Show j BURNING STEAMER I. I 4 SIGNALS 0 P ILK A P FOR AID Berkshire in Peril From Fire in Hold and Passengers Pan Panic Stricken I Norfolk Yu Vu Oct 20 WIth With a n fierce fire Ire raging In one ono o of the cargo holds hohls and tho passengers panic stricken the tho Merchants S Miners Miners' steamer Berkshire Berkshire Berk Derl shire bound o 0 o Philadelphia from Crom Sa Savannah Sn- Sn vannah this morning ut III 1 o'clock was reported In serious danger el tort three forty miles northeast of ot Cape Lookout N. N C. C In response to tho the distress calls sent out when the fire was discovered about ml midnight the Clyde liner Apache Apaches Is s standing b by the endangered steamer Assistance has also 1180 been c by wireless of oC the revenue re cutter stationed stationed sta sta- off oft tho the Carolina coast The fife was not discovered until shortly before midnight ht Smoke moko began to pour out of oC the thc hatches and a hurried Inn her ned ried examination showed that It had trained Famed considerable headway In tho the cotton otton packed packet In o one e of oC the holds The wireless les at once began to flash up and down the tho Atlantic coast news o of tho lie ships ship's danger Lines o of hose were at once trained trainer on the tho fire The Clyde CIde liner Iner Apache also bound up the coast const was the tho lie first to pick up the thc call for tor help elp and I l being being- only a score o of miles awa away was soon racing to the Berkshires Berkshire's Berkshires Berkshire's Berk Berk- shires shire's assistance The Berkshire was laden with Ith a a. mixed ml cargo and carried a number o of pass passengers C fl gc rs |