Show flU TO tOll fOR I SIXTEEN rJ i jF Buffeted by Wind and Wave Thomas Anderson Suffered Lingering Torment SAW SCORES DROWNED Sur Survivor Sur or of Houseboat Off OfT Fl Florida Floa Coa Coat t l and anil Lo Lost Jost t if Picked cd UI Up t. t Liverpool LI Nov Io 4 With I. With the thc arrival her Saturday of the liner Barrister Banister r from Galveston Gal it was learned that one ono more more- of or the supposed victims of the terrible tornado that swept 1 Florida on October 18 had hall been saved On Oil board tho the steamer was Thomas Anderson ono one of or the of the tho thoi I Florida East Coast Railway company i who was swept out to tn sea ca on Oil a barge baige arse i t I during the storm lIe He was wal- i Irked up I C V miles mites off the tho Florl Florida a coast after he had endured hardships and f suffering that rival those of N N. Russell ell who was landed In New York YOlk on October October Octo Octo- ber her 23 by the steamer El EI Paso which picked him up after he hl had hud been heen hours hour on a n frail craft Anderson K 1 clung to a U single log for I 16 G hours homs bet het he- he t t fore he was rescued cued Buffeted by the waves e a n score core of or times he ho was wac on the verge of or giving up II in despair and with which he had hadr cutting the i top rOll ope slashed s- s r t. t lashed himself to the log preferring N death to a lingering torment of or hi his f f awful position When picked up UI the theman theman man was so weak weale that fears w were re eng en- en for a while that he would g r die H He C however and anel was in iri apparent good I shape when he lie landed f r her last t night of oC the horrors off of or s His Ills story Is a tale that has hns seldom cl beer shipwreck J r- r f equalled He was one ono of the laborers lai la- la borers washed out to sea on a n coast i f. f boat hoat that ha had been een anchored of off Long Keys Ics The storm swept down upon the little Island near which tho the house house- bout was anchored without warning Before the occupants of the boat I the they were far realized their condition st J 1 out on tho the sea The shaky craft which had never been intended for fur anything but housing the men in shallow shallow low waters could not long withstand the attacks s of oC the lie mountainous waves wa An Anderson elSon was to pieces It soon foon went t J able to pluck out a good ouel sized log to which he lashed himself When hen the till the log collapsed collapse frail boat 11 nail ho was wasT l kept him afloat For 16 hours T r lashed to the log and every eel moment death He lie was absolutely he ho faced pf without food or water and there the theL On Oil seemed scant hope of rescue re cue r the of or the wreck I. I L day following i houseboat the Barrister staggering t. with E through the sea tica sighted the log lug r. r hail had burden Anderson I Its human I his strength to wave barely enough enouch his distress At Ata of or hand haull as ns a u signal boat was una put out and anel he hc het w a great risk a pulled aboard the Barris J. J t was finally k ter I t Anderson is 15 confident that practical practical- practically t the houseboat houseboat house house- ly all nil his companions on boat bout were lost as ng he lie saw saty lW scores of them drowned before his hItS eyes es |