The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-07-07
ANAWFUL DISASTER.
Two Hundred Lives Lost in a Fire
at Aoboken, N. ].
Docks OF the North German Lloyd steam
ship Company Destroyed. Including
Three Great Ocean Llhsrh-Loss
Wim Aggregate s1O,0OO,OOo.

New York, July 2.-Every pier and
all the dock property OF the North
German Lloyd Steamship company,
covering over 1900 feet Of the Ho-
boken water front, bcteween Second
and Fourth streets, was destroyed by
fire Saturday afternoon. Uf the four
ships lying at 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 10 the Saole
little but her huh remains, aud AZ TO
the Bremen, nothing cuf'f.nake her
seryceable as freight and passenger
steamer until she has been practical
ly rebuilt Fire in bale of cotton
on pier ,, the most southerly of the
four piers belonging to the North
German Lloyd line, started the con
migration.
Two Hundred Persons RuIed
New York. June 2.-The losses sus-
tanned in the fire at the docks of the
North German-Lloyd Steamship com
pany in Hoboken yesterday were last
night conservatively placed at nearly
SlO,OOO,OOO; the loss of life, which is
merely guess work at even this late
hour, viii reach probably as high as
200, and there are over 300 men in
and there are over 300 men in the
the hospitals in this city, Hoboken and
Jersey City badly burned. Up to II
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
121 of these had been accounted for
up TO II o'clock, leaving Is men ac-
tually employed as officers. sailors,
stewards, engineers, coal passrrs, oil
ers and tfimmers to be accounted for.
The Bremen had 2Oi wen on board,
but only 127 of these have been found.
The Main had l37 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 smoldcring beams, with
here and there remnant of u 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 steoming. II
covers over four city blocks and
reaches out into the river for over
1000 feet. Streams of water are he
ing pumped upon the ruins, and
r workmen are poking about for bodies
The loss of life viii probably prove
, greatest when the wreck Of the Saaie
has been searched, Already mum
her of bodies have been taken OIL,
and as soon as the fire in the hold
has subsided there is every probable
ity that many bodies will be found
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