The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-07-07
bout twenty thousand dollars.

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those aboard the steamship can sim.
ply be surmised, as there is no way OF
ascertaining this ut the present time.
Freight Manager Bonner said to
night that the Main had about Eve
thousand o of cargo in ner hold. OF
this there were 2,COO tons of grain, l..
QUO tots of Stag, about three thousand
bales of cotton and considerable .ner.
chandise.
The Saale had a full cargo, including
copper and general merchandise. but
the Bremen had hardly any cargo
aboard of her.
Hundreds Sent to Hospitals.
1t is estimated that from three hun.
dred to four hundred persons were in.
jured and taken TO the different hos.
pitfalls in this city, Jersey City and Ho-
hoken. Many of them were found to
lie not seriously hurt, and were dis.
charged to-day. Many others are be-
licved to be SO seriously injured that
they can not %rocnvcr
Work of Relief Promptly Begun.
While the fire was still burning the
work Of relief was begun. Men came
&c the office of the North German Lloyd
line almost naked, and with their
clothing ruined by the salt water.
Men who had been treated by doctors,
who were not sufficiently injured to
lie taken tc hospitals, also gathered at
the cffice. Every man was given money
and clothing and :aken to n temporary
lodging house by agents of the com.
pany. The sailors lost absolutely ev.
ery1fing they possessed.
Women besieged the offices for in.
formation in regard to relatives. There
were about seventy missing reported
at the North German LICyd office
alone. Fully SO per cent. of the sailors
are Germans who have no home and no
relatives in this country. Most OF
them lived in Germany.
Nineteen Men Taken from Bremen.
At -four o'clock this morning 10 men.
machinists and firamen, Were taken off
tie steamship Bremen, after having
been held very close-hound, with
death staring them in the face for
nearly twelve hours. They were
brought ashore On Tugs ana taken IRE
Of i'll hotels near the company charred
property. No loss of life was reported
from the Bremen with the exception of
the probability of deaths occurring
from the capsizing of the buat, already
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cued from the river by six boats
crrws from the steamer Phoenicia, of
the Hamburg-American line, it is Just
possible that there was not a soul lost
from the Eremen.
Three dead bodies were picked up
to-day nea the Halrburg-American
line deck in Hoboken. One of them was
identified as tina. CT Lena S. Cordts. a
Of the steamer Saale. The
two were bodies of males. one of
whom wa identified as Henry Kordell,
of Hoboken. The other body is I'M
1t is presumed he was an
oiler or coal passer on some of the
ships.
From 4 very reliable our it was
that several officers of the
Saale had accounted for Ill passen-
out of a total of 252 who were on
ocard at the outbreak ot the fire.
Seeking Information.
There was a continuous stream of
at police headquarters IL Ho-
pckeE all day seeking information of
friends and relatives. Some
If them were sem away with very lit
lie hope of meeting their missing cnes
again, while others. evidently prompt
I'd by curiosity. gav,, the police officials
nc end of trouble.
Christian EndenvOrers.
1t is feared that some of the Chris
liam E~ndeavcrers who were TO have
for Boston Tuesday. for South
,mpton, on the Saale may have lost
heir lives. 1t was said yesterday that
some Of these people had come to this
.ity TO inspect the ship, which had
Deen chartered to take 500 of them to
England, and that they were On board
IF her when the flames broke out on
he pier.
Drowned to Prevent Roasting.
As many people. to avoid being rcast-
ii to death on the three steamships
the docks, jumped overheard and
we're drowned, searching parties kept
close watch to-day along the shores
# the North river. in Brooklyn, and
island. As the tide was on the
urn it is believed their todies were
,arried up stream, and, when they rise,
hey will come to the surface above
street. unless they drift
d into the central current and caught
he food tide running out into the
upper bay. Relatives Of the missing
mplcyed rowbcats and men to patrol
n the vicinity of the disaster. Other
,oatmen searched for the dead on
peculation.
Agent Schwab's Story.
Agent Schwab. of the North German
lloyd Co., said this afternoon:
"On the deck of the Saale a body was
to-day which is probably that of
apt. Mirow. Il was burned beyond
but Mr.. Bonner identified
knife which was found Oh the body
s belonging to the captain. There
also found by him Il mass Of melt
d gold which is believed To be the re-
naiDs of a heavy gold chain which the