Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-02

one would do anything Tor us. Inc
which held the lighter TO the
burned through and partea and
we drifted out into the stream and hoated
down along the shOlc. A tug coming
up the river gave up a tow to a point De-
low Hoboken, where all hands got
ashore"
John yoss was on h wharf when the I,
cotton burst into a flame. He was Wen
out at the n of the wharf and saw the
tres coming toward the Wilhelm. 1
saw three men swimming and trying 20
get away from the burning pier salo
Voss. 1.-THE hair of one of them was On
fire. He ducked his head to put 1t out:
When hi came up he shouted Help. neip.
in German A man on a small tug leaned
any gilt we are not here for our
health The man in the water must
nave been hurt in some way because ne
could not make any reply. He threw up
his hands and sank.
II could not tell what became OF the
others. One of them cried out For Coos
sake, for Gods sake, two or three times
but nobody could do anything for MIN.
I guess he must have been struck in the
stream by one of thetugs1 The crews pm
board kept yelling, How much have you
got? Where is all our money"
For four hours and thirty minutes VIII
helm Meyer, a fireman of the Main, chung
to a pile on the front of the pier wnere
the Saale was, unable by reason OF
burns and his exhausted condition, to
swim more thar a dozen yards In IRE
quent attempts to gain a place OF greater
safety. The heat over his head was Bills
tering and he was nearly drowned by pc
ing obliged to dive beneath the surface
at frequent intervals to escape roasting.
IT called fifty times to tug boats that
came near me-" said he. but they would
-oA +i,1-y WA n 1trn Flor a while L
| got so weak that I could hardly keep
! my head above water but I kept calling
all the time. Big blazing pieces of wood
fell around me and I had to keep dogglng
| out of the way. I saw five or six men
swimming around as if they did not know
what they We're doing. Whenever they
| saw a tug they made for it blu I suppose
! they had no more money than I had, for
| I did not see one Of them picked up"
! he second storekeeper of the Maine, Al
! phonso Ubrurkka, jumped into the water.
He Jul a place to cling to and shouted
for help, until he was exhausted. Tugs
were within fifty yards Of him, but not
one made an effort to take him aboard.
Zone Of a crew Of a tug ALTERED me q
rope if I would give him So, but how
could 7? After a while a small yawl boat
came BY n l was pretty near gone, but
I Ilailed her and the man pulled me in and
took me ashore"
Gen. James "A. Dumont, supervising in
spector Of steam vessels, said that his
department would take immediate action
in the case of the officers Of the tug boats
;Aho are reported to have declined to
save drowning men.
Before the guard was placed about the
Bremen Sunday afternoon thieves clam
bered aboard and looted the state rooms.
New York, July 1.-THE ruins of the
burned piers at Hoboken are still smould-
ering today and the debris was too hot
ed up with hugh masses of twisted iron
and heavy timbers. 1t will require sew
eral days to remove this debris.
At police headquarters in Hoboken to
day it is reported that sixty-two are
missing. At st. Mary's hospital at Ho-
boken this forenoon it was stated that
all of the forty-eight fire patients in that
institution We're doing exceedingly well
with one exception. Wilhelm Rust, "a
years old, a sailor on the Saale, was ter
rfbly burned all over the body nc
hope is entertained for his recovery. The
North German Lloyd Steamship com
pany notified Coroner Hoffman of Ho-
boken to see that of the unidentified and
unclaimed dead have respectable buria,
at the expense of the company. Accord.
ingly Coroner Hoffman is making ar
rangenents to have all the bodies in the
New York morgue taken to Hoboken. He
has not yet arranged the details for the
burial of the remains In many cases the
victims bodies lave been burned anG
charred in such a horrible maner as tt
be unacceptable . Those who NAV be
identified will be kept a reasonable time
New York, July 2.-Divers and wreck.
ers are still hard at work on the burned
believed that there are yet many bodies
to be recovered from the wreck. The in.
jured in the Jersey City hospitals wert
reported to be doing well this morning
but several are not yet out of danger.
81 3a NOTICE.
The annual meeting of the stockhold
o.s of the Butte Monitors Tunnel Minin,