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Show TOM USES IHASttO Speaker Cannon a Witness of Rescue of Thirteen People From Sinking Ship. People Rescued Were Nearly Starved to Death, as They Had Lived for a Week on a Few Water-Soaked Water-Soaked Biscuits. Now York. Nearly every vessel thnt has arrived from Southern ports during tho past week has brought somo story ot marine disaster wrought by tho tornado oft Hattcras during tho last ten days of Morch. Tho Illuecher, urrlvlng from West Indian port's, was no exception. Standing in disconsolate groups nbout her decks wero thirteen peoplo, whom tho liner had saved from their foundering bark, tho Gulfport, as tho vessel was on tho verge of going down. Tho rescue was witnessed by Speaker Joseph G. Cnn-non Cnn-non and others of tho congressional party on board tho Dluechcr. Thoso taken by tho lifeboat of tho liner from tho waterlogged wreck woro near starvation, as for nearly n week they had had nothing to llvo on oxcept a few water-soaked biscuits. Thursday morning tho Bluccher altered al-tered her courso to head for a wreck that had been sighted. Tho passengers passen-gers hurriedly quitted tho breakfast tablo and gathered ou deck to see tho crow of tho bark clustered about tho aft rails. Llttlo difficulty attended the work of rescue. Tho lifeboat, In chargo of Chief Officer Beyer, was lowered from tho Bluccher and rowed to tho wreck, into this went Captain Larson of tho bark and twclvo members mem-bers of hl's crow and In a short tlmo had tho refugees safely on board tho Bluccher. |