The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-12
FLOATING THE SAALE.
Burned Lloyd Liner Beinx Raised on
the COMM unipaw Flats.

| burne0 Lloyd Liner BefnG Raised OF
| the Communipaw Flats.
| NEW YORK. July 1.-THE work OF float
Ing the Saaie was begun this morning.
| The big steam pumps which were placed
! in position and tested yesterday were
| working hard this morning pumping the
water out of the steamships hold. BY
1890 o'clock the vessel had been lightened
appreciably. her engines for the frst time
were exposed to view. and twelve feet of
water had been pumped out. What ap-
peared to be hopeless wreck. and which
many an old seaman had predicted would
remain for long time to come on the
Communipaw flats. began to rise from her
berth. AS one walked over the decks Of
the wreck the motion Of the steamship
was quite pereeptible.
The saale was lying in about thirty feet
OF water at ebb tide this morning. and
she was still fast in mud. with her nose
pointing northwest toward the Communi-
PAW shore. about 400 feet from Pier Z. On
her port side we're the Monarch and the
Atlas, two large steam derricks which sup
piled the steam for the pumps. The Mon-
arch was at work forward and the Atlas
was on duty aft. On the starboard side.
derrick Champion was toiling aft. Nearly
200 men labored on like beavers under the
direction OF the two Captains Kivlin, who
were experimenting the wrecking opera
tions glh err
In the forward hatch-hatch No. 2, IL
Is called-two thirty-inch suction pumps
worked away. Their pipes measured
twenty-seyen feet in length and they did
not extend to the bottom OF the hold
Four pumps were at work on the after
matches, Nos. 3 and 4. Three Of these
were eight-inch centrifugal pumps. and
one was ten inches. The aft pumps Of
the centrifugal pattern differed from the
suction pumps forward In that they gath
cred Up and discharged water with sand
and debris in it. Tho thirty-inch Jumps
brought up only free water.
The amount OF water which they pumped
out in minute was 1890 gallons apiece.
There was no systematic search for
bodies this morning. although It was ex-
pected that when the water had all been
pumped out ard the cargo exposed to view
bodies would be found william Schae1er.
first officer, and Emil Sander. second officer
Of the Saale. were on hand this morning
for the purpose Of Identifying any that
might be recovered. Nearly all Of the
three hundred odd port holes had been
closed up with toggle boards by the divers.
and four divers were at work today survey
ing the bottom Of tine steamship and plug
ging up. here and there. any steam pipe
holes and openings in the cargo ports.
The work of disinfecting the steamship
progressed under the direction Of DIR.
Samuel A. Heller. President OF the Ho-
boken board of health He was assisted by
Samuel w. Carman. Soluble phenyle was
the preparation used. All the stencil was
quickly removed when the disinfectant had
been sprinkIed. DR.. HeIfer said that the
work of blowing up the Hoboken piers
with dynamite had been abandoned. He
said that wild stories had been set afiOat
to the effect that many bodies were i'm
prisoned in the twisted iron and wreck
age of the piers He said:
There may be a number of bodies under |
the piers, but / do net believe that many |
will be recovered before the new piers are |
built The stencil which arises there is |
due to the decomposition Of 1000 bags Of |
beans and a number OF raw hides |
Steamboats, loaded down with passengers |
who had heard that the Saale was to be
raised today. passed around the steamship |
today. All who saw the wreck expressed |
great surprisa at what had been accom-
plished. Owners Of rowboats and junks |
lid thriving business. To all the visitors !
who came aboard. Capt. Tom Kivlin said |
that today would be the last day that the
Saale would rest where she was.
II do not know" he said, what the
company will make out. Of her. II shall
-aise her and Tighten her Of her cargo, and
hen my work is done-'iri bss
Up to o'clock sixteen whole bodies
we're picked up. Two fragments Of bodies
we're also found. Fiftyftaree bodies have
low been taken from the Saale.