Show lINER WINS RACE AGAINST GAIN T fL FUMES BURNING SHIPS MAKES RUN FOR SHORE PASSENGERS RS LANDED SAFELY AS FIRE SPREADS Only One Life Is Lost When Passenger ger per Jumps Overboard Loss LOll Of Ship Placed At Over Three Million Dollars Lewes Del One Del One life lite was lost i ithe In Inthe Inthe n the race with death by the blazing blazin g Clyde liner Lenape off ocr the Delaware e capes All the remainder ot of her passengers passengers passengers pass pass- engers and crew were e safely accounted for Of these about abou t nine passengers and crew members a nna A fl Anti n 1 i na nn Anti l were taken k to iho the tho Beebe eb hospital a here The man who lio lost his life lite was Identified iden Idea titled as Robert nobert Leverton about 60 years old believed to be of William William- Mass He lIe became panic stricken as flames burst through a deck while passengers were being tak taken n off the burning ship and jumped jump ed overboard He was not missed by the ships ship's officers but his body was picked up in Delaware bay b by fishermen hours after atter all hands had hat been landed here Lewes Del After After winning a race with death passengers and crew who spent a harrowing night at sea aboard the blazing Clyde liner Lenape were safely landed here at daybreak and cared for forby by the townspeople All persons except except one aboard th the ship Which left New York for Jacksonville Jack Jack- sonville were safely accounted for More than a dozen persons were injured and nine of at them taken t to the Beebe Deebe hospital here Three o or four others also were treated an and left Those in the hospital were BU suffering But suf- fering from exposure and bruises Two members of ot the crew were burned about the feet and two others other of the crew suffered broken ankles ankle lighting fighting the tho flames They are In a hospital here According to passengers and members mem memo bers berg o of the crew there was no undue undu and the transfer of all al allhands hands from front the burning vessel t to rescue roscue ships was accomplished a as smoothly as circumstances would per per- mit There were many women and child child- dren among the passengers and some of them left the blazing vessel In Inthe Inthe the dark hours before dawn scantily ly Iy clad Some wore only their night clothing All wore life preservers until un un- til they were landed Hotel accommodations here hero were Inadequate quate to care for tor survivors and the Presbyterian church was thrown j open for tor the comfort of the men wo woo women men and children many of whom were suffering from the cold Townspeople pIe were aroused and soon hot coffee sandwiches and other food rood was rushed rushed rush rush- ed to the assembly hall of the church and everybody made as comfortable as possible Arrangements were made to take all survivors north on a special train i ito to Wilmington Del wh where re those who I desired were transferred to a special train of sleepers and sent south Others Oth- Oth Othi i iI I ers era were taken back to New York I I I I i i I I |