jun 30, 1900 - A fire that killed 326 people starts at Pier 8 of the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) shipping company in Hoboken, New Jersey when cotton bales and barrels of turpentine and oil begin burning at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon

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In less than 15 minutes, high winds spread the blaze a quarter of a mile along the port and on to the four German steamships moored there. The steamers Saale and Main, each with 150 crew on board, were destroyed and Bremen was heavily damaged. On the Saale, the portholes were too narrow for the men inside to escape and most on board burned to death. The huge liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was saved by being towed into the Hudson River. Despite the best efforts of the Hoboken and New York fire departments to save the piers and the ships, respectively, 326 people were killed.

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