The Hoboken Docks Fire | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

"On the 30th of June, 1900, a small fire began in a stack of cotton bales on a wharf at the Hoboken Docks in New Jersey..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Background
01:40 - The Hoboken Docks Fire
06:49 - The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES:
► "Over 200 Perish in Burning Liners", published by the New York Times, July 1900. Available via: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...
► "No River Fire Enquiry" published by The Times, July 1900. Available via: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...
► "The Hoboken Pier Fire" published by the New York Tribune, July 1900. Available via: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...
► "North German Lloyd Docks Destroyed" published by the Evening World, June 1900. Available via: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...
► "Flames Sweep Hoboken Piers" published by the New York Times, August 1905. Available via: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...

CORRECTIONS:
► The image of the unburned Bremen shown in this video is not the correct ship. It is, in fact, another later ship of the same name owned by the same company. Apologies for the confusion!

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