The 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire
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On June 30, 1900, what was described as “a slight blaze in a bale of cotton” quickly spread into a disaster that newspapers branded the “Hoboken Horror.” The great Hoboken Docks Fire killed hundreds, destroyed millions of dollars in property, and demonstrated risks of the era of great ocean liners.
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@smartysmarty1714 3 жыл бұрын
Whenever I'm thinking about how bad my life is, all I have to do is hear/read a story similar to this one where people are being cooked alive because they aren't 8" in diameter and all my problems instantly become insignificant....
@tomperkins5657 3 жыл бұрын
It's like when someone has terminal cancer. Everything else is so shallow and inconsequential.
@bridesblade5307 3 жыл бұрын
Current building collapse in Florida woke me up from my "poor me" attitude almost to a shaming>
@johndoe5432 3 жыл бұрын
This is why I study history. My food has more savor, my exercise more vigor, my passions stronger. Nothing sweetens life quite like the knowledge of horrible death.
@bridesblade5307 3 жыл бұрын
@@johndoe5432 Yes it does!
@goodun2974 3 жыл бұрын
An 11" by 14" porthole wouldn't be any better. I am 6'2", and even at my thinnest, I'd never have fit through that porthole.
@FuzzyMarineVet 3 жыл бұрын
When I was a child in Mount Clemens, MI, the whole downtown area reeked of sulfur from the mineral baths. Alas, today the bath spas are all closed down and no one remembers the mineral baths of Mount Clemens. I think the history of the medicinal bathing industry is History that Deserves to be Remembered.
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 жыл бұрын
I was born there then moved to Ypsilanti when the serial killer struck there, then when I was two years old we moved back to Alabama I learned about the serial killer a few years ago.
@FuzzyMarineVet 3 жыл бұрын
@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 I left to join the Marine Corps in 1976. I never went back for a visit since. I looked at the Google Earth satellite images of the street where I lived. It's unrecognizable today.
@MikeBrown-ii3pt 3 жыл бұрын
There were mineral baths in Green Springs, Ohio for many years too. The whole village smelled of sulfur from the springs.
@jdinhuntsvilleal4514 3 жыл бұрын
What years were that? I lived there late 70s to 1982 and don't remember any sulfur smell. I also never learned where the "mount" was that gave the city its name. ;-)
@lynnwood7205 3 жыл бұрын
@@FuzzyMarineVet My late parents in the late 1990''s went to visit all the former addresses where they had lived. They were shocked. Most were gone, one an Interstate intersection, one a substantial townhouse vanished, its lot paved over for a supermarket, another an empty lot between two gutted buildings. The former sturdy structures well built in formerly functioning and prosperous neighborhoods just lost. They returned home quite shaken.
@oldgysgt 3 жыл бұрын
During the Great Depression my father worked for a while in a cotton gin. He said that cotton bale fires happened from time to time. He told us that if the cotton was too wet at the time the bale was compressed, the cotton would start to decompose deep inside the bale, and that would produce heat that could eventually start the compressed cotton smoldering. If the smoldering reach the outer surface of the bale, it could erupt into flames. Because this all took time, the yard help would keep an eye on the stored bales for any sign of smoke. A smoking bale was immediately isolated, the bands cut and the bale was opened. He said that when the smoldering cotton was exposed to oxygen in the air, it would usually immediately start burning. An isolated and open bale could easily be extinguished, but if a bale caught on fire while still lined up in storage, it could result in the loss of hundreds of bales.
@paulkolodner2445 3 жыл бұрын
This can happen to wet hay in the loft of a barn if it's not turned frequently.
@RedArrow73 3 жыл бұрын
Fermentation?
@oldgysgt 3 жыл бұрын
@@RedArrow73: as I understand it, fermentation is where micro-organisms, (usually a member of the yeast family), eat sugar and produce alcohol and CO2 as a byproduct. Decomposition is caused mostly by bacteria, and can produce gasses like methane, but not alcohol. Because cotton is mainly cellulose, not sugar, so it's not a good candidate for fermentation.
@goodun2974 3 жыл бұрын
I have to wonder of the fire is a result of bacterial heat. Note that even a semi-aerated compost pile can reach temperatures of 160 to 170 degrees from the bacterial decomposition. Inside a cotton bale, with fibrous air pockets as insulation, the heat build-up could be significant. Any oil or grease contamination, whether internal or external, could exacerbate the heating effect and lead to a fire.
@oldgysgt 3 жыл бұрын
@@goodun2974; you find lanolin in sheep's wool not cotton. Sheep's wool is an animal product, cotton is a plant product.
