Show DIE IN FIRE Loss of Life in Hoboken Confla ration Was Not xagiathd < II I I TWO HUNDRED ARE DEAD Three Hundred Men in Hospitals Hospi-tals Badly Burned r S RECOVER NUMBER OF BODIES JThese are So Badly Charred and Dismembered Dis-membered that Identification Will be Made Only by Trinkets or Pieces I of Clothing that Were Found About Them Tho financial Loss is Still Placed at Ten Million Dollars Death Roll is Guess Work and the Iist May Exceed the Estimate Now Jilade Steamship Omcials are Now Comparing Lists of Those of Their Employees Known to be Safe With tho List of Those on the Vessels Horrible Sight Presented on Return Re-turn of Fire Boat New York July lThe losses sus jtained in the fire at the North German Lloyd Steamship company In Hoboken yesterday are tonight conservatively placed at nearly ten million dollars the loss of life merely guesswork at even this late hour will reach probably as high as 200 and there are over 200 men in the hospitals In this city Hoboken Ho-boken and Jersey City badly burned JUp to 11 oclock tonight elghteaa bodies have been recovered Eleven 1 of these were placed in a row at the t morgue In this city and numbered this being the only means the authorities authori-ties have of maintaining any sort of identity over the corpses as they are KO badly I charred and dismembered that identification will be made only by trinkets or pieces of clothing that were found about the bodies FIGURING ON DEATH ROLL The only way the steamship officials Lave of approximating the loss of life Is by comparing the Hat of those reported re-ported safe with the list of the employees em-ployees on tho steamships Late tonight to-night Gustavo Schwab the general agent of the North German Lloyd line gave out a list showing what men on each vessel had been missing up to that hour On the Saale 255 men were employed em-ployed and only 127 of these had been accounted for up to 11 oclock leaving 123 men actually employed as officers sailors stewards engineers coal passers oilers and trimmers to be accounted ac-counted for The Bremen had 204 men on board but only 127 of these have been found The Main had 137 employees onboard on-board at the time and of these seventy Six have been reported safe HORRIBLE SIGHT A spectacular but horrible sight was presented today Where two days ago piers reached hundreds of feet out Into the river and rose like great hills alive with outgoing and incoming commerce lay a great waste ot burning and smouldering beams with here and there a remnant of a high brick wall The three immense piers of the North German Lloyd line were burned to the waters ripple the Thlngvalla pier lay smouldering and a part of the Ham burgAmerican pier which had just been added to their great piers were in ruins Four large storehouses of the Palmer Campbell company were wrecked and they with the piers went to make up the appalling mass of debris smoking sizzling and steaming It covers over four city blocks and reaches out Into the river for over a thousand feet Streams of water are being pumped upon the ruins and worhihen are poking about for bodies This was the scene of the greatest attraction today and thousands upon thousands of people peo-ple ijfent there The streets were jammed JuinmWrIECKS WRECKS OF TIe LINERS Far off up the Nortn river at Wee hawken a great cloud of smoke rose and tumbled at one moment on the water and the next rising just enough to show the skeletons of two of the F great ocean liners the Bremen and the Main that roto like giant spires I out of the smooth face of the water They had both been beached there Around them swarmed a fleet oC small boats carrying sightseers Far down tho river off Ellis island lay the Fmoking and steaming hulk or the Saale almost a total wreck DEAD ON THE SAALE The loss of life will probably prove greatest when the wreck of the Saale has been searched Already a number num-ber of bodies have been taken off and UK soon as the firo In the hold has sub bided there IB J every probability that many bodies will be found below decks Various tugboat captains claim to have seen thirty or forty persons In one compartment just before the Saab went down Of the 2GC per 0 Bons reported missing tonight It Is believed be-lieved some will be found in sailors boardinghouses in this city Jersey City and Hoboken Ihe North German Lloyd lino offi ials deny that any passengers were lost dechirp that few If any visitors lrilihoil and that the lows of llfo was almost entirely among employees of the company 1 VISITORS ON THE 13REMI3N i fine of UK officers of tho steamship Brrmfii Raid today that Hirre wer tullY 200 vifcltor on board that vessel I AT when the lIre touched there the majority ma-jority of them being women A boat was lowered from the Bremen shortly short-ly after the alarm had been given but tho craft capsized as It touched the water and none of them were saved by those remaining on tho vessel This in Itself would indicate that the list of dead may be larger than It was first thought thoughtAPPROXIMATE APPROXIMATE LOSSES The loss on tho steamship properties and other companies estimated tonight to-night IB approximately as follows The steamship Main of the North German Lloyd line cost 1500000 