The age-herald., 1900-07-01
AWFUL DESTRUCTION WROUGHT BY Z
 FLAMES ON BOSOM OF TEE HUDSON
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 and it was almost certain that they per- ished in the flames. 4 There was a panic on each of the steam ships. Many persons jumped overheard and the water for some distance along the docks was lined with people. They were clinging to the piers and even to the rudders of the burning vessels. Some were picked up but many were drowned. Peter Quinn, a jus-f tice of the peace in Hoboken, tells a story of having seen at least thirty people per- ish. He said:
 "I was standing on the end of one of the Hamburg-American Line piers and saw about thirty people crowded under Pier No. l of the North German Lloyd They were calling to some of the passing tug boats, but their appeals were unheard and when the flames got near them, they dived in the water There was no assistance near them at the time and I believe that every one either drowned perished in the flames.
 Two Hundred Were Rescued About 200 people were rescued at the Hamburg-American line pier They were much overcome from exhaustion but soon revived with stimulants.
 The fire gained such headway by the time the Hoboken fire department arrived that they were utterly helpless to cope with the flames. They were still further handicapped | by having several hundred feet of hose | burned. Calls were made to the New York | fire department for assistance, and fire | tugs were sent over. These. however had little effect on the great mountain of flame l and smoke.
 | By o'clock the three piers of the North | German Lloyd Steamship Company had l been totally burned
 The southern end of the Campbell stor- l age Company building, consisting of five l five-story structures, caught fire and the l flames shot from every window in a few l minutes The buildings. being filled with l jute and whiskey, burned rapidly. The fire men were unable to go within fighting dis | tance and the fire had pretty much its own l way there.
 The steamships Saale and Bremen after | being pulled free from the docks wele lowed ablaze down the bay and beached l off Liberty Island.
 l On the Bremen, as she blazed out in mid stream, six men were seen with their heads out of port holes waving handkerchiefs for assistance Tug boats and small boats darted around the big steamship, making l every effort to save them, but the 'terr2hte l heat kept them away.
 l Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse Saved
 The saving of the great Kaiser wilhel3, | der Crosse was attended with exciting iE- cidents. It seemed as if it would not be | possible to get her clear and the fire was | spreading so rapidly that it threatened at almost any minute 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 lowed out into mid | stream, and then far up the river. Her bow was slightly burned.
 Five minutes after the fire broke out a | woman jumped from one of the ships in a vain effort to reach the water. She leaped | into burning lighter alongside the ship, and when officer on board the ship, who still stood by the doomed vessel, saw her and realized what would be her fate he plunged down after her, hoping to drag her out of the burning lighter in the water. He followed her within a couple of sec ondS and both went down in the flames ir the lighter and pershed.
 The burning cotton added intense heat
 and the firemen suffered greatly. Again ant
 again it seemed as if they must abandon
 the fight.
 Some of the fremen of the hook and lad
 der truck No. 2 of the Jersey City had
 narrow escape. They had gotten out as fa
 as they could on the pier to the south O
 the blazing docks, and were endeavorinl
 to recover bodies of persons who migh
 have gotten under it. There was burst o
 flame from the pier adjoining, which for
 time threatened to cut off the men~ant
 set fire to the pier. The men dropped il
 the water and clung to the piles for a fev
 minutes, and then a shift of the wint
 drove the flames back, and they were abl l to retreat.
 1 Overcome by Heat
 An idea of the intensity of the heat wa
 given by the fact that the steamship
 firemen, men who are used to working il the fire room ef vessel. supposed to be tn