The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-16
AN ATLANTIC LINER ON FIRE
4 HUNDRED AND FIFTY PASSEN-
 GERS HAVE NARROTV ESCAPE.
H Hamburg-American Steamer Patria Sighted Flying Signals of Distress and Demanding Immediate Assistance Passengers, Mostly Americans, Take 10 the Boats and Are Rescued by Rus- sian Steamer Ceres Bold Scheme of the Captain to Beach the Patria.
he Captain to Beach the patria.

London, Nov. 15.-The Hamburg
 American steamer Patria, Captain
 F'rohlich, which left New York Novem-
 Der for Hamburg, and passed the
 Lizard is on fire. All the passengers
 were rescued. The Russian steamer
 Ceres sighted the Patria, showing sig
 nals of distress and demanding imme-
 diate help about twelve miles from
 North Hinder lightship. The liner was
 enveloped in smoke. Putting on full
 steam, the Ceres soon reached the
 Patria and sending a boat, learned that
 Captain Frohlich was in urgent need of
 assistance. The boats were got out and
 with great difficulty all the Patrias
 passengers, numbering 150, were
 transferred to the Ceres, which pro-
 ceeded for Dover, where she arrived
 just before midnight.
 Francis w. Prescott the United
 States consul in Dover, was immediate
 ly notified and he consulted with the
 harbor authorities, who arranged to send out their tug, Lady Vita, which
 brought the rescued ashore. Among the saved are many ladies and children, as well as six babes in arms.
 lThe hurry of the rescue was indicated by the fact that most of the passen- gers were enveloped in blankets only. According to interviews with the pas sensers, which elicited the fact that most of them are American citizens who have come for vacation in Europe, all were ordered on deck at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning, when they were informed that a disastrous fire had broken cut in the cargo and that the crew were unable to master it. The captain considered it prudent for the passengers to take to the boats. Smoke and flames were ascending with overpowering force and causing the greatest alarm. The crew, according to several passengers, worked like heroes in their endeavors to keep the flames under; but the great quantity of linseed among the cargo and tn oil made all their efforts hopeless
 There was great excitement among the women and children, but the exam pie set by the cooness of the captain and the crew had a calming effect up- on the passengers generally. The boats | were promptly got over the sides, the crew working as if they were at drill. The safety of the ladies and the chil- dren was the first consideration. As the fire had by this time consumed the | greater part of the passengers belong | ings they had to get into the boats as | they had come from their hunks, and | some were in very light raiment. The | scene was a striking one with some | aspects, as husbands and fla | thers parted from their wives and chill dren.
 Although everything was carried out | under the most trying conditions thanks to the great coolness of the captain and crew there was no panic, all the | being got into the boats and into two fishing boats said to belong to | Yarmouth, which had come up in the meantime. Just as this had been ef- fected a large steamer was seen to be towards the burning liner. She proved to be the Ceres, which first sent ! boat and then picked up all the passengers. The Ceres offered to take off the captain and the crew, out the latter preferred to remain by he vessel so long as there was any ,hance of saving her-although there was the greatest danger in doing so, Ter hull being red hot at the time. The say they learned from the officers that the captain had opportuni-
 es to put his steamer ashore where here would be a possibility of salving Ter.
 The scheme is a bold one that does ,redit to gallant crew and which it S hoped may be successful. The pass ngers, who had had nothing to eat
 nce 730 "Wednesday morning were reated with the greatest kindness on ,eing landed at Dover. Among them we're twenty~four ladies and about wenty children who looked very vretched as they landed at'the admiral y pier The crew of the liner is said to ] onsist chiefly of Americans. {