Show SHIP BURNED AT SEA FOURTEEN liveo LOST ASRE AS RE SULT OF FIRE OM STEAMER i t A life boats were launched but 0 ing to leavy seas were calib s zed the passengers Pa being a drowned A special from seattle says epli een people lost their as he ire suit of the fire on the steamer from san francisco to beattle early sunday morning the origin of the fire Is as yet unknown it started fal the social hall of the vessel ai about 14 4 30 in the morning ana raged tor three before was gotten under control when the conflagration wag fatt discovered the lifeboats contain ing the women and children and many men were launched but three fit these owing to the heavy seas cap sized spilling the passengers in the later and causing the loss of ao 10 es three men waiters on the yes sel were suffocated before they could reach the outer air in safety from bunks in the glory hole in the aft part of the ship and one woman died later from exposure according to the stories told by pas and ci ew of the queen arrived in port at p clod sunday afternoon the vessel was off tifft mook and about thirty miles from land when the fire was discovered then was a heavy sea on and the ship pitching badly when smoke was alfr covered coming out of the bail on the after mriln deck of the crew was immediately rousted cw and the hose while the stew ards went from cabin to cabin up tha passengers there was no adte order either among the crew or pee iri i ri when cousins commander of the vessel discovered theat p the fire which embraced practically all the rear portion of the vessel he immediately ordered the life boat pour failed with women and children and sufficient men to man we dropped over from the of beesel each con arst boat capsized almost as soon as it touched the water by setting dundei the of the ship the gers in this by the otile small boats with the exception of a miss a first clase passenger who was drawn under the ship aften the boat capsized the second boat capsized while being low there were no passengers in this at the but the crew of four men wera aas out and lost A thich agat g led abal hal a mil from and all but four iff passengers and crew were react the other small |