Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-07-07
TWO HUNDRED DEAD.
Fearful Havoc Wrought by Fire In
the Docks at Hoboken.
Besides the Awful Death List, 500 Men
We're Badly Iejured and Are In Hospl-
tais--Propsrty Loss VIII Roach
Ton Million Dollars.

New York. July EVERY pier and
all the dock property of the North
German Lloyd Steamship company,
covering over 1900 feet Of the Ho-
bolen water front, beteween Second
and Fourth streets, was destroyed by
fire Saturday afternoon. Of the four
ships lying ut the piers when the fire
started, one, the Maine, was burned
to the waters edge, and two Others,
the Saale and the Bremen, were so
badly damaged that rs to the Saale
little but her hull remains, and as to
the Bremen, nothing can make her
serviceable MS n freight and passenger
steamer until she has been practical
ly rebuilt. Fire In a bale of cotton
on pier 3, the most southerly of the
four piers belonging to the North
German Lloyd line, started the con-
iagration.
Two Hundred Person. Killed
New York, June 1.-The losses sus-
tanned In the fire Mt the docks of the
North Gcrman-Lloyd Steamship COM
pany in Hoboken yesterday were last
night conservatively placed ut nearly
SIC, 900, 900; the loss of life, which is
merely guess work at even this late
hour, will reach probably as high as
200, and there are over 300 men In
and there are over 800 men in the
the hospitals in this city, Hoboken and
Jersey City badly burned. Up to IL
o'clock last night IS bodies had been
recovered.
Late last night Gustave Schwab,
the general agent of the North Ger
man-Lloyd line, gave out list show
ing what men on each vessel had been
missing up to that hour. On the
Saale 255 men were employed and only
1877 of these had been accounted for
up to II o'clock, leaving IS men &c
,ually employed us officers, sailors,
stewards, engineers, coal passers, oil.
crs and trimmcrs to be accounted for.
The Bremen had 2O4 men on board,
but only 1877 of these have been found.
The Main had 1877 employees on board
at the time, and of these only 76 have
been reported safe. A spectacular
but horrible sight was presented yes
terday. 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 great waste Of burn
ing and smoldering beams, with
here and there remnant of high
brick wall. The three immense piers
of the North German-Lloyd line were
burned to the waters ripple, the
Thingvalla pier lay smoldering, and
part of the Hamburg-American
pier. which had just been added to
their great piers, were in ruins. Four
large storehouses of the Palmer
Campbell company are wrecked. and
they. with the piers, went to make
up the appalling mass of debris,
smoking, sizzling and steaming. 1t
covers over four city blocks and
reaches out into the river for over
1 900 feet. Streams OF water are be-
ing pumped upon the ruins, and
workmcn nre poking about for bodies,
The loss of life will probably prove
greatest when the wreck of the Saale
has been searched. Already u mum.
Der of bodies have been taken of,
and as soon as the fire in the hold
has subsidized there is every probable
ity that many bodies will be found
below decks.