The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-03
THE DISASTER AT HOBOKEN
SJXTY-SEVEN BODIES RECOVERED
UP no LAST NIGHT.

Many Identified as Members of the
Crcws-saale Gives Up the Most Vie
the Seamen That Escaped - Bremen
Gun be eRepa,rcd-rIaine stu Burning.
New York, July 2.-Sixty-seven bodies
given up by the waters of the North
river is the horrible evidence tonight of
the disaster at the docks of the North
German Lloyd Steamship company in
Hoboten. Each hour that passes wit
nesses additional recoveries of bodies,
scared MANNED and burned beyond all
semblance of human flesh And the
half has not yet been told, as all of the
bodies brought to the surface to-day
We're caught on graphing hooks. About
the first of next week people will realize
the appalling loss of life, as it will then
be time for the bodies that are now ly-
ing at the bottom of the river to come
to the surface of the water through
natural agencies. The list of missing is
still placed just below the three hun
dred mark.
The bodies recovered up to II o'clock
tonight include forty-one now in
O'Donnells undertaking establishment
in Hoboken; ten at Hoffmann's in the
same city, twelve in the morgue in New
York and four on the decks of the Saale,
which were recovered too late tonight
to be brought to either city. OF these
thirty-seven have been either positively
or partly identified, most Of them, so
far as has been not discovered, being
victims from the steamship Saale
Twenty-one of these identifications
were made by Second officer Canders,
of the Saale, who was helped in the
task by flremen, coal passers, machin-
lists and other employees Of the vessels.
Those who will undoubtedly swell the
list of the dead are the two hundred
and forty odd men from the steam
ships, including officers, sub-officers
seamen, oilers. machinists, coal pass
ers and trimmers, the greater loss, of
course, being among the men who were
below decks and could not get to the
open before the flames choled them
back and the heavy falling debris beat
them down to their death. OF these the
greater part are foreigners and the
lists of their names are being checked
off by the steamship company officers
as soon as any identification can be
made. Then, too. there are some thirty
five people who We're on canal boats,
lighters and about the docks in various
capacities.
The North Germn Lloyd company to-
day was a great, hopeless cripple for
the time being Her two ships the
Bremen and Main smoked all day long;
the Saale was just beginning to show
the effects of the wrecking steamers
struggles, but the four great docks
in the hot sun, giving off
the sitting odor of its burnt wood and
merchandise.
The general agent of the North Ger
Lloyd line, Gustav Fl. Schwab, |
was at his temporary office in Hoboken
most of the day trying to straighten
the seemingly hopeless situation. He |
rpull NV lOlIl ctliy tAdCl tSlIiildtt VI |
The losses as yet, but the company was |
loing all it could to get out of the en- |
Members of the crews who escaped |
we're sent to the docks over fourteen |
dollars in cash was given to each of !
hem to-day and suits of clothing, cheap |
out new and clean, We're given to every
nan who asked for them. Food and |
shelter We're also provided for the COM
1any's men.
Superintendent Moeller of the North |
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