The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-09-23
Eleven Men Drifted Six Days
With Only Five Gallons of
Water and 100 Biscuits.
OTHERS DROWNED OR LOST
Men Picked Up BY Fishing
Smack Eighty Miles South
west of Egmont Key and
Brought in to Tampa.

Tampa, Sept. 22.-After drifting
six days in an open boat, Chief officer
A. II. Noodle and 10 other survivors
on the 11,00O-ton steamship Bay
ronto, sunk September IL off the
Tortugas, were brought into Tampa
by the local fishing smack Ida, which
picked them up 80 miles southwest of
Egmont Key. Another lifeboat with
"a men from the Bayronto has not
been heard from. Fifteen men, in
Guiding Capt. T. Eversett and most
or the officers, were lost on the ship
because the other lifeboats were
smashed, but it is reported that they
were taken off by the schooner
Fannie and Fay, Tampa to Havana
The IL men brought to Tampa are
Chief Officer Noodle, w. Cole. wire.
less operator; w. Saunders, carpen-
ter; f. Abbot, lamp trimmer; Boat
swain Bride and Firemen T. Brett,
A. Sheerin, Edmunds, Duovan, Crit.
fifth and w. Denley.
The Bayronto foundered in heavy
seas without running aground. When
the ship listed 60 degrees, the remain
ing two boats We're launched. Noodle
and his 10 men had five gallons of
water and 100 biscuits. Two days
later, running short of water. they
spread their oiled coats and caught
half bucket of rain water Tuesday
they caught few fish and ate them
raw. a. m. September IL they
sighted big two-masted steamer and
sent up distress rockets, but Noodle
says the ship paid no attention ex-
cept to turn and run off in the oppo-
site direction.
The men were almost naked. They
poured salt water over their bodies to
cool them, and the sun blstered the
skin. Many of them have boils and
ASSESSES formed by the exposure.
Peter Taylor, English vice-consul. is
looking after their welfare.
The 11,OO0-ton steamship Bay
ronto, with 1000 tons of wheat. was
bound from Galveston to Marseille.
via Norfolk. 1t is owned by the Bay
steamship company, London. 1t was
torpeod in July, 1918. and had been
laid up for repairs until it sailed from
southampton last month on this trim.
was on the steamship Baynyassa in
July, 1917, which sank a U-boat then.
and he was afterwards decorated by
King George with the ID. S. c., the
captain getting the ID. S. O. Noodle
also has the victory medal. the mer-
chant service medal, the 1914 medal
and on his sleeve three gold torpedoes
and five yearly service chevrons.
A II. Noodle is from Dundee. Scot
land; Victor Cole from London and
the others all from Southampton.
At the same time the local fishing
smack Ida picked up the II men from
he Bayronto, another lifeboat was
sighted several miles away. Two men
rowed over and found Andre Cubel!o.
22-year-old Porto Rican negro. q
survivor of the steamer Lake Win
ona, hanging half dead across the
thrwart in boat full of water He
was revived and brought into Tampa
lie says he and an Italian fell off the
deck OF the Winona with a lifeboat
with which they were swept away
from the ship, leaving So others on
board. These two men, Cubello saws
drifted together for 10 days. living on
crabs and small fish, raw, and moist
ening their parched lips with salt
water.
On the 10th day the Italian. after
urging the negro to kill himself. com.
mitted suicide by slashing his throat
with his knife. He was engaged to be
married. had bought furniture for
his house and his sweetheart was
waiting for him at Porto Rico. SAYS
Cubello. The negro threw the body
overheard and continued drifting six
days more until picked up. II seems
likely that in his suffering he lost
track of time. as according to re-
ports, IL has not been l6 days since
the Winona was wrecked. His BODY
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