The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-04
DEATHS HARVEST.

NEW YORK, July 2 More than two
hundred lives were lost and $780, 90
worth OF property was destroyeu in
Guiding three fine steamships of the
North German Lloyd line, in the tire.
mendous fire that scourged the Hobo
ken waterfront Saturday atternoon.
The steamship Main was burned at her
dock with great number of men
aboard. The Saale, now beached on
the Jersey flats, went down the river
all afire with ireboats and fleet of
tugs picking up such as flung them
selves overheard to escape the flames
In her hold are many corpses.
The Bremen with seventeen living
men aboard, penned on one side of her
hold, fire ant and forward, and fire
above them and on the other side, was
beached off Weehawken at night. Fifty
tugs hung around her, striving TO put
out the fire and cool her off with hun
drede of tons OF water.
The fire originated in bale of colt ID
on the pier. The fire brigade of the
North German Lloyd Company got out
line of hose and began playing on the
burning cotton bale. A strong wind
from the southwest was blowing, and
the effect of that one line of hose was
like the pouring of cup of water on
the flames. In short time the flames
had spread TO other cotton bales, and
from them to the sti lcture OF the pier,
and in five minutes, rs it appeared to
those who we're watching, Pier was
afire from one end to the other.
NEW YORK, July 2.-Sesrch for the
bodies Of victims of the Hoboken fire
was renewed at daylight this morning.
Divers and grapplers by the score were
put at work on the wreck of the Scale
which is grounded off Ellis island. The
Main and Bremen were beached near
Weehawken and around the stumps of
the north German Lloyd piers. Ac-
companying each searching party is a
gruesome supply of cotfins. Twenty
two bodies or fragments have been re-
covered. Details of the AWFUL scenes
occurring during the fire ere being
gradually told.
An officer of the Saele was seen to
blow out his brains when he found
death from the flames wss inevitable.
A woman imprisoned behind port
hole, calmly lold her name to the boat
man outside, and sent message to her
mother In Germany, then fell back and
disappeared. Anton Stanko, third en-
gineer of the Main with fourteen 9TH
ers, lived for eight hours in the shaft
tunnels. Their end was near when the
fourth engineer, Alfred Peterson, acct
dentally discovered way of escape.
NEW YORK, July 2.-Chalfed bones
thought to represent four bodies were
found in stateroom on the upper deck
of the steamer Main this morning. A
small lump of gold that still bore re-
semblance to ladies' gold watch and
some hairpins were found near by in
dicating that woman's remains were
among those found.
NEW YORK, July Bach hour wit
nesses additional recoveries of bodies
from the North river manned and
burned beyond all semblance of human
flesh. And the half has not yet been
Did as all of the bodies brought to the
surface to-day were caught on Crap
ping hooks. About the first Of next
week people will realize the appalling
loss of life as il will then be time for
the bod es that are now lying at the
bottom of the river to come to the sur
face of the water of their own accord.
The list of missing is still placed at but
few below the three hundred mark and
when the bodies begin floating to the
surface the gruesomeness Of the stu.