Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-07-05
HoBOKEN DEATH LIST
LIKELY TO REACH 300
Sizty-seyen Charred Bodies Have
Been Recovered and Over
200 Men Missing.
TERRIBLE SIGHTS ON BIG LINERS

TERRIBLE SIGHTS ON BIG LINERS
charrcd aud Unrccosnizablc Hodies
Were Heing Taken From tho
Half-burncd Vessels All
Day Yesterday.
New York, July 4.-sixty-seven
bodies of victims of the hoboken fire
have been recovered. Each hour that
passes witnesses additional recoverics
OF bodies scared, manned and burned
beyond all semblance of humanity.
And the half has not vet been told,
as all the bodies brought to the SUR
face were, caught on graphing hooks.
The list OF missing is still placed at
but few below the 800 mark, and when
the bodies begin fioating to the SUR
face the grewsomeness of the situa-
tion will be realized. The bodies re-
covered up to late last night include
forty-one now in O'Donnell's under
taking rooms and some in Hoboken;
ten i'll I1otfman's, i'll the same city;
twelve in the morgue in New York,
and four deck hands OF the Saale,
which We're recovered too late to be
brought to either city. of these tlir-
ty-seNcn have been either positively or
partially identified, most of them so
far as has been discovered being vic
TINS from the steamship Saalc.
Twenty-one of these identifications
were made by Second Officer Sander,
of the Saalc, who was helped in the
task by 1iremen, coal passers, machin-
lists and other employees of the YES.
sells.
The complete list of the dead, as
identified up to IL o'clock last night,
follows:
BUSCH, 49,, officer of the Saale.
CORDIsS, Mrs. PIILOAIIENA, stew.
ardess on steamer Saale; home, Brem.
merhaven.
ELTEE, FRED, fireman of saalc.
GARB1G, -, second machinist OF
Saale.
GEORGE. steward of saalc.
HORrOFF, JACOB, painter, Hobo.
ken.
JANSEN, FRED, machinist OF
Sanle.
KAuErMANS, j., larderman OF
Saale.
KAsToRDT, OTTO, steward of the
saale.
lSARDEL, HENRY T., longshore.
man, of HobolSen.
LOFFLER, barkeeper of the
Saale.
MIRO, -, captain of the SANE.
PETER, -, coal passer of the
Saale.
NIYER, LUDWIG. steward of the
Saalc.
TlENllEN. HERMAN, sc years old.
fireman of the Saale.
WllIILAN, JOHN, chief engineer OF
the Saale.
WALLEATz, first carpenter Of
the Saale.
WELLER. AUGUST, machinist Of
Saalc.
SIN STEWARDS, names not
learned.
FOUR SAILORS names not learned.
ASSISTANT NI1ACIIINIST, name not
learned.
TRIMMER. name not learned.
ASSISTANT CARPENTER, name
not learned.
STEWARD.
BAREEEIER.
FIRST BUTCHER.
OlBER.
PANTRY COOK.
MUSICIAN, name not learned.
CLERK. of provision department.
BUTCHER, name not learned.
Those who will undoubtedly swell
the list are the $40 odd men from the
steamship, including officers, subof-
ficers. seamen, oilers, machinists, coal
lasscrs and trimmers, the greater
loss, of course. being among the men
who We're below decks and could not
get TO the open before the flames
clolsed them back and the heavy fall.
ing debris beat them down to their
death. OF these the greater part are
foreigners, and the lists of their
names are being checked Off by the
steamship company officers as soon as
any Identification can be made. Then
too, there are some thirtS-tive people
who We're ON canalboats. lighters and
about the docks in various capacities
The burned North German Lloyd
piers with that of the Thingvilla line
reached out into the river like long,
cliarrcd arms of some great body
which still steamed and smoked i'll it.
last hours of life. Rising above the
whole mass IS Still a heavy cloud oil
smoke that tells of much fire and heat
remaining in the ruins OF the large
storchouse at the north end of the
ruins.
Yesterday the great scenes of the fire
were more on the big steamers that
lay burning on the river than Mt the
locks. which We're just.a pile of smok-
ing ruins, but when the bodies began
to be found in pairs, in groups of halt
dozen and then by the dozen the
scenes that presented the most grew
some sights were at the Hobokcn
pier Hundreds of thousands of people
banked up the streets all day and
watched with incredible interest the
large groups of men that brought in
tho bodies from the end OF the piers
The little procession usually coDslst.
ed of only two solemn looking men
bearing Il dead box which was Gov.
cred with black tarpaulin. Up to the
street they picked their way, followed
occasionally by the men who had
found the corpse. Through a little
north house or from around the cor.
.ner of some building near the edge OF
the dock they would carry their hu.
man fragments TO the dead wagons
Thousands of small children were al
lowed in the crowds to view the hor'
rible spectacle. and women with
babies in their arms craned their
neclss to get a glimpse of sights from
which men turned their faces.
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