SAVED FROM SEA.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2084, 27 March 1922, Page 5

SAVED FROM SEA.

SEAPLANE'S TRAGIC FATE. PASSENGERS DROWN ONE BY ONE. PILOT SOLE SURVIVOR. [By Electrio Cable— Copyright] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 25. IV report from Miami, Florida, states that a passenger seaplane fell into the sea, live passengers being drowned. The pilot, Moore, was rescued. Further reports state that on Wednesday the boat overturned, Moore and one passenger then clinging to the wreckage. Finally, the passenger, too weak to hold on. handed his money to, Moore and slid into the sea. Moore hung on till Friday night,, when he was picked up by a tanker, nine vessels having in the meantime passed by without seeing him. Later, on the arrival of the tanker at Miami, a tragic story was revealed. Moore was incoherent after regaining consciousness, but his statements, pieceil together, show thai the seaplane left Miami on Wednesday, bound for Bimini, carrying two married couples and another woman. On Wednesday morning the propeller broke and the plane descended into the sea and drifted till Thursday, the pasengers clinging to the wreck. On Thursday morning the hull began to leak and the passengers began pumping frantically. On Thursday night one woman jumped overboard, her husband following, and both were drowned. Then the two other women were washed overboard and disappeared, leaving one man and flic pilot.