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Show SHIP BURNED AT SEA FOURTEEN LIVE8 LO&T AS RESULT RE-SULT OF FIRE OH 8TEAMER. Life Boatt Were Launched, But Owing Ow-ing to Heavy Seat Were Capsized, Cap-sized, the Pattengen Being Drowned. A special from Seattlo save: Four-con Four-con people lost their live ns tho result re-sult of tho ftro on tho steamer Queen from San Francisco to Senttlp, early Sunday morning Tho origin of tho fire Is a yet unknown It started In the soclnl hall of tho vessel nt about A SO In tho morning and raged for tbreo hour before It was gotten under control When the conflagration was first discovered the lifeboats containing contain-ing tho women nnd children nnd many men, wero launched, hut threo of these, awing to the heavy seas, capsized, cap-sized, spilling tho passengers In tho water and causing tho loss of nlno lives Three men, waiter on tho ve sol, wero suffocated beforo they could reach tho outer air In safety from their bunks In tho "glory holo" In tho aft part ot tho ship, and ono woman died later from exposure. According to the stories told by pas-songers pas-songers and crew ot the Queen, which arrived In port at G o'clock Bunday afternoon, tho vessel was off Tillamook Tilla-mook and about thirty mile from land when the fire wns discovered, Thcro was a heavy sea on and tho ship was pitching badly. When smoke was discovered dis-covered coming out of tho social hall on tho after main deck of the vessel, tho crew was Immediately rousted out and tho hoso manned while the stewards stew-ards went from cabin to cabin waking up the passengers Thcro was no disorder dis-order either nmong tho crow or passengers. pas-sengers. When Captain Cousins, commander of the vessel, discovered the extent of tho fire, which embraced practically all tho rear portion of tho vessel, ho Immediately ordered tho Ufa bonts launched Four, filled with women and children nnd sufficient men to mnn them, wero dropped over from tho wlndwnrd of tho vessel, each containing con-taining ebout sixteen people Tho first boat rnpslzcd almost ns soon ns It touched tho water by getting under the etern of tho hlp All tho passenger passen-ger In this wero rescued by tho othor small beats with the exception ot n Miss Stclner a flrst-clnss passencer, who wns drawn tinder tho hlp when tho boat capsized The second boat capsized while being lowered. There I wero no passenger In this at tho time, but tho crew of four men who worn aboard wo spilled out nnd lost, A third boat filled about half a mile from the Queen, and all but four of It pascngors nnd crew wore rescued by tho other small craft In tho vicinity. |