Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-01-07
MORE LIVES SAVED
FROM WRECK OF
OKLAHOMA
Thirteen Survivors Have Been
Accounted for and Death
List Is Now Placed at Total.
Of twenty-five

lbf h9HNthd JOURNAL SPECIAL tftatp NlHgl
New York, Jan G-Tbrteen sur
yitofs wefe accounted for tonight cut
OF the thirty-eieht men aboard the
tank steamer Oklahoma when she
broke IN two last SUNDAY IN storm
on Barnegat
Another story III heroic rescue was
written beside tie tale told by the
wireless that brought the nrst news
" the disaster Until the Booth liner
HfoaorN fresh from voyage of 2.000
miles ~ the Amazon. steamed into
Port today ~ eight men taken or
the Oklahoma by the steamship Ba-
yaria were believed to be the only
ones saved. btH tho Gregory had ave
more ~ The shipwrcekcd crew that
her officers had dragged out Of the
boiling sea,
The 0lslnhomas death lat sluod nt
twenty-five tonight ana although her
owners swept the sea with wireless
messages, implorins an vessels 70 look
ont Tor ono Of the steamers boats
tbat might sim he adrlft There was
llule hope mat more of the crew
would hc saved
what lttlo hope remained Waf
based % thr fact That the mdn
brought 10 port BY tho Gregory said
another llfc boat besides theirs had
been launched from The sinbinf
sieamcr There was liitlc doubt, how
ever that ths wna The boat sighted
by the revenue euttor Seneca with
three frozen bodies under It's thwartu
The boat, which carried the hve sur
vVors within rcnrh Of dc Gregory
contained bat one body when It wasl
east adfift after THE rescue,
or the oklnhomas crew of thlrt,
eight. eleven manned the boat that
reached the Gregory, nineteen took toll
the other boat and eight stayed aboard
M Ne sayed by the bavaria. uf the
larRfr honi lpad probably all are lost
pf the eleven ~ TIE smaller boat,
eiaht were drowned when the Don't
dipsiged d hundred yards away from
the side of the Booth liner
The GREGORY sighted ihe okla 4
hanas life boat at lS20 y. M. sun
dAS fhe benumhed sailors had hoist |
I'd sab which enabled them 70 keep
their craft from holns overwhelmed
IS tie glEanlle eeas "Reen THAT sail
up beloved Captain Aapinwall as
soon ns no cams within hailing dis.
iuuce ljut the ahlpwrcoked mon
pulled to obey They dropped their sail
aud their boat lost its sleeragcWay
and turned over
Thon one after the other, the three
chief officers Of the Gregory. withaut
waiting "a throw off iaclscts or boots
plunged over the side They were
First officer Il. II llark. Second Of
floef j - Williams aud Third officer
v. p Roberts. an young Engllshmen. I
Buck, who has 4 medal given him hy
the King Of Greece for rescue he
mnde nine years ago Ia the Say OF 1
l3Heay, know what II meant 10 breast
ID storm beaten sea and he tied te him. |
self a line Others took no lines and
they all but paid the penalty win F.,
their lives
Each officer seized a Struggling I
sailor and brought him te the ships
side 10 he hauled ab0ard, then wont
hack Go where The life boat was float 4
las butipmslde up and rescued three
mere Tho first man hauled ahoard I
died on the deck The other ilNe were
kept allve after hard work by The SUR I
geon and crew
enc man was seen swimming urafl
the ship Captain Aspmwau heaved
him g hfc buoy 90 the end Of linz.
The man had a Ia has srRsp when Z /