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Show COAST LINER PREY TO FLAMES Fifteen Passengers Lose Lives on Vessel Ves-sel Fired by Negro. Baltimore. The old bay liner Virginia, Vir-ginia, bound to Norfolk from Baltimore Balti-more with 156 passengers and freight aboard, was burned to the water's edge near the mouth of the Potomac river Saturday night. Fifteen passengers passen-gers are reported to have lost their lives. Alfred Coleman, negro, was arrested by federal authorities on the charge of setting fire to the Virginia. The warrant was sworn out by a stevedore employed on the Virginia. |