THRILLING STORY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1952, 8 January 1914, Page 5

THRILLING STORY.

OKLAHOMA'S SURVIVORS.,

HEROIC RESCUES BY BRAVE OFFICERS.

IN THE BOILING SMS,

By Telegraph-Press Association—Cowr'rl/rlilC , Now York, January 6. ? Six survivors of the Oklahoma" 'have arrived on board the steamer Gregory. They had been picked up while adrift in a life-boat. The death roll is re : duced to .twenty-one. Shipping men believe that the Oklahoma's breaking in two was due solely to tho terrific battering of the seas and not to an explosion, as ai> first- suggested. - - ■' (Roc. January 7, 10.23 p.m.) '.. New York, Jnmiary' ?.' ; . Thrilling tales are related by the survivors of the disaster to the oil tank steamer Oklahoma. Eleven of the cresv maimed a boat, and reached and boarded tho steamer Gregory, which was en routo to New York after a remarkable voyage of two thousand miles up the Amazon River. Nineteen others manned a second boat, which disappeared and was never seen acain. Eight stayed on board tho Oklahoma until the Bavaria res:ued them. The Gregory sighted a boat- with its sail hoisted, but the shipwrecked men in it were numbed with cold, and unable to keep up the sail. The boat broached to, filled, and unset. Three of tha oflicers on board ,t!ic Gregory—Buck, Williams, and Roberts —thereupon plunged, half clothed, into the boiling sea. One of them was tied to- a line, but the others had no assistance. Each seized a struggling cailor, dragged him alongside and returned through the waves for others. Tho first survivor on board tho Gregory died almost instantly: the others Jived, through the devoted work of the doctors. When one man was seen swim-; wiing near the vessel Captain Aspinall throw him a .life-lino, and the drowning! man grasped it, but- a Imps wave over-j whelmed him, and he disappeared. i The capsized boat in the meantime had | righted itself, and floated past the Gregory, with one man, apparently dead, inside. No further rescues were possible, the others having disappeared. Tho first officer, Mr. Buck, previously had gallantly rescued a man in tho Bay of Biscay, for which act ef bravery he had been awarded a nicilal. All -three- officers hove been refcnnimended Tor promotion by tho Xo'.v York agents of the Booth Liise.

THE WRECKED DAICONAR. SURVIVORS 11EACH LOXDOX. . ; London , , January 7. The survivors of the wreck of the British .steel ship l)algonar (26G3 tons) have arrived. They include Mr Cnrston, a Now Zealandcr, and Mr. Jackson, a South Austr.ili.in. The Da'lgonar . was thrown on her beam ends on October 9 during a fivo days' gale between Calbo (Peru) and Taltal (Chile). Her decks were penxmdioular, and when tho boats wore hunched they wore, dashed to pieces against tho hull. Captain Isbister and three of the crew were drowned. Dunker, tho carpenter, did splendid work. Ho cut the masts after three • .hours' wortf, and the : vessel was partially rHitcd. Tho French barque Loire stood by for four days and rescued the crew. .