer E Eftichia Eftichia Ef- Ef called for Cor help say say- iS her steering apparatus was dis She gave save her position n as latitude latitude latitude lati lati- tude 46 north longitude 8 west in inthe inthe inthe the Ba Bay of Disca Biscay I Another Italian steamer the S S. S SSan SSan S S. San Pietro reported she had r res paired her damage but bul asked nearby ships to come as near as possible as probably we will be broken again The S S. S S. S without a rudder off Lands End reported that she had been taken fn tow V. The Belgian S S. S S. S Sync Syrie bound from Antwerp to the Levant sent an S O 0 S S asking immediate assistance and the British S. S S. S San Mello Melia from Tuxpan to Tyne r reported ported that it had asked the American S. S S. S Liberty to stand by and was jettisoning the cargo The United States shipping board freighter Oakman reported she lost I her rudder miles north o of the Azores but was in no immediate da danger ger The S. S S S. S N Newport News was standing by The Greek steamer the Swedish steamer Delphinus and the British freighter Hillcroft t added their messages to th the steady stream of distress distress dis dis- dis tress signals which flashed over the lashed storm seas Some confusion existed over the names and Delphinus and it was cons considered der d possible the they may designate the same vessel Fragments of or messages picked up at Bordeaux indicated neither the Del phot nor the Hillcroft t was in immediate immediate im im- im mediate danger of sinking but the signals were so garbled the radio station was unable to obtain details of their situations Both vessels were off the Spanish coast In the Pacific the coast guard cutter Chelan that the Japanese Maru had been taken in tow by the salvage salvage sal sal- vage age tug King The with engines engines en en- gines gives disabled had been wallowing helplessly miles north of Cape Flattery The coast guard ice cutter AB 24 sank Jank in Great South ba bay off oU Long bong Island New York after ice floes punctured her hull The crew es es- taped The Hamburg America liner New NewYork NewYork NewYork York reached New York two days das late after aUer battling what the captain described as one of the worst storms In his experience I The French freighter rei Auvergne which sent out an S 0 O S two days ago was last reported to be still anchored at sea The vessels vessel's radio apparently had failed as she did not answer calls from coastal stations