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Show Wireless Saves Steamer, Norfolk. Va. Hale of cotton burn Ing In her hold, over a hundred passengers pas-sengers ecreamlng in terror, the wireless wire-less operator on the steamer Berk shire, Merchanta & Miners Transportation Transpor-tation company, from Savannah to I'hlUdelphla, flashed the appeal "8. O 8." The halo of the burning ship shone for miles off the North Carolina coast Hearing the wireless calls, several steamers veered from their courses, landed the passengers and helped the Herkshlre skipper and crew to extinguish the fire at eea. |