SEAPLANE LOST.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17414, 27 March 1922, Page 7

SEAPLANE LOST.

FLORIDA COAST TRAGEDY.

FIVE PASSENGERS DROWNED. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyist.) (Aturtraiian aid ,N.<*. IVjIo Association.) (Received March 26th. 0.0 p.m..) MiW YORK. M:«.-ch «15. A report from Miami, v )orida, states ♦bat ;i passenger-carrying seaplane foil into the sea. Five passengers were drowned. The pilot, Moore, was rescued. Further renu'-ts state that on Friday the beat overturned. Moore and one passensrer were then clinging to tho wreckage Finally the passenger became too weak to hold on, ind handed his money to Moore, and slid into the sea Moore hung on till Friday night, when ho was picked up by a steamer, nine vessels having in the meantime passed by without seeing him.

Later, on the arrival of the steamer at Miami, ;i. tragic ttory ivas revealedMoore was airoluMent after rejrinmg consciousness', but his statements pieced together sliov that tho seaplane left Miami on Wednesday bound for Bimini.

carrying two married couples and another woman. On Wednesday morning the nv rpi'l'er broke and ;he 'piano desrond'ed into the sea and drifted Wl Thursclav, the pavseiijiers dinging to ♦he wreck. On Thursday morning the hull began to kak. the passengers pumping frantically. On Thursday night one woman jumped overboard, and h«r husband following her, both were drowned- Then two other women wore washed overboard, and disappeared, leaving one man and the pilot.