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Show EXCITING RAGE WITH ; AUTOMOBILE BOATS , ; Motor Daunch"ce7rire at Monte 5, Carlo and Crow Takes to the f 1 J "Water to Escape Death. , I I. y tee7alomMTts on Monoca J I bay have developed tin exciting Bight. j. cables tho Herald's correspondent at , Monte Carlo. Six o the racers were J , MB participating in a 250-kllometer contest when Parlslenne Y.. steered by Un , ( Currlc. a well-known English yachts- , man, and nephew of Sir Donald Currlc. took fire. The racer carried a largo i tank of petroleum, and for a time it was feared that the crew of four won 1 ( be roasted alive. They were finally ; rescued, having jumped overboard att- . , ty , er two machinists had bene seriouslj burned. In telling of his adventure, Mr. . , Currle said: i.JT HH "When we started for the lino v.e i were making no speed whatever. One , of our screws had snapped off. and witn w , tho two we had. -steering was by no .t j ( means easy. n t il' "We were Just reaching the first ih buoy when, without the slightest warn-ing. warn-ing. a huge sheet of tllame shot up from ML the forward tank and swept our craft from end to end. I saw at once our a. ,m huge petrol tank was ablaze and that . jm, , LH our chances of getting out of such a t IH situation were exceedingly small. H "'Jump overboard,' I shouted to the Of. i'H mon, and one of them was in the wa- f j I HH ter like a shot. I pitched him a life HH belt. The other two were trying to con- J ' trol tho flames with two extinguishers, I 'H although they were burned In a hor- I il rlble manner. It wa3 like spitting into 'H a furnace. "Calling to them to follow. 1 jumped ll overboard. We hud no life belts, hut a ( iH punt soon picked us up and we procured i 'H oil to ease the suffering of the injured i men. No doubt motor launch racing, i j t 'H exciting, but I prefer sailing boats and i, I , 'll have had enough for the present." "i , ll A torpedo boat finally got a line on 1 HlM the burning racer and It was towed in i i IH shore, but all efforts to subdue the .fire -5 fci H I IH failed, and 'not much of the valuable ? ' machine was left when the petrol fo; n : IH burned out. A leak In one of the feed .-,"(, ' ' ,J pipes is supposed to have been the orl- . gin of the fire. xjj |