Show SAILORS ADRI ADRIFT 1 FT s 18 W HOURS HOURS' L Launch Picks Up I Victorias Victoria's Crew Crewel I I I 1 B By United Press Prest SA SAN DIEGO Calif May Ia 1 An I.-An An eighteen hour fight with death ended ended ended end end- ed a a. mils off oct Point Loma Lorn a late this afternoon when hen Capt Jose Urra Urra- chua chUrl and ten sailors from tho wrecked reeked steamer Victoria Victori were ere picked up b by Captain Kooney Keeney y In the launch Flyer ber They had been e exposed posed to the storm in open boats over ever since the tho th Victoria sank Bank near the Coronado islands Islands islands ands at 1030 10 JO 0 o'clock Ja last t night and andall andall all hop of ot saving them had been bren given up The Flyer FIer was sent to patrol the con coast t lato Jato toda today in the tho hope of C getting petting pet get et- et I ting some lome report of ot tho foundered Victoria When hen a short distance off ocr i Point Loma Captain C. Keeney sighted sight sight- ed o one e of oC the wrecked ships ship's small I life UCe boats hoats half halt submerged In lit the mountainous seas with Ith the exhaust exhaust- c ed ea mariners clinging lI desp desperately to I It as ns it wallowed in the surf Three of ot tho the crew were clinging to the outside of oC the tho shell while whilo their h comrades hel held them to pre ent prevent them from slipping to death All were drenched Two crouched crouch in tho the bottom bottom bot bot- tom of tho the life lire boat bont trying to bail han I with their b bare bIe Ie hands When hen the Flyer FIer came carno alongside tho the victims were too wc weal weak nl to help Ihm themselves heR into the tho craft Captain K and his men tra transferred trans trans- s- s ferr them to safety H at t Imminent peril to themselves and they were nil all landed safely nt at B wharf As the Flyer approached tho lIC lifeboat lifo life boat blat three of the tho least exhausted were wera clinging limply lImpl to tu the ou oars using last ounce of energy en energy n en- ergy r in an nn effort erfort to roach reach f the Uie head l land dimly discerned through the mist while while- wind and tile tide combined c to fo sweep lI them back to the seething cauldron of ot the lie sea from which the they no liO narrowly escaped Determined to tn dl die dle in n the tho storm rather than desert their ship Captain Cap Cap- I tam tain t. n hua and his faithful ten refused help from the tho liner American Ameri Ameri- can can which launched l a t life lICo boat bont and rowed to tho side of or the foundering Victoria They stood b by until twelve had been taken off orr Tho The women were thrown bodily Into tho the life lIfo boat bout But Hut when Captain was ed to go so he shook his head I will stay with m my ship ho said Thereupon ten others announced they would woul remain also At that time limA the Victoria had hall ten feet feet ot of water wate r in inthe th the tho hold Ship Goes Goe Down Two hours later at 1030 when the Victorias Victoria's engines n ln s were flooded and ho hope o of or getting her beached I abandoned Captain and his companions launched their life life- boats A few fE minutes afterward the tho Victoria plunged and disappeared The fht survivors s headed for Cor land by lead dead reckoning and amI took turns haulIng hauling haul- haul Ing Int on the oars In tho the gale galo until Ono one brieby b lv bono ono one they sank yink exhausted Hope Hopp had hl been abandoned when the Flyer appeared at 4 p p. p m m. The Victoria between En- En and San Diego o and recently came me under American registry The American Is of the American Ha Iia- Hawaiian wallan Steamship line Th Those These sc rescued b by the Flyer were wert Jose captain Jesus Jesu Wilson Wilson Wil VII son mate mato Arturo Hernandez quartermaster quartermaster tt Luciano Rubalcaba quartermaster Frank Otto steward Manuel chief engineer r Man Ian Manuel u uel 1 Visa Viga assistant engineer Jose Joso lo p. p Sanchez Sl stoker tokEr Manuel Mahuel Ramirez s' s and Juan Juan Aldamiz cook one unknown other name Saved Pa Tho tollo following ln passengers IS I'S were cre saved by b the tho Americans American's lifeboat 1 Mr and Mrs G. G DC De and andson son Steve Ste Jose G Castillo MaJ J. Flores FiorEs San Ran Diego Chong Leo Len Hong Honl Sue Suc Chin Quong Chin Mr Mrs Mr E. E Moffett A. A purs purs- purser pursel er el and Castor Gutierrez seaman n. Pa Passengers rescued from tho the Victoria Vic toria bv by the tho steamer American and t brought here told thrilling stories stone of ot otI I tho thin fight made b by the crew manning I I tho the lifeboat which saved them Six men manned this boat which put out outI I I against comber combers running sixty feet I high lmh A line lIno lineas was as thrown from Crom the Victoria torla picked up b by the lifeboat which was ho bobbing about like a n cork and made fast Cast When hen the Victoria Vic ic ictoria toria torl went down in a wave C and the lifeboat boat came up on another the tails rails of or the two tono were almost flush I The passengers then Jumped into the smaller boat bont one at a time There were two women passengers ers They were Vero thrown from the Victoria into the thA arms of ot men in the lifeboat The American also took off orr officers officers cers from the immigration ocean launch Capo De Df Ano which was wag In distress nc near ar the Victoria The Tho launch's hunch's steering gear had broken |