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Show DISASTER RESULT OF BITTER FIGHT Sailors and Dockmen of Uranium Uran-ium Line Involved in Numerous Nu-merous Disputes. Liverpool, Oct. 14 That the Vol' turno disaster was the result of a deliberate plot to destroy the vessel is the belief of the owners of the Cranium line It Is broadlv hinted that the plot -,ir ihe outgrowth of the hitler fight whlrh has been raging between Hie Uranium and rival lines Captain Tlnslev. manager of the Cranium line, declares fhat he has noticed of late nn Increasing bitter-no bitter-no among the sailors and dock laborers la-borers toward the lompany, whlcu has been Involved in numerous dia putes with its employes li Is the belief of Captain Tins-lev Tins-lev that the dispute! were Instigated by business rivals, taking advantape of the fact fhat the ships of the line were officered by Englishmen and manned by Dutch and Belgian sailors. sail-ors. Many threatening letters have been received by (he management. One of these received Just before the sailing of the Volturno read If you don't listen to our demands one of our boats will be burned" There was trouble among the crew shortly before the vessel sailed, but no attention was paid to the letter. It is now believed that a bomb placed In the hold, possibly in the coal bunk ers, caused the explosion and fire which destroyed the ship and more than 100 Uvea. The Cranium ships sail from Dutch ports and have been strong bidders for the Hutch and German '-migrant trade So hitter has been the rivalry rival-ry between the competing lines that the German officials have been induced in-duced to forbid German emigrants to engage passage on the Cranium ships. The stories told by the passengers of the steamship Carmanla and other liners which went to the rescue of Ihe burning Yolturno describe the heroic he-roic efforts In the face of almost Insuperable In-superable difficulties to save the passengers pas-sengers and crew of the doomed ship. As yet information Is lacking as to how the fire originated, but it is nhown that the fact that not more lives were lost was due in the first plare to the Wireless and In the sen- L pnd to Captain narr's happ Idea o f M calling th Narragansett for oil. W rin |