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Show IDESCUE tlCTIi OF SEAHDRROH Shipwrecked Survivors of Bayronto and Lake Winona Wi-nona Picked Up. TAMPA. Fia., Sept. 21. Seven survivors sur-vivors of the lost British steamer Bayronto Bay-ronto and one survivor of the American steamer Lake Winona were landed here today by the nshlng smack Ida. With nineteen of the crew of the Bayronto lanJed at Charleston, 3. C, on September Id, and eighteen others landed at Havana the same d?.y, this accounts for her full complement. The men were picked up hi open cents on September IT, sixty miles off Egmont light. The 'one sur. Ivor of the Lake VV iuona, a Porto Kican negro, was In a boat full of water, eating crabs and sea grass. He had bee:: without other food and drink for seven da:, s and nights. Chief Ofucer Moody of the Bayronto and Vlre.ess Operator Cole v, ere among the survivors. The Bayronto, t'ae survivors said, foundered foun-dered in heavy seas during the f:uif hurricane. hur-ricane. All but two of the htVr.oi.ts were smashed by the aves, :ind in one of these Chief Officer Moody and ine ien : men put to sea, with only ive gallons ; of water and a hundred biscuits. 1 Two days after leaving the vessel, run- ! nlng short of water, -they spread their j oiled coats and caught half a bucketful I of rain w;ue: When the supply of biscuits ran out they caught a few fish and ate them raw. Fining the ;:un intensely in-tensely hot, tthey poured salt water over themselves to keep cool, but this only eau-sed the sun to M.bter tne:r marly naked bodies. Once they sighted a hnge two-masted schooner and sent up distress j rockets, but the schooner. Moody said, only turned and sailed off in the opposite direction. The Bayronto. of ll.OQO tons, leaded with wheat, was bound from Gal ve? ton to Marseilles. All of the survivors brought in here were from British ports. The survivor from the Lake Winona -e-orted that fifteen members of the crew of his ship were afloat in an open boat, when all were washed away by " wave, excepting himself and an Italian, j The" ;atter died, and the Porto Kican threw hU body overboard. He later sieh'cd the Bayronto boat, and the twelve nen'divided themselves between the two ' boat:-.. Soon' after they were picked up j by the Ida. j |