Crew and Passengers of Greek Ship Brought in Exhausted Norfolk, Nov. 14.
The Coast guard Cutter Mendota to-day rescued twelve passengers adrift in a lifeboat of the Greek steamer Tzennychandria and found floating in the rough waters off the Atlantic seaboard Two of the passengers were found desperately flailing rough waters the water and fighting off ca ses of goats and sheeps washed from the ship. Twenty have been rescued and three found dead [out of the crew of 20 which left the sinking steamer as a terrific gale lashed the coastline yesterday.
Baiaskas. third engineer of the ship, said to-day after he had arrived with fourteen other members of the boat here in the Coast Guard cutter that he had been forced to draw his knife and threaten the radio operator before the first S.O.S. was sent. Members of the crew, he said, had demanded that the S.O.S. be sent out hours before the first distress flash was actually broadcast, The captain. he stated, had ordered the return of pumps apparently in the belief the ship could outride the storm, The fifteen survivors were rushed to hospitals in ambulances immediately after landing here. Most of them were suffering badly from exposure. Some were severely bitten by sharks. Of the original sixteen rescued, one died in the cutter.—United "Press.
The Mendota saved sixteen members of the crew as well as the twelve passengers saved earlier to-day, a message to the Coastguard base stated Three bodies were also recovered by the cutter—United Press. flowers were:—
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