1900 Hoboken Docks fire

The area, a few blocks north of Hoboken Terminal, is now mostly part of the Hudson River, without docks: a waterfront bicycle path lines it.

Finally towed after she drifted toward New York piers, she settled in the Jersey flats near Liberty Island.

[1] Her death toll included her captain (August Johann Mirow), and members (primarily women) of a group known as Christian Endeavor, who were visiting the ship before the fire started.

[1] Two days after the fire began, the red-hot ship continued to smolder and smoke, which further delayed rescue and recovery efforts.

[5][6] The holder of the Blue Riband at the time of the fire,[7] NDL's Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, was also docked in the company's Hoboken piers, but fared better than its sister ships.

[3] The fire also destroyed several Campbell Stores warehouses, built by the Hoboken Land & Improvement Company, the nearby piers of the Scandinavian America Line and a railroad shed.

[citation needed] On the first anniversary of the fire, a large granite monument was dedicated in Flower Hill Cemetery in North Bergen, New Jersey above a mass grave containing unidentifiable bodies of the victims, listing the names of the dead and missing.

[10] News stories of the fire had described below-deck crew “trying in vain to force their way through the small portholes, while the flames pressed relentlessly upon them.”[1] The fire prompted arguments that portholes on all ships should be at least 11 in × 13 in (28 cm × 33 cm) in size, to make it easier for them to serve as a means of escape.

4 burned, killing three and briefly setting afire the SS Nathaniel Alexander, a Liberty ship.