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Show LIME A DANGEROUS CARGO. Utmost Precautions Sometimes Unavailing Un-availing to Prevent Fire, l.lnic Is one of the most dangerous of nil cargoes for a vessel to carry. When It catches fire, ns It frequently docs, In spite of tho greatest ptecau-tlons ptecau-tlons against the admission of wafer Into tho hold, it Is almost Impossible to extinguish It. ' The only method that ever avails Is to stop every crack with soap, so that no air can reach the lime. Sometimes this will stop tho tiro but often these fires will burn for wcoks till tho vessel sinks beneath be-neath tho water a mass of charred embers holding together. When a vessel with n cargo of lime onco catches flro It Is sure death to go bo-low. bo-low. Not long ago n schooner with a cargo of this commodity caught flro and was sealed up bb tightly as possible. pos-sible. Tho crow was composed of the captain anil his two sons. One day tho latter went to sleep on the deck and their father Imprudently entered his rabln shutting the door behind him. When they awakened and found their father missing they supposing that ho had fallen overboard sailed tho shin for homo quite unconscious that they worn bearing tho body of their father with them. |
