Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-07-03
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1 DISASTER |. J [ R
q syos Humid red Lives hin ths
ES MINI Il U of the North Cor II
,pnal u, u va Piers. s s# !.
sa Threes Great Ocean Liners With
sS Their Crews Burn to the
Isss6 n VI Waters Edge. ..3
PROF ERIY i oss $40, 900, 600
Firemen Are Utterly Helpless
\ 5SEE Is Cope With the Devour-l Z
ssssss# ing Element \. 60 &.
The g onflagration's Progress
Finally Checked BY Use
b. Of Dynamite.
PROF ERTY Loss $40, 600, 600

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D, of Dynamite. r
s sFs New York, July 1.-Two hundred
people perhaps many more-lost their
lives in fret that destroyed steamships.
piers and warehouses to the value Of
! go, OOO,O in Hoboken, and there are
over 300 men in the hospitals in this
city, Hoboken and Jersey City badly
/ burned. Eighteen bodies have been re-
I. covered. Eleven of them were placed
! in row at the morgue in this city and
numbered, this being the only means
3; the authorities have Of maintaining any
sort of identity over the corpses, as they
are so badly charred and dismembered
that identification will be made only
by trinkets and pieces Of clothing that
were found about the bodies. The only
way the steamship officials have OF 'ap.
proximating the loss of life is by COM
pairing the. list of those reported safe
with the list of the employees on the
steamships. 49,.
Started in Cotton Bales.
The flames started among a large pile
. Of cotton bales on pier Of the North
German Lloyd Steamship company and
spread with such remarkable rapidity
that in 10 minutes the entire property
Of the company, taking in over third
Of mile, of water front and consisting
Of three great piers, was completely en-.
veloped in a huge blaze that sent great
clouds of smoke high up into the air.
The flames started 80 suddenly and
gained such Roadway that the people
on the piers and on the numerous YES
sells docked were unable to reach the
street. ,..,
The saale, the Main and the Bremen
of the North German Lloyd line were
burned to the waters edge. Three
piers Of the Lloyd line and the five
great Campbell storage warehouses
were consumed. The Phoenioia Of tho
Hamburg American line and the Kaiser
h wilhelm der Crosse, pride 81 the Lloyd
hne, barely escaped destruction. W. =
= 5 Many Are Drowned. ~5s
There were great gangs Of workmen
on the piers, and these, together with q
number of people who were at the docks
ON business and visiting the ships, scat
tered in all directions.
AS all means Of exit were out OF by
the flames they were forced to jump
overheard, and it is believed q great
number Of people were drowned. The
water for some distance along the docks
was lined with people. They were
clinging to the piers, and even to the
rudders of the burning vessels. Some
were picked up; many were drowned.
About 200 people were rescued at
the Hamburg American line pier.
They were much overcome from ex.
haustion, but were soon revived with
stimulants. ., f.
w. Huge Storeh0uses Burn.
The southern end of the Campbell
Storage company building, consisting
of five 5-story structures, caught fire
and flames shot from every window
from the five floors in but few min.
utes. The buildings, being filed mainly
with jute and whisky, burned rapidly.
Y The flremen were unable to go within
4 fighting distance and the fire had pretty
much its own way there.
\ The fire gained such Roadway by the
time the Hoboken fire department ar.
rived that they were utterly helpless to
cope with the flames. They were fur.
ther handicapped by having: several
h,,r,1ro6 foot If h0aa hnrno6 -...'.. .
Calls were made on the New York
fire department. for assistance and fire
tugs were sent over. These, however,
had little effect on the great mountain
of flame and smoke. =,
y" Awful Havoc Of Death. M /,
The fire .defied tho efforts of engine
and hose companies and fire tugs, and
j nothing could block its path until the
Il pier Of the Hamburg American line was
blown up by dynamite. '..-;r..s
Il The vessels attacked by the flames
i were one after the other lowed away,
Z but four Of them burned so furiously
4 that they did not stop until above the
water line they were nothing but
charred masses. Sailors asleep in the
sHOOluS ~ kOoSNO' SsooO46OA5 Va
deck persisted BY the score. %=ts}.%s -; :.
4 g. 1t is feared that some Of the Christian
:: Endeavorers who were to have sailed
from Boston Tuesday for Southampton
). On the Saale have lost their lives. /, 1t.
B was said that some of these PEG.
x pie had come, to this city to inspect. the
ship, which had been chartered to take
I. 500 Of them to England, and that they.
{ were on board when the flames broke
\ but on the pier. ~ $,s H. se0 -, 4 :i"..
ID 4 s:t confirm. Facts Already Known. -
Ss w sHIEGToN, July 2. Postmaster
n General Smith stated during the day
4 that he would not be ready to give out
Il General Bristow' $ report on Cuban pcs.
sstal affairs until next week. The re:
port he added, contains nothing Of q
/ startling nature, being mainly q con.
y tirmation Of facts already known. U