Deseret Evening News | 1900-07-06 | Page 4 | Milwaukee Wisconsin

Wisconsin Th Tb total destruction or of tour four great Dt ocean steamships with serious daml damage to a and a loss of at human Hf at Hoboken last brings Into strong bight the necessity of larger precautions against a The flames started in a hale ball ot of cotton ton on one ODe or of the wharves arvn and nd in III a rw few minutes twelve hundred tHI ft ot of water waterfront frOnt were In a blue blu Ten mullen dollars doUan worth of wu was consumed and two bun bUD cited or more mort human bel beings wire wre swept Into Only a 11 we before befort while the bel babes ot of inflammable freight wore wife being loaded into lato ou one of oC the doomed ships a spectator had bad re remarked marked It I were wert all an I would mike make a law that cotton should never neer be on a passenger vessel and that It should be handled on docks dock remote from general raJ shipping The surrounding the great ocean steamers while lying at their docks are re singularly favorable to the spread of flames