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Show STEAMER BURNS off jams mi Pacific Coast Liner Takes Fin All Passengers and Crew Safely Landed. Marshfield, Ore., Sept. 15. The Pa cific Coast Steamship company's llnei at the entrance to Coos Bay today j black and burned out hulk as a re suit of the fire which caused her tc race for this port last night. Everj I one of the 253 passengers on boarc and the crew of 175, were landed safe ly last night by the dredge Colone P. S. Michie. Several members of the crew whe were overcome by smoke, were all re ported early today to be recovering . None of the passengers appeared tc , have suffered any ill effects whatever r and they were loud in their praise ol . the way the vessel was managed - Order was maintained on board ur - until the departure of the last boat load from the Congress to the Michie - which came alongside when the burn Ing vessel was enveloped in a pall ol smoke. Many were In the state rooms when passengers were summoned on deck by the fire alarm. A passenger named I Hinder could not escape through the door of the cabin on account of the smoke. He had to be pulled through a twelve-Inch porthole, although he weighs 250 pounds. He left $100 un-dor un-dor his pillow. All victims of smoke were reported recovering early today. Captain Cousins was still on the steamer A. M. Simpson which is standing by the burned out hulk of the Congress. Purser Holzer said he was unable to bring the valuables out of the ship's safe. There was $10,000 of the company's money on board, and the crew was to be paid today. Besides this money there was probably an equal amount of money and valuables belonging to the passengers in the safe. The members of the crew of the "ongress were so busy fighting the Tire up to the moment of their leaving leav-ing her that few of them saved anything any-thing except their clothes and many came ashore half clad. An oiler, whose name was not learned, was vercome by the smoke but was soon e ived. The skill with which Captain Cousins Cous-ins brought his vessel to anchor off a I strange harbor was enlarged upon 'here today by marine men as an unusual un-usual feat in seamanship. Members of the crew who were about the bridge tell of the great calmness which the skipper showed. Until the last he hoped to save the ship, but when Chief Engineer Mart-land Mart-land was brought from below half unconscious un-conscious as a result ' of heroically staying by his engines, the captain realized that nothing more could be done and ordered the vessel to be abandoned. j Third Engineer Higgins was an-I an-I other one of the heroes of the catastrophe. ca-tastrophe. Side by side, he worked j with Chief Martland and also was overcome by smoke and had to be rescued by other members of the crew. All the ship's papers and records were reported destroyed. San Francisco, Sept. 15. The steamer Congress, which was burned off Coos Bay, Oregon, last night, was the third vessel of the coast wise fleet that has been lost this year and the second this week in which fire has broken out. The other fire was on the Beaver which came into this port at full speed last Monday calling for assistance to fight a fire which was raging below decks. The Beaver's passengers were landed safely here and the fire- later was extinguished. The steamer Roanoke foundered off Port San Luis May 10 with the loss of forty-seven lives. The Bear on which five lives were lost, drove ashore on Blunts reef June 15. When the Congress sailed from this port Wednesday she carried 1231 tons of general merchandise. No part of this, officials said last night, was particularly par-ticularly inflammable or in any way combustible. nn |