Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 4 | Burning Oil Ship Abandoned at Sea

III OIL SHIP ABANDONED AT SEA GALVESTON1, Texas, Nov. 9. An Italian ship, loaded with case oil from Port Arthur, Texas, is on fire at soa, j sixty-five miles east of Sabine bar, and has been abandoned, according to wire-' wire-' less advices received here tonight from the steamer Gulfatream, which is stand-j stand-j by. The crew of the burning vessel ves-sel has been taken off by the tu Kus-1 Kus-1 sell. The fire was reported, in number j 3 hold. i The Gulfstream reported that she 1 was unable to pet close enough to the ; burning vessel to make out her name, , but shipping men here believe that the ! abandoned steamer was the Levietta, bound for Buenos Aires, basing their surmise on the departure of the Levietta Leviet-ta and the Gulfstream from Port Arthur Ar-thur ai about the SHine time today. The 1 two steamers, the Gulfstream bound for Bayonnc, would have been jn the same track and should have been in the locality tonight from where the steamer steam-er was reported abandoned. The Hus-sell Hus-sell has headeVl for port with the rescued res-cued men and will not arrive before tomorrow. to-morrow. Later reports recei ved by wireless from the Gulfstream stated that flames from the burning ship were shooting twenty-five feet in the air and that all hope of sa v i n g h e r h o d been a ba u -boned. Tho Leviettn carried a crew of twenty-six. ( 'aptnin R. Uico is master of the vessel. The Lovietia is a steamer of 1700 tons, owned bv T'a rroxo Bi others of Genoa, Ge-noa, Jlalv. She was built in LSU in I tal v. Iter cargo todav consisted of 8,4U0 cases of oil and "-10,000 cases of gasoline.