Show Steamer Burns Passengers Escape Los Angeles The passenger steamer St Croix of tho North Pa clfio Steamship company burned to the waters edge Saturday night at a point three miles off Pont Duma and eighteen miles north of Santa Monica Mon-ica and the lives of the eightytwo passengers aboard and those of the crow of thirtysix were saved by the heroic action of the officers and crew and the fact that there was a calm at the time of the disaster All ot thooo on board escaped on lifeboats I life-boats and on rafts |