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Show GALE DRIVES 1 SHIP ASHORE I Astoria. Oregon. Jan. T. Leaving marine records strewn with tales or H (bath and disaster conuected with her arper. the ill-starred oil tanker I Rosecrans, once a United Srates army f transport, was lost on Peacock spit, iaH ! iust beyond the bar. today In a fun- 'one aW that drove her on the rocks WM Tbirtv -three men of her crew of 3 jH ' perished when the ship went un- JM der, it is believed. The other three jLLi clung hopelessly to a fopmaat and 1 'their death seemed certain The ra- ging tumult of water about them de- LH fled rescuers. Huge seas battered H a i them relentlessly; ihs gale, bitter cold, stiffened their clinging finger- H i atil the slipped moment by mo- V Dsent closer to the end in the harried water beneath S Two lug boats and a life saving H crew stood by, hoping against hope, jLH j but there was no chance to aid. H |