outside out-side of tho cargo fillings and stores The loss Is placed at 1200000 for the vessel and about 100000 for the fittings fit-tings and stores and the cargo that wore aboard her The steamship Bremen of the I North German Lloyd line cost 1250 000 and her fittings and cargo were valued at 300000 The cargo and stores wcro entirely consumed and tho loss to the vessel proper will I amount lo at least 750000 Sho is beached off Wcohawkeii and still I smouldering aparcntly destroyed excepting ex-cepting her machinery I WILL UNFOLD HORRIBLE STORY Tho Saale the steamship which will havo tho most horrible story uf death to unfold when the divers go down Into her cost the North German Lloyd company 1250000 and the fittings fit-tings and cargo were valued at 300 000 Tho Snale Is beached at Ellis l island and still burning The damage to the vessel propel Is placed at about 5SOOOOO The damage done to the Kaiser WIl helm der Grosse is estimated at 25 000 f GREAT DOCKS GONE The three docks of the German Ime I which wore burned to the waters edge are estimated to have cost s 300000 Tho I docks were well filled with merchandise I Just received from abroad and valued t I at 350000 The Thlngvalla pier which was entirely consumed was valued at 50000 counting the stores which were on it The HamburgAmerican line dock which had just been completed as an extension to their great pier and which was destroyed in order to prevent pre-vent the spread of tho flames Was damaged to tho extent of in000 This was the only loss they sustained as tho steamer Phoenicia contrary to reports was not even scorched I LOSS ON WAREHOUSES The warehouses of Palmer Campbell I houses E F G and H were burned Mr Campbell said tonight he could not give a definite estimate of his losses but the damage to buildings I alone would amount to at least 50000 arid the contents to 1250000 Had the firo occurred at any other time In the I year ho said tho loss would have been much greater as Just at the present time the imports are very light and the houses were not well filled This statement state-ment accounts for the comparatively small loss on the threo piers of the North German Lloyd line PICTURE OF HORROR The fireboat Robert A Vanwyck which arrived on the scene first among the river firefighters presented a picture pic-ture of horror and gliaslllness as she lay At her dock in the East river today to-day The decks were covered with cotton saturated with the blood of the victims rescued by the brave men aboard The firemen were at work cleaning the boat and picking up the stained remnants of clothing which were torn from the burning bodies as they were pulled aboard the fireboat from the pit of fire Pieces of human skin clung to the scarlet rags and the gs dreadful experience of the firemen of I the day previous was brought again to eyes and memories which sought to forget the horrible spectacle LIeu McGinnls said PASSENGERS ON SAALE I should say there were passengers aboard the Saale They looked like passengers and surely were not lOt members mem-bers of the crew They were locked down in the hold of the vessel as securely se-curely u ever a convict was imprisoned Impris-oned In a cell There was no escape for them after the vessel began to take water We got about thirty out of there while we were allowed to work from the decks I was then we witnessed the awful sight of human I agonyMANIACS MANIACS WEN RESCUED I A hundred arms with the flesh torn from them and blackened with smoke p rotruded from the small portholes which were but a foot or less In diameter dia-meter I those portholes had ben larger l sufficient to admit the passage pasage o f a human body the rescues would have been many more In number than t hey were The thirty men we res ued were raging maniacs when we got them aboard They could not realize that they had escaped the horrible hor-rible death that threatened them but a few minutes before In their de i irlum they fought each other after hoy wore rescued They ater as l 5J Iack as coal and their I burnt and charred flesh peeled off with their clothing clothingAN AN AGONIZING SIGHT The most agonizing sight I witnessed wit-nessed was that of n woman who was burned We could seo her face and arniBi as she reached out and got a handful of water with which she washed her face seeking to cool It and gain relief from the terrible heat She never once uttered a scream We paSsed her a cup of water She grabbed eagerly and drank it I She could not speak English but mum muied In a foreign tongue and In a tone which apparently denoted she was praying We spoke words of cheer to herlhe boat gave a lurch water filled the compartment which she was In and she sank from our Sight and AVQ saw her no more APPEALED FOR HELP When the burned and scuttled Saale Is pumped out It Is believed that the bodies of many people who perished below her main deck will be recovered Some oC those penned In by the flames were alive when the steamship was towed to the Jersey flats just north of Ellis island Elis Through tho open deadlights dearlights or port holes the poor creatures appealed for help several times before the vessel wan scuttled in the hope of putting out pUUnsout works the fire which was raging In her upper |