New Yorx, June 30.—Three great ocean liners—the Maine, Bremen and Sasle—burned to the water's edge, 'Twenty-five million dollars' worth of property destroyed.
Probably 300 lives were lost, while the hospitals hereabouts are filled to overflowing with the injured, of whom there are 500.
That is-the awful summary of an unparalleled catas'rophoinNew York harbour to-day. From a flash of fire in a cotton bale on Pier 3. of the North-German Lloyd wharves in Hoboken grew a conflagration that in six minutes had enveloped the company's entire system of wharves, The fire began at 3.45 p.m. At that hour the pier was crowded with employees. There were at least 650 longshoreman at work on the piers and in the holds, and on the ships were fully 900 other persons, How many of these escaped is problematical. How many lost their lives by fre and
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