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when Sara was hurt A colored man.
one of the stewards, suppose came
running by screaming and iolted her
against the side of the ship-Sara
wasn't hurt seriously, though-just a
bad bru.Ss"
Driving home, Miss Browne to 925
1ngraham street, where she lives with
her father and mother Sergt. Mai c..
II. Browne and Mrs. Browne, and Miss
Poynton to 1922 Twelfth street north
east the girls took up the story again
People were praying in the passage
way, standing up straight with their
heads uncovered and not in the least
ashamed. Everybody prayed. I think,
some in English and some in Portuguese
and Spanish. The foreigners must have
been of the ships crew.
Heat Breaks Portfolio.
about them" Miss Browne said. 1.-THE
heat from the burning gasoline on the
water broke in a portfolio just over
our heads. Some of the glass fell on us,
we were so close to the wall, and flames
and smoke came shooting inside.
I'VE had to go then-anywhere, I
hardly knew where. Sara and 1 got
separated as We ran down the passage
way with the others. 1t was then 1
thought of what my father had told
inches Marine, you know, and he
once said. If you ever need help in a
hurry, just call on a Marine
There were several Marines on
board. They had left Boston with the
Fairfax and were going to Norfolk to
take another steamer for Nicaragua. /
found one of them when came out on
deck and he took me to one of the life
boats that was being filled with women
and children
ON deck we could see the gasoline
burning on the sea all around us in the
fog. never got a glimpse of the tanker
we rammed. It had gone down long
before, / guess. They we're bandaging
those who had been burned; some were
dead, learned later.
Taken to Life Boat.
The Marine guided me to the side
of the ship, where they were filling the
life boat. We found we would have
time to go back after my coat. as I had
on only light dress. The two of us
went back then.
when we came to our cabin he said
It mightn't look proper to go into a
girls cabin, so he held a match in the
companionway while I waded through
the inches of water inside and got
my coat.
"They were still fighting the fire in
the upper structure when the Marine
I never learned his name-helped me
into the lifeboat. Water dashed over
us from the fire hose. We hung there
and waited for the fire to go down on
the sea below us. It seemed a long
time later when they put out the fire
on the Fairfax and helped us back on
deck"
The two girls, who are employed in
the same life insurance office here left
Baltimore by boat Friday afternoon
for Boston, arrived there Monday and
left on the afternoon of the following
day for Norfolk.
Toward dusk on Tuesday the girls
had finished dinner and we're unde-
cided whether ito go to the social room.
aft or join numerous other passengers
on the deck forward.
Attracted by Amos m Andy.
'What decided US to go to the social
ROOM" said Miss Browne. land it must
have saved our lives, was the fact that
they had radio back there and we
wanted to hear Amos n Andy. We
went back and turned on the radio,
heard the broadcast and were seated
comfortably reading when the crash
came.
1T seemed as if the ship stopped
suddenly and at once there was an
explosion. We ran toward the deck
and met lot of passengers running
in. and when We turned back to go
toward the cabins the passengers run
ming up from below blocked us in the
paSSageway.
Neither of us seems to remember
much of what happened at first. Some