Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-13
GE RMAN TORPEDO
SINKS ANOTHER
BRITISH CRU|SER
About Two Hundred Perish
When Auxiliary Bayano Is
Destroyed by Submarine
Off Coast Of Scotland,
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{ The admiralty announces the loss Of
fthe auxiliary cruiser Bayano while
the vessel was engaged In patrol duty.
In its statement Of the disaster, the
admiralty says
"On the eleventh OF March wreck
age Of the Bayuno and bodies We're
discovered, and circumstances point
I to her having been sunk by an enemy
( torpedo
Eight officers ana eighteen men
were rescued. but il BIS feared the re-
maindcr OF the crew were lost
THE captain of the Belfast steam
er CastlCrcagh reports passing Thurs
7 day morning "a quantity of wrcckage
ana dead bodies floating I'm life belts
/ he attempted 10 search for possible
survivors but was prevented by the
/ presence Of AN enemy submarine
which gave chase for twenty minutes
Heavy Loss of LIE.
Tho Belfast correspondent OF the
Daily Telegraph says the Rayano was
torucdoed Thursday morning at y
O'Clock OFF Coreswall Point. Wigton-
shire, Scotland, and that nearly 200
lives were lost as the cruiser sank al
most Immediately The vessel had "a
&
Wigt0nshire Is the southwcstcrn-
most county In Scotland. It lies ON
the north channel, which leads into
irish sea from the atlantic
Survivors Near Death.
The survivors Of the Bayano We're
rescued by the Belfast steamer Bal
mcrino and the armed merchantmen
( Tara They were afloat on raft. An
other steamer picked up one Of the
/ Hayano's lifchoats, which was adrift
and also two Of her RATS Tho sur
( vivors were landed at Ayr.
7 The captain of the Balmcrino, i'm an
/ interview with the Daily Telegraph
correspondent, said he picked the
men off q raft.
Two uf The men" said the captain,
had no ether clothing than shirts
ana others only their sleeping gar
mcnts. one had an ugly wound on
/ his head and vas covered with hb Cd.
/ while nearly an of them were bruised
and bleeding They were more dead
than alive from wet, cold and expo
sure. but chccred up as we ueafel
! them Boats were lowered ana the
men were transferred
The captain said that two Of the
! rescued men were So far gone that In
larothcr hair aopr he believed thcy
would have perisht4 Eighteen oi
ihc men on the raft. including two
doctors. were removed to the Bal
/ merlno
A boat was making a second Jour
ney to the raft when the armed mcr.
chairman Tara arrived on the scenC
and took off the remaining survivors
The men were given warm cloth
ing aud teSoratIVes," continued tho
captain "rhoy were ovorioycd 20,
their rescue. They said the Bayano
sank within "a few minutes after being
/ tcrpe1ocd. There was a terrific cN-
! poslon and the vessel went down b.
the bows. The explosion creatcd 70
/ great amount of domasc ana some of
/ the llfcboats were rendered useless.
The men we're left struggling in
] the waite in the darkness, clutchirs
+ for any piece OF wreckagc TO which
they could cling Heartrending taleF
of the last awful moment We're told
/ by the group rescued by the Bal
mcrro 1'hey believed themselves to
/ boz tho only survivors ms they saw no
! other RATS with men ON them
The Bayano was comparatively
! now steamer She was built at Glas-
/ gov i'm 1913 and was owned by Elder
and F'yffce before she was taken over
/ by the British government and fitted
/ out as an auxiliary cruiser.
Tho Rayano was of $500 tons dis
! the Irish sea from the Atlantic.