Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-07-05
THE HOBOKEN HORROR
Many Mangled Bodies Recovered
From the Steamer Saale.
PROBABLY THREE HUNDRED DEAD
The Magnitude of the holocaust Will
BE Emphasized Next Week when
Steamer Main StiII IA Fiery Furnace

| Steamer Main still IA Fiery Furnace
| Jersey City, July 3.-Seventy-seven
| bodies of victims y the Hoboken fire
! haveb cen recovered. Each hour that
| passes witnesses additional TecOveries
| of bodies, scared, MANNED and burned
| beyond all semblanee of humanity.
| And the half has not yet been told, as
| all the bodies brought to the SUI face
| yesterday were caught on graphing
| hooks About the first of next week
| people will realize the appalling loss
| of life as it will then be time for the
| bodies that are now lying at the bot
| tom of the river to come to the surface
of the water of their own accord. The
| list of missing is still placed at but
| few below the 300 mark. OF the re-
| covered dead 81 have been either posi-
| lively or partly identified, most of
| them, so far as have been discovered,
| being victims from the steamship
| Saale.
The complete list of dead, as identifi-
| ed up to midnight, follows:
Henri Busch, officer of the Saale;
Mrs. Philomena Cordes, stewardess Of
| the Saale, home Bremerhaven; Fred
| Elter, fireman, Saale; - Garre, sec
ond machinist of SaaIe; George
! steward, Saale; Jacob Horloff, painter,
| Hoboken; Fred Jansen, machinist,
| Saale; j. Kaufman, larderman, Saale;
Otto Kastordt, steward, Saale; Henry
| Kellenbeck, steward, Saale; Henry T.
kardel, 'lOngshoreman, Hoboken; -
| Loefler, barheeper, Saale; - Mirow,
captain of Saale; - Peter, coal pass
er, Saale; Ludwig Meyer, steward,
Saale; Herman Tienken, aged SO, fire.
man Saale; John Wehlan, chief en-
gineer Saale; - Wallrabe, first car
penter Saale. in addition there are
% other bodies of former employees of
the Saale whose names have not been
learned.
Those who will undoubtedly swell
the list Of dead are the 240 odd men
from the steamships, inclVding Of
ticers, sub-OfiiCers, seamCI, c"-I5, ma
chinistS, coal passers AID t.iianers,
the greater loss of coursC Lu.Ig among
the men who were Ec.oy- decks anJ
could not get to the open before L !
flames chOked them lack ard the
heavy falling debris beat tACn down
to their death. OF these the greater
part are foreigners. Tn, to- there
are some 35 people who We're on canal
boats, lighters and about the decks in
various capacities.
Most of the bodies have been
found on the Saale, which is lying in
2S feet of water about a quarter of a
mile out from Communipaw All of
the bodies were burned beyond recog-
milton. The body of a woman was
found in the after hold Sunday night
hnHjnS of no. of
found yesterday The first was found
near the foot of the stairway leading to
the smoking room. The head was nearly
gone, and portions of the limbs were
missing The second was found near
the steerage entrance, buried in
great heap of rubbish. This body was
thought to be that of the stewards as
sistant Several more bodies were
found in the same locality Three
other bodies were found later in the
day, a little forward of amidships in
the hold. These bodies were thought
to be those of painters and decorators
who had BEEN at work in the hold at
the time the fire broke out.
1t is generally believed that d great
er number of the bodies in the Saale
is still to be recovered. 1t is thought
that most of them are under water,
and that many of them cannot be re-
moved until the ship is raised
The Saale had settled a foot in the
mud since Sunday night. The captain
in charge of the wrecking operations
said:
Il think | will get her off but she
will never carry passengers again"
There was a scene of activity all
day yesterday on and about the Main
and the Bremen, which lie beached in
parallel positions within IS feet of each
other and about 1000 feet from the
JERSEY Shore, opposite West Forty-sec-
ond street, New York. The Bremen
was gutted from stem to stern, and
only the frame remains. The decks
are ripped from the rivets and what
wood remains of them is completely
charred through. The general opinion
is, however, that the Bremen can be
successfully raised and will again be
placed in commission. Despite reports
TO the contrary, not one body had been
taken from either the Main or the
Bremen up to midnight, and the Of
fcers Of both ships say that should any
dead be found the bodies will be be-
to the Main than to the Bremen, as the
former is nothing but a mass of twist
ed iron That the Main is damaged
beyond redemption is the concensus of
opinion of not only wrecking ex-
perts, but also the opinion of Capt
Peterson, of the Main. The ship is
now nothing but a red hulk, from
which exude acrid fumes Of various
density
Rumors exist among the wreckers
that four or five bodies were thought
to be in the stewards quarters of the
Main, but glance through the super
heated gas and steam exhibited only
several berths full of white ash, and
until further investigation is made pos
sible by the cooling of the ship nothing
can he said as to whether the ashes are
those of men or the remains of beds
and clothing. 1t is estimated that the
remains of not more than 20 persons
are board the Main, and should there
be hundred, or even more it is GER
tain none will ever be identified, or
even the exact number known.
On the Bremen, where the fire was
not so intense, notwithstanding the
great damage, the first body has yet
to be found, and will not be until the
ship is pumped out or explored by di-
vsss. No diver has yet been down on
the inside of the ship.
Second Officer Sander, of the Saale,
said this morning that several of the
officers of the steamships would issue
signed and sworn statement that the
captains Of the tugboats did not do all
n their power TO help the ships that
were lying in their docks. His ship
had been cut loose from the pier, and
he and another officer stood at the
stern of the ship with men ready to
man lines Of tugboats. He said they
shouted to the tugboat captains,
number of whom were close under his
ship, but that no response was made,
the tugs simply lying by until they
could get near enough to the great
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse to render
enough assistance to claim salvage.