The age-herald., 1900-07-01
ooo,ooo LOSS ed on the Pier at Ho- boken, N. J.
 FILLED WITH INJURED \kasss a. tn. Rive, s1O,OOo, 900 l re in-
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 6poken an area C

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 s than
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 rom the actual shore line to the
 Ids from 600 to 1000 feet away, and
 hited four great ocean liners and a
 or more smaller harbor craft in it's
 lies in regard to the loss of life are
 letting, the number being variously es- ted at from 50 to 200. Up to midnight bodies had been recovered but they ei so burned that Identification was im- |sible.
 he hospitals in New York, Hoboisn and rsey City are crowded with the injured, e men being brought in by scores. Those who gathered along the shores of be Hudson river to witness the great cons agration saw a spectacle that they can ever forget and one that will always have conspicuous place in the history of New York
 The river and bay were enveloped in a \ of black smoke through which flames, rsting as from volcanoes, on the Jersey re and in the water itself. leaped in the The surface of the water was covered tn floating masses of freight thrown rning in haste from the doomed vessels, .unnoticed in the mad race to rescue the man beings threatened or being sacrificed the great ships. And through the pail smoke, a great crimson sun, enlarged thrice its size, glared like an enormous ye as 1t slowly sank in the west. Such yas the spectacle presented on the surface fljae Hudson river as If 1t had been some Zday pageant. It was made tragic by e realization that somewhere in that noke, somewhere beneath the water, ,ores of lives had been lost or were then their last struggle against death.
 Witnessed by Thousands
 This spectacle was witnessed by thous-
 from either shore and by other thous-
 who crowded upon every ferry boat, Y excursion boat. upon every variety |river craft that could be secured for the urpose. The crowd upon the banks of the yer was almost as great as that which brmed to witness the triumphant return Admiral Dewey Looking up the river bward the burning piers and ships, the tene was wonderful yet tragic in its randeur. The steamship Saale had been owed down the river until it was just off Fort Liberty where she had gathered about her a ring of fire boats and tugs, all fight Ing to save at least her hull.
 At varying distances about the burning hip lay coal and cotton barges, all ablaze, hch with one or more tugs playing water pon 1t. Some of these barges and light were loaded with very inhammable ul1 and the flames leaped high in the air, hile the. Neat was so terrific that it was ot possible to use the small hose of the bugs. Along the Jersey shore small fires were blazing, started by the wreckage from The great steamships.
 On the New York side of the river the re caused the greatest excitement as the drifting steamships and barges fioated. all flame to the shore and brushed against )he piers from Canal to Murry streets. The fire department was called out at various points and the spectacle was pre- Fentcd of the firemen on shore trying to light fires at every minute changing their eitnation.
 Many Persons on the Ships There were hundreds of men on each of the destroyed steamships and few wo- nen. Crowds of dock laborers and also mployes of the companies were on all the iers. Men. women and children were on he canal boats and men on the barges and IgHters, and when the fire made It's first cent upon them escape was cut off be- they realized their awful position. people on the piers jumped in the wa tO save lnefnSelVeS ana scores or men adled under the piers, clinging to the lpports only to be suffocated by the ames or to drop back in the water from Exhaustion The greatest loss of life ap- ears to have been on the Saale She car led 450 people and was to have sailed for pston this afternoon. When the police bat captain went aboard of her with his scue party he saw bodies all about the eck. The steamship Bremen carried a " of 300 men, the Main 25O and if as Cany lives were lost on the Bremen and ain as on the Saaie the number of lost ill be very great.
 The burning of smouldering remains of canal boats, lighters and barges are scat cred all the way down the river and back Staten Island and Governors Island Zach of these craft will add something to the list of the dead.
 Loss toDocks Is 02, 100000 niocks Joss to the North German Lloyd
 's placed at $2,000, 900. The value ss t,,e Quantities of cotton, oil and Serso,,s other sfnH on the docks has not t,ae,, estimated at this -x,me. The loss to the North German Lloyd 6teamship Com many alone will probably come close>to slO.- Doo m as fine Bremen, the Main and the
 n were almost totally destroyed. The
 lSrVilhen ns somewhat damaged.
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