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Show BE'STROYED B f Former Transport Northern Pacific Burned; Another Vessel Wrecked XEW VoKK. Feb. S. Tho former transport .Northern Pacific which last claimed headlines in 1910. when she crashed on a sandbar off Fire Island with 3. "00 American soldiers she was bringing bsck from Franc today was destroyed by fire 10 miles off Cape May, N J. A crackle of tho radio early this morning brought word that firo had broken out aboard 'he swift steamer and that she w;,.; ;i maafl flames loiter mo:.:-aKCd reported that sho had been abj.ndonofl by Captain William Wil-liam Lusti. and her skeleton crew of who were taking her to drydock in Chester. I'a Hcscue of all her crew by steamship which had rushed to the scene wa-s next recordedi The latest message stated thai the essal. biasing fiercely and listliu; hard to starboard was driving southeastward southeast-ward STORY OF 9TE MKK Tho Northern Pacific was built in lSl.r by the Wiliiam Cramp and Son-. Shipbuilding company of Philadelphia for tho Qreat Northern .Steamship company When the United States entered en-tered the war. the vessel wan taken over by the American government um a transport, and was In operation during dur-ing virtually the entire period of the lubsequi m mruggie. On January I, 1919 the went ashore off Firo island when a mistake In the llahis. along tho southern shore of Long Island, confused her pilot. At this time sho had aboard 3.000 American Amer-ican soldiers being brought back to America from tho battlefields or France The soldiers were removed and the vessel was at laM floated on January IS. s III HiiR ROM: Almost a year later, on January 20. 1920. the pluyed a heroic role In nisb-Ing nisb-Ing to the aid of the steamer Powhatan, Powha-tan, now the Hudson, which was drifting helplessly off the Nova fico-tlan fico-tlan coast She took off the passengers passen-gers of the Powhatan, and landed them In New York. The Northern Pacific had tbo distinction dis-tinction on this trip to be carrying the last regular contingent of returning return-ing soldier. Puring the early summer of 1920. the Northern pacific carried Qeneral Pershing on his trip through the Antilles An-tilles and the Carribean. but she came in prlef at San Juan Porto Rico, when- she went ashore at the horbor entrance, closing the port for a time. ( ontlnned on Page i uo.i I FAMOUS SHIP DESTROYE DBY ELAZE AT SEA (Continued from i'a;..' 12) Upon her release she returned to the United States. VESSEL BREAKING I P BOSTON. Feb. S. The British steamer Thlstlemore, aground on j Peaked Hill Bar, was breaking up amidships, according to a wireless i message intercepted nt the naval radio j station here early today. The message, mes-sage, signed by the doomed steamer s I captain, asked thai SD attempt be! made to take off part of the- crew in boats. 8he went ashore on 1'-Hills 1'-Hills Bar at the tip ,,r , , , , i idlc yesterday, but owing to the high seas and the gale, coast guards were unable un-able to take the crew off. The coast guard cutter Tampa v. as standing by. I |