Show aC r MEET DIRE 4 Y FATE fAT IN fiRE AT SEA Blaze Envelops ii Big Liner ii and Is Fanned by Howling Wind Nill me While Panic Stricken Passengers Pas Pas- Hurl Themselves Overboard or Are Arc Ar Ary Ari y i Caught and Literally Roasted Alive t j I v VALETTA ALETTA A Island of Malta Nov 25 Nearly Nearly two hundred persons ez passengers and crew of the Ellerman line Iz line ne steamer steams r perished today when the steamer after she had sailed for AlexI Alexandria Alex Alex- t was was destroyed b by fire just I andria Egypt The was scarcely a mile off Grand Granda Harbor when the first sign of fire appeared but with witha a a. strong wind to fan the flames the whole ship was soon ablaze an and d the passengers and crew had scarcely a chance for their lives I T There here was a w d scene of panic on board as the rapT rap- rap idly z dl spreading flames drove th the e passengers to the rails and man many of the excited ones not n nto of even waiting for the boats to o be lowered plunged z into nto the sea Scores are believed to have been drowned Others trapped b by the fire were literally roasted to to death or smothered without a chance for life There were Cre many craft in the harbor at tho time of the disaster and several i tugs lugs u and other swift small vessels r rushed to the assistance o o oj otho f the tho imperiled iner inor Tho high sea and ami heavy heary gale Je which hib prevailed at tho the time however bade it Impossible mp for them hem even to apI approach ap ap- I the Sardinia and they could do dolittle little in the way of aid rid c The Irit lct Li Liverpool her ver 14 1 with a car cargo o of If general merchandise mer mer- chandise for Mediterranean ports Her lIer I crew numbered four forty and about twenty first class and six second class passengers ns embarked at Liverpool I Most of the other p passengers s ln era undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- un- un were Let Le Maltose Maltese and E Egyptians Many Nany of these e people cross crosson on the steamers of this line from Maita Malta Mal Mai- aJ- aJ 1 ta to Alexandria It is is s their custom tto t i ito tto to pitch their tents on decks for shelter during tho the four days' days trip Occupants of the decks ero panic stricken and this condition u undoubtedly made the I j i orderly clearing of the ship impossible Up to 3 0 clock o'clock this afternoon fifty bodies from the tho had been I brought broucht ashore I |