Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1914 — FOUR SAILORS SAVED; LIVED ON LEATHER [ARTICLE]

FOUR SAILORS SAVED; LIVED ON LEATHER

Quartette of Crew of 111-Fated Columbian Rescued by U. S. Revenue Gutter.

Halifax, N. S., May 17.—After 13 days of frightful suffering in an open boat, four survivors of the freight steamer Columbian were picked up in ' the north Atlantic by the United States revenue cutter Seneca, today. Eleven others of the boat’s crew, which left the Oolumlbian when she was burned just south of Sable Island on May 3, had succumbed to injuries and privation's and th€ir bodies had been thrown overboard. The death roll of the lost freighter now stands at sixteen. Twenty-seven other members of the crew were saved by the Ounard liner Franconia and the steamer Manhattan. The Seneca reported she expected to reateh here tomorrow.