The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-01
THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE
ARE BURNED OR DROWNED
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were much overcome from exhaustion,
but soon revived with stimulants.
When the fire broke out, such head
way was gained by the time the Ho-
boken fire department arrived that
they were utterly helpless TO cope with
the flames. calls were made to the
New York fire department Tor assist
ance, and fire tugs were sent over
Even they had little effect on the great
mountain of flame and smoke.
BY O'Clock the three piers of the
German North Lloyd Steamship com
pany had been burned TO the ground.
Warehouses GO Up Like finder.
The south end of the Campbell Stor-
age company, consisting OF hve i've
story structures, caught IRE and flames
shot from every window OF the two
floors in but few minutes The build
ings. being filled mainly with jute and
whisky, burned rapidly. The fTemen
were unable to go within fighting dis
lance, and the fire had pretty much its
own way there In these buildings
great loss Will be sustained
The steamships Saale and Bremen,
after being pulled free from the docks,
were lowed abIaze down the bay and
beached of Liberty island,
On the Bremen, as she blazed out
with their heads out of port holes YaV-
ing handkerchiefs for assistance.
Tug boats and small boats darted
around the big steamships making
every effort to save the men, but the
terrible heat from the flames kept
them away.
The saving of the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse was attended with exciting in
cidents. It seemed as if it would never
be possible to get her clear, and the
fire was spreading 50 rapidly that It
threatened at almost any moment TO
break out on the big ship.
The great hawserS, in the confusion,
could not be handled well, and axes
were brought into use to Chop them,
releasing the vessel She was toWed
out into mid-stream and then far up
the river. Her bows were slightly
burned.
Wind Spreads the Flames.
The rapid spreading Of the fire is &C
counted for by the shifting of the wind
When the fire broke out the wind was
blowing strongly from the south
This drove the flames across to the
pier above the one on which it started.
Within few minutes the wind shift
point Under the great pavilion on the
SOlute control
Had not the recourse to dynamite
been taken to destroy the Hamburg
American pier, the flames might have
gone on. All the fire boats and tugs in
the harbor would not have stopped
them.
The flames in the cotton kept the fire
at an intense heat, and the french suf-
fered greatly. Again and again it
seemed as if they must abandon the
fight.
The vantage points at which they
could attack the flames were few, and
their efforts were necessarily hampered.
The smoke which poured out of the
flames and assembled high into the air
blew almost directly eastward and
maintained it's column for a distance
of about seventy miles, as it was clearly.
beyond Babylon, l. I.
Fire Burns Itself Out
When the Hoboken firemen reached
the fire at first they set out to confine
it TO the pier on which il started. They
got their lines out on the two adjOin-
ing and even ran heir apparatus out
TO the pump from the river When the
flames spread the hose on the pier was
lost. Some of the apparatus narrowly
escaped being consumed, and as il was
one hose cart and its horses We're
burned.
Later Jersey City stripped itself of
all the hose possible and sent il to
Hoboken firemen in a wagon FIR use.
With this streams were later gotten on
the fire. but it was then under control.
having burned itself.