Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-03
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

| q 111SSS1OSD women
| plates are but hot rides ana hollows
That the Main is damaged beyond
| redemption is the opinion of not only
capt. thittenden ana capt. Walcott OF
the Merritt x Chapman Wrecking co
but also the opinion Of capt. Peter
son of the Main. The ship is now
nothing but Il rel hot hulk from which
cXudcS Suffocatug fumes while the
CRANE StcamS due to the heat of the
frames at the water line. The opin-
ion Of the Mains officers is that under
the existing conditions any bodies that
may be in the ship will by this time
be calcincd 10 ashes
tumorS exist among the Wreckers
| that four on five bodies We're thought
70 be in the stewards quarters. but 4
glance through the gases and steam
exhibited only several bcrths fun Of
white ashes and until further investi-
cation is made possible ii cannot be
proven that these ashes are of human
beings or of bed clothing 1t is esti-
mated that not more than the remains
OF 20 persons are on board the Main.
but should there be 100. or even more.
it is certain none will ever be iden-
titled.
On the Bremen where the fire was
not 81 intense. Notwithstanding the
great damage. the first body has vet
to be found. and that will not be I'M
III the ship is pumped out or discover
ed by divers. No diver has yet been
down on the inside Of the ship. Dur
ing the afternoon. divers We're unload
ing from the after holds of the Bre-
men. About 100 bales of fire and
water damaged cotton were lightcred
The fire is out and the ship cool No
search for bodies vii ltake place I'M
til late tomorrow
Five bodies Of the victims of the Ho-
boken fire have been found on the
Saale. which is lying in % feet of water.
about quarter of mile out from
Communipaw. All of the bodies were
burned beyond recognition. The cor
onerS office was notified of the finding
of the bodies and they will probab
be taken to the Manhattan morgue. to-
morrow. 1t is generally believed that
greater number of the bodies in the
Saale is still to be recovered, most of
them from the water.
on one side Of the Saale. today. was
the wrecking tug Champion. on the
other a lighter. The work was under
charge of Capt. kevelin. who stated
that the Saae had settled q foot in the
mud. since Sunday night. The captain
said: Il think | will get her off. but
she will never carry passengers again"
on board the Saale We're found pieces
of melted jewelry that had belonged
to those who persisted. a bundle of
letters We're found by a diver. They
were addressed to John Wollrade. the
ships carpenter There was also
found what looked TO be the remains
Of a pair Of baby's shoes.
All day long there was big crowds
of sightseers and souvenir hunters
flocking about the schooner. Those who
went in search of relics had but little
to show for the trim when they re-
turned. for the decks We're closely
guarded and none without business al
lowed on board.
Coroner Hoffman of Hoboken. has
been directed by the North German
Lloyd Steamship Go. to see that all un-
identified and unclaimed dead have Il
respectable burial at the expense of the
steamship company. In many cases
the victims bodies had been burned
and charred in such a horrible manner
as to be beyond recognition. Those
remains will be buried first. The
bodies that could be identified will be
kept a reasonable time for identification
by friends.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
g n
in Flow Hill cemetery at North Bergen.
The bodies of the victims unclaimed
will be buried there. 1t is probable
that a single monument will be erected
to mark the plot.
Along with the stories of heroic res
cue come others of greed and disregard
for human life. John Lupth. painter
employed in decorating the first cabin
of the Saale. SAYS SO men followed him
i'm a leap to lighter. land we began
shouting for help To the tugs that were
coming UP to help the Kaiser Wlihelm |
Those tug boats were too greedy Tor |
money to help US. We could not under
Stand that we had been deserted and |
thought our cries had not been heard
A tuc came within hailinG distance ana
We smoke her. but the only answer we
20, was mo time now, will see you |
lotar' There were no less than q !
,ozan tuos cloee by us then, but no one ,
IF them would do anything for us
John Voss was on the pier when the /
cotton burst into a blaze lie was Wei
mt at the end of the pier and saw the I
fleet of tugs come toward the Naiac. ,
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