Show = TORNADO CAUSES MARINE DISASTER Speaker Cannon a Witness of Rescue of Thirteen People From Sinking Ship People Rescued Were Nearly Starved to Death as They Had Lived far a Week on a Few Water Soaked Biscuits New YorlNoill every vessel that has unhid from Southern ports durIng the past week has ought some story of marine disaster wrought by tho tornado oft Hntteras dining tho last ten days of March The Bluecher arriving from West Indian In ports was no exception Standing disconsolate groups about her decks wero thirteen people whom the liner had saved from their fOlllulurlng bark tho Gulfpoit ns the vessel was on the verge of going down Tho rescue was witnessed by Speaker Joseph G Cannon Can-non and others of the congressional party on board the Blucchtr Thobo taken by tho lifeboat of the liner from tho waterlogged wreck I were near starvation as for nearly a week l they had had nothing to live on I except a few water soaked biscuits Thursday morning tho Bluecher altered al-tered her com so to head for a wreck that had boon sighted Tho passengers passen-gers huniedly quitted tho breakfast table and gathered on deck to sea tho crew of tho bail clustered about tho aft rails Little difllculty attended tho work of rescue The lifeboat in clmigo of Chief Officer foyer was lowered from the Bluecher and rowed to the wreck Into this went Captain Larson ot tho bulk and twelve members mem-bers of his crew and In a short time bad time refugees safely on board the Bluecher |