GREAT LINER HALTS
INJURED ENGINEER. SHIP'S CALL FOR HELP. NEW YORK, May 10. The Berongaria, one of the world's largest-liners, was racing into port tonight, when, somewhere out of the foegy blackness behind her, came the S.O.S. signal. She swung round to answer the icni!i, which came from the steamer Wheeler, which reported an accident in her engine-room, and one man seriously hurt. His life might bo saved by an immediate operation Cardinal Mundelein was coming to America on board the Berengaria,\ind, while the surgeon got ready, the cardinal prepared to administer the last rites of the church to the patient if that became, necessary. A volunteer crew manned a lifeboat, which safely transferred this nameless engineer, who was quickly hoisted iuto the Bereugaria. For so delicate an operation, however, the surgeon demanded quiet engines; so die pa.-oen.-L'io on lue great ship not only resigned themselves to another night on board, but took up a collection for the injured man's family.
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Evening Star, Issue 18640, 22 May 1924, Page 9
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