BURNING OIL STEAMER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1843, 1 September 1913, Page 7

BURNING OIL STEAMER.

e A REMARKABLE SPECTACLE. NEW YORK ILLUMINATED. By Telesrrapli—Press Association—Oopjrifilit New York, August 29. Tlio steamer Burgermcister Haclimarni, a stool v.essel of '1315 tons gross, built in 1901, by Craig, Taylor, and Co., Stockton, owned by C. J. H. Siemers and Co., is in Haines in tlio channel. Three hundred thousand gallons of crude oil is burning, and the whole city is Ht by tho giaro. Fire-boats worked all night, fearing an explosion, but it is hepedJ tilio workens will bo able to sink tho vessel bofora any explosion occurs. Thousands lino tho water-front, gazing at tlio remarkable spectacle. A spark generated by tho accidontal colliding of two tin oilcans aboard tho vessel is believed to have originated the outbreak. Tho crow escaped. THE FIRE ON THE IMPERATOR. HOW THE SECOND OFFICER DIED. London, August 29. The English newspapers publish stirring details of tho fire on tlio'HamburgAmerika Company's leviathan Imporator, in tho Hoboken Docks, Now Jersey. Tho second officer, Mr. Gobreclit, was standing on the bridge looking through a glass-covered firo alarm, containing thirty-nine tubes connected with various parts of the ship. He observed smoke in ono tube, and touched a button, automatically directing jetsof steam into_ tlho burning rooms. Ho then equipped himself and others with smoke helmets, but was overcomo' by tho fumes, being wedged in by a bunker door, which automatically closed. Tho fire brigade reached Gobrecht, and made desperato efforts to extricate him, but wero forced to abandon tho attempt.