St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-04
NEW YORK HORROR.


New York, July 3.-From 300 to 400
lives are supposed to have been lost In
Saturdays awful confagration.
Among the crews of the vessels alone
It is feared that over 200 lives have been
lost.
The company took the crew lists,
checked off those members who are in
hospitals or reported safe, and believe
the others to be lost. Among the dead
are a number of officers. The body OF
| Captain Mirow of the Saale has been
found, burned so as to be unrecogndzable.
Fortunately, the number of visitors
on the pier and boats was unusually
small, because no steamer was due TO
sail except the Saale, and she only for
Boston, where she was to have taken on
load of Christian Endeavorers bound
for the convention in London.
A number of Christian Endeavorers
were visiting the Saale, drawn by the
interest taken in the boat because of her
charter by the Boston Endeavorers.
Some of these visitors are reported lost.
One of the officers of the steamship
Bremen said yesterday that there were
fully 200 visitors on board that vessel
when the fire touched there, the majority
of them being women. boat was
lowered from the Bremen shortly after
the alarm had been given, but the craft
capszed as it touched the water and all
hands were precipitated into the water,
and none of them was saved by those re-
naming on board the vessel.
This in itself would indicate that the
list of dead may be larger than it was
first thought to be.
The property loss can simply be ap-
proximated at this time. None of the
officials around the docks could give any
thing like a precise estimate Of their
losses, and none was prepared to make
a statement on this point. Estimates
range up to $2O,O00,OOO.
The three docks of the North German
Lloyd's line are total losses. The pier
of the Thingvalla line is totally wiped
away. The warehouses of almer Camp
bell, across the street from the North
German Lloyds line docks, suffered
greatly.
The steamships cost as follows: Main,
81, 100000 Bremen, $125O,OOO, Saale, ST.
100000. The fittings and cargoes of
the three vessels cost about $1,2OOOOO.
The Saale was beached at Ellis island
and is still burning. The damage to the
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse is estimated
at $25, 900.
The three docks of the North German
1T ht1rn n hn
waters edge, are estimated to have cost
$4,000 The docks were we'll filled with
merchandise Just received from abroad,
and was valued at sS50,OO
The Thingvalla pier which was en-
tirely consumed, was valued at $50,OOO,
counting the stores which were on 1t.
The Hamburg American line dock,
which had lust been completed as an ex-
tension to their great pier, and which
was destroyed in order to prevent the
spread of the flames, was damaged to
the extent of $4,000. This was the only
| loss they. sustained, as the steamer
| Phenicia, contrary to reports, was not
even scorched.
The warehouses of Palmer Campbell,
houses E, f, G. and H. were burned. Mr..
! Campbell said last night that he could
not give any definite estimate OF his
losses, but the damage to buildings alone
would amount to at least 900, and to
the contents $1,250,000
One lighter, containing 5000 bags of
sugar, was destroyed, the loss being $27,-
900. Eight barges and IL canal boats
We're either burned or sunk with their
cargoes; total valuation, $125,0O0.
Minor losses on floating property,
burned at the fire proper os set on fire by
burning driftwood, will amount to about
| $20,0OO
The personal losses sustained by those
aboard the steamships can simply be
surmised as there is no way of ascer-
| tanning them at the present time.