The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-02-11
At TER THE BLAZE
Four Men Hurt in the Ruins
Of the Lehigh Valley
FFsishtl Pier
FELL WITH SECOND FLOOR
Queer Scenes Al Day Along
the Flour Laden Waters
Of the Gap.
PROVISIONS Foa THE POOR
Salvage claddened the Hearts
Of Many-canal Boat
Mans Desolation.
PROVISIONS FOR THE POOR

AS AMI aftermath to the big FIRE which
DESTROYED Dock G of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company on Sunday, four men
were Injured yesterday afternoon The
pier had burned entirely away. There was
a mood of the bulkhead end left standing
Under the hood were left smoldering bar
9rels and bags of flour. The four men in
jured were at work on the second floor
pulling these smoldering bags and barrels
apart, for the two hundred and sixty car
loads of -four stored on the pier We're not
entirely teonsumed.
The Ilehigh Valley Railroad Company
cared little for the loss Of this damaged
-four, bHt ii did fear that while the fire
was sInoldering at the bulkhead end Of the
bur b pier It might burst out afresh,
andJhs told in the News" yesterday,
should the wind shift and come from the
east instead of west by north, nothing
could save the remaining series of four
piersA one of which, three-deelzer. was
cons kcted recently at cost of $500 900,
and Is stored with $SOo00O worth of
lots of excitement at Police
Ehen the alarm was rung
nwagons and City A4os-
Our figured men got an unlocked
for ducking They are to be pitied. but
were more frightened than hurt. The
heavy end of the beams that supported
the roof Of the great $4,000 structure
fell while the men were separating the
sardine-like sacks of smouldering hour.
It did not fall upon them. But the weight
carried the second floor and they Went
with it. There was no first floor beneath
then. as it had been burned away anu
the four men were dumped, otter sheer
fail Of fifty feet. among the burning tirn-
bers ard mixed up under the debris OF
The burned pier. The piles held this
debris in a mass before 1t could be sep
arated and float along with the other
isolated or feed bags or barrels down
the Cap with the ching tide toward the
North River.
Maybe some poor boatmen didn't know
how to lay in a supply for The balance
of the winter.
Few OF these half burned barrels or
sacks of -four were allowed to go beyond
the mouth of the Gap. All day yesterday
men and women enveioped in the white
cloud of -four dust, like the old-fashioned
n1iEers, could be discerned on both banks
of the Cap shovel.ing good -four,
dragged in as derelicts, into all kinds of
receptacies One old shiyering lady, Gee
ing good -four going to waste on the
southern side of the Gap, hastily snatched
her shawl from her shoulders and spread
ing it before a lady who wash sfovelling
the real stuff from the interior of
smouldering barrel, said
Fill this up
She gathered up the four corners Of her
well fi,led shawl and disappeared in the
crowd of people taking advantage of the
big fire to lay in many months supply
Of bread.
All day long the yawi ferryboats of
the 2-cent ferry across the gap were
crowded with men and women looking
like millers. covered with -four from head
to foot The sides of the boats were
lined with dough.
The four men who figured in yester-
days aftermath of the big fire, were
badly frightened, but they kept their wits
about them. The floating bags and bar
rels of -four, so thickly packed together,
necessarily acted as life savers All four
were soon fshed out. They were.-
Michael Lipschick of No. s8 Morris
street. badly cut about the head and face
and suffering with concussion of the
brain Refused to go to the City Hospital
and was taken home
John Dadory, No $40 Railroad avenue,
cut about the face. Sent to st. Francis
Hospital
John Garrell, No. sg7 Fourth street.
slightly cut about the head. Went to st.
Francis Hospital.
Michael GIosky, cut on the hands. Went
10 st. Francis Hospital
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
intends to rebuild the pier as soon as the
Insurance is adjusted.
Captain Joseph Pinsino, of the burned
and sunk steam canaller Dale was
found by a reporter for eThe News"
down into the water where his "hosne"
had been on its surface 1t was now
resting on the bottom OF the gap Only
q little bit of its deck house poked its
nose above the water. Some two hundred
feet further back the smoke stack stuck
out like floating buoy. On the string
piece of the pier rested tin pail filed
with books and photographs There cap
tain Dale had picked up on the SURFACE
of the water. as they fioated out from
the openings Of his sinking canal boat
cabin home.
II can't say how much I'm insured for
just now said the grizzsed moustached
and healthy looking captain. i've lost
heavily. That's all ] can say. There lies
my once happy home under the water.
hut I've found my account books, which
means much to me.