@Pocketfarmer1 3 жыл бұрын
I work on tugboats in New York Harbor. Ships,especially tankers since sometime around WW1 have “Fire Warps” hanging over their outboard sides. The warps are heavy steel cable with a loop at the end hanging a few feet above the water. If there is a fire on the dock the tugs can grab the warp and start pulling while the ships crew are cutting their lines.
@LucienSabre 3 жыл бұрын
Those measure were most likely created and implemented after this Hoboken Dock fire and New York’s General Slocum - to avoid the repeating of such tragedies.
@Pocketfarmer1 3 жыл бұрын
@@LucienSabre I don’t think fire warps would have done much for the General Slocum as she was underway at the time of her tragedy, but basically yes.
@JayRuperRoe 3 жыл бұрын
@@Pocketfarmer1 Who you work for Brother? I work for Moran.
@Pocketfarmer1 3 жыл бұрын
@@JayRuperRoe me too. I’m Robert back on the Marie J on Wednesday. See you around the yard.
@JayRuperRoe 3 жыл бұрын
@@Pocketfarmer1 I'm on an ATB, the Mariya. So if we get up that way I'll give you a shout.
@diamondtiara84 3 жыл бұрын
Once again I've discovered how little I know when it comes to history; channels like this are really improving my education.
@johnrust592 3 жыл бұрын
I'm from New Jersey and I never heard about this horrific disaster until now. Thanks for covering this.
@tjmul3381 3 жыл бұрын
Thank You, THG!! My Mother's family lived in Hoboken for over 100 years and I recall many happy memories of my youth in the streets, docks, rail yards and parks. The Black Tom explosion was a frequent story told around the parlors of my Great Aunts and Uncles after Sunday dinners. The post-feast family tradition of "going around the room" always occurred with the adults seated on the sofas and chairs while the kids jumped into any empty lap they could find or else they quietly laid on the floor. Each adult was expected to entertain all with songs, jokes or tales of fancy and/or facts. The tradition held on even through the dawn of television into the late 1960's. Yet, I do not believe this story was ever recalled or told. You have added one more story to the family tradition.
@stevedietrich8936 3 жыл бұрын
THG is the best story-teller on youtube.
@GradeEhCanadian 3 жыл бұрын
Nah second to Simon whistler I love thg too tho
@DiederikCA 3 жыл бұрын
I have another candidate: the entire history of the earth
@user-ds9bk6nu4x 3 жыл бұрын
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@johnniemiec3286 3 жыл бұрын
@@GradeEhCanadian I love Simon, but he fits in so few pirates. But lots of cocaine, and those are great stories as well.
@johnniemiec3286 3 жыл бұрын
@@GradeEhCanadian allegedly
@michaelfraser4396 3 жыл бұрын
How quickly some history is forgotten. What a horrible tragedy and worse, what a horrible way to die.
@grapeshot 3 жыл бұрын
And then just a few years later you have the even more horrible disaster of the General Slocum.
@TheHistoryGuyChannel 3 жыл бұрын
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@grapeshot 3 жыл бұрын
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@volvo09 3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, what a horror.
@joycewright5386 7 ай бұрын
Wonderful documentary. I was in Hoboken June 30, 2000 for the 100th anniversary of this historic fire. My Grandfather Ludwig Steiner, then 25 years old, was in the coal bunker of the NGL steamer Main when the fire broke out. Because he was able to swim, he survived, but watched many drown or burn to death. In the late 1950s, he wrote about his experience for the benefit of his grandchildren. Until today, I have never seen a video on this tragic event. Thank you so much for keeping this story alive. Jim Wright
@pauldudley8837 3 жыл бұрын
Oh, how tragic!! I think my natural reaction if I was caught below decks of this fire would be to open a port window. Hindsight, however, would point to the fact that you're only giving the fire oxygen. What a horrible way to die.
@TheHistoryGuyChannel 3 жыл бұрын
The memorial is, apparently, not very prominent given the scope of the tragedy.
@cpnscarlet 3 жыл бұрын
I lived through an abandoned Hoboken pier fire when I was an undergrad at Steven Tech in the early 1980s. The smell of burning Creosote was thick and we were very close to being evacuated. It actually made us WANT to stay inside during the weekend and study.
@jpjpjp453 3 жыл бұрын
I live in Hudson County and spent most of my life here. You'd be amazed at the reaction i get from relatively new residents when i describe to them and show them pictures of the waterfront from Edgewater down to Jersey City. Especially the 1970s/80s era when most sections were pure desolation.
@GD1082 3 жыл бұрын
@@jpjpjp453 Yes! I went to Stevens from 1989-93 and River St. and up Sinatra Dr. were abandoned docks and a Maxwell House Coffee factory with abandoned Bethlehem Steel factory north of that.
