| Show Burned at Sea Ban Francisco 9 Seattle dispatch The steamer Gem left this port this morning morn-ing loaded with hay and other freight for Port Gamble Sebeck and Union City and carried four passengers It called at Port Madison and in the afternoon started for Port Gamble When five or six miles oullsmohelwal observed coming com-ing from the hay The boat was headed for shore the wheel lashed and the left boat got into the water bat in three minutes it went adrift and all but the extreme forward part of the boatjwas amass a-mass of flames The Chinese cook at 1 two deck bands shoved the remaining boat into the water jumped for it fell into the water and drown F 0 Vickery passenger a teacher at Skoho mutt Indian Reservation cried to his wife to follow him and he would save her and plunged into the sound and was drowned His wife followed him and sank in a moment The deck hands lost were George Gowan and E Kay Deck and they with Vickery and wife and the Chinese cook complete the list of those drowned Captain Williamson anchoied and kept tne craft head to the wind kept tha bow free from fire and themselves them-selves safe until taken off by boats from shore two miles distant The Gem was a stern wheeler of fiftyeight tons belonged to John McOrary I Co of Union City valued at 6000 No insurance in-surance on the vessel or cargo |
