Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-03
while At HER Dock DOCK.
The Steamer Bristol Completely De.
stroyed by Fire.
OTHER VESSELS ADJOINING
Narrowly Escape Sharing a Like Fate
All h Passengers Safely Landed,
Though Many Only Partially
C1othed-Firemen injured.

NEWPORT, r. l., Dec. 81.-The steamcI
Bristol, of the Old Colony line, which
arrived from New York about $50 yes
terday morning, was found to be on fire
at SEQ a. M, and in a short time wa.
destroyed. No one was injured, though
a few Newport passengers who had re
NAMED in their staterooms to await {
convenient time to rise, had narrow es
capes, and some of them lost all theil
clothing. All the baggage was saved
The steamers. freight had also beer
landed before the fire broke out. The
Fall river and Boston passengers had
all departed with the last train, leaving
just rs the alarm was given. The fire
started near the kitchen, and spread
rapidly. The fire department of New.
port together with the police force, ex-
erted themselves in every possible way
to check the flames, but the joiner work
of the staterooms, saloon and stairway
was IS dry as finder and draughts
through the boat caused a fearfully
rapid spread of the flames, so that before
the city fire department arrived there
was a mass of fire sweeping her from
stem to stern.
Some. of the passengers still on board
did not understand the meaning Of the
first alarm, and were only aroused by
the cracking of the flames near by. All
succeeded in escaping, but some with
only a portion of their clothing. One
man with two little children, who occu-
pied a state room, was awakened by the
sound of cracking flames and barely es-
capped with his little ones. All of the
personal baggage of The passengers was
saved. When the firemen arrived the
upper decks and center of the steamer
were a mass of flames, which gave out
such intense heat as to greatly impede
the work of the firemen. The flames had
gained such Roadway that they could
only be fought from the wharf, while
the flying sparks endangered the
buildings pm the docks and other vessels
i'll the vicinity. Tie steamer Pilgrim,
which was in the greatest danger, was
with difficulty gotten safely out of the
rasige of the flames and was kept
drenehed with. streams of water from
her own apparatus. In the slip to the
north lay the freight steamer New Bed
ford, which had to be kept drenched,
and wen then did take fire. about noon,
but the flames were extinguished before
serious damage vas done. Shortly be-
fore . O'clock the flames were under such
control as to permit a few fpemen to
beg. I'd her a.aa sra.ls@ fse,.a outside the
guards of the lower and second decks.
AT $40 the port log frame fell and soon
after the port smoke stack fell, and the
starboard fell about noon. Two firemcn
We're injured. The crew lost all their
clothing and the orchestra lost their
music.
General Manager Vandrick states the
Insurance of $500, 0e0 on the boat will
probably cover the loss. The boat was
twenty-five years old, but had been par.
TALLY rebuilt and WIS one of the finest
inland steamers afioat. The company
has several other steamers and traffic
will not be interrupted.
Sacrificed the Cargo to Save the Ship.
NEW YoRg, Dec. G1.--The harbor fire
boats and several city engines were sum-
moned last eyeninato extinguish q fire
in the hold Of the steamer Mexico, which
was anchored off Decay street in the
North river. The Mexico arrived Satur-
day from Havana. with a cargo of to-
bacoo and hemp. The tl.e was sdiscov-
cred early in the evening. The crew
tried to put it cut without any assist.
anGe, and 1t had thus made great head
way in the infiammable cargo before a
general alarm vas sent out. Half d
dozen tremen We're overcome by smoke
While fighting the fire, but all will re,
cover. 1t was finally found impossible
to save the cargo, and in order to save
the vessel the cargo was flooded, thus
running any part of it that had Escaped
the flames.