A Great Fire.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7914, 1 September 1905, Page 4

A Great Fire.

M-.W YORK, Aug. X A conflagration, second only to the great liie of five years ago swept the icnlire water 'front of Hobokt-n last)' night, causing damage wh.Vh ran into millions of dollars. The 'ist of destroyed property includes the great depot terminal of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railway Company, and the four-story boat-houses of the Barclay street Ferry Company. Seven passenger trains, which were caught in the railway terminal yards the new and magnificently equipped ferry boat Binghampton, two other ferry boats, the historic Duke's Hotel, and passenger sheds of the Public Service Corporation. Great damage was inflicted on the North Getman Lloyd and HaittburgrAmerican Steamship Company's piers. Passengers by the ferry boal Binghampton which caught fire in midstream, had a narrow escape, while many of the crew were compelled to leap into the river in order to save their lives. The entire Hobokcn fire department, that of Jersy city, and later, that of New York, fought the flames, and a strong flotilla of fire-boats was pressed into the service. The firemen were handicapped by the wind, which swept the flames inland, and seemed to threaten many buildings. The fire originate* in the ferryboat Hopatciekong, but the cause is not known. An explosion was heard, then there was a hurst of flames, and in an instant the boat was in flames. The firemen suffered terribly rora heat and smoke.