The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-09
BIG BURN.
The Monarch Docks, Jersey
City, Destroyed.
THE MINISTER'S TAKE A HAND.
Raiding Apach es-A Mexican Duel
Boiler Burst A Bandit
Experimentation
Monarch Docks Burned.

JERSEY CITY, n. J., March S.-3a.m
The docks of the Monarch Line
Steamship Company are on fire. Assist
ance has been called for from New
York. The Erie passenger depot is in
great danger. The fire broke out
Shortly after am. and az this hour is
still raging furlously.
$50 a.m.-The flames are still burn
ing fercely.
In addition to the first report the
Monarch steamship dock is also wiped
out, filed with European freight. Ag n
Marmaduke Tilden says it well insured
IA English companies. Steamships
Lydia, Monarch and Egyptian Monarch
appear to be badly damaged; the latter
was pulled into mid stream. The flames
also destroyed the Erie Company's milk
depot, long shed on Pavonla Avenue.
and burned five cars loaded with milk:
Twelve other cars were pulled out oil
danger. The Erie grain elevator Is being
wet down and is probably safe.
At As. O'Clock the ferry houses AMI
depot had good chances of being saved.
New ySSSn, March 8.-When the
flames ON the Monarch Line dock were
discovered, at 2 o'clock this morning,
all the fremen of Jersey City and Ho-
boken we're summoned to the scene. 1t
soon became evident that they could
not handle the fire. Assistance was
asked for from this city. A large iron
steamer, Egyptian Monarch, was on fire,
and before the tugs could get her away
from the burning dock, the flames were
90 fnriOus that firemen had no chance
to subdue them. The heat, too, was so
intense. that the workers could get no
where near her, after her masts and
spars were consumed, the flames
made their way into her cabins first,
then to her hold. where they caught
what was there of her cargo, ana III
short while she was raging furnace.
The flames heated her sides to Whlte
heat and made her hull at the water
line throw off clouds OF steam caused
by the heat within. There WI De a
loss on the ship of about SlOO,O0 and
which is total. at about $3.50, 600. The
of the Monarch Line
docks said that just before the fire was
started an explosion was heard and 1t
was his opinion that the shock was
among the freight that had been
from the Egyptian Monarch,
supposed to have been by dyna-
mite, or an internal machine,
which the superintendent AYERS wa
possibly placed among the freight while
the steamer was lying at her dock IN
London, previous to sailing for this
country. The Lydiarl Monarch also took
fire, but was hauled out into the stream
before much damage was done. The
milk depot of the Erie road was also
destroyed. entailing loss of about $685.
900. The Monarch Line docks were en-
tirely consumed The total loss is now
estimated at half million.
The damage to the steamer Egyptian
Monarch is now said not to be as great
as at first supposed. Agents of the
Monarch Line place the damage at
go, 900 and the cargo at 5000 This
will reduce the total losses by IRE TO !
about $500, 900. Agents of the Monarch |
Line make the i foiaccwing statement: The
outward cargo of the Egyptian Mon
1rch was not injured by fire and she
will sail tomorrow. Her inward cargo !
that remained on the dock was totally
destroyed. The Lydidn Monarch cargo |
was uninjured. The outward business
Of the line is being transacted as usual.