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PANIC ON LINER AS CARTRIDGES GO UP BYIRUNKFULThief Rifling Baggage in HolJ of Vauban Sets Them Off With Match.ALL PASSENGERS SAFE.1Ira-Terror Spread Through Its i Cabins and Officers Mad Difficulty in Quelling It.A steerage passenger. rifling thebaggage of mtmlwra of th* 191 RanchWIIJ West Company In tbe forsward holil of the I.ampurt * Holt liner Vauban as the vessel was upprnorh-Itnt this port early to-day, set off a trunk full of cartridges with a lighted match. Ills clothing caught fire and h« ran Into the steerage spreading flames In his path.The ;oo alee rage piLsaengers rushed from tlielr quarters The noise of the exploding cartridges In lha hold aroused all the cabin passengers and; in n short time the ship was a scene 1 of a lively panic.Many of the passeugers rushed for the IlfelHiHts. It was all the olBcers could do to quell tbe eioitomnnt. Half un hour was required to extinguish the lire in the bold and the steer-ngn and both these seotloas of the .dllp were flooded.The p.iosengi-r who reused the trouldn was Abram Habsli, a Syrian The lingguge of the 101 Bunch cam-puny rclurnlng from a South American tour sun plli'd In hold No. 2 preparatory to removal at the Brooklyn dock of the steamship.Sahitb sneiiked Into llie hold, which was durk. lie opened a trunk or box and lit U match lo SCO what was Inside.The Ihix was full of cartridges loaded wlih shot such as ars used In the nnmshl.ig or gtafis holla Among the cartridges was a lot of looss powder Hahah dropped tho mutch Into the powder and act It off.In lhe flash his clothing caught fire and then the cartridges began lo explode, tilling tho hold with flying shot. Sabah dashed Into the steerage, arrrnmmg and tossing his burning clothing from him as he ran. TH Some of tho clothing fell Into bunks and set the hortdlqg on Ore.Two heroines were Ml’* Ucatrlco llrmoo aii and Mias Jane Fuller of the101 Itanch Wild Went Show.Miss Hrosse.m had been presented with a magnlllcent black slnlllnn by admirers In Trinidad. The girl rushed down tho companlonwsy of the promenade deck to the steerage quarters and through tho smoke. Hhe called her horse and got nosr enough to the frightened animal lo pat him and call him by name Then she was carried out of harm's way,Then the girl went-among (lie panic atrn ken si erase passengers and i lt;1IIli led thorn. Miss Fuller IlllSlid tin herm '* among the cabin pass., tigers, son who \ m rumbling lor th lifeboats.Sabah was In the ship's hospital when the Vauban docked at Brooklyn to-day. Ha Is swathed In bandages. Hs was removed to tbe Ellis Island hospital and will probably be d»-•ertod upon feta reeortrja.“FEIALLNOV^“Dull:nonI'resld League dared q Ized has he hud the l*ri's mg up husim -llurial o under i 'ThisI'n xv i The Kvi ihe pros of I he I he UIIIK CISIOII \Federal catcher breach i“T'ntll Kansas i he on raid ori opportuSince ItI lie p.'W imIM buT*all and s..with il UllmortOur the acti the Na-taadan
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New York Evening World
New York, New York, US
Sat, Apr 11, 1914
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