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S j Vi l L f l 4 rJ 1 1 f ft f t FJ 1 rM i is V WI JJ A Q lr tJ l P St i V e t lr t L 5 f. f kJin kJ- kJ in it the I the tae and flame when she sank the watchers being being- unable to J gain any clew to her id l iden-l n It is said she had a pas 1 pas deck and if passengers 1 gers were aboard all are lost I IThe The City of Savannah of the I Savannah line was wa insight in insight sight of the burning vessel as she foundered The liner could give no assistance first because even had the stranger strang strang- er not sunk the Savannah Savannah Savan Savan- nah could not have gotten alongside with the sea running running run run- ning tremendously high and second because the vessel vesel disappeared so quickly into the deep 1 The first reports from th the Savannah was that the tho lost ship was the freight and passenger p steamship Matilda Weems of ot tho the Baltimore and Carolina Caroli Carol na Steamship company compan The belief arose because of or the similarity be between between be- be tween the lost vessel and the Weenie Weems both having the conformation of ot n. n freight and passenger vessel and both boll having the same number 0 of stacks Blizzard Lard nt hInges s 's About Wreck Two boats have been en washed a horG from the wreck TeCk empty and a a. third boat bont has been sighted afloat A bits bUc- zard Is now raging around tho of ot the wreck The rue Savannah sighted the unknown vessel esse hours bours b before she sho sank Both Bothe vessels e were Vero against tremendous seas the wind I whistling through their rigging at ac about 50 miles an hour the tho mercury registering almost zero The storm Increased ased In fury tuO and au Just when the Savannah annah and tl 6 stranger reeled toward the shoals thick th unidentified vessel was seen to to be bo afire The Savannahs Savannah's and the tho crew of oC the lightship had Just time to Io tomake make out the character r of ot the ship when rl rising high on a great wave her stern went vent Into the tho water churning churn churn- lag ing it Into foam and In less than titan e ii minute she was swallowed b by the se sea her hor bow going down almost almot t p ular No signal of ot an any kind was Wag given n by the tho unknown before she went down The Tho crew of ot the lightship pu put off In boats and fox for foxa a long Jong time scouted vainly In I tr to around the district a trying find the survivors hors It If any of tho crow crew or passengers got ort oft the Ill fated vessel yesSe yes yes- Se sel In small boats the they would unI un- un Continued on Page Pago H 1 Section 2 I BIG STEAMER BURNS THEN IS ENGULFED DURING THE STORM STORM tm C Continued From rage lugo OUI drown as no ordinary lifeboat life life- I boat Loat could have bave ridden tho the storm as a did the Ole boats hoats of ot the crew cre Tho ship had ha reached tho bottom before before be- be fore tho the first frt flash fah came from tram Hatteras Hat- Hat teras tera Wireless s Stations Pass Sc Nem From Norfolk Va to lo Wilmington Del Del overy every wireless station received the news and passed it i on The Tho United Unit Unit- Uni- Uni ed States government notified by wireless wireless wire wire- less and the revenue cutter cutler cuter Onondaga a 0 staunch storm defying craft craf sped to tho scene in tho tue vain hope that survivors might be found round drifting about about in the lifeboats Late tonight tho the cutter cutter cut- cut ter reported nothing foun found Tho The point where the tho ship went down Is probably tho the most dangerous on the lower Atlantic coast It I Is off of hatteras and ond even in pleasant weather the tho waves run high It I is ts probable that more ships have boon been shipwrecked shipwreck shipwreck- e ed oft off oc this point than any other on I the continent except the Newfoundland Newfound- Newfound lan land banks Ships Ship's Broken cn New York Jan 30 With nearly nealy 1000 pa passengers on board boar tho the St. St Louis Luis of the Iho American line lino lne Is on h her herway r way from Crom Southampton and Cherbourg Cherbourg Cher- Cher bourg with her rudder broken This evening a a wireless message was receIved received re- re reI at the offices of at the International tonai Mercantile Paper company I owners of ot the American Line steamships steamships steam- steam J ships that during hea heavy weather and anda i a big sea sc the liner had broken the tho rudder and ad ha had slowed down but was wa In n no danger danser Captain John C. C Jamison her com com- mander said sid tho the liner had been 1 i slowed down to 16 15 knots an and ho bo ex- ex to reach port imort ort tomorrow Norfolk Va Vo Jan 30 WIreless Wireless telegraphy tel tel- again l probably saved a ship and 45 first class and a 0 score of at sec sec- class ond-class ond-cla ond passengers passenger from danger tonight tonight to- to night In Hampton Roads when tho tIme thoOl Ol Old Dominion steamer Hamilton col- col with wih a car float of tho the vania vania railroad an and ha had a hole six x foot toot In diameter in her port bow one foot tOOt above tho water line lne Four loaded cars were dumped In tho the seaby seaby sea a by the compact and amid the float foat was wo serIously seriously ser- ser damaged Imme Immediately intel after ater the accident which occurred d shortly shorty before 9 o'clock near neur Old Point Comfort Comfor the c wireless operator on the Hamilton m sent sont a message for tor help to lo Norfolk and In less than ten minutes tugs ro tuSs on their ther way to tho the assistance of ot tho 10 Hammon Hamilton The Hamilton was found have been heen h by tho tIle collision anti and was towed to her cr pier here of ot tIme the Ol Old Dominion corn com n- n I pany say ay the Hamilton Hamiton took In no 10 water through the big holo hole In tho the port rt bow but hut It was dangerously near tho the I water waler line hue The Tho hamilton was bound to lo New 1011 York She will wH not pot be he nub ablo to lo sail 81 for lor several days day |