Show NEW YORK WATER FRONT IS SCENE OF RAGING FIRE p i railway terminal Is demolished ferry boats burned to waters edge and new im migration depot goes new york august 7 inside of three quarters of an hour late tonight fire swept away the delaware Dela waie lacka wana and western railway companas comp anys terminal in hoboken seized two ferry boats and practically ruined them and for halt an hour threatened the destruction st of the entire water front in the vicinity including the hamburg american and north german lloyd steamship docks at which several big ships were lying the property damaged Is estimated at between and so far as known no lives aers lost in tho disaster for over an hour tongues of flame leaped from the wooden structure on the lackawanna docks lighting the new jersey and new york vater fronts for a time it threatened a loss far larger than that of the big dock fire of several years ago the north german lloyd liners were destroyed with a great loss of life blazing ferry boats cut from their docks floated in 0 river wandering which for a time endangered shipping in tho river the alro started on an old wooden ferry boat and spread to the main building or the lackawanna and then to the dukes house the hotel was a frame structure and a ready prey tor the lamos by this time the flames were spreading in all directions utterly beyond tho control of the few first alre fighters who had responded to the first alarm following the hotel tho structure of the public service went down before the flames i at one this morning the alra was under control the big steamship piers had been saved and a rough estimate placed the damage at between and the flames started from an unknown cause on the old wooden ferry boat which had been tied up in the open slip between the hamburg american docks and tho christopher street terry slips twenty minutes after the alarm it looked as if the entire loner part of hoboken including tb hamburg piers be destroyed the two burning ferry boats were towed out into the stream by tugs the bunk later the new immigration station built of brick and itono stono and occupied only two weeks which cot to build and was supposed to be fire proof wag soon a mass of fire aba interior burning rapidly only a few persons in it at the time ot the outbreak and they were hurried out tokio august 7 A vessel of the japanese navy has rescued fourteen survivors of the prize crow of the british steamer Oldham la who were imprisoned on island the vessel was captured by the russians but subsequently ran aground on crupp island where it was set on fire and abandoned fourteen Four tean wah two officers were left on the lal and the two officers secured a sailboat and started for their fatels fa teis unknown 1 |