A FIRE broke out Friday aboard a cruise ship pulling into New York Harbor after returning from a five-day cruise along the New England and Canadian coastline with over 1,000 passengers on board. Eleven people aboard the Regal Empress were treated for smoke inhalation, but no one required immediate hospitalization . . . A TROPICAL STORM became Hurricane Chris Friday with top winds of 75 mph and began to veer northward on a path east of the Caribbean's Leeward Islands that will probably keep it from harming the United States, forecasters said . . . A FORKLIFT operator punctured a barrel of acid in Indianapolis, creating fumes that caused minor injuries to 23 warehouse workers and three fire-fighters. . .
