New-York tribune., 1900-07-02
JERSEY HOSPITALS FILLED.
PNEUMONIA MAY RESULT TO MANY
PERSONS FROM LONG IMMERSION.

st. Marys Hospital. Hoboken, and Christ Hos
pital Jersey City Heights, were taxed to their
utmost TO accommodate the injured. At st.
Mary's Hospital between eighty and ninety per-
sons suffering from burns and exhaustion were
treated. Many of these were not obliged to
main, and they went away without giving their
names. Their injuries consisted chiefly of slight
burns caused by the fire by sliding down
ropes FOrty-four were detained. It is not be-
lieved that any OF these fatally or even dan
gerously injured. DR.. McArdle, of st. Marys,
who treated them, said that he feared that many
would develop pneumonia because of the length
| of time they were in the water. Three four
had already shown indications of this pulmonary
trouble he said. Nine-tenths of those brought
to the hospital were taken from the water.
Among those at the hospital who had inter
esting experiences to relate were Paul Hartman.
first engineer of the Main and Fritz Arians,
quarternaster of the Saale Hartman said that
he the deck of his vessel when the fire
broke out. He went down in the hold. where he
| remained seven minutes. When he came up
again he discovered that the fire had cut off
escape from the piers. With a number of others
he jumped into the water Together they
foated until some driftwood separated him
from the others. He got hold of pier, but the
fire drove him from this Then he caught a
rope, but obliged to let go again, owing to
o
against him. Seeing a seven-foot plank some
distance away from him, he endeavored to reach
it in his exhausted condition. He succeeded,
and foated around this for an hour and
half, when he rescued.
Arians was one Of the persons who were saved
by clinging to the screw of the Saale. Fried
Peterson. first officer of the Main, cared for
at st. Mary's Hospital also
Frederick Zimmerman, captain of Hose Com
his way through the flames from one of the
piers, is being treated at ST. Mary's Hospital.
Only five of the injured were taken 20 Christs
Hospital as could not be accommodated.
The hospital physicians. DR.. Souloff and DR..
James G.. Enright. attended a large number of
persons who were only slightly injured at the
scene of the fire. One of those. taken to the
hospital-ChriStian Bolghmann-died from his
injuries at $50 o'clock yesterday morning. He
was badly burned about the head. arms, chest
and legs and had inhaled smoke His body
a horrible sight He had not been fully identi-
fed resident of Hoboken early last evening.
In the course of the day two girls called at the
hospital but did not leave their They
were searching for their father who bears the
same name as the dead man, and was employed
on the Main. They not permitted 10
the body, owing to it's frightful appearance. They
said they would send their brother to see it.
II seemed proDaDie tnat the dead man was thelr
father.
Dennis King. captain of the Thomas Nolan,
one of the canal baTges lying at the North Ger
man Lloyd Companys docks was at the hos
pital He and his wife lived the boat. When
the fire broke out they were board their
vessel King said that the first intimation he
had Of the fire the big black cloud of smoke
rolling UP. Flames shot out from the building
where the fire started and spread down the
IyNfo- acIc-
ing his boat would drift out into the stream, he
cut the hawserS. Instead, the barge drifted
further in. He jumped into the water. His wife
is supposed to have escaped. They have daugh-
ter employed In of the drygOods stores in
this city.
The injuries Of Ernest venner are the most
serious in the hospital. He is badly burned on
the face, arms and chest. While the conditions
favorable for recovery, he is not out of
danger. Eaoa.
Carl Hartman, another of those taken to this
hospital, is unmarried and native OF Ger
many.