STORM IN ATLANTIC

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 9

STORM IN ATLANTIC

FOUR SHIPS IN DISTRESS

EFFOKTS AT RESCUE

Australian Press Association. (Received 28th January, noon.)

NEW YOEK, 27th January. Rescue ships and salvage tugs arc steaming to-night to aid four vessels reported disabled in the high 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, 780 miles east of Boston. Coast guard 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 cast of Bermuda, is being searched for by the Western Knight, which answered the Vado's distress signals. The steamship Fcrnlanc 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 today, marooning largo 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. Sheepmen reported that it was impossible to reach their flocks. Some rangers are attempting to save their flocks by haulinj^iay 138 miles from Price.