GIGANTIC GALE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11013, 28 January 1926, Page 5

GIGANTIC GALE

VESSELS LN DISTRESS IN ATLANTIC. United Press Assn.—Copyright.) j NEW YORK, Jan. 26.,, The - lives of at least 60 seamen arc in jeopardyon’two steamships battling in mid-ocean against one of the .wbrst storms ever encountered in the Atlantic. The liner President Roosevelt Is standing by the British freighter Antinoe to aid her crew of ■25 If the worst befalls the ship. The President Roosevelt has lost two seamen of a rescue party which made an unsuccessful attempt to hoard the distressed craft. At the same time the liner Bremen is hastening to help another British freighter, the Laristan, which is. in a serious p>light: Radio-broadcasting officials, whose attempts to reach Europe have been marred the last two nights by S.O.S. signals from distressed .nips, will make another effort to-night.—Reu-ter.

ANTINOE IN GRAVE PERIL. (Received Jan. 27, 8.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 26

The seas are reported to he rolling fifty feet high in mid-Atlantic. Various big liners/ including the Leviathan and Equitania, are delayed for two or three daj's. The Roosevelt, which is standing by the British freighter Antinoe, lost sight of her behind a curtain of snow. A message came later from- the Roosevelt stating that she had again- sighted the Antinoe. The latter is entirely disabled. Her engines are not working and her lights, except hand lanterns, extinguished. The Roosevelt made a. gallant effort to remove the crew, launching a lifeboat in a raging sea. A wave crushed it against the liner’s sides, two sailors being drowned. The rescue efforts had to be temporarily abandoned, but it u\as last reported that the Antinoe was still afloat. The Roosevelt is still standing by, where she has been since Sunday. —AN.Z.O.A.

LARISTAN IN A RAGING SEA. SIX MEN SAVED. (Received January 27, IT p.m.) OTTAWA, Jan. 26. A telegram from Halifax (Nova Scotia) reports that spx /men. jwere> saved by the German steamer Bremen from the disabled British freighter Laristan, which since Monday night has been lying in a raging sea off port. Twenty-four men are still aboard.—Reuter.