@jec1ny 3 жыл бұрын
Wow. I added this event as a possible topic for an episode in a comment about a year ago. Glad to see THG cover it. It was a terrible disaster now largely forgotten.
@RiverRev 3 жыл бұрын
I'm impressed with the number of different media sources on this event. Today's newspapers would simply reprint the AP or UPI story.
@daleolson3506 3 жыл бұрын
And that is why we no nothing today,and politicians can do as they like. Sad
@777jones 3 жыл бұрын
Today’s media would write an essay about injustice portraying themselves as a messiah-style savior. Without visiting the site or reporting any facts. It is all about their own self gratification.
@archstanton7035 3 жыл бұрын
CNN would blame it on systemic racism while MSNBC would blame the fire on climate change. BLM would accuse the cotton merchants of cultural appropriation.
@dwlopez57 3 жыл бұрын
olson olson you're right. Some people don't even know how to spell "know" LOL
@LotsofWhatever 3 жыл бұрын
If you haven't done so already, you should do an episode on the Great Baltimore Fire in 1904 and how the lack of standardization in fire equipment made the fire last longer.
@jersey714 3 жыл бұрын
I second the motion I just read here a moment ago: "THG is the best story-teller on KZfaq." And I imagine the writing and research is shared, so I salute the team! Thank you for what you do!!
@raquellofstedt9713 3 жыл бұрын
I imagine the smouldering cotton was helped along by the means of preserving wood in maritime conditions, tarring and oiling. Even today, here in Sweden, cast off motor oil gets used pain barndoors, as a way to both waterproof and hinder the gwoth of mosses in the wood. Extremely incindinary stuff to work with, and I imagine they had stores of the stuff at the docks for maintainance.
@goodun2974 3 жыл бұрын
The commonest form of "tar" formerly used for preserving wood was creosote, a nasty-smelling, flammable, sticky brown gunk, once commonly used to treat railroad ties and telephone poles, but which is now known to be carcinogenic, and it's use has been banned. Used motor oil isn't likely to be any healthier, or safer ---- contains heavy metals, and benzene; and oil-soaked barn goods would likely make a great firestarter.
@kevindenelsbeck7444 3 жыл бұрын
I first read about this disaster in Jay Robert Nash's "Darkest Hours". It's heartbreaking. It was a beautiful summer day. No one could've expected it.
@tomo9126 3 жыл бұрын
I've spent many nights in Hoboken though I don't remember a lot of them. (I think Hoboken has more bars/sq. mile than any city in the USA.) I never knew about this fire. Fascinating.
@mariemorgan8834 3 жыл бұрын
My whole family loves your channel! Thank you so much!
@amacca2085 3 жыл бұрын
That was really interesting ! Always enjoy these stories
@kmlammto 3 жыл бұрын
Hoboken could only be the western terminus of railways if the trains could swim. I think THG meant eastern terminus.
@navret1707 3 жыл бұрын
Well, it could have been a very short rail line. 😏
@geoben1810 3 жыл бұрын
@@navret1707 That might be possible. In railroad terms a short rail line is called a railroad spur. A very short line that might go just a short distance away or to another part of the rail yard.
@HM2SGT 3 жыл бұрын
There are plenty of rail origin points east of Hoboken; everything from Canada, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts... 🤔 🤷♂️ I get what you're saying, but it may not be quite so black and white.
@christen1075 3 жыл бұрын
I believe there were three basic terminus' available. Hoboken (northernmost) had maybe the Erie, Lackawana and not sure of the Lehigh Valley RR's spaces. Jersey City had the southernmost terminus, IIRC...the B&O, Jersey Central and the Reading used the terminal which is still there in historical form today (took a big hit from Sandy). The Pennsylvania ran right thru Jersey City on an elevated track over...you guessed it, "Railroad Avenue" street and right to the ferries that plied the Hudson. Understood my father and other urchins of the era used to pick the frozen coal that fell trackside from the trains running up from the coal operations down south. Coal heat in Jersey City had much diminished by the early 1950's, but you did what you had to do back then.
@_faultee_ 3 жыл бұрын
No he was correct it was the terminus from western railways. Where the trains coming from the west end.
@ericcriteser4001 3 жыл бұрын
I like watching these before work over coffee. Thanks for sharing.
@dbuck5350 3 жыл бұрын
There are few channels I watch that are as fascinating, entertaining and informative as THG. Not to mention the excitement of your exhuberant style of narration. Keep up the good work.
@ice9594 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for dredging up another fascinating yarn History Guy!
@superd9072 3 жыл бұрын
Also, your theme song strikes a chord of memory, that I cannot figure out. However, I love it and will keep trying to remember what it trusts in my memory. Love your channel!
