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Show fSftCLE lllf SlL TRIP ! Welhnan Says the Craft Was Caught by Strong Air Currents and Swept South to BermudaEquilibrator Was the Mis take of the ExpeditionStory of Rescue the constant Jerking of the eqnlllbra-t'-r. Wellman believes that the feat of crossing the Atlnntic In a gas bag may I be accomplished, but that a larger and J stronger air craft will have to bo j built. Wellman savs tho equillbramr was the mistake of the expedition. Nearly Described a Circle. Aeronaut experts pointed out todav Ihat the America, the playlhin? of the winds, nearly described a circle In hep course. The total distance covered cov-ered was about 1 ,n)n miles, which Is j one-third the dlstonce across the At lantlc, which Wellman essayed to j cover. The Irregular course brought the America 350 miles off Cape Hut.; teras, but had the thousand mlle.i covered been made In a direct course along the trans-Atlantic steamer 1 ne. It would have carried the alrshln about 20n miles eastward of the banta of Newfoundland. There Is the greatest possibility tba, the America, relieved of the weight of the lifeboat, ruav be wafted across to Europe, though this Is regarded ns I unlikely, as the d'rlglble, weakened by the pounding equlllbrator, was losing los-ing pas The gas-bag may find her-pelf her-pelf caught in some tropical gale and be blown over the Atlantic seaboard' The best belief among aeronauts to. ( day Is that she will never be seen i again. Wireless Hoaxer. New York. Oct. if). With "Walter Wellmaji and the crew of his airship i America, all accounted for and the airship adrift In the air, far to the south, some wireless hoaxer off In mid-ocean is apparently amusing him self by sending messages In Well-1 man's name. The following was receded early today from the I'.cllc Isle wireless sta-1 tlou, via Cape Race. New Roundland "At 12:15 o'clock the BellA Isle ( station received a communication I from an unidentified source, apparently appar-ently not far away and supposed t- be the Wellman airship. The mes-(age mes-(age said- "We are soaring O. K. All I well on board. Have been nnable as yet o obtain exact position." New York. Oct. 19. Walter Well-niaaard Well-niaaard members of hl Ill-fated trans Atlonlle dirigible balloon, Amoxlca, who were rescued from impending danger at soa SCO miles east of Cape Hattiras yes'erday, believe that a Toyage In an airship across the Atlantic At-lantic may be accomplished The Wellman party are aboard the steamship Trent, whose timely arrival arri-val proved the salvation of th adventurers ad-venturers A heavy fog held back the, Trent thi morning and at 9 o'clock she was about 90 miles east of Sandy lleok. preceding slowly. She will dock this afternoon While the object of Wellman's balloon bal-loon trip whs not accomplished, ho succeeded In creating a new world's record for dirigible balloons, being seventy-two hours In the air and covering, cov-ering, according to Wellman. a thousand thou-sand miles over rough seas. Shortly after 9 o'clock 'he Trent came to anchor below Sandy Hook A wireless message, received this ruornlnB from Operator Ginsberg, of the steamer Trent, gives further details de-tails of the rescue of the Amerlcu's crew at sea. Tho message was ae follows: "Steamer Trent, r, a- in., .r5 miles routh of Sandy Hook: The crew of the America, after resting all nlcht. are feeling none the worse for their thrilling experience. From what, I can get from Irwin (the wireless operator op-erator on the America,) the mo.t exciting ex-citing moment of the three-days' voyage voy-age was after the launching of the America's lifeboat. The Trent bore down full speed upon the small boat. "Irwin declares for tbe moment he fenred the steamer would cut her In half. The Trent appeared to to ha 4. he size of the Slnjror building and .he was prepnrevj to' jump overboard and swim clear of the proprllor. Fortunately For-tunately this was unnecessary. 'The Trent passed the lifeboat dnnge-rously close, locking ilu-r. rope was thrown and caught by the men, who. however, could not hold on. owing to the rough seas. The Trent cleared from the lifeboat which dropped half a mile astern. A the bl; steamer turned in her wake to return to the lifeboat it was seen tho airship men had gotten out two oars and were stniggllng'to keep her head up to the sea. We were now along-t-Mc the cnyt. Again lines were thrown, but were dragged from the ;!rshii men's hands. In hancing on the rope, Mr Wellman's little linger was badly cut. Acain the maneuver wa repeated, this time with success. ! oud. Simmon and Irwin were straining strain-ing on two oars. The "hip was brought close enough to make fast the America's boat. Two rope-, were tlirown from the steamer. The crew of the America cllmld up the rop ladder and each was cheered as he was he'ped over the rail. "in ended one of the most thrilling ard daiing annals of the sea.. (Si;.m d) ' LOCIS CI NSMll !t(l. "Steamer Trent." I Wellman's Story. j Wellman says that. while they' v.ere worl:lni well to sea. on Sunday, tae dirigible was caught In a thirty-tulle thirty-tulle northwest blow which enrrt'-d the America cb'Sf off bet course. Night came and the eipiillbrutor Jerk- 1 and bumped over the waves, thietit-nln; thietit-nln; them with constant destruction. 'I lie rrew wax calm, b.il greatly ex-lJiMi-d and one after the other weni : vlo-p, rpertlnc to wake up in the i;ej. Kvery c-fToit was centered upon 1 eepini; the America afloat and guso-l'ne guso-l'ne wu tossed overboard. The enuil-lor.'ittir enuil-lor.'ittir kept up Its l.icessant pounding fold tbreuteiied to sweep awav the lifeboat. Wellman told the Trent's p.issens- rs Ihnt a course was laid for the Az'Te. t a coring of the wlni tnede t Impossible to reach the Isl-am;.s Isl-am;.s with reduced gasoline. B-rmudu v.uA (I,,. Pf.xl j.tnp ,,( (),,, party. On Monday night more gasoline find oiue iianuie.., machinery were Jot-tl-onod upkeep the America afloat. I'.nrly Tut-sdny morni'ii rescue catue. The Trent was sk-hted two miles away and 1,.,. The llfeln.at was succeM.fuiiv launched. The lifeboat life-boat was struck a glancing blow bv the equlllbrator which uearlv capsUed it. " The weight of i he lifeboat and the imrt removed from lb- airship, the hitter shot up high In the air ami disappeared dis-appeared quickly In the distance. The los of the dirigible was wi. tiered without regret, according to Mr. Wellman. as it could never be is.-d again, having been weakened bv |
