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Show THIRTY-FOUR MEET DEATH. British Steamer Goes Ashore After Fire Broke Out. Barrow. Wrapped in flames and with the sea about her ablaze from the cargo of gasoline she was carrying, carry-ing, only two men of her crew of thirty-six escaped death Tuesday when the British steamer Vedra piled on the shore near Barrow during a heavy gale, broke up and was consumed. The two men rescued were severely burned while swimming through the flaming sea to a tug. A majority of the crew were trapped in the forecastle fore-castle of the Vedra and perished. |