Show SHIP BURNED AT SEA FOURTEEN LIVES LOST AS RESULT OF STEAMER life boats beats were launched but owing to heavy seas were cap sized the passengers being drowned especial A special from seattle says fourteen people lost their lives its aa the result of the fire on the steamer queen from san francisco to beattle He attle early sunday morning the origin ot or the fire Is as yet unknown it started in the social hall ball ot of the vessel at about in the morning and raged tor for three hours before it was gotten under control when the conflagration was wag first discovered the lifeboats containing the women and children and many men were launched but three of 0 these owing to the heavy seas capsized spilling the passengers in the water and causing the loss ot of nine lives three men waiters on the ves sel were suffocated before they could reach the outer air in safety from their bunks in the glory hole bole in chii aft part of the ship and one woman died later from exposure according to the stories told by pas bongers and crew of the queen which arrived in port at 5 sunday afternoon the vessel was waa off tills mook m ook and about thirty miles from land when the fire wits was discovered there was a heavy sea on and the ship was pitching badly when smoke was discovered coming out of the social hall on the after main deck of the vessel the crew was immediately Immediate lv rousted bousted out and the bo hoe boe e manned while the stewards went from rabin cabin waking up the passengers there was no disorder either among the crew or pas when cannain cousins commander of the vessel discolored descove el the entert ot the fire which embraced practically all the amr botlon of the vessel he be Immedi immediately ordered the life boats boata laun launched ebed four filled with women and children and sufficient men to man them wee drooney over from the windward of ct the vessel each containing ta about sixteen people the first boat capsized almost as aa soon as it touched the water by retting petting under the stern stem of the shin all the ger in this were rescued by the other small beats with the of a miss Step Stel per cr a first class pas senser who was drawn under the ship when the boat casl zd d the second boat CAT capsized sIzed while being lowered there were no passengers vers in this at the time but the crow crew of four men who were wera aboard aard was spilled out and lost A third boat about halt half a mile froni from the lueen and all but four of its ard ad crew were rescued by tho the ether small craft in the vicinity |