The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-12-19
hikE LIVES LOT II D. srRuc.
s. TON OF THE GLEN ISLAND
r. OFF ATLANTIC COAST.
Hae SPREADS W TN GREAT RaP,uiTY
THOSE WHO PERlSHED ENTIRELY
CUT OFF BEFORE ALARM
HAD REACHED THEM.

New York Dec. 19.-By the burn
Ing of the Starin line steamer Glen
Island in Long Island sound nine lives
We're lost and property roughly esti-
mated at $250,000 was destroyed. That
more lives were not sacrificed undoubt-
. edly was due to the personal courage
of the officers and crew and the ex-
cellent discipline maintained when a
horrible death for all seemed almost a
certainty. When the steamer was
abandoned she was flame swept from
stem to stern and yet the only per
sons who lost their lives were those
whose escape had been entirely cut of
by the fire before the alarm reached
them.
OF the thirty-one persons, including
ten passengers, who sailed away on
the Glen Island twenty-five, including
eight passengers, were brought back
safely. The dead are: Unknown He
brew woman, passenger; unknown
man, passenger; w. Z. Hendrickson
assistant engineer; Luman Miller, fire
man; Frank Bush, fireman; John
Burke, fireman; Otto l.. Alolfran, fire
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son, deckhand.
The Glen Island left her dock here
at $50 D. M on her regular trip fol
New Haven. Just before midnight
Captain McAllister left the pilothouse
and went below for his midnight
lunch. AT that time there was no in
dication of trouble of any kind, but
hardly had the captain reached the
a
sitting smoke from the hold or the
steamer and every electric light on
board the craft was extinguished.
Captain McAllister sent in the alarm
for fire drill and the men came tum
bling out of their hunks. In the mean
time the
Steering Gear Had Been Blocked
and the pilots, finding themselves un
able to direct the course OF the steam
er, hurried to the assistance of the
other members of the crew in saving
>lives.
Captain McAlliSter ordered Pilot
McMullin to go to the hurricane deck
and loosen one of the boats, while he
went to the main deck and tried To
loosen the two large lifeboats. Cap
tain McAllister managed to loosen the
port lifeboat. The other lifeboat was
frozen to the davits, but smaller one
was soon ready to be lowered away.
The woman who lost her life had
been aroused by the stewardess and
was on her way to one of the boats
when she suddenly turned and dashed
back into the flaming cabin. 1t is
supposed that she went back for her
valuableS. She was not seen again
and must have perished. In the large
boat fifteen people were afioat. They
included the eight rescued passengers
and seven of the crew, including the
captain. The smaller boat. which Pilot
McMulln had managed to free, carried
seven passengers. The two boats
were rowed as far away from the
burning steamer as was necessary to
escape destruction and waited there
and watched the boat burn. They
made every effort to find any possible
survivors, but there was none to be
found.
The burning steamer drifted away
toward the Long Island shore In the
meantime the tug Bully, which was
passing with string of barges in tow,
sighted the burning steamer, cast her
tow adrift and came to the rescue OF
the persons In the boats.