The evening times., 1900-07-02
TEE BOBOKEN DISASTER
Work Of Recovering Bodies From
the Burned Steamships.
Thirty-thrce Already Taken Out of
the Smoking HUIks-ImposSibIe to
Identify Some of the Victims.
Charred Zones Found in One of the
staterOOE.s on Board of the Main

NEW YORK, July 2.-Thousands OF Gu
rious persons focked to the eharred piers
of the North German Lloyd Steamship
Company today to gaze upon the ruin
wrought by Saturdays frigh5ul eOnfagra-
tion. which destroyed so Lsuch life and
property.
II viii probably never be accurately
known how many persons perisbed in the
harbor holocaust, although the steamship
officials do not hesitate TO place the num-
Der at 120. with 100 or more Injured dur
ing the catastrophe. Fifty-three Of the
injured are known. The cost Of the blaze
that destroyed the magnificent German
Lloyd liners Saale, Main, and Bremen
is conservatively estimated at s6.O0o.ooo.
The estimate OF the loss of life result
ing from the burning of the ocean liners
was made after search OF the hospita 5.
the hotels, and boarding houses In Hobo
ken, and the vessels TO which those wco
were rescued went. or the missing some.
Of curse. may turn NJ, but it is thought
that most Of those not accounted for and
whose bodies are not in the moEgues OF
this city and Hoboken, are down in the
charred huIks of the liners.
Days will pass before all the bodies are
recovered and some viii probably never
be seen again. Many OF those who jumped
overheard and afferwaTd sank may have
been swept out tc sea with the tide, and
of those who met Death by fire on board the
vessels. there may be many whose bodies
we're so cremated that nothing but dust
remained
For instance. all that was left yesterday
OF CAPTAIN Mirow. OF the Saale. was
fragment or two Of what looked like a
kr1 do ab mi d
chips He had evidently died at his post
The only means OF identification was a
small peaTI-handled penknife known TO
s.ave been owned by the captain, which was
among ti;e fragments, and a partly melted
gold charm.
Preparing TO SEve the HuIkS.
The wreeking companies began prepsra-
tions this morning to close up the ports
OF the vessels and pump the water out
The saale. almost submergecl lay about
quarter Of a mile OF Comnunipaw and
the Bremen and Main were abreast Of each
other on the Weehawken fats. TIE iron
was stiil hot in spite OF the deluge OF We
ter :bat had been poured into the vessels
II was still dangerous work 10 go into the
hold. The wreckers labored hard 70 get
the steamships in such a condition that
further search for the dead might be made
The stories told yesterday by some OF
the rescued, particularly by the fifteen
men who spent seven and one-half hours
in the shaft tunnel Of the Main while the
ere ragged above them, left no doubt but
thai there were many others who also had
sought places Of refuge on board the yes
sells but who had been lost. These men
from the Main.-h@ddled together for hours
in a TUNNEL about seven feet high and
with the walls about them almost red
hot, showed fortitude that was remark
able
Thi-d Engineer Stanko, who was among
them. said yesterday that the wonder o;
il ali was that some Of them did rot go
mad. In a like way. other little bands on
beard the burning liners may have sought
a place OF safety. The wreckers thought
t5at when they could get down in the holds
| they would find bodies lying in groups.
| Up 10 this morning thirty-three bodies
had been recovered OF these seventeen
were in the moTgues OF Jersey City and
/ Hoboken and twelve were taken yesterday
/ from the Saale.
Every effort was made 10 identify the
/ bodies. but some were so chsrred that iden-
I tification was impossible. Few OF the sail
ors had distinctive marks on their cloth
/ ing which might tell who they were. Near,
/ ly all were dressed alike. The officers OF
the North German Lloyd Line went 10
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| ing. ard those accounted for, but it viii
necessarily be incomplete
Thieves and Souvenir Hunters.
Thieves and souvenir hunters swarmed
around the burned vessels this morning
as they did all day yesterday. When the
Bremen was cooled of so that one might
go near without great danger. the relic
hunter, the river shark, and the camera
| Hend were about her in myriads. The Off
| GERS Of the vessel had left her with only
what clothing they had on A search of
! The officers cabin later revealed the fact
| that much clothing and iewelry had been
! stolen. II was the same way on the Main
and the Saale. Launches were run around
| the Saale all day yesterday and men in
| them would run boathooks through the
portfolios and fish out whatever they could.
Four more bodies were found today at
the foot of Fourth Street. Hoboken. about
| two piers away from the place where the
/ SaaIe, the Bremen, md the Main were de-
| stroyed By fire. The bodies We're all
| found in the course Of the hour between
| II O'Clock and noon
| Labcrers on the pier saw them and tied
| them up 10 the piles. Then Hoffman's
| morgue was notified and the bodies we're
/ sent there. The four victims are men.
| One Of the bodies found today is supposed
to be that of Ludwig Myer. steward or
/ the Saale. There was a ring on his finger
! bearing his name All four men had beer
| drowned. None showed that they had beer
touched By fire.
! The work of recovering bodies from the
| Saale was resumed this morning the
divers entering upon it with renewed en-
ergy The total number Of bodies recov-
cred up to last night was twelve. eight OF
them being brought from the hold During
| the night no effort was made to search the
SaaIe The wrecking tug Champion re-
maired alongside all night. or the bodies
brought to the surface by the divers but
| one had any remnant OF covering This
consisted Of the shreds of a pair OF trors-
ers and a shirt The others were nude.
! All Of the bodies are horribly disfgurei
I and with one exception are beyond re; ogni-
tion. The body which might be identified
remains at the morgue still unclaimed. II
J is thought to be that Of longshoreman-
1t is expected that divers Will be able tc
| make a search for the dead today on the
| Bremen, but the work on the Main hiss
been commenced with difficulty, as fire i;
| still raging below
Bones Found on the Main.
| Four bodies, or rather cha-red heaps oi
bones were found on the Main today in q
| stateroom on the upper deck, forward Near
enc heap were a chunk OF gold that stn
bore resemblance to a small lady's watch
and some hairpins-
The destruction of the piers in Hobo
Ever See q Woman Drop.
Nile. Louise wrence balloon ascension and
| parachute jump daily, p. m Chesapeake