The sun., 1900-07-04
EIGHTY BODIES
FOUND THUS FAR
IN HOBOKEN FIRE
The Search for Others Continues
n on Hulks at the
u Pier.
MAYOR CREATES SENSATION
Boboken's Executive Declares That
He will Prosecute All Tugboat
Captains Who Refused to Save
Lives and Will Apply at
Once for Warrants
Charging Murder.

bodies of persons who perished in the
fire at the North German Lloyd com
pany's piers in HOboken continues. Up
to the stoppage of work 50 bodies have
been recovered. -Four of these are still
on the Saale, where they were found.
Most Of the bodies discovered We're taken
from the water near the scene of the fire.
Wrecking tugs continued their work ON
the Main and Bremen, removing cargo
and debris and trying to reach the bodies
believed to be in their holds. Many per-
sons are known to have persisted in these
ships. ami the search for their remains
will he kept mp. but it is feared that any
recovered will be unrccogniznhe
The body of an unknown man thought
TO be one Of the victims of the fire was
found al the foot of Essex street. Jersey
y City. II was ALMOST nude and was re-
moved to an undcrtaker's shop.
All Of the injured in the Jersey City
hospitals are reported to be- doing as well
as can he expected. Ernest Nenner the
most seriously injured Of these patients.
is suffering from inhaling smoke. The
physicians think he will recover. One of
Z. the injured, Gustav GrOOvish, has been
y discharged from hospital.
The eighteen fire patients in Bellevue
q hospital, New York, have almost fully
recovered. They will be cared for by the
North German Lloyd company.
Two bodies of fire victims remain at
the New York morgue. They are those
of Charles Bremmer, an upholsterer of
Union Hill. n. j., who lost his life while
working on the Saale, and of August
Weller, machinist on the Saale.
Pagan Creates Sensation.
A sensation was created by an an
nouncemcnt from Mayor Pagan of Hobo
ken that he will prosecute all tugboat
captains against whom charges of refus-
ing to save life can be substantiated. The
mayor says he will apply at once fol
warrants charging two tughoat captains
with murder and that he has evidence tc
prove that these men used boat hooks
10 keep drowning men from climbing
on their tugs because the unfortunates
had no money. An effort is to he made
also to have the licenses of offending
captains revoked.
Information was sworn to before Re
corder Stanton in Hoboken by Ferdinand
ii. Krousp. third officer of the phunicia
who charged that he tried to get aboard
a tug from the end of one of the piers
and succeeded in boarding her. but was
put off because he had no money. Kroust
says that the name of the tug was The
Dandy. and in his affidavit he says that
the captain asked. Have you any mon
ey?' None in my pocket Krouse sale
he replied. The affidavit then says thai
the captain retorted: "Then I've no time
for you ! have other business to attent
to-" Krouse says that he asked the tug
boat captain to go to the assistance OF
persons aboard the Saale. but that til,
captain refused. This information als'
was sworn TO by Rudolph GRAIN, physi
elan Of the PhHnicia.
Another AmdsvIt.
Henry Brockstedt also made informa
tion before Recorder Stanton to the ef
feet that tug, the name of which h,
did not know, had refused to rescue hin
and some of his companions from d life
boat belonging TO the Phpnicia.
The recorder said he would look III
the law ON the subject to select the bes
method of proceeding against the offend
ing captains.
The fire on the Main has been put out
and, while the upper works will have t
be rebuilt the hull of the vessel is il
pretty fair shape, The plates of th
hull above water, although the paint
burned off, have not sprung any leaks
which shows her beams were not nue.
affected by the heat.
The Bremen. beached alongside of tn
Main on the Weehawken flats. rests o.
her port side. The visible part of tn
liner, the upper works. looks a deplorabl
wreck, but her hull is nearly all right
The powerful derrick Monarch is keepin
the Bremen from keeling over to port
From the after hold the wreckers ar
raising charred balls Of cotton to TIL
lighter Consort. The forward part o
ahn W. thn laao nst,pa1 Thar
are many open and broken headlight
which permit the tide to rise and fall in
side the hold of the steamship.