Show steamer burns passengers escape los Us angeles the passenger paso enger steamer st croix of the north pa pa steamship company burned to the emer s edge saturday night at a point three miles off po nt rit duma and eighteen miles north of santa mon lea and the lives of the eighty two passengers aboard and thoe of the crew of thirty six were sadeq 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 of those on board escaped on life boats and on rafts A arf e |