Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-02

The Number Of Lives Lost Will
Amount to Several Hun
dreds.
New York, July almost 100000
lives lost, many persons injured and at
Eleast 1900 lives imperiled by the fire
that started among the cotton bales un-
der pier3 of the North German Lloyd
steamship Company in Hoboken, N. j.,
late Saturday afternoon. In ess than
| fifteen minutes the flames had covered;
an area of 5qharter of a mile long ex-
l.tending outward from the actual shore
l#line to the bulkheads, from 900 to 1000
fleet away. and had caught fou. great
ocean liners and d dozen or more small
Ter harbor craft in its grasp.
The stories in regard to the loss of life
Iare conflicting. the number being vari-
ously estimated at from fifty to 200. Up
Ito midnight ten bodies had been recoN-
eretl, but We're all SO burned and black
Iened that Identification Was Impossible.
The hospitals In New York. Hoboken
land Jersey City are crowded With the
4 injured, and men are being brought in
\ by scores.
Looking up the river toward the
i burning ship and the piers the seena
\ GRANDEUR The steamship Sale had
4
\ just eff Fort Liberty. where she had
sgathered about her ring of fire boats
/ and tugs, all fighting TO save at least
tine hull of the doomed steamer. The
flames still We're leaping from her port
fholea and rushing out of the cabins Al
Marrying distances about the burning
ship lay coal and cotton barges. all
4 ablaze, each with one or more tugs
i playing streams of water upon it, made
Eineffeetual by reason of the intense
J5heat.
one by one these affairs of fire We're
lFslomiy consumed most Of them burn
Ling 10 the waters edge. Along the
! jersey shore small fires We're blazing,
! started by wreckage from the great
4 Steamships.
Over on this side of the river the fire
lcaussd the greatest exciternent, as the
4 drifting steamships and barges floated,
4 all afalne, to the New York shore and
4 brushed against the piers from Canal
Ito Murray streets.
4 The fire department VAS called out
at various points along the threatened
'Isectionas and the spectacle Vas presents
! ed OF tiremsn on shore trying TO fight
fires at every minute changing their sit
zIsuation. 5
4 There were hundreds of men and a
flew women on each Of the destroyed
isteamships. Crowds Of dock labcrers.
q alsoit nployes of the companies, We're on
Ian the piers Men. women and children
We're on canal boats and men on barges
land lighters, and when the fire made
its quick descent upon them escape was
i cut off before they realized their awful
Il position. People on the piers jumped
4 into the water to save themselves and
scores of men huddled under piers.
4 clinging to supports only to be suffo-
). Gated by tbs, flames or 70 drop back into
q the water from exhaustion.
u Men working in the holds Of the four
u steamers We're shut in by walls OF
& flames and it was impossible to reach
81 them. 1t Will probably never he known
: lhow many men persisted in the ships, as
the flames We're so fierce that they
u would leave but few{if any remains of a
a human body at
The greatest loss of life appears to
have been on the Saale. She carried
I $50 people and was TO have sailed for
Boston Saturday afternoon. When the
! police boat captain went aboard he1
''I8With his rescue party. he saw bodies ~
.iing all about the decks. The steamship
u Bremen carried crew of 800 men, tbs
I, Main $50, and If as many lives Were
lost on the Bremen and Main as on ths
I Saale the number of lives lost will bt
very great. Then also many persisted
y on piers canal boats and lighters
Burning or snouldering remains ol
Iscanal boats lighters and barges are
4 and the bay to Staten Island and Gov
ernor's Island. Each Of those craft vii
; add something to the list of dead.
The loss to the German Lloyd docks
d alone IL placed at $4,000 900. The valu,
: lsof the great quantities Of cotton, oil ant
various other merchandise on the dock
has not been estimated at this time
The loss to the North German Lloye
steamship Company alone will proba
bly, come close TO sl0,00O000, az the Bre
Y linen, the Main and the Saale We're al
most totally destroyed. The Kaieer Viii
helm Der Crosse was also somewha
/ damaged. The five store houses of tn
Campbell Company are greatly dam
n aged, the loss on one building alone be
ing placed at s1.5OOoOO. The Hamburg
:. American line steamer Phoenicia wa
badly damaged, but the amount is no
The Thangvalla pier was burned am
the dock of the Hamburg America,
line suffered greatly a number o
small buildings along the Hobokel
wharfs were destroyed with their con
tents, but the estimate of the loss is no
available.
WHERE FIRE STARTED.
From what can be learned the flame
started among a large pile of cottol
bales on pier No. 2 of the North Gsrmal
Lloyd Steamship Company and spreat
: with such remarkable rapidity that il
fifteen minutes the entire property o
the company, taking In over one-thirt
Of mile of water front consisting o
4 three great piers, was completely en-