The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-06-17
Mystery of Lost Cyclops
Probably Cleared at Last,

after the trip was uneyentful except
Tor an occasional white sail on the
horizon and an incident one night.
AT the end of the thirteenth day
we put into Bahia and dropped OFF a
few of our 300 army passengers. We
had gobs, diplomats and marine Off
GERS on board. Then we put to sea.
again for Rio.
I'VE arrived at Rio four days later.
and when we entered the harbor the
U. 5. 5. Pittsburgh, with the ad-
mirafs flag flying, ordered us to take
anchorage 1000 yards astern of her.
We lowered away one of our motor
boats and sent to the Pittsburgh,
among other passengers, Captain Har-
rington of the marine corps, who had
been assigned TO the Pittsburgh for
duty
Reports to Admiral Caperton.
AN hour later semaphore message
from the Pittsburgh read: Captain
Hays will repair Oh board Pittsburgh
Immediately and report to the force
commander
"A boat called alongside and
showed off for the Pittsburgh. Upon
arriving on board her l went to Adj
miral Caperton's cabin and was greet /.
ed by him very kindly. He asked me
to tell him about the Orions journey
southwark and particularly about the
objects we had sighted off Barbados.
Captain Harrington had told him In
a chat about the incidents.
| Tn y
made 1t clear to him that in both
cases the Orion's captain ordered me
not to stop.
! This relieved me of all RESPONSE
, bility, and as / left the Pittsburgh
Captain Boesch was ordered on board
, the flagship. He came back to the
, Orion some time later, apparently up
set as a result of his talk with the
admiral, and he called me into his
stateroOm.
: Captain Bosch ain Trouble"
He told me it looked as though
, we were in trouble. He said almost
, every one on the Orion had seen the
, Franklin buoy. but as far as he knew
: only the two of us had seen the life
raft. He asked me in a subtle way II
| was sure it was life-raft. / an
e swered that it might have been phos-
S phorous spot in the water.
n 1.-THE captain called in his yoeman
f and dictated letter to this effect:
s After careful consideration l have
come to the conclusion that the OBJ
!, ject reported as life-raft was not
l. life-raft but a PHOSPHORUS spot in
d the water caused by small seas
e II heard nothing more about the
D. matter. l thought several times.
t though, of Amphitrite, beloved Of sail
6 ors, who dances under ships prov.
h From Rio we went to Montevideo.
a On our way home we stopped at San
e tos, Brazil, to take on a cargo of 12,-
600 tons of coffee. We were glad it
y was not manganese. We stopped at
e Rio again to pick up travel passengers
'e for the States.
It A Dread Prophecy.
n while in Bahia the paymaster o.
is the Orion and | went to the cruiser
n Raleigh one evening to have dinner.
is During the course of the meal we
If were told that as the Raleigh's Off
E. GERS stood on deck watching the Cy-
clops put to sea on her homeward
lie journey they bet each other the Cy-
y clops would never get back to the
Or States.
~ II have often stood on the fore
castle Of the Orion looking aft and
tn watched her deck give in calm sea-
c. The cause of this is that the twin
,g screw Golfers are so long that when
ut both engines happen to thrust to-
= gether the longitudinal strain is SO
great there is give to the framing
of the ship. Outlines during that vi
braton l have looked up at the bridge
and watched the foremost bend like
a carriage whip.
The Raleigh's officers, even from 6
distance, had seen the Cyclops' deci
give under the strain.
The cyclops' Cargo.
81 went ashore at Bahia to see tht
n dockmen who had loaded the Cyclops
y On the dock where the cargo wa:
slowed, the foreman, named Martins
explained to me as best he could re
member just how the loading was
done.
He pointed out two cranes set
about 800 feet apart on the dock ant
told me the cranes had lowered tn
@ cargo into the Cyclops's holds aske'
B him If the cranes had been movc'
n during the course of the loading, an,
d he said No He also said the Cy
d clops had not shifted either forwar
. or aft along the dock.
This implied that one-half the car
q 20 had been loaded into one or tw
d forward matches and one-haf into on
b or two after matches.
~ with GOLFERS 12,0OO-ton carg
of coal all the matches are filed {
PIT the covers. Manganese ore is so muc
he heavier than coal that 1900 tons O
e." it spread evenly over a big ships bot
tom would be only few feet deep.
~. II have given these facts as foun
ity them. Think them over. Then de
D. eide for yourself the fate of tn
'n. Cyclops."