The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-04
1O2 BODIES FOUND
List of Hoboken Fire Victims
Swelling Fast.
Officer Of the Phenicia Trying to Get on a
Tug, Put Off Because He Had
No Money.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York. July 3-One hundred and
two bodies have been recovered from the
waters of the North River up to 10
O'Clock tonight, this being the list of ia
talities positively known The list is
growing hour by hour and tomorrow morn
ing when the tide is at its lowest it. is
believed great many more bodies will
be recovered. Aside from these a num-
Der of people were seen to have persisted
by friends or by fellow officers on the
ship.
All day long today the work of search
ing the ruins WIS kept up. The officials
of the North German Lloyd Line were
doing everything they could to straighten
out matters and bring things into some
sort of tangible shape. Three mems ef
forts were directed to taking care of the
survivors and to securing an accurate
list of the missing. They looked after
the TRANSPORTATION to Germany of the
survivors who are in condition to go.
They also gave them clothing and fed
them.
Thousands of people lined up along the
river in Hoboken today, watching the
recovery of the dead. Undertakers' wag
ons stood in front of the Valencia Boat
Club House, and wooden collins lay on
the float in the water ready to receive
the dead as they were towed in. Far out
in the stream were numerous small row
boats dragging their graphing hooks be-
hind them as they searched for bodies
among the submerged debris.
Many persons on shore had marine, field
and opera glasses, and with these kept
haar ri %
of corpses. AS each boat would go near
the shore, the efforts of the oarsmen and
the sluggish movement of the little
craft clearly showed whether or not
there was a body in tow behind Coming
into palmer view, the body could be seen
bobbing up and down in the water, often
showing burned, charred or horribly
mangled face. The bodies were drawn
to the Valencia Boat Club float, lifted on
to it, and from there carried to the dead
wagons.
PUT OFF THE TUG.
New York, July 3.-Information was
sworn to before Recorder Stanton in Ho
boken today by Ferdinand H. Krouse,
| third officer of the Phoenicia, who charg-
ed that he tried to get aboard tug from
the end of one of the North German Lloyd
was put off because he had no money.
Krouse, in his sworn statement says that
| the name of the tug was THE Dandy,
and his affidavit, he says that the cap
| tain asked: Have you any money!
None in my pockets" Krouse said he
replied.
| The affidavit then says that the cap
tain retorted "Then I've no time for you,
| 7 h,,ci TO Oft m
| Krouse says that he asked the tug boat
captain to go to the assistance of persons
| aboard the Saale, but that the captain re-
fused. This information also was sworn
to by Dudolph Grain, physician on the
Phoenicia.
The Recorder said he would look up
the law on the subject to select the best
method for proceeding against the offend
ing captain.
Mayor Pagan, of Hoboken, says that as
soon as witnesses to the affidavit of Third
Officer Krouse can be brought before him
and prove the charges, he will begin i'm
mediate action against the tug boat cap
tain. He refused to give the name of the
captain of the tug boat until the charges
are proven.
Tug boat captains deny these state
ments and offer a reward of $1,000 for
proof that will convict any tug boat man
of alleged cruelties
sensation was created today by an
announcement from Mayor Pagan. of Ho-
boken. 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 for
warrants charging two tugboat captains
with murder and that he has evidence to
prove that these men used boathooks to
keep drowning men from climbing on
their tugs because the unfortunates had
no money. An effort is to be made, also
to have the licenses of offending captains
revoked.