Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1904 — NINE LOSE THEIR LIVES [ARTICLE]

NINE LOSE THEIR LIVES

Steamer Catches Fire In Cong Island Sound and the Slocum Horror r» Recalled. New York. Dec. 19.—0 f thirty-one persons, including ten passengers, who sailed from New York on the Glen Island, of the Starin line, twenty-two, including eight passengers. were brought back on a steamer that picked them up from small boats. The Glen Island caught fire at midnight, when all the passengers were in their berths, and it was only heroic work of the crew that prevented the disaster from being much greater. It is supposed that the tire started in the electric light .plant At any rate, it was ail over the ship in a moment after the alarm was given. Fireman Miller especially distinguished himself as a life-saver, and died while trying to save a woman.

The survivors were put aboard life boats that had been promptly launched and were picked up as stated. The boat burned to the water’s edge, causing a loss of $250,000. Following are the lost: Alfran, Otto L., fireman; Benson, Peter, deck band; Berg. 0., deck hand; Burke, John and Busb, Frank, firemen; Hendrickson, W. E., assistant engineer; Miller, Luman, fireman; unknown woman passenger, believed to be Rosa Scbalfski, New Haven, Conn.; unknown man passenger, supposed to be of New York.