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Show 1 The 'lut Rogers'" It timed. Cincinnatti, O., 5. The casualties by the burning ol the W liofers, today, to-day, so far as ascertained, are: mis-ting, mis-ting, 10; known to be lost,; believed to l doomed, If. A large number are seriously injured by the burn ing. The boat burned near tlie shore, the I flames enveloping the whole side of I tho vessel. The passengers who i jumped out on that side were nearly all lost or badly burned. None who used life preservers were lost. Two ladies were saved without using them. Many sank by clinging to each other in the water. The sceno of the wreck is thirty miles from here by river, and a mile and a half below Aurora, Indiana. Heartlessness and heroism were displayed in awful contract. con-tract. The officers exerted themselves nobly to save the passengers. A man who claims to be the last to leave the boat says the last object he saw was a child three years old beyond his reach, alone, naked, dancing with pain, crying and shouting. The flames bumed it. .Not one of six small children aboard was saved. One young man, Robt J. Moore, says a woman camo to him with a child and begged him to save them. He threw a mattrass into the river and told her to jump to it, when half a dozen men seized the mattrass and the woman rushed away half frantic land bewildoreel. It is thought she (.was burned. |