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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1964
Page
2
The Smith Voyager lost power and listed due to shifting cargo while seas reached 15 feet with 25 to 30 knot winds. An air force plane dropped survival kits after dark. Hoegh Fulmar, from Oslo, stood by the crippled freighter awaiting tugs from Rockaway. Ice skating rinks were opened in the city as temperatures rose to 45 to 50 degrees.
The German freighter Mathilde Bolten saved 34 survivors from the American ship Smith Voyager after it cracked a seam in mid Atlantic. Four crewmen were killed including Chief Engineer Veenstra and Third Cook Jones while 42 aboard Smith Voyager abandoned ship. One crewman remained aboard with the captain and third mate as other lifeboats deployed. The Mathilde Bolten headed for San Juan with injured sailors aboard. coast guard sought a doctor via a large ship-tracking system while the ship's agent identified victims from the Gulf of Mexico.
CENTRAL CITY Mrs. Royal A. Silver 77 longtime Johnson and Linn counties resident died Sunday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Born Myrtle Don February 24 1887 near Swisher she married September 12 1905 in Iowa City. Surviving are seven sons three daughters 37 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Services Wednesday at 2 at Community church east of Central City. Friends may call at Passmore funeral home.
Sunday a split level house on the Patrick Monaghan farm ten miles west of here burned. Occupants Art Hoefer his mother and brother escaped uninjured after being feared trapped. Firefighters from Ryan and Coggan fought the blaze for over four hours, saving a garage and other structures. all possessions were lost.
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