The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-02

Result So Far Known of HO-
boken Catastrophe.
LOSS OF PROPERTY
is TEN MILLIONS
Steamship Companies Find Dit
ticulty in identifying Dead.

| New York, July 1.-The losses sus-
tanned in the fire at the North German
Lloyd Steamship company in Hoboken
yesterday, are tonight conservatively
placed at nearly 10000, 900; the loss of
life, merely guesswork at even this late
hour, will reach probably as high as
/ 200, and there are over 800 men IN the
hospitals in this city, Hoboken and
Jersey City, badly burned.
Up to IL o'clock tonight eighteen
bodies have been recovered. Eleven OF
these were placed in a row at the
morgue in this city and numbered, this
! being the only means the authorities
have of maintaining any sort OF lden-
tity over the cOrpSeS, as they are so
badly charred and dismembered that
Identification viii be made only by
trinkets or pieces of clothing that were
found about the bodies. The only way
the steamship officials have OF approx
imating the loss of life is by comparing
the list of those reported safe with the
list of the employees on the steamships
Late tonight, Gustave Schwab. the
general manager of the North German
Lloyd line, gave out a list showing
what men on each vessel had been
missing up to that hour.
Many to be Accounted For.
On the SaaIe 255 men were employed
and only 127 of these had been ac-
counted for no to IL o'clock, leaving
12S men actually employed as officers,
sailors, stewards, engineers, coal pass
ers, oilers and trimmers to be account
ed for.
The Bremen had 2O4 men on board,
but only 127 of these have been found.
The Main had 137 employees on board
at the time. and of these only seventy
six have been reported safe.
A spectacular but horrible sight was
presented today. Where, two days ago,
piers reached hundreds of feet out into
the river and rose like great hills alive
with outgoing and incoming commerce,
lay a great waste of burning and
SmOuldering beams, with here and
The three immense piers of the North
German Lloyd line were burned TO the
waters ripple, the Thingvalla pier lay
smouldering, and part of the Ham
burg American pier, which had just
been added to their great piers, were
in ruins Four large stOrehOuses of the
Palmer-CampbeI company are wreck
ed. and they, with the piers. went TO
make up the appalling mass of debris,
smoking, sizzling and steaming. II
covers over four city blocks and
reaches out into the river for over ]. 600
feet Streams of water are being
pumped upon the ruins, and workmen
are pOking about for bodies.
This was the scene of the greatest
attraction today, and thousands upon
thousands of people went there. The
streets were damned.
Skeletons Of Steamers
Far off, up the North river at Wee
hawken. great cloud of smoke rose
and tumbled. at one moment on the
water and the next rising Just enough
TO show the skeletons OF two of the
great ocean liners, the Bremen and the
Main, that rose ike giant spires out of
the smooth face of the water They
had both been beached there. Around
them swarmed q fleet of small boats
carrying sight-Seers.
Far down the river, of Ellis island,
lay the smoking and steaming hulk of
the Saale, almost q total wreck
The loss OF life Will probably prove
greatest when the wreck Of the Saale
has been searched Already a number
OF bodies have been taken. of, and as
soon as the fire in the hold has sub
sided there is every probability that
many bodies Wiz be found below decks.
Various tugboat captains claim to
have seen thOrty or forty persons in
one compartment just before the Saale
went down
Of the 266 persons reported missing
tonight, it is believed some viii be
found in sailors boarding houses in
this city. Jersey City and Hoboken.
The North German Lloyd line Off
Gals deny that any passengers were
lost; declare that few. if any, visitors