The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-07-07
FIRE
At H0B0k|lA
Mammoth Steamship Docks and
Three Big Liners Are
Wiped Out.
TWO HUNDRED MAY HAVE PERSISTED.
Bodies Have Been Re
covered and Scores Of Per-
sons Are Missing.
loss WILL Be OVER slo,ooo,ooo
The saale. Bremen and Main De-
stroyed and Many Of Those ON
board Are Cromated--.Dc.
tails or Confagration.

New York, July 3.-AlmOst 100000
600 worth of property was destroyed
many lives were lost, many persons
were injured and at least 1900 lives
were imperiled by a fire that Etarted
among cotton bales under pier three
of the North German Lloyd Steamship
company iii Hobokcn, N. j., at 4
o'clock Saturday afternoon. In less
than fifteen minutes the flames cov-
cred IN area more than q quarter OF
a mile long, extending outward from.
the actual shore line TO the bulk
heads, from 600 to 1000 feet away and
had caught four great ocean liners
and o dozen or more smaller harbor
craft in its grasp.
The hospitals in New York, Ho-
boken and Jersey City are crowded
with the injured and men are being
brought in by scores.
Those who gathered along the
shores of the Hudson river to witness
the great confagration saw a spec
tacle that they can never forget and
one that will always have ! %conspicu-
GUS place in the history of New York.
While merely guess work at even
this late hour, the loss OF life will
probably reach as high as 200, and
there IRE over 500 men In the hos
pitfalls in. this city, Hoboken and Jer-
sey City, badly burned. Up to II
o'clock last night eighteen bodies had
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 identity Of
the corpses, as they are SO badly
charrcd and dismembered that idcnsi-
fication will be made only by trinkets
or pieces of clothing that were found
about the bodies. The only way the
steamship officials have Of approx
mating the loss OF life 10 by compar-
ing the list Of those reported safe
with the list of the employees on the
steamships. Late last night Gustav
Schwab, the general agent of the
North German Lloyd line. gave out n
list showing what men on each
vessel had been missing up to
that hour. On the Saale 1855 men
were employed and only 1877 of these
had been accounted for up to II
O'Clock, leaving 1913 men actually en-
ployed as officers. sailors, stewards, en-
gineers, coal passers, oilers and trim
mers to be accounted for. The Bre-
men had 2O4 men on board, but 127
OF these have been found. The Main
had 1877 employed on her at the time,
and of these only - have been report
ed safe.
Scene OF the Fire.
The scene of the great fire today
presented a spectacular but horrible
sight. Over in Hoboken, where two
days ago piers reached hundreds of
feet out into the river, md rising in
the air like great hills, stood alive
with outgoing and incoming com
Tnerce, a great waste of burning and
smonldering beams, with here and
there a ~remnant;of a high brick wall,
are nll that remains OF the hundreds
of thousands Of dollars worth of prop
erty.
The three immense piers of the
North German Lloyd line are burned
to the waters ripple, the Thingyalla
pier also is smonldering, and a part OF
the Hamburg-American pier, which
had just been added to their great
piers, were in ruins. Four large store
houses Of the Palmer-Campbell com
pnny are wrecked and they, with the
piers, go to make up the appalling
mass of debris that lies smoking, sig
cling and steaming across the North
river. 1t covers over four city blocks,
md reaches out into the river for over
1000 feet. Streams of water are being
pumped onto the ruins and workmen
are poking about among the hot
ruins for bodies or any traces of
bodies.
This was the scene Of the grentest
attraction Sunday, and thousands up
on thousands of people went there.
The streets were jammed with masses
going in steady streams to the ruins.
Every trolley n was packed with
struggling humanity; every ferry
boat was crowded to tine rails and ev-
cry tug, too, brought into private .nse
had its quota of persons, hurrying to
the scene of the fire.
Skeletons of Two Liners.
Further of, up the North river at
Weehawhin, a-grent cloud of smoke
arose and tumbled; Mt q moment w
ing hard on the water and the next
rising just enough to showthe sskele-
tons of the two liners, the Bremen
and the Main, that rose like spires
from the smooth surface of the water.
They had been beached there. Around
ADMIRAL PHILIP IS DEAD