The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-22
The BIG HODOkEN BLAZE.
all OF Those Who Were on Board
the Steamer British Queen
Accounted For.
ONE INJURED lOAGSHoREMAN DEAD.
several nre Known to H.x. -
'"e water to Escape the,
riames' and How Many of Them
were Drowned May Never H..
ho"n-Th Loss Very Heavy.

were Drowned May Never h.
known-The Loss Very u.,u
New York, March 10.-No c~st;ro+o
mas yet been made of the loss of life
IN the fire that started. Tuesda,
hlgh'' on the Phoenix line pier in Ho-
poken, and it was thought the mum.
Der of dead never would he tpo,vn
iatrlek iussey,a 'longshoreman. who
was burned while trying to escape
from the pier, died, Wednesday. from
the effects of his injuries.
Dr. Helfer, the health officer of Uo-
boken, says that all the men of tho
British Queen have been accounted
for.
Besides Hussey, four 1ongshore.
men were taken to st. Mary's hos
pital, and are now under Treatment
therc. AL were more or less burned.
Some of the 'longshoremen who
saved themselves by swimming
ashore say they saw 20 or 30 mon
leap into the river.
~"sS vi Lie way Never he Known.
Although some of those who
Jumped into the water were nicked
up by tugs, it is feared that num-
Der sank before they could he
reached by the rescuers. MANY of
the ~Iongshoremen are single men,
and nave no relatives who could re-
port them in the event of their beinp
missing or having persisted in the
fire.
The British Queen has been beached
OIL C~ommunipaw, in the upper bav.
Hussey, the 'longshoreman who
died was 40 years old. He leaves a
large family.
The Loss Very Heavy,
Supt.' Mason of the Phoenix line
SAID That it would be- impossible to
definitely state the loss by the fire
in less than two weeks. He was
asked if he thought $1,250.OOG would
cover it, and he replied that he did
not think it would. The British
Queen was worth $500. 600. and there
was n great quantity of valuable
merchandise on that vessel. on the
pier and on lighters that were de-
stroyed. This included cotton. hides.
oils, grains, and a quantity of har-
v~estutg machinery.
Ineendiary Rumor Secuted.
There was a rumor that the fire
was of in~cendiary origin, but Mr.. Ma
son SAID he was positive there wa
-nortruth in it. He said he thought
the blaze started in u quantity of
Belgian wicker baskets On the Phoe-
nix pier, and this was confirmed by
Charles Christensen, Who was at
work on the lighter Castleton, which
was lying forward off the dock. Chris
t~ianson said the flames seemed to
burst forth from a pile of wicker
baskets that had been unloaded
from the British Queen on Monday.
He said the fire spread in an incrcd-
IDLY short time over the outer end of
the pier. The British queen was soon
ablaze. and the men on board had to
leap into the water to save their
lives. The lines by which the vessel
wa moored to the pier were burned
away, and it was then feared that
she might float against some of the
docks lower down the river end set
them afire.
A Tugs Timely Work.
In spite Of the intense heat given
out by the burning steamer, a tug
ran in under her stern and made a
line fast to her rudder. Lines were
then passed from several other tugs
to the first one, and in that way The
big steamship was hauled out into
The stream. The ruins of the pier
were still smoldering.
Those seriously hurt III the fire are
John Jensen, who jumped from the
burning pier and struck his head
against a beam, and Peter Carroll,
who was badly burned.
Chinese Rounded Up.
The Cinnamon who fled from the
steamship Heathburn, when that YES
sci was endangered by flames. and
who were captured by United States
custom officers, have been returned
to their ship. The Cinnamon were
arrested in order to prevent n possi-
Bile violation of the Chinese exclusion
act.
Engineer Scott Safe.
Chief Engineer Scott, who it was at
first reported persisted in the British
Queen, walked into a Hoboken hotel
Wednesday. lie was badly burned
about the feet, and said he had a
dreadful experience.
Dallas Hotel Burned.