The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-19
IS EAMER GLEN
 ISLAND BURNED
SPLENDID BRAVERY OF OPEL
 GERS AVID CREW.


 Alarm Reached Them-New Haven
 People on Roard-Boat Swept by
 FIames-Escape Made in Life Boats
 -PicIed Up by New Haven Tugs
 Fire Caused by Crossed Wires.
 By the burning of the sound steamer Glen Island, of the starin line, running between this city and New York. short ly after midnight Saturday morning, when near Captains Island, on her trip to this city, nine lives were lost and many others had narrow escapes. When the fire broke out the vessel was about midway between Captains Island and Execution Point on the Connecticut shore and about three miles off. So quickly did the flames spread that nine persons, two passengers and seven of the crew, perished and the twenty-two survivors barely escaped with their lives. The flames spread through the structure of the Glen Island much as the fire swept the triple-decked Gen. eral Slocun in the disaster of last June.
 The fire had apparently started near the dynamo forward and it is believed now that crossed electric light wires caused it. Almost as soon as the first smoke was seen the lights went out all over the vessel. Jack McBrier, the quartermaster, was at the wheel and Captain McAllister was in his berth. McBrier immediately turned the boat toward the shore.
 The fire gongs were sounded all over the vessel and deckhands went to the different staterooms where the passen- gers were and rapped heavily on the doors.
 There were only ten passengers on board, but the crew broke every state room window on both sides of the steamboat to make sure that no one was missed. The family of Frank B. Street, whose room was about amid ships directly above the flames, were literally thrown out of the room by two of the crew.
 Without excitement the crew dropped the lifeboats over the starboard side and held them there while the panic stricken passengers were getting on board.
 Hardly had the two boats pushed off from the Glen Island when a great sheet of flame enveloped the whole craft. The faces and hands of the men in the lifeboats were scorched as they pushed away from the burning craft. With but little clothing on them the men and the three women who were saved huddIed together to keep warm while the spray from the seas broke over the boats and covered them and the chill wind cut them to the marrow. Counting of heads revealed the fact that two passengers and seven of the crew were missing. Of the passengers one was Mrs. Rosa Silken, of 206 Ham ilton street, New Haven, and the other was a man whose name is not known. The seven members of the crew were the assistant engineer, Hendrickson, and the f1renen and deckhands who were With him in the engine room and the fire hole.
 The three female passengers who were saved were Mrs. Frank B. Street and her two daughters, of New Haven.
 Int two beats were rowed about 100 yards from the sinking vessel and lay there. those or board thinking that res cuers would be attracted by the great pillar of fire that shot up from the wa ters of the sound. They were there over half an hour when the first boat reach cd them.
 The lookout on the tugboat Bully, towing a large barge up the sound, was the first to see the flames from a dis iancc. The Bully was then off Sands Point. Slipping her tow, the Bully was pointed for the burning craft and sent ahead at full speed. Smashing the ice cakes from her bows, she made record Island lay.
 The flames had been seen. too, by the men on the steamboat Erastus Corning, bound to New York from New Haven. The Corning pulled up alongside the Bully about half an hour after she had taken the survivors from the lifeboats. The survivors were then transferred to the Corning, which brought them to the Starin pier in the North river. Most of these who were lost were fire men and deckhands who were on the night watch and were down around the boilers. The swift-spreading fire cut off all chances of tIlsar escape, and they were burned where they worked. Of the passengers one man, an Italian, supposed to live in New Haven, was suffocated in his berth, and. the other Rosa Silken, who rushed back to the cabin to save her money and jewelry. Tn a heroic effort to save the life of this woman a fireman lost his own. The dead are:
 Rosa Silken. thirty-five years old, married; 206 Hamilton street, New Ha- ven.
 w. B. Hendrickson, assistant engi- neer.
 Frank Bush, fireman.
 Newman Miller, fireman. .s John Burke, fireman. Otto olaferen, fireman
 Otto Burgh, fireman.
 Peter Burns, deckhand.
 Unknown Italian, about forty five years old, supposed to be a resident of New Haven.
 PASSENGERS SAVED.
 Frank B. Street, of New Haven. Mrs Street. & Miss Eveline Street.
 Miss Grace Street.
 Nathan Dublin.
 Mrs. Samuel Dubre of New York.
 Arthur W. Wallace, of Wallingfcrd. Unknown man whose name could not be ascertained
 Mrs. Rosa Silken, one of the two pas sen gers on the ill-fafed steamer Glen