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Show STEAMER AT PORT VITH HOLD AFIRE SEATTLE, Wash., May 12. Fire was burning in the hold of the Japanese liner Manila Maru when she arrived here today to-day from the Orient with about 200 passengers pas-sengers and a cargo estimated worth about $2,000,000. When the liner tied up to her clock here, smoke was issuing from I her hold and portions of her decks and j bulkheads were warm. Passengers aboard the Manila remained calm, her officers said, when the fire was discovered last Monday, while the ship was about 1,000 miles from Cape Flattery. Flat-tery. ! For two days and nights the officers j and crew fought the fire with steam and , wa ter. Ho:ps were cut in the bulk heads and streams turned in on the flames. No estimate was made of the fire loss as the burning hold will not be opened until the steamer reaches Tacoma. The ; cargo consists of rice, peanut oil and j matting. |