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Show SCORES OF Mill PILGRIMS LOSE THE! LIVES AT SEA British Steamer Burns While Within Sight of Land and a Hundred Lives Are Lost. Vnletta, Island of Malta. A terrlblo disaster, In which moro than n hundred hun-dred persons lost their lives, occurred nt tho entrance to this port Wednesday Wednes-day morning, within sight of thd wholo city, which wns powcrlcfs to live aid. Tho British steamer Sar-danla, Sar-danla, of tho Ellcrman line, hailing from Liverpool and bound for Alexandria, Alexan-dria, with a crew of forty-four Englishmen, En-glishmen, eleven first and six second cabin English pnssengurs und nearly 100 Arab pilgrims aboard, caught fire, and within a fow minutes was a roaring roar-ing furnace, nurrqunded by clouda of smoke, through which flames burst Upward to a height of 200 feet from explosions In tho hold. So rapidly dhl tho flro spread that tho frantic efforts of tho crow to opernto tho flro apparatus appar-atus proved useless, and t seemed but n moment before tho upper works and masts crashed down upon tho dock, whllo tho ship's boats woro crushed by tho falling debris or qulck-Iv qulck-Iv burned. Safety lay only In Jumping ovor-board ovor-board nnd tnklng chances of being picked up. Assistance was hurried to tho burning vessel from all tho warships war-ships In the harbor and' from thq shore, bjit tho work of rcscuo wna greatly Impeded by tho strong tldo that was running. Whllo It will probably nover be known Just how many lives were IobL. It Is bellovcd the list wtll bo over ono hundred. Fifty bodies of Arabs havo' already boon rcovorcd. |