The Flora Rodgers

BRAWREY, District Judge.

A storm of unusual severity occurred •on the South Atlantic coast September 17, 1906, causing great damage *287tó shipping, and on the morning of Wednesday, September 19th, the Italian steamship Fert, an iron steamer of 2,629 net tons, 340 feet long,, 46 feet beam, 1883 horse power, of the value of about $200,000, laden with a cargo of the value of about $33,000, while proceeding on a voyage from Geona, via the port of Baltimore to New Orleans, sighted a vessel about 35 miles southwesterly of Cape Lookout lightship, about longitude 77 and latitude 34, and bearing down on…