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(Picture on Page 2)j Seaman First Class Clcronoc Robinson, who owes his life lo luck, a busted” life brlt and a raft, carre home on leave here .yesterday i0 tell his joyful family how he survived the torpedoing of the Do-; strover Reuben .James, j After stepping from the train in* ; to the waiting arms of Uek Branch I relatives. Robinson recounted how I he saw three exhausted shipmates.! on* of them Kenneth C. Ne^lv of Cunaid. Fayette county, drown when they wcte unable Jo make j their way from the raft to the ! rescue ship.I Robinson himself churned about in oil-covered \v:dor and clung to j a raft from the Reuben James Tor 40 minutes before he was picked up.Other Survivors HomeN:nc West Virginians were orr.org those drowned when the d^s'rover was lorpcdnerf Off Iceland the J morning of Oelober HI.• On the same -rain with Rnbin-i son were two ntlmr Fieubon James . survivors. R. S. Slewurt nf Cabin Creek and A. H. Stewart of Bcck-ley. no relation.The Chesapeake Ohio train i made a sperial stop at Cabin Creek to permit R. S. Stewart, to alight while A. H. Stewart descended at Prince and continued to Berkley.Robinson, on 39-day leave, called his experience part of our job. This is the story he told:1 1 was sleeping in the uft whenthe torpedo hit nur ship about 5 o'clock in the morning.I had worked up to about midnight in the kitchen and was dead tired and the hundreds of'slices of bread * and other food wc prepared were never Innchod.I managed to go*. on ihe upper deck, faslened on a busied life belt and went over the side.My legs and arms seemed to godead but I kept on paddlfrg to keep my head out of ihe water and(Please turn to Page Z. Col. 41
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sat, Nov 29, 1941
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