Show PATRONS SLEEP ll IN LINER BLAZE PALERMO ro Sicily stell Oct OcL 19 UP iF The death of ot four crew members members mem niem bers In a fire lire aboard the lent lent- was wag disclosed d today when the n vessel 1 reached port iOtt her hu third class quarters charred by fay a menacing two two- hour fire lire NAPLES Oct i 39 scores INS INS Scores of Cf Americans among th the passengers gers aboard the sleek recently refurbished re furbished Italian liner slept peacefully early today while the air all crackled with an SOS and seamen battled with a fire in fn the third class dass quarters si Six ships sped to the rescue of the tho ton ship after her hel radio sent out the dread message Serious Seri Sui ous DUS fire has bas broken out aboard Only A few hours after she sailed ailed from Naples for tor New York the ship was waa then about 45 mUd from trem here nere Without the aid of the rescue vessels vessel however howe the fire was extinguished ex ex- ex by the own fire-fighting fire apparatus after burning burn burn- ing lag for two hourA hours hour A statement i issued by the Italian naHan line said At 5 S a a. m m. m 11 p p. m. m Sunday E. E S S. T. T a a. small fire occurred in an unoccupied section of th the third class quarters on the steamship The Th fire w was u put out by the ships ship's apparatus and was completely complete complete- ly Jy extinguished by bi 7 a a. a. a niTile m. m The Tile ship is Ia now proceeding to New York Tork There is i. no panic and no dam dam- age The line Une could not at once state how th the fire tire started Due to the earliness of ot the hour the passengers passengers passengers gers most of wh whom m had been up late the night before celebrating their were were- asleep when the tao fire broke out News New that an SOS had been sent spread quickly however by the crews crew's grapevine but by the time alarmed passengers streamed onto deck th the blaze wM out |