ATLANTIC GALES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 106, 29 January 1929, Page 11

ATLANTIC GALES

FOUR VESSELS IN DISTRESS SHIPS STEAMING TO , RESCUE SHEEP FROZEN IN BLIZZARDS IN UTAH (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) New York, January 27. Rescue ships and salvage tugs are steaming to-night to aid four vessels reported to be disabled iu the hign seas and gales which are sweeping the Atlantic for a thousand miles off American shores. The latest steamer to report itself in distress is the Silver Maple, 78 miles east of Boston. Coastguard cutters are proceeding to her relief. The steam trawler Seiner is believed to have been lost off George’s Banks, and the steamer Cape Vado, 750 miles east of Bermuda, is being searched for by the Western Knight, which answered the Vado’s distress signals. The steamship Fernlane reported that she had lost her rudder and was helpless, 500 miles south-east of Bermuda. A salvage tug is steaming to take her in tow. , ,

A message from Salt Lake City states that blizzards swept across the sheep ranges of North-Eastern Utah to-day, marooning large flocks and leaving scores of these animals frozen to death or starving in the snowdrifts. Nada, which is the centre of the sheep country, reported the mercury 38 below zero, the coldest ever recorded there. Sheep-men reported that it was impossible to reach their flocks. Some rangers are attempting to save their flocks by hauling hay 138 miles from Price.