The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-02

NEW YORK July 1.-The losses sus-
tanned in the fire at the docks of the
North German Lloyd Steamship company
in Hoboken yesterday are conserVatively
placed at nearly ~$10,000,000. The loss of
life, while merely guesswork at even this
late hour will probably reach as high as
200, and there are over 300 men In the hos
pitfalls in this city, Hoboken and Jersey
City badly burned.
The immense piers of the North German
Lloyd line are burned to the waters rip
ple the ThingValla pier also lies
smoldering, and part of the Hamburg
American pier, which has just been added
to their great piers, were in ruins. Four
large store houses Of the Palmer Camp
bell company are wrecked, and they,
with the piers, go to make up the appall-
ing mass of debris that lies smoking, siz-
zling and steaming across the North
river. 1t covers over four city blocks and
reaches out into the river for over thou
sand feet.
This was the scene of the greatest at
traction today, and thousands upon thou
sands of people went there.
Far off up the river, at Weehawken, a
great cloud of smoke rose and tumbled,
at one moment lying hard on the water
and at the next rising just enough to
show the skeletons of two of the great
liners, the Bremen and the Main, that
rose like giant spires out of the smooth
surface of the water. They had both been
beached there. Around them swarmed a
fleet of small boats, carrying spectators
Far down the river, off Ellis ilsand, lay
the smoking and steaming hulk of the
Saale. She was almost a total wreck
The loss of life will probably prove
greater when the wreck of the Saale has
been searched. Already a number of
bodies have been taken off her, and as
soon as the fire in her hold has been sub
dued enough to allow any one to go down
in her there is every probability that
many bodies will be found below decks
as various tug boat captains claim to have
seen thirty or forty persons in one COM
partment just before the Saale went
down.
OF the 263 persons who were reported
missing tonight, 1t is believed that some
will be found safe in sailors boarding
houses in this city, Jersey City and Ho-
boken.
The North German Lloyd officials deny
that any passenger was lost, declare that
few If any visitors perished, and that the
loss of life was almost entirely among
employees of the company.
The following list of the dead is the
most comprehensive that could be obtain
ed up to 1:S0 o'clock this (Monday) morn
ing:
Ahlsborn, Adolph, thirty-six years old,
chief officer of the Bremen; Bohlgmann.
Christian, thirty-eight years old. taken
from the Main; Cordts, Mrs Lena, thirty
one years old, stewardess on the Saale:
Cordel, Fred, longshoreman of Hoboken,
found in river; Elter, Fred fireman on
Saale, perished in hold; Handel. Fred,
longshoreman, found off North pier; He
henstein, Karl, twenty years old, painter
on Saale friends saw him burn); elmer,
Day, head fireman of Main, seen to have
! perished in the hold; Minow, James. fifty
years old, captain of the Saale, burned
to crisp on deck, identified by penknite:
Melinski, -, chief storekeeper of the
Main, seen to have perished in hold;
Reichert, Paul. painter on the Saale, seen
to fall back into flames; Sander, Herman,
/ twenty-four years old, sailor on Bremen
! Schumacher, Carl, of crew of Saale, body
in Hoboken morgue; Viner, Ernest, thir-
! ty-seven, from Saale; Wehlan. J.. chief
engineer of Saale, rescued companion
saw him dead on the ship; fourteen uni
Identified bodies.
NEW YORK, July 1.-The fearful hav-
oc of life and property caused by the
fire which broke out at the docks of
the North German Lloyd company in
Hoboken yesterday cannot be approxi-
mated with any degree of certainty. Con-
servative people who have had expe-
| rience along the docks are of the opin-
ion that not more than 200 lives were
| lost.
One of the officers of the steamship