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Show ii:y. oi.p liiulrr U of a MeamiT is kepi lo.it in.u ou tl- I'oloaiae river, with a life l...at ,-o ivtt'-n thai in It.w-eiin- it. with : ear-o ,.f human he-in-s, into Hie uah r the cikI !";-I1s out ami the pa-set ii;ers are eii-nlpliul in a walerv tomh; :i ll'W sparks from (lie -nuke I .ox are .-upi" 'scl lo have e.ui'ht the dry wood : lire hursts fmth and in less than twenty niiniilei the ve.sel hur:is l" the main deelc, frautie .a.-sen-ers ill their elloits to eseapc the Mamesseek-iie,' Mamesseek-iie,' death in Hie -waves and thus we have another steamer d'a.-UM', as :c-portnlhy :c-portnlhy tele-jvapli. Nonr of the olliei'r.- are to Maine, us u.-uall They had plenty of life-preservers on hoanl, mvl-aMy wliere they etmkl nut he readily -ot at. They had a life-hoat, loo, and did not know itwasivtlen. They stood hy their po.-ts in the hour of dan-er: hut their piepaiMtions to meet sueh a eoiilin--uey were far from what (hey should have heeii. And so human lile is leekle.-v-ly .-aerifieed, while (hose into whe.-e eme il is er.tru-ti.d are exonerated exoner-ated hvni Maine as Hippaully and readily us if their liing fl'ei-ia had lieen peudie do.us, and plaeal in th'-ir eharue to he dtis:uedly deeimatnl. |