Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-01-07
HEROIC RESCUE AT SEA MADE
BY OFFICERS OF n
SHIP.
The Death LIST IS NOW Is
Six of the Men In "a Life Boat We're
Drowned When In Sight of
the Rescue Ship.

4. NJ i
,uryiyors tonight had been accounted
for out of the 3S men aboard the TANK
steamer Oklahoma when she broke IN
two Sunday IN storm Off BarheSaI
Another story OF heroic rescue was
written beside tho tale told by the
wireless that brought the first news
Of the disaster
Until the Booth liner Gregory
fresh from a 1000 mile voyage up the
Amazon, arrived today the eight men
taken off the Oklahoma by the steam
ship Bavaria were believed to be the
only ones saved. But the Gregory
had five more Of the shipwrecked
crew that her officers had dragged
from the boiling sea at the risk OF
their own lives.
So the Oklahomas death list stood
at Is tonight, and there was little
hope that more Of the crew would be
saved. What little hope remained was
basd on the fact that the men brought
10 port by the Gregory said another
life boat besides theirs had been
launched from the sinking steamer
There was little doubt, however, that
venue cutter Seneca with three frozen
bodies under its thwarts. The boat
that carried the five survivors within
reach of the Gregory contained but
one body when 1t was cast adrih
after the rescue.
OF the Oklahoma's crew of 3S
eleven manned the boat that reached
the Gregory; l9 took to the other
boat and eight stayed aboard, to be
saved by the Bavaria. or the larger
boat load probably all were lost OF
the eleven in the smaller boat six were
drowned when the boat capsizcd
barely a hundred yards away from
the side Of the Booth liner,
When the Gregory sighted the okla
mas life boat that benumbed sailors
had hoisted a sail which enabled them
to keep their craft from being over
whelmed by the gigantic seas. AS
the Gregory came within hailing dis
tance the shipwrecked men dropped
their sail and their boat Immediately
lost its stecragcway and turned over.
Then one after the other the three
chief officers OF the Gregory without
over the side. They were First Off
Ger r. II. Buck; second officer j. 5.
Williams, and third officer ID. Rogerts
Il young Englishman. Buck, who has
a medal given by the King for a res
cue he made nine years ago in the
bay of Blscay, knew what it meant to
breast a storm beaten by the sea and
he tied himself to bow line. The
others took no lines and all but paid
the penalty with their lives.
Each officer seized a struggling
sailor and brought him to the ships
side then went back to whore the
lfeboat was floating bottom side up.
Three more were rescued. The first
man hauled aboard died on the deck.
The other five were kept alive after
hard work by the surgeon and crew
One man was seen swimming near
the ship. Ca~ain Aspinwall heaved
him a lifebuoy at the end OF line.
The man had it in his grasp when a
great wave heeed the ship off and
when it swung back the man had dis
appeared. The lifeboat righted itself
and as it floated past the Gregory
crew saw a man jammed under the
seats Officer Buck wanted to jump
I'm after him but his captain held him
back.
When the agents OF the Booth line
here sent a report of the rescue to the
home office in Liverpool today they
recommended Buck, Williams and
Roberts for promotion.
John Poslck, the Oklahomas mess
boy. Norwegian. said he and his
ten shipmates in the lfeboat that
reached the Gregory saw the other
boat put off from the opposite side
Of the tank steamer. THAT boat.
he said, had almost twice as many
I'm her as ours"
Captain Loring A. Gates, Boston
skipper. formerly in command OF the
tank steamer Ligonier, and n passen-
ger on the Oklahoma. commanded
the other lifeboat Kosch said
From memory Kosich and his com.
pany gave this list OF the names OF
those in their boat who perished:
VIM. X. Dodd. first assistant en-.
gineer who took charge; Walter Han.
non second assistant engineer, Ace
Anderson. seaman; John Sullivan
second cook; Manuel Gomez, Span.
ish Of the flremen.