Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1935, Page 3

4 MISSING, 2 DIE IN SHIP DISASTER Ward Liner Mohawk Goes | Down After Crash—117 Are Rescued. (Continued From First Page.) persons listed as missing might still be drifting in that boat. The news of the deaths was brought here by the boatswain of a | Coast Guard motor boat, one of six which patrolled the scene of the dis- | aster for more than eight hours. “One of the picket boats picked up, | 1 should say, about 12 persons out of the water and put them on the Champlain,” said Boatswain W. F. Burton Burton and his crew of two were covered with ice, their fingers so numbed by the near-zero weather that they could not button their jackets “It was so misty that we ran into fishtraps on the way in,” the boat- swain said. “The skipper of the Talisman seemed pretty excited,” said Burton, “but he seemed to be doing everything he could.” Picked Up by Liner. The liner Algonquin picked up 37 passengers and 57 members of the Mohawk's crew and hasiened them to New York, where ambulances were awaiting them Wireless reports from the Mohawk, which was abandoned an hour after | the collision, and from the rescue ships, gave no hint of the manner in which the vessels rammed. Chief Boatswain's Mate Melvin Hy mer of the Coast Guard said a mem- | ber of the Mohawk's crew gave a brief but graphic account of the crash. “The sailor said he was on watch in the control cabin of the liner,” said Hymer, “and that the freight loomed up suddenly through the night. “The sailor said it was impossible to avoid a collision and that the bow of the Mohawk was stove in “In the collision the seaman said he saw two members of the crew on | the forward deck of the Mohawk | crushed to death.” i | Near Morro Castle Scene, The hunt for the missing persons went on ceaselessly during the morn- ing, only 6 miles south of the spot where the Ward liner Morro Castle burned with a loss of 124 lives last September. As 8000 Jersey residents lined the snow-banked shore during the night to watch searchlights from the rescue ships, all lights on the Mohawk went | out. Failure of wireless operators to; raise any response from the vessel in- dicated she had been abandoned An Associated Press photographer | flying over the scene shortly after day- | break reported no trace of the Mohawk | was visible. | The United Fruit liner Limon picked | up more than 20 of the survivors, but transferred them to the cutter Cham- | plain in order to continue her voyage | south. Meanwhile Red Cross workers and ambulances rushed to the foot of Man- hattan to meet the Algonquin. Thirty patrolmen commanded by six ser- geants hastened there to keep in line anxious relatives and friends. Within a short time after distress signals and then an S O S were inter- cepted ships stood near the sinking Mohawk and others knifed through | the waters toward the scene. i The Talisman, able to proceed un- | der her own power after the collision, put about and headed for New York Both ships were of steel construc- tion. The Mohawk had a gross ton- nage of 5897 tons, was 387 feet in | length and was an oil-burner. The Norwegian boat, commanded by Capt Wang, is 400 feet long and is of 4,765 | gross tons. Coincidence and ill luck that has pursued the Ward Line during the last several months figuréd ironically in the disaster. Fourth Liner Stricken. The Mohawk is the fourth Ward liner to come to grief since last Sep- tember. The luxurious Morro Castle, pride of the line, burned, with the loss of 124 lives, on September 8, off the Jersey coast not far from last night's | accident Her rusted, fire-twisted hulk lies on the beach at Asbury Park—a stark reminder of the tragedy and an eye- sore to city. She rests just about six miles from Sea Girt and one of the | tugs engaged in salvaging the wreck | steamed to the aid of the Mohawk | last night. 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Seventeen cers. hearses and ambulances, iwenty-five undertakers and assistants. ’ wemen survivors of the Mohawk after Scanty apparel and had to tand the cold weather Stewardess Clayton and Quartermaster Polaner, shown leaving the rescue ship Algonquin. vx,n rience in npen boats was made more harro\\mg by (he zero weather, hawk crew, line chartered the Mohawk from the Clyde Mallory Line Bad luck has plagued the Mohawk; the Jersey coast is her nemesis. Grop- ing through a thick fog on May 20, 1928, she was in collision with the liner Jefferson off Staten Island, pro- ceeded like a wounded creature to shore and beached near Seabright,N.J. A naval communications message reported, at 11:30, that the Mohawk had disappeared. The blow from the Talisman had knocked a huge hole in her side. 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P. ‘Two ships search a steaming sea for bodies and mlaslng lifeboats in the area where the Ward liner Mohawk went down last night. Mist arising from the water is due to the frigid cold. Associated Press photographers flew over the area for some time this morning, but were advised by the D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935. Searched for Survivors Wirephotos. Coast Guard that the Mohawk probably had gone down. they disembarked from 8 few blankets were 211 that many The Algonquin, @ Joseph E. Wood of the unaccounted for after | His home is in Jack- I Capt Mohawk, the collision. sonville, Fla. turned from a futile search of the waters, however, it became apparent | that none of the survivors would be | landed in this vicinity. members of the Survivors Mo- | said Jersey Coast towns nurses and doc- tors were ready for emergency service. Eighteen ambulances were stationed along the shore. 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