Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-21 | Page 2 | 57 Drown as Liner Sinks

57 51 DROWN AS ASLINER ASLINER LINER SINKS Lone Survivor Recounts Tragedy of Jap Steamer 7 TOKIO TORSO July A 21 21 M Fifty sev en n persons were ero ro drowned July 11 ii when tho the Nippon freighter Matsuyama foundered off Ott Goto Island Inland near nr Kyushu the Kobe office of o the line reported tOday The Tho liner had been over over- overdue duo due I several eral days das Today s report u the tho first news of o her rate IV as sho ho ho carried no wireless Ireless 71 Tho ship carried down with her ber berall herall all II her hr officers and crew except one fireman who was picked up by a trawler and brought to Kobe Sho carried C no passengers The lI iaru Maru is lq an 01 old 1 left July i 7 for tor Yokohama H Her r owners o had had vessels els searching for her for evral days along her h r regular teen be belli een Formosa and Ja- Ja Japan Japan Ja Japan pan the said cold ald that a typhoon which the general of oC the rendered her Ier unable to jIm out caused the disaster Th The sun survivor vor hooe name Is ii I Fu Pu- Pu Fu tufted II helplessly on a ft rIft r- r near the tha scene of o the wreck reck for tor IL a seek eek before h ho he hoBBS BBS as s picked up by bythe bythe bythe the fishing vessel vuel l He HC had no food and but hut lIttle lo DO DOT IT T LEAKS I EAKS Fukuoka o aid the freighter bO be- be began gan bo-gan gan Im to till fill with water soon leaving when she he ran Into rough weather ether The crew battled desperately at the pumps to keep down the tho encroaching Ie ea but their efforts were wera and the steamer r went down car I itar midnight on the night ot of Ju July 11 hen ihen she hc was WILlI two days day out of ot port At that time the she he wax was believed to tobe tobe tobe be within mUes of Nagasaki Several members of the creW survived the tho sinking said eald and lived for tor R IL f few days en on rafts but all alt perished of ot hunger or thirst be before Core the trawler hove In sight Fukuoka sold said ho maw aw ono Brit British ish and one ono lap Japanese nese steamer past pad during the time he ie Was wag adrift on onto his rat raft but that he was as too weak to hall hail either The ama Maru had a 11 cargo carto of ot tons mostly sugar luar