The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-04
SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD.
GRUEsoME TASK At THE SCENE
OF THE HOBoKEN DOCK FIRE.
Up 10 I o'clock Yesterday Afternoon
Eighty-Four Dead Bodies Had
Been Dragged From the River or
Found in the Holds of the ships.

NEW YORK, July 3.-One hundred and
two bodies have been recovered from the
waters Of the North river up to 10 o'clock
these many fatalities being positively
known. The list is growing hourly and to-
morrow when the tide is at its lowest It
is believed that a great many more bodies
Will be recovered The dead tonight are
q.s.rloutcu among the morgues In Ho-
boken, Jersey City and New York. and on
the steamship Saale there are three bodies
which have not yet been removed
All day long the work of searching the
ruins was kept up. The officials of the
erything they could TO straighten out mat
tiers and bring things into some sort of
tangible shape. The main efforts were
directed to taking care of the survivors
and to securing an accurate list of the
missing. They looked after the trans
portation to Germany Of the survivors
whs are in condition to go. They also
gave to them clothing and fed them.
Official action was today started on the
charges OF cruelty against tugboat cap
tains and also the charges that they re-
fused to rescue persons unless money was
paid 10 them.
The search for the bodies Of those
who persisted In the fire at the North
German Lloyd Company's piers, in
Hoboken. was resumed today. Up to
the stoppage of work late last night
sixty-seven bodies had been recovered.
Wrecking tugs today continued their work
on the Main and Bremen. removing cargo
and debris and trying to reach the bodies
believed to be in their holds. Many per-
sons are known TO have persisted I'm these
ships. and the search for their remains
viii keep UP, but IL Is feared that any
recovered will be unrecognizabe The body
OF an unknown man, thought to be one
Of the victims OF the fire, was found at
the foot Of Essex street Jersey City, to-
day. All OF the injured In the Jersey City
hospitals are reported TO be doing we'll
or the eighteen fire patients in Bellevue
recovered, and all OF them probably will
leave that institution today They will
be cared for by the North German Lloyd
Company.
sensation was created here today by
an announcement from Mayor Pagan, Of
Hoboken. that he will prosecute ali tug.
boat captains against whom charges OF
refusing to save life can be substantial
ed. The mayor says he will apply for
warrants charging two tugboat captains
with murder, and that he has evidence
that these men used boat hooks TO keep
drowning men from climbing on their tugs
because the unfor,vnates had no money
An effort is to be made also to have the
licenses of offending captains revoked Up
to $50 o'clock seven bodies had been taken
from the river today, making the total
number OF dead found seventy-four.
), The work Of removing the cargo from
the saale was discontinued today and
a gang of ihirty-fve men was put TO
work preparing the ship for pumping out
Divers were sent dawn to cover the port
Of hoilermakers commenced to remove
rivets from the iron work that now
covers the ways TO the steerage hatch
way When this hatchway is opened up
1t Is expected that a nurnoer of bodies
will be found.
The fire on the Main has been put
out and while the upper works will have
to be rebuilt the hull of the vessel is
in pretty fair shape. The plates OF the
hun above water, although the paint is
burned on, have not sprung any leaks,
which shows her bottom plates were not
much affected by the hea-
The Bremen, beached alongside the
Main on the Weehawken Hats, rests on
her port side The visible part OF her
lines, the upper works, looks a deplorable
wreck, but her hun Is nearly all right
The powerful derrick Monarch is keep
Ing the Bremen from keeling over to
port.
Up to o'clock this afternoon the total
OF recovered dead from the Hoboken fire
was eightytour. OF these. forty-slx have
been Identified. The river walk all along
the ruins OF the North German Lloyd
piers was crowded today with spectators
watching the recovery of the dead. The
work of searching the river about the
three ships Is still going on, and the
can to save the property. AS yet the
steamship company Is unable to give out
an itemized estimate of their losses. Three
bodies were recovered a. the foot OF
Fourth street. Hoboken, about l O'Clock
this afternoon.
Information was sworn to before Rec
order Stanton. In Hoboken. today by
Ferdinand II. Krowse. third officer OF
the Phoenicia, who charged that he tried
10 get aboard a tug from one OF the
North German Lloyd piers, and succeeded
in boarding her but was put or because