The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-01
TWO HUNDRED
REPORTED LOST
Continued from FIRST Pagel

adjoining. which for time threatened to
cur off the men and set fire TO the pier.
The men dropped Into the water and ciung
to tho pier piles for q few minutes, and
then tho wind drove the flames back. and
they were able to retreat The smoke
which pourned out OF the flames and as
ceuded high in the air, blew almost di-
recsly eastward. and maintained It's column
for distance OF about seventy miles. as
il was seen clearly beyond Babylon, l. l.
THE HEAT INTENSE
Ono man. with burned hands and face,
says he was rescued by another man more
severely burned than himself. and said he
was; helpless in The wafer when the other
threw an arm about him and buoyed him
up. The others face was feartui!y burned, 4
and the other arm useless, buE he
trod water and ttoated so sk!lfully thaY
they fioated down ;he river. y tug VENT
Ia thei: Eascut. The man who told thG
story said he tainted after being rescued,
and did not know II his rescuer had az 30
been taken out OF the water.
An idea OF he intensity of the heat b as
given b. thu fac. that steamship ftrer en-,
who ar. used to working: IT the rire-l19ou
o, q vessel, supposed to be the I'd tsst
piac. where any human being workY fell
back from tn wurE. - fighting The mes,
overcome by the heat.
Some of those who went into thtY water
and were rescued. and but slightly Ynjured.
say tNdL WtlSil pLIefSr WHO Wtftf S3G-til
between fire and water. saw deatit coming
they went insane. Men babbIedf of home
and friends during the few frief mo-
inents that they and the others faced
death. The fear OF the furnRtce which
lay between them and the ajud hereft
them of their senses. There were acts
of cowartlice and of heroiSm finley chung
TO Others and refused TO letf go. though
it meant death to both. Onti ot the sur
vivors was seized by another man who
chung TO him franticaIl3 ana refused
to let go The man. r'ho was later
saved, had to beat his roEnpaniou into
insensibility before he gould loosen his
hands ard plunge into fthe water.
The loss OF their hosei crippled the tio-
boken hremeu. When trhey reached the
fire at first they set oNt TO conftns it TO
the pier on which it Started They got
their lines out on thd two adjoining and
even ran their apparatus out to pump
from the river. Whan the ii,trles spread
the hose on the piers was lost Some Of
f it's Sors ana we're eT one nose s ana
Later Jersey CRY stripped itself of all
the hose possible and sent it TO the Eo-
bo BOZ! ars,nen ina wagon for use with 18th
fI0sfITALs FULL
All OF the hoEpitals in Hohnken and this
city are crowded with the victims of The
fire. There age scores OF men burned so
badly tflat little hope is entertained for
their recovery Hgdson-Strset Hospital
has every p.atien. thar il can possibly take
car. OF. as tlss also Bellevue. ST. Viueens's
and many of the hospitals further up town
Thers werf over two hundred persons tax
en- to thY hospitals UP TO 10 o'efock to-
nigh:. AMI Sufferers wera stu comtas IN
by tho gore.
All kinds of vehicles were brought into
use az aFnbtliances.
Saloons stores and any other buildings
that hstppensd to be open on the river
from. 81 Hohoken were turned into hos
pitfalls. temporarily.