The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1895-09-21 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ZOOM-Wel* on4rw,  "All hands on deck" was the command which followed the first alarm and in a short . tam! ea) !eaotlO cal *ant I.ltlo 004, of groat commotion and excitement. The crew and passengers worked hard to subdue the flames and eventally succeeded, though the heat was so Intense that great tlleiculty experianoed in getting maw enough to the centre of tits. conflagration. For three hours the work of extinguishing went on and then the chief engineer and some of his men were able to enter the.lhdies' cab% rrhich up tall that time been insoCessible. They immediately ascertained that seven lives had been lost and could see from the position of the bodies, none of which were in the bunks, what a tivible, hearbanding death them:dents had &Ilk The origin- of the fire is involve l in some ihystery though it is generally supposed to have broken out hrst of all in the lamp room on the starboard side. The lona on arriving in London presented a terelble appearance bind bore many outward signs of the awful night which those on board of her must have passed through.  The bodies of the victims were so terribly charred and disfigured as to be almost and  past recognition. _it was not until Wednesday tkairthey wsresill den. 4i ilgthe afternoon of that datn' Mr. Winimb "St Baxter, Coroner for East don opened an inquiry at the Limehouse Town Hall as to the circumstances under which the seven victims me* their deathlyrwhieh sifter a good dial of iliscussion as to the propriety of the vessel havlng sailed again before the conclusion of the inquiry, was. adjourned till Tuesday next, the Coroner expressing • wish that the Press would, assist him by making kitty's his roved that airl lady passengers would then come forward and give evidence.  On Wednesday nigha the violent AntiSemitic agitation which has accompanied the municipal elections in Vienna, culminated in 010 murder of a Jew in the streets. The murdered man was on his wa,y thasynagogse when he was accosted and kicked violentlyi in the stomach by a man, who afterwards made off, and has not since been arrested. The Jew died 1414 llghlkdOeur regainin Consciousness.  to the apsagogoo *ad violo.ntlyfr  Mr. Simi Reeves was married for the second time a fortright s Rie beideinniT Mae Maude Kkt e, who halt been ettid • er hIM and his already made a very favours appearance on the concert platform. In spite of Mr. Sims Reeves's health, and the many farewell visite he ha; laid, the great team Iwill shortly commence another tour in the"  Accidents on sea and river have been exceptionally frequent during the week. Beginning All MOnday with iólzrible burning of the lona, reports of other serious catastrophied have steadily come to hand. On Wednesday evening a somewhat serious collision occurred ton the Mersey: The Liverpool and North Wales Company's steamers, St. Tudno, arrived at the Liverpool Stage about eight °Weak' on her return trip from Menu Straits, and after diseharghstg !if Veptedigere plqedefted to the !Boyne where site came to azileSei. Between nine and ten she was run into by a steamer coming up the river, receiving so much damage that it was irspeesible for her to Mks her place on the Llandudno station on'Thuraday. The name of the colliding vessel could not be discovered, but, as almost immediately after the occurrence the Norweettei .ibaorety:tue Mereatiae, Inward bound from Sh N.B. for Oarston and anchored in the e, was run into by the large steanor St. Enoch, just arrived from Kurrachee, it is conjectured that the same vessel was the cause of b__.o.r.iUiO6onti. A terrible collision took place near he 'Th Eddystone Lighthouse, early on u y morning, between the. mail steamer Edam, belonging to the Xetberpted Company, bound from New York to N'terdam, and the , a large steamer bound from Lonolois The vulture, trawler of Brixh*, was on the fishing ground at the time, and heard a blowing of whistles, followed by a tremendous crash. The sea was fortunately smooth, and the Vulture was able to rescue the passengers and crew of the Edam, numbering  Turkestan, I taidiff.