Evening star., 1922-03-26
FLYER, IN DEL|R|UM,
CRIES FOR MOTHER
Pilot of Inflated Miss Miami
More Dead Than
Alive.
MOANS STORY OF DEATHS
Says He Did All in Power to Save
Five Passengers From
Watery Grave.
MOANS STORY OF DEATHS
By the Associated Press.

MIAMI. Fla, March 25.-Pilot
Robert Moore of the ill-fated Miss
Miami returned to consciousness
in a hospital here tonight. He
charged that he alighted on the
water SO close to a fishing vessel
that he could read the name on
it. but that it failed to heed his
frantic signals and cries and
passed on by.
Il only ask one thing" he said.
That is that God allows me to
live and hunt the captain of that
boat"
MIAMI. Fla. March 25-Nursed by
a woman whom he believes to be his
mother and whom he refuses to per-
nit to leave his side, Robert Moore,
which sailed out of here last Wednes-
Gay with six persons aboard her new
err to return, lies in a hospital to-
night in a state Of deiirium, more
dead than alive.
Moore was taken of the tanker
William Green early this morning, as
she passed here, by a sub chaser. All
cared for by Mrs. J. Williams, wife
of an official Of the Pan-American
Petroleum Corporation, who was a
passenger on the ship. This morning,
when the relief boat pulled along
side the big ship. Moore refused. to
go without her. When reassured that
she would be there, he finally per-
the smaller craft and brought to a
hospital here. where another woman
took up the task Of trying to pacify
his wandering mind.
Piece by piece during the night and
day, Moore has revealed the tragic
story of his awful experiences, cling
ing two days and two nights to the
wreckage Of the lost flying boat.
No Trace Of Bodies.
No trace had been. found tonight
of the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. August
Butte and Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
E. Smith of Kansas City, and Mrs. J.
S. Dickson of Memphis, Tenn, who
one by one gave up their lives as the
struggle became too much for them.
Moore's statements while aboard
the tanker were retold today by the
captain, Charles A. Wachsmuth.
II was about forty-one miles off
the East Indian inlet" said Capt.
Wachsmuth, when, just about dusk,
I sighted what appeared to be a
human figure feebly waving his arms
a mile off the starboard bow. We
man who appeared to be lashed to
a spar. We hove to, launched boat
and rowed out to the rescue. A heavy
sea was running, and it was no easy
task, but, after considerable diff
Guilty, we managed to get him aboard.
He was lashed with a piece of rope
about his neck and another piece
about his waist, and was totally ex-
hausted.
"As we cut him loose he murmured,
I'm sorry to put you fellows to so
much trouble Then he became un-
conscious.
I'VE found that he had attached
himself in some manner to an over
turned flying boat. The exact loca-
ton in which he was picked up was
latitude 27.3s north, longitude 1888
west. The time was $50 pm.
I'VE undressed him and placed him
in my cabin, where he was cared for
through the night by Mrs ]. Will
liams, a passenger.
1--WE found that his entire body was
blistered and burnt, and that his lips
were so badly swollen he could not
open his mouth. His eyes, from the
salt water and blazing sun, were in
such condition that at first we thought
he was blinded, but after Mrs. Will
liams had bathcd his face he seemed
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