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Show FIVE HUNDRED ON BOARD. But Only Three Lives Lost as Result of Burning of School Ship. Toulon, France. The torpedo schoolshlp Algeslras, stationed In this hnrbor, was totally destroyed by 11 ro at a late hour Sunday evening. There wero live hundred men on board when tho lire broke out. The Algeiras was a ship of the lino nnd, for n number of years past, she had been doing duty us a harbor ves-vol ves-vol and emploved us a torpedo training train-ing ship. She was of 5,047 tons displacement dis-placement and was built In 1853, The binning of the schoolshlp created creat-ed the greatest alarm throuchout the city. There was terrible anxiety concerning concern-ing the fato of the KOO men on board, until tho authorities announced that everybody had been taken ofT in boats and saved, with tho exception of three. Those men did not nnswer tho roll-enll. and It Is presumed they wero burned to death. |