New-York tribune., 1900-07-13
SAALE NINE FEET ABOVE WATER.
HOPE THAT THE VESSEL MAY BE ENfPTIED
TO-DAY-ANOTHER BODY FOUND.

Only one body taken from the Saale yester-
day, that of Busch, musician. II found in
the stewards quarters. with the mans flute and
music near by. Busch's body and two legs were
found in the forward part of the stewards quar-
tiers. The legs were taken to Hoboken. This makes
the total number of bodies recovered from the
Saale ffty-four The work of removing the bodies
probably will be completed to-day. Coroner Hoff-
mans said that one body had passports
It, but there were other papers scattered about,
they could not tell whether the passports belonged
to the body near them. One of the Coroner's men
said he had counted five other bodies still in the
stewards quarters on the Saae.
Sixteen bodies removed from the Saae on
Wednesday. were buried yesterday, and the one
taken TO the morgue in Hoboken yesterday will be
buried to-day. More would have been taken out
yesterday but for the storm which up late
in the afternoon. just after the COroner's tug
reached the burned vessel. This made it dan
gerous to lie alongside and the tug returned.
Mr.. Chapman of the wrecking firm of Merritt &
Chapman said he hoped to have the Saale emptied
Of water to-day, but some of his experienced en-
ployes ventured the prediction that the Saae would
not be pumped out within week. duplex
force up the water At nightfail the deck Of the
~ Sate was ABOUT 90 hlne teet above surface and there
NTIe seven or eight feet OF water IN her hold
1t was found during Wednesday night and yester-
fective than smaller ones. The thirty-nch pumps
FPaesd m by TWO fo1FPeh inc pumps at at HI hatch &
engine room a four-inch siphon pump, in after
pump in after hatch No f. The steam which OPP
Grated the pumps came in pipes from the tug
champion and the wrecking craft Monarch. All of
Ihe pumps but one are of the centrifugal pattern.
me exception Is at after hatch No. 3 Divers were
at work yesterday closing up the leaks from the
outside. II is likely that some of the cargo will
be removed to-day O-mOrTOW.
- Health Inspector Samuel A Helfer and R. w.
Carinan. of the Hoboken Health Board.
hand ma nd nearly all day. but they had little TO do owing
10 the late arrival of the Coroner. Officials of the
New-York Health Board visited the wreck and
were greeted by DR.. Helfer. who informed them
that he had doubt of his Jurisdiction.
1t IS thought that there are a number OF bodies
IN the Main and the Bremen. The remains of
the steward Cunidentfed) found in the glory hole"
oI the Bremen on Wednesday were turned over to
The police of the West Sixty-eighth-st. station
early yesterday found the badly burned and dis
nBgured body Of man floating, in the Hudson
RIVER on tIfty-ninth-st The body was that of
man apparently siXty-ive years old. and about
> feet inches tall. 1t had gray mustache and
gray gOatee and mixed gray hair.
~ Fh!een Hi bales Of cotton were washed overheard
on Wednesday night from of the bargeS dam
aged IN the great fire and beached near Liberty
Island. The crew Of the tug Hustler, which was at
work on the wreck. saved dozen of the ba yes
terday- Nearly every boat along the Communipaw
Shore picked up some of the cotton. Parts of the
Bay were white with it