Show r l ERCE EnCE ATLANTIC UES WREAK 61 I HAVOC HAVOCs hips hip s Limp Into Port With Tales of Tragedy and Disaster NEW YORK Feb 2 By A A. P The Th The e hurricanes whole gales half halt gal gales s an and d storms which have been sweeping sleeping th the e for nearly two months have hae e spent their force torce the weather bureau bursa u reports but in m their wake they have havel e lle l left t stranded and sunken ships unsolved un- un solved and mysterious tragedies of ot thesta the e runs fo tot for hea sea sta and a series of ot delayed r tr trans Atlantic ns liners which has no not t been b en equaled since war days das pow ow comes omes the worst month of ot the year Tar January brings more vicious s pounding gales gale to Atlantic ships than tha n any other B But it the weather bureau burea u joins loins with maritime experts this yearn year rear r n nj the belief that it cannot possibly eq equal al the late No November ember to January I 1 record That week seven period which came cameto to its end d January 7 7 left a record hard l d for r any like period to approach Th The Atlantic cl claimed twelve ships it t too took t eight twenty men to o their i deaths it made twenty-three twenty giant liners more e than twelve e hours late most late most of or them m w were viere re from rome rom two o to three days behind schedule and and It left tho the unsolvable mystery n e of what happe happened ed to el other ships I t eight ht In addition there were were accidents accident or lr near accidents on the Sea of Marmora Mar Mar- I mora tho Pacific the tho Great Lakes the Baltic sea but the tho ne which crossed the Atlantic worst were the he HUG HUGHES liES BRINGS nl GS GALE Secretary Hughes brought the first great hurricane with hIm when he turned returned returned re- re from South America In Novem- Novem ber It swept out from behind Bermuda Bermuda Ber- Ber muda with a force ot of moro more than miles an hour It tore the thet Atlantic Atlantic At- At lantic tlc tlc- hit i the r t French coast a and d tore toreL rIght L back again And on November at sea there began an to b be reports ot of trouble Five 6 Canadian fishing schooners I failed to report that day Anxiety n is felt leu for them said the dispatches list lut Later of or four missing T Fot got ships In U the firth fifth Is In ln the I On the same day a a. bootlegger went Vent to pieces on Long Island and r of nf the vicinity got most moat of ot the cargo according to the prohibition agents I Towards night a 1 bottle was was was' washed up on Long Island With the story of ct six men who had fought death two I weeks In an open boat I Two da days s later the Italian liner Presidents te Wilson crept Into I 1 I tine here and with her ner came the first firstI I II I reports of or what ac actually was happen happen- enIng en- en n Ing out on the Atlantic I I Storms said add he storms her officers st I we have never experienced anything like it ft The gale at times was miles an hour For Tor seven weeks since then Incoming I liners have ha told the same same story ston So i often otten has it been retold nt It had h to tobe be a particularly desperate tight fight to get Into the news But Dut from then until January 7 1 hardly hard hard- ly h a ship entered New York Yore harbor 11 hat at did not show the scars ochre of or ts Ms fight And dally daily there were reports of S S. 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S received of ot foundering ships of It boats driven on unprotected shores of ut liners with passengers passengers battened In la to keep kc-ep them safe from waves which crashed over smoke stacks stacks-In stacks In short of eor everything every even thing terrible the sea can do LIN LINERS ens STAGE RESCUES On December 24 the liner President Garfield brought drought in a three master she had towed from off Nantucket The TheRosa TheRosa Rosa Ferlita the schooner schoon was In a abad abad I bad way and her crew was wis starving I Two da days s 's later the Menominee another another another an an- other lin liner r came in three thre e days late with a a. fishing crew of ot four Those I men had fired tired their schooner which was leaking and crumbling under themi them i Such great ocean travelers s 's as aD the I I Caronia the the Olympic the Majestic the Zeeland Samland and I I 1 many others came in all days late I They told of terrific battles with the waves naves La Savoie of the French Trench line mile lOO foot 90 I I reported gales an ant and waves t 1 Ships put Into Halifax to get out of or I trouble On December tW twenty eight small boats crashed to the beaches beach s near I New York harbor They we were were e all Ill Ill- fated bootleggers I I The Heinrich Kayser a a. freighter joined the mystery ships on December 6 6 A wireless from her said her rudder chains I chains were broken She was drifting There was a a. full gale With a oe view ew v I of ot two forty aboard she Is still miss miss- ml missing s- s ing Her owners at last are ready to admit her a probable loss The Valacia V a a. freighter came In n I January S with a story of two dead and nineteen hurt because a cable drum was torn lose by a huge wave and sent I j I crashing among the crew Ij The weather bureau says say it t cannot estimate the average force of ot the sales gales ales for those seven seven terrific weeks Well Nell seventy-five seventy miles miles is as rt rot not t too low low s says ys the bureau It tIt is probably nea nearer er el eighty But be conservative conservative conserva conserva- tive Uve for mIle mlle gales blowing almost airiest t constantly for seven weeks is pr pretty tty close to a record for tor the Atlantic |