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Show THREE HEROES OF I BURNING 5BIP I Captain, Wireless Operator and Mechanic Are Conspicu- OUS in Bravery. j I SAILORS EXHAUSTED Steamer Balmes Guided Safe ij ly Into Port Passengers Tell Thrilling Tale. i New York, Nov. 19. Three names stood out conspicuously in tho stories of bravery told today when Cunard j liner, Pennonla, brought to port the passengers rescued from the burning Spanish steamer Balmeg Captain Juan Rulse of the Balmes j spent practically five days without j sleep while he and his men held the ii flame in check and guided their ' ship safely into the harbor of St. Georges, Bermuda. H Innocencio V. Mlchairla the wireless wire-less operator on the Balmes. sent j the messages that brought the Pan- I nonia. Since there was only one. " other man aboard who understood I English. Michalrla waa obliged to be on duty without rest to translate the messages received from the rescuing l ship. Passengers Fight Firs. H Nicholas Arbornies, a mechanic from the Canary Islands, was the man who led the men passengers In- I to the blazing hold of the Balmes JH last Thursday after the crew wer exhausted and ready to give up the Hght. The passengers themselves first JH discovered the fire. "Some of us noticed smoke coming through the grating of our cabin." said Arbornies, Arborn-ies, "Ve told the officers. They 1 opened hold No 1 and the smoke that 1 gushed up made them quickly close V Ii again and batten It down. Then 1 they cut six holes in the hatch and It the deck and shoved hose through The jia-serigers from the Balme jH numbered 71 men and 32 women and children Most of them came from Cuba and all were bound for ports in Spain They will be sent to their j destination by an early boat. None of them seemed the worse for their I experience. Keep your hatches tight shut. 1 keep pumping In water and go ahead . H i full speed." was the advice Captain SH t apper of the Pannonla wirelessed i to the Balmes after the Pannonla H I came to the rescue last Wednesday H j afternoon. H ' 1 think they must have sat on the safety valve," said Captain Cap- per today, "for the Balmes on the run to Bermuda made at times elev- H en knots an hour." Hysterical Men and Women. II It was not until the pumps of the Balmes became choked and Captain Ruise feared the fire would get the H iinp'T hand that lu- accepted the Fan- JH t's offer to take off his pa6sen- fl gers. "They came aboard like sacks ot flour," said one of tho Pannonia's officers. 'We had made every prep lM aration. The decks were heaped with food and hot drinks. Most or the passengers were exhausted and many of the women were hysterical. We did not get them off a bit too soon, for Just as the boats finished their last trip a squall broke and we did not see the Balmes again for Jfl three hours " H t'aptaln Ruise of the Balmes sent H the following message to Captain t apper of the Pannonla as the Cun- H ard liner steamed out of the Bermuda H harbor last Sunday morning on her H oj age to N n York. "I wish I could meet you personal- H ly to thank you for all you have H done for me. You are a gallant gen- S tleman and I shall never forget you.-' V |