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Show ENGINEER ON SHIP ! SEVERELY BURNED IN HEROIC RESCUE NJEWPORT NKWS. Vs , Jan. 81. Three members of the crew of the steamer Nettuno were landed here Sunday by the fiel-glan fiel-glan Steamship Kremlin and rushed rush-ed to a hospital. They were severely se-verely burned when fire broke out In the engine room of the Nettuno off Florida lust Wednesday. Wednes-day. One of the men, L, Vlogan-nl. Vlogan-nl. third engineer. Is not expected ex-pected to live. A talc of heroism with Vlo- j gannl in the principal ro'.e was told by the Kremlin crew A feed pipe in the engine room of the Nettuno, an oil burner, burst, and fire spread through the engine room, endangering the lives of the two firemen and threatening the ship Vlogannl volunteered to cut off the flow of oil and rescue the firemen. Fighting his way through the flames, he reached the pipe, stopped the oil and as-Slstod as-Slstod the fiiemcn to the deck. His clothing had been burned almost al-most entirely off. and his flesh wan rav.' The Kremlin answering a distress dis-tress call, arrived after the fire had been extinguished. 00 |