The Portland daily press., 1899-11-17


wa saw Of the PAtria, she was just Q mass
of smoke and going slowly toward Ham
burg. Many Of us had to pay for what
little We could get 30 cat on board the
Ceres. Az Dover every body was very
kind.
eff the captain had put rs sshors Is
s,on rs the fire YVES discovered we would
not have Il st our belongings nor been ex-
DC sed to such danger. have made fifteen
trits aorcss the Atlantic and have s~n .
good many s.orms but i never expert
enced anything 50 awful IS being on
board a ship whicn wes on ire. do not
know what Mr.. Duplaoe and I would do
or GOULD do, had not Mrs Ivers offered to
stay and to try and save my husbands
lite, We did not know her on board the
Patria, tut her deed IS quite 10 keeping
with the generous actions done by the
American women whom we had s, fire.
qusntiy met at San Juan since Porto
Rico cams under American coutr OIL"
While waiting for the Kaiser Friedrich,
which arri yed this evening, the psssen-
gers were cared for on board the Isle Of
Wight steamer Carisbrooke. provided for
thsir accom- m odation by the Hamburg
American company. They presented
strange spectacle on their arrival. Some
of the men were wrapped in blankets.
The little children several mere babes In
arms were crying for want of food.
Dinner was served them Immediately
on the Carisbrooke as although every at
tention had bssn shown them at Dover.
they had had little TO eat since morning.
Some were prostrsted with nervous ex-
Of ement and had to be carried on board
the Caristrooke.
All are loud in their praises nj the
coolress and courage Of Captain Frohiioh
and the crew, and Of the courtesy shown
them since they were rescued. Mr.. Cow
den Coughlin, o New Yorker, who Is on
| the way to Berlin, confirms the state
ments of oti e. passengers regarding the
com plete absence Of anything like pan
10. He says: ''rhs worst feature was the
loss Of the baggage. lost all my diplo-
mas, which were in my uunka The
opinion of all Ia that we should have been
| informed as scon as the fire was discov-
cred, which would have enabled US to
| save our effects; but believe the Office rs
d i'd not know the extent Of the danger.
There Ia considerable conflict OF opinion
rs to the date Of the outbreak OF the FIRE
some OF the passengers declaring that 1t
was Tuesday. This, however, lacks con-
frmation. 1t is certain, however, that the
officers knew of the existence of the fire
at six o'clock Wednesday morning, or
nearly five hours before the passengers
were told to come on deck.
Sixteen valuable race horses on board
the Patria were sunocatsd or burned to
ieath.
THE PATRIA FIRE.
| Dover, Eng November I6.-Ths latest
accounts OF the fire on board the Ham,
burg -Americaa line steamer Pstria say
the flames were being overcome by the
crew who worked energetioaliy and that
the captain was confident he would sue
oesd In bringing the steamer into Ger
man port. II WAS also said the effects
ef the passengers had bean wholly OF
partially saved. The Patria's passengers
left hers today apparently In good spirits.
though many OF them were compelled to
| purchase additional clothing. The re-
ports of the destitution Of tbs passengers
were overdrawn. As an instance Of the
coolness displayed by the passengers. 1t
10 said, that the German girl. who had
teen studying srt In New York. devoted
her time during the nre In skstching
scenes on deck. Finally she hurried to
her cabin to secure her clothing and
found it filled with smoke and all the
picture which she had made in New
York destroyed. She struggled back tc
| the deck in an almost sutfoosted ccudi-
tion and was with difflsulty placed In q
boat
| COMPLAINTS ABOUT CAPTAIN.
| Dover, Eng, November 16.-There
seems to be q general complaint among
the passengers of tbs Hamburg A meri-
can line steamer Patria, Capt Frolich,
which caught fire on this port yesterday
while on her way from New York for
Hamburg that they were kept In igno-
rance of the outbreak of the fire for about
i've hours. The people who were landed
here assert that II they had been notified
in time oil their baggage could have been
saved.
A saloon passenger says: "The passen-
gers were not informed of the fire until
II o'clock Wednesday morning and there
is good reason to believe that the officers
knew of the outbreak of the fire at in
the morning.
II was standing on deck, saw smoke
curling up behind the smoke stack, and
forthwith Informed my companions.
The officers then ordered all on deck, put
ting the women and children in the boats
hrst. They were safely lowered"
Tae passengers leave here this after
noon for Southampton, where they " Ill
embark on board the Kaiser Frederick
for Hamburg.
Thsre Is a discrepancy between the
statements Of the passenger interviewed
at Dover and the cable report last night,