Show DUMPED INTO A ROARING FURNACE Nine Men Meet Horrible Death in Burning Boat at Mobile e When Fire Broke Out Escape of the Steward ODILE OBILE Ala Alu Doc Dec M whosO whose nante are not yet et known occupying u a pull puH boat on Middle rIver 1101 runs the uio Tenses Tensas and Alabama met n terrible fate early ealy tolla today all being burned burnett to In a fire that destroyed the boat Sid Sidnor nor Wheat the tho negro steward wu was the tho only or of ten mon who lived on ont t the he craft ft Barely Escaped Wheat heat escaped death by being beng awake I owing to Illness The of I burning Umbers timbers him In time timo he Ills hIs escape just as the tinge huge structure of the bout boat collapsed St Stew Stewart w wart art and Butt of Mobile wh own th the craft sa say there has hus leen no steam on the craft for three days and the are areat at a loss to account for the burning of th the vessel E s el I According to story the nine were dumped into ft a roaring fur luce while some of thom were asleep The fhe pull or 01 houseboat upon which the tho themen men were engaged in getting logs out of places for raftinG purposes is Constructed something similar to a dredge boat with n structure for tOI slid the machinery and apartments in which the crew and live lIe In this case those on the tho vessel essel occupied the second story of the structure Boat Burned Quickly The fire had evidently been beon burning some time when Wheat heat was WIlS n w He says he rushed rushe in and yelled to the others to get out as fast as they ns as the boat was burning lIe He does not know whether any finy of the lie men heard and a momE moment afterward he leaped from the vessel Into the rivet river He had no sooner struck the ater than the house of the Ye vessel sl I collapsed ta ling the men Into the hull |