| Show Tnt TilE N Springfield The Th Hoboken wharf and shipping catastrophe I le at as extraordinary In kind kindRI kindas RI as in III Ito appalling magnitude If the ships which burned had caught fire at t tH H left In ordinary weather even though much more heavily loaded With human tn the lose ot of lit life would probably not have han been n anything like what it II il fa ilTha That Tha so 10 many I have been caught aught and burned with Wi the vee vessels lying by their docks and with eve every meant means of rescue At hand just the biasing hulks hulk seems inexplicable and not nOI to 0 lie he accounted for on an any reasonable as assumption I as to the rapidIty with which the lire fire spread The property properlY loss 1018 will prove staggering to the Insurance om corn panics which had already been expert cooing the wont ort year the they Slave have known In a long Jong while Boston Dolton Transcript The lose ON ot of property reaches reach a highly sensational magnitude Already the fire Ian for the first fit live months of Df the year rea l had attained mord hone when this ten million addition came ame as 1 Jun Junes final great contribution The inn JOI must mUll ran somewhere either on tb the fire or marine underwriters Or the company or perhaps on alt all three The Elbe of this h same me line was a let Iott at s snot sea not long 11 ago 0 and the Rider on the English roast cout and 1111 now the chapter of misfortune U II crowned with this triple disaster nut But sympathy can hardly be spared for financial lone however great and nd while more than two hundred live are lost and more than three hundred Injured are am to In the many of them to speedily add to 0 the death dath lie JIlt It I is too earl early yet to tot tose se t With certainty where hel the b me lay IllY It lame there theno was Relief nelle for tor the suf and burial of the dead le Is tile the first duty ls II the next Milwaukee Wisconsin New York City had a narrow escape last It saturday when parka from the burning towed out Into the from their docks at t Hoboken started a bla blase on tb the east side Ide of 01 th the river A fire getting It a pond goad start during the pre prevalence of A brisk wind Inel ml might ht lay lar all It the he river property along Nest t street In ashes abea To a the character ot of the freight e And du docks In the Gotham melro melroI o I seems a reckless flying In the face fac ot of Providence The like lake steamers lying t at their docks In Milwaukee alongside or of ho houses built of brick or co c Iron a are far more secure In their surroundings than are the bet moody 3 larrr tarter and more mono valuable ocean craft thru thrust Into Ino elipe flanked by huge wooden shed In the greatest harbor of America Baltimore Sun The delay tn in moving the from the piers after afler tM the ere began was U partly the cause ot of the loss of life on board the 1 Perhaps It was 11 impossible to tot get t t them m awa away from the burning docks snore quickly than was II done nut But with Ute the dames me spreading from the pier ter to pIer aad every indication that progress of U the tire on the docks could Guld not be beCh Ch cheked It I r that thet lugs were not available until too lit late to move Ih the yes tI sek out of the reach reb ot of tile the flames In view of the attending he the appalling disaster It i II doubtful whether er r adequate provision hu has ben been made madl at atthe atthe the greatest port In the United for lor the safely of Iii Ita shipping and piers Troy Ir The magnitude of the Hoboken horror Is 11 such II as to defy Fearful Is Ir It Ill strafe the of at J In the Me of If calamity h I is the Ibe power or of the ho strongest In their midst In battles battien individual soldiers are slaIn the where the for know their peril and are fortified which cre wont but In a the ht ar arIn are people phi of pea mal mates ot of lire ot of the activities In the ht enjoyment one hour and the next their But Dut an a i rd ss of the picture It I le w we dwell not uDOn as as well wel Aa 8 revolting New York Journal heroism In There was 18 much splendid connection with this hie tragedy and there are arl also allO black tales of and andrit greed rit which It la Is to be hoped Investigation thing that bat tion n mar map dissipate But Dut the overshadows all n la II the question why a hideous event should have happened at all Worcester SPY Such II a catastrophe could onlY hue have occurred In con consequence of the viola Iola than lan of all principles of fir fireproof proal con construction In tb these e days das when arch and engineers engineer art are eX expending all their best beal thoughts on rendering thea tore teta hotels botel and office omee buildings fire fireproof proof the same flimsy y wooden warehouses line the waterside that did didIn didin In years yearl gone by b when pine wool wood was also the ante nIl building material known knon |
