The age-herald., 1900-07-02
was in and she sank from our sight and we saw her no more."
 nEanv Exolosions Were uaard

l we saw her no more"
 Many Explosions Were Heard
 Lieutenant McGinnis said that there were
 many explosions heard aboard the Saa1e
 during the fire and they drove back the | firemen
 When the burned and scuttled SaaIe is
 pumped out it Is believed that the bodies of many people who perished below her ! main deck will be recovered. Some of , those penned in by the flames were alive when the steamship was lowed to the Jer- l sey flats just north of Ellis Island. Through the open dead lights, or port holes,
 the poor creatures appealed for help several
 times before the vessel was scuttled in the hope of putting out the fire, which was rag
 ing in her upper works. The port holes be- | ing less than foot in diameter it was
 impossible to save them, an done after an- l other of them succumbed to the smoke and 1 hameS
 1 When the fire broke out those working be- | low decks of the Main included thirty-six | firemen, six oilers four water boys, two | storekeepers, one boiler man and five ma
 chinists. These men included the sixteen
 who later spent almost eight hours in of the coal bunkers with the fire raging around them. Besides the sixteen who | were taken out early this morning fifteen | others have reported. This leaves twenty three of the force missing. Some may have | escaped and they all may have been burn ed to death.
 William Mayer, first fireman of the Main,
 says that the head fireman, Irner was doubtless burned to death and Storekeeper ] Urburke says that Chief Storekeeper Me- | linsky pershed without a doubt. Captain Peterman of the Main was ab- | sent when the fire broke out, and the ship was in charge of Officer Otto Weber. Web- | CT has not reported since the fire, and 1t | is believed he perished.
 Christian Guenter, one of the sixteen men | who passed almost unharmed through eight | hours of torture in the Main, says that l the first he and the coal passers in the | lower hold knew of the trouble was when | coal failed to come down the chute. It 1 had been pouring down from a canal boat. l After awaiting some time for more coal to l come, one of them crawled into the chute | to see what the trouble was and dropped back to report that tbere was flames all about the outside of the ship. Then the rush for the exits took place. There was
 no way of getting out, and they retreated as the fire descended toward them, back to
 the lowest tier of coal bunkers. Their
 refuge proved a good one. Here they
 mained almost eight hours, while the fire
 ragged over them plates above their heads being so hot the men could not touch them
 with their hands. When the men were taken out had his eyes burned out by the intense heat, two were tempor- ari1V he oil
 practically unharmed, though badly scared. An Unexpected Rescue Superintendent Miller of the Bremen pier started out late Saturday night in quest of
 the dead, and most unexpectedly rescued twenty-two men. In the tug E. A. Stevens he approached the Bremen and found to his amazement that there were still men
 living aboard her. He took from one of the coal ports the fourth engineer and six of the crew, who had managed to survive
 the fierceness of the fire in the lower part of the vessel. Then seeing the Main drift ing with the tide, he followed in the Stew ems to where the still burning liner was
 beached on Wehawken flats. Here he saw
 at one of the coal ports a who was calling for help. Going to the side of the vessel he rescued this man and fourteen others, all of whom hal been in the bot tom of the ship for nearly eight hours, with flames roaring above them and working their way nearer
 The men were at their last stand and would soon have perished.
 Late tonight MT. Schwab prepared list showing as far as possible the number of
 men employed on each steamship who have
 been accounted for. Of these 255 men em-
 ployed on the Saale, 127 have been account ed for.
 Of the 2Oi men employed on the Bremen 127 were accounted for.
 Of the 297 men employed on the Main 76 were accounted for.