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Show SI1IPBURNEI) " AT SEA. j FOURTEEN LIVES LOST AS RE- SULT OF FIRE ON 8TEAMER. f Life Boats Were Launched, Dut Owing Ow-ing to Heavy Seas Were Cap- 1 sized, the Passengers Being 4 ..Drowned. A speclnl from Seattlo says: Four-toon Four-toon peoplo loBt their lives as tho result re-sult of tho flro on tho Btoamor Queen from San Francisco to Seattlo, cariy Sunday morning. Tho origin of tho flro In as yet unknown. It started in tho social hall of tho vessel at about 4:30 In tho morning and raged for threo hours before It was gotten under control. When tho conflagration was first dlscovarcd tbo lifeboats containing contain-ing tho women nnd children and many men, wero launched, but throo of these, owing to tho heavy seas, capsized, cap-sized, spilling tho pnsseneers In tho water and causing tho loss of ntno lives. Threo mon. wnltors on tho ves-sol, ves-sol, woro suffocated beforo thoy could roach tho otitor air In sarcty from tholr bunks In the "glory holo" In tho nft part of tho ship, and ono woman died later from exposure According to tho stories told by pas-songers pas-songers and crow of tho Queen, which arrived In port at 5 o'clock Sunday i. aftornoon, tho vessel wns off Tllla- mook and about thirty miles from land when tho flro was discovered. Thcro was a heavy sea en and tho ship was pitching badly. When smoko wan discovered dis-covered comlno; out of tho social hall on tho nftor main deck of tho vessel, tho crow was Immedlatolv rousted out and tho hoo manuod. whllo the stewards stew-ards wont from cabin to cabin wnklng up tho passengers. Thoro wns no dls-ordor. dls-ordor. either among tho crow or pns-songers. pns-songers. "'hen Cantnln Cousins, commander of tho vessel,, dlscovo'o-l the extent of tho flro, which embraced prnrtlcally , all tho roir portion of tho vessel, ho immediately ordered tho llfo boats laucchcl. Four, filled with women and children nnd suindont mon to man thorn, woro dronpod over from tho windward of tho vessel, each containing con-taining about sixteen people. Tho first bont cnpolzod almost ns ocn as It touched tho water by rotting undor tho stern of tho ship. All tho passon-gers passon-gers In this woro rescued by tho other smnll brats, with tho ovroptlon of a. Miss Stclner. n first-class passonnor, who was drawn under tho ship when tho boat canslzcd. Tho socond boat capsized whllo beltig loworod. Thoro woro no psBscncers in this nt tho time, but tbo crew r four mon who woro aboard was spilled out and lost A third bont filled about half a mile from tho Qnoon, and all but four of Its passoncors and prow woro rescued by tho other small craft In tho vicinity. g. |