The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-03
BODIES NUMBER 81
Work of Recovery Goes on at
HObOken.
DEATH LIST ABOUT 800
STORIES OF EDWARDS AS WELL
AS HEROES.

New York, July 2.-Sixty-seven booies
Of. the victims of the HOboken IRE nave
been recovered
Each hour that passes witnesses aoui-
tionaI recoveries of bodies. SCARED, main
ed beyond all semblance to humanity.
And half has not yet been told, as al
bodies brought TO the surface toCdy -
caught on graphing hooks ABOUT III ~
first of next week people VIII reatlze tLS
appalling loss OF lie, as IL Wal tnetA -
time for bodies that are now iylhS a ul.0
bottom OF the river TO come 70 'ilo ,oo-s
face of the water OF their own acSoiU-
The list of missing is still placed d'
but few below 300 =, -
Those who will undoubtedly swell the
list are $40 odd men from steamships, III
Guiding officers, sub-officers, seamen'
oilers, machinists, coal pasSers ana q ILL ~.
mers. Then, too, there are some IN ny, -
five people who We're on caIaI o 49,,
lighters and about the docks IN various
capacities. !.
The North German Lloyd company IS
doing all il can to get itself out VI III
| tangle The company sent money uo 1,N,.l
to its docks today and paid II ouI 70 SUI SUI
vIvors. More than $4,000 IN caSn We
dealt out TO men today and clothihS "SS
given to every man who asked IoI II
/ Food and shelter was also proV1ueu i0A
! Superintendent Moeller of the North
| German Lloyd line said late tonight
| The steamship Bremen can De re-
/
/ until o'clock tonight, when the last
| flame was stifed. The steamship Nam
! is still on fire. / believe the snip Will
! be total loss. The SaaIe hes oeeP "a "a
/ the water. The wrecking boats StaTIss,Hi
/ to work on her right away and She WIN
probably be floating in several days,
! The most greWsOme sight today was AZ
/ Hoboken pier Hundreds of thousands
1 of people banked up in the streets all
4 day long and watched little groups 81
men that brought in bodies from the
end of the piers. Thousands OF snaii
/ children were allowed TO view tne h0Iit-
| BILE spectacle. and women with baoles
! in their arms craned their neeks TO get
a glimpse of the sights from which many
! turned their faces
towards as Well as Heroes.
Along with the stories of heroic rescue
! come others of greed and disregard OF
human life. John Lupth, painter en-
plOyed in decorating the first CABIN OF the
SaaIe, was alarmed by the cry OF hre
and rushed from the cabin TO the oeck
Just in time to see a great Sheet OF HaIIe
sweep over the forward part OF tne YES
sci and enveIop Captain Mirow. who was
standing between the bridge afS the Tore
hatch, giving orders TO Danlc-Strlche Ken
group of laborers to batter the hatehes
The fire wrapped around him. and IN ar
instant he was crumpled into a shapelesS
| mass, falling where he stood
/ AT that" says Lupth, nan uOLeI
/ tugs blowing whistles. steamed up 10
ward the Kaiser Wilhelm, which was
lying on the opposite side OF the ooch
Sixty men followed me IN a Iedp ~ 6aI :
lighter, and we began shouting Tor nell
/ to the tugs that were coming up 10 helI
the Kaiser Wilhelm.
THE captain of the tug paid no atteh'
ton TO US whatever, and made no an
/ sWer. Instead of trying 10 reach US VIII
the line a second time he backed Waiel
and got under the Prov Of the big snip
We could see him throwing a small hahe
line to those on board IL
! Another tug came within, haIllng dlS
lance and we spoke to her, but the only
answer we got was No time now; VII
see you later. -,
q saw three men swimming ana tryII!S
10 pet awav from the burning pier. sax
. John Voss, The hair of one Of them m, wa
I on fire He ducked his head 10 Dut
: out When he came up he Snoute'
.Help, Helpr in German. A man on
small tug leaned over the side ana y enc,
ont: Have You any gelt? We are no
here for our health. The man IN IN
water must have been hurt IN some way
because he could not make any reply II
threw I'D his hands and sank