Show speaker cannon a witness of rescue of thirteen people from sinking ship people rescued were nearly starved to death as they had L ved for a week on a few water soaked bisca ts new 1 Is early every vessel that has arm ed from so athern ports during the past week has bro ight some story ol 01 marine disaster wrought by the tornado off hatteras during the last ten days ot march the bluecher arriving from west indian ports was no exception standing in disconsolate groups about her decks were thirteen people whom the liner had saved from their founder ing bark the gulfport Gulf port as the vessel was on the verge of going down the rescue was witnessed by er joseph G can non and others of the congressional party on board the bluecher u taken by the lifeboat of the liner from the waterlogged wreck were near starvation as for nearly a week they had had nothing to live on except a few water soaked biscuits thursday morning the bluecher al her course to head for a wreck that had been sighted the gers hurriedly quitted the breakfast table and gathered on deck to see the crew pf the bark clustered about the aft rails little difficulty attended the work ot the lifeboat in chaffee of chief officer ver was lowered from the bluecher and wed to the wreck into this went captala larsen of the bark and twelve mem bers of hlo crew and in a short time had the refugees safely on board the bluecher |