The age-herald., 1900-07-02
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 | North. German Lloyd line office alone. Fully 80 per cent of the sailors are Germans, who have no home and no relatives in this country. Most of them live in Germany. At o'clock this morning nineteen men, machinists and firemen were taken. off the steamship Bremen after having been held very close bound, with death staring them in the face for nearly twelve hours. They were brought ashore on tugs, and taken care of in hotels near the company s charred property No loss of life was re- ported from the Bremen with the exception of the probability of deaths occurring from | the capsizing of the boat already men toned Fourteen persons were rescued from the river by six boats, crews from the Phoenicia of the Hamburg American line, it is possible that there was not soul lost from the Bremen. Three dead bodies were picked up today
 near the Hamburg American dock in Ho-
 boken. One of them was identified as that
 of Lena Cordt, stewardess of the Saale. The other two bodies, males, one of whom
 was unidentified through letters found on his person as Henry Cordel of Hoboken.
 The other body lies as yet unidentified at
 the morgue but from the appearance of the
 clothing it is presumed that the dead man
 was an oiler or coal passer on some of the ships. From a very reliable source it was learned this afternoon that the officers of the steamer Saale had accounted fF III persons out of a total of 252, who were on board at the outbreak of the fire. There was a continuous stream of callers at police headquarters in Hoboken all day seeking information of missing friends and relatives.
 It is feared that some of the Christian Endeavorers who were to have sailed from Boston Tuesday for Southampton on the Saale may have lost their lives. It was said today that some of these people had come to this city to inspect the ship, which had been chartered to take five hundred of them to England, and that they were on board of her when the flames broke out on the pier.
 As many persons, to avoid being roasted to death on the three steamships and docks, jumped overheard and were drown ed, searching parties kept close watch today along the shores Of the North River, Brooklyn and Staten Island. As the tide was on the turn when the people were pre- cipitated in to the water, it is believed that their bodies were carried up stream, and when they rise will come to the sur face above Twenty-third street, unless they drifted into the central current and caught the flood tide running out They are likely to be discovered mostly in the upper bay.
 Agent Schwab said this afternoon:
 "On the deck of the Saale a body was found today which is probably that of Captain Mirow. It was burned beyond
 recognition, but MT. Boner identified a knife which was found the body as one belonging to the captain.
 There was also found by him a mass of melted gold, which is believed to be the remains of the heavy gold chain which the captain wore. Captain Mirow was mar ried and resided on the other side. .T wish to deny the statement that there was a large quantity of oil on the pier near the cotton. There was, however, on one of the piers quantity of lubricating oil. This oil had passed three hundred flash test
 On the question of salvage MT. Schwab said he did not anticipate any big salvage Oil tHc iNdiScl W utI bIOSSe
 "Of course there will be claims for pull ing the vessels out which will have to be settled, but we will have to wait until the claims are made. The salvage question is settled by general average. This is divided
 between the shipping, cargo and insurance interests, and according to the service rem dered, the title and the risk. The Kaiser at the time of the fire did not have steam up.
 "The members of the crews who have survived are likely to be sent back on the Kaiser Wilhelm on the 3d. They will re- ceiye aid from the benevolent association which the company maintains. and the widows and children will be taken care of by the company"
 The fire boat Robert A. VanWyck, which arrived on the scene first among the river fire fighters. presented a picture of horror she lay at her dock in the East River today. The decks were covered with cot ton saturated with the blood of the vic tims rescued by the brave men abroad. The fremen at work cleaning the boat and picking up the stained remnants of clothing which were torn from the burn ing bodies as they were pulled aboard the fire boat from the pit of fire.
 Pieces of human skin clung to the rags and the dreadful experience of the fremen of the day previous was brought again to eyes and memories which sought to forget the horrible spectacle. Lieutenant McGin- his said:
 'I should say there were passengers
 aboard the Saale. They looked like passen-
 gers, and surely were not members of the
 crew. They were locked down in the hold
 of the vessel as securely as ever a convict was imprisoned in a cell. There was no escape for them after the vessel began to take water. We got about thirty out of there while we were allowed to work from the deck. It was to that we witnessed the awful sight of human agony. Port Holes Too Small
 "A hundred arms with the flesh torn
 from them and blackened with smoke pro- truded from the small port holes which were hut a foot or lacc h, J;a,,o+a,