The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-08
FIRE Sweeps part OF
HOBOKEN WATER front
CAUSES DAMAGE OF FROM $780,
900 TO 5000 IN Il
SHORT TIME.

In Three-QuaFters of an Hour the Ter
minaI of the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western Railroad is Swept Away
and Two Ferry Boats Practically
Ruined-Latter Cut from Their Docks
Drift "A Mass of Flames in the River
Not Under Control Until L O'Clock
This MOrning-Great COnfagratiOn
Threatened for a Time.
New York, Aug. S.-Inside of three
quarters of an hour late last night, fire
swept away the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad company's ter
minal in Hoboken. seized upon two fer
ty boats and practically ruined them,
and for half an hour threatened con-
flagration of the entire water front in
the vicinity, including the big Ham
burg American and North German
Lloyd steamship docks at which several
big ships We're lying. The property
damage is estimated at from 100000 to
$5OO,O0O. So far as known no lives were
lost.
For over an hour huge tongues of
flame leaped from the wooden struc-
lures on the Lackawanna docks, light
ing the New Jersey and New York
fronts. For time it promised loss
greater than that of the big dock fire
of several years ago when the North
German Lloyd piers were destroyed
with a great loss of life.
Blazing ferry boats, cut from their
docks, floated in the river, wandering
fire ships, which for time endangered
shipping in the river.
The fire started in an old wooden
ferry boat, and swept by a northerly
breeze communicated with the ferry
house, spread to the main building of
the Lackawanna and then to the
Dukes house, a famous Hoboken hostel
ry. The hotel was a frame structure
and was ready prey to the flames.
BY this time the flames were spread
Ing in all directions, utterly beyond the
control of the few first fire fighters
who had responded to the first alarms.
i. Following the hotel the structure of
the Public Service corporation, the
street car operating company of Ho-
boken, New Jersey and nearby places,
went down before the flames. II ee4.
AT i o'clock this morning the fire
was under control, the big steamship
pie-s had been saved, and a rough esti-
mate placed the loss at nearly half G
million dollars,
A remarkable feature of the great
blaze was that inside of twenty minutes
after it's start it had seized upon the
Lackawanna' s terminal and swept it's
600 feet of train sheds, booming them.
Fire aid was early summoned frora
Jersey City and New York, the former
city sending all available engines and
the latter dispatching two fireboats.
With the aid of the extra engines the
Hoboken firemen were able to prevent
the fire from spreading through lower
Hoboken, while the ffreboats held the
flames in check along the waterfront.
While the fire was held by the fire.
men to the north and west it was
spreading along the freight piers to the
southwark, where only tugs and fire
boats from Manhattan could attack it.
Here it caught the new immigration
station. This building was of brick
and stone and had been occupied only
two weeks. 1t cost $4,000 to build and
was supposed to be fire proof, but was
soon mass of>fire, the interior burning
rapidly. Only few persons were in it
at the time of the outbreak and they
were hurried out.
Just as the alarm was given the men
on the railroads terminal bridge were
making ready for the arrival of boats
from New York. The captains of the
approaching ferry boats, however, saw
the fire and stopped their heavily load
ed craft.
There were few persons in the wait
ing rooms at the station and they fed
through the train shed into Hoboken.
George Robinson, a Hoboken fireman,
had one Of his hands crushed and was
taken to a hospital. This is the only
accident reported.
The destruction of the trolley ter
1ninal involved the burning of the
wires, and that tied up a large section
of the trolley service in Hudson coun-
ty.
The railroad company has arranged
to run it's trains into it's yards outside
the burned district tomorrow.
Thousands Of persons saw the fire
from the docks and buildings of Man
haitian. The crowds became so great
that it was necessary to turn out the
police reserves. An alarm was turned
in in Manhattan and Chief Croker Or
dered the fire boats New Yorker and
Mcclellan to the scene. The blaze in
the Hopatcong spread so fast that
when she got out into the river and
began to slowly move up stream she
was burning from end to end. The fer
ryboat Binghamton was pushed out
towards Christopher street, where she
was beached.
The ferryboat Musconetcong loaded
with several hundred passengers was
reported to have had a narrow escape
just backing out and missing the burn
ing Hopatcong.
Will Shoot Them Down Like Dogs.
Honel, Russia, Aug. 1.-THE chief of
police of Homel has issued manifesto