@morenofranco9235 3 жыл бұрын
Always SO good. Thank, History Guy.
@randellsuarez3290 3 жыл бұрын
Really love your shows! In depth videos. Thank you!
@glenmartin2437 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you . Learned a bit of history. Have a great week.
@Ritabug34 3 жыл бұрын
I love your videos, very informative. Thanks for being an excellent history teacher.
@Worthrhetime 3 жыл бұрын
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@mauricedavis8261 3 жыл бұрын
History Guys enthusiasm is so refreshing and infectious(in a good way!), real history is so fascinating, keep em coming!!!🙏👍😷
@randallcraig1913 3 жыл бұрын
Always incredible content. Had no clue
@paulkolodner2445 3 жыл бұрын
I have lived in Hoboken for 38 years, and I never heard this story.
@chiefpontiac1800 3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure that Frank Sinatra was told about this fire. He was born 15 years later in Hoboken. Another great story HG !
@steamandsmoke97 3 жыл бұрын
His Father probably fought that Fire. Frank's Dad was a Firefighter.
@pauldudley8837 3 жыл бұрын
Agreed. He did have a very interesting youth and climb to success.
@pauldudley8837 3 жыл бұрын
I just checked and Frank's father did not emigrate to the United States until 1903.
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 жыл бұрын
He almost died and his mother the doctors was delivering him and he was a big baby he weighed 13 pounds they busted his eardrums.
@photone 3 жыл бұрын
@@pauldudley8837 Also, he was born in 1892,...he was only 11 when he emigrated to the U.S.
@whiterabbit-wo7hw 3 жыл бұрын
Love the picture of your History Cat in the background.
@amilton1015 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so mach your narration is the best.
@TheFlatlander440 3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in northern NJ and never knew about the Hoboken docks fire until now. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
@alberttross175 3 жыл бұрын
More New Jersey history that I was unaware of. Thank you.
@kenehlears7716 3 жыл бұрын
Another great video .this channel is a history geeks dream come true.thanks THG
@silverfawkes1219 3 жыл бұрын
Great episode!
@torgeirbrandsnes1916 3 жыл бұрын
Great vlog as always! I have never heard of this horrible fire.
@foriddo21 3 жыл бұрын
Another great video. I believe that the Blue Ribband is history that deserves to be remembered and should get its own video. Great work THG!
@garyruark9506 3 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather sailed to Baltimore, MD aboard the refurbished Main in 1904.
@darrenkrivit6854 3 жыл бұрын
Love that cat picture over your shoulder🐱Thx for the story of this tragic event, hadn't heard of it before
@UncleFester2240 3 жыл бұрын
Love the photo of the cat and your bowties are always understated elegance.
@kevinbarry71 3 жыл бұрын
I believe that Hoboken has often been described as a horror. And other less complementary terms
@okjoe5561 3 жыл бұрын
It's hipster heaven today. Lots of bars, restaurants and expensive condos along the Hudson River.
@Ideo7Z 3 жыл бұрын
@@okjoe5561 So a diffrent kind of horror, like Williamsburg.
@okjoe5561 3 жыл бұрын
@@Ideo7Z Now you understand.
@jpjpjp453 3 жыл бұрын
Get off that shit. I remember Hoboken when it was run down as all hell and was more or less defeated as a town, Just walking through it was somewhat of a challenge. I was working in there in the early 90s when things really began changing there (and in nearby Pavonia) and it's a hell of a place to be now. A lot of dumb shits bitching about places like that ought to take a good hard look at what was there after the industrial prime was done and gone. It sure as hell wasn't a pretty picture.
@jimsy7al 3 жыл бұрын
@@jpjpjp453 I remember it as well and it was as you described, it's where I'm originally from. Me and my brother and parents moved from there in 1973 when I was 13.
@rhyami 3 жыл бұрын
I don’t often comment since I don’t know what I might add to one of these videos. However, I wanted to say that it is the mark of a true storyteller when the sorrow and horror of the situation feels real, real enough to hit you in the gut and make you cry, and that is something you do when sharing the story of tragedies like this one. It is important to know about those people who have gone before us and to understand why some of the regulations in place now have come to be. I never even considered they would make ships with portals too small for escape on the lower decks. G
@josephreichardt5086 3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, I went to school at Stevens in Hoboken I used to walk up and down the peers to get to and from the Path station. I had no idea any of this happened. As always your child provides fascinating information.
@tomjustis7237 3 жыл бұрын
Another really great episode from history about which I knew nothing, even though I consider myself to be a 'history geek'. Keep up the marvelous work! BTW, am I the ONLY one who clicks the 'like' button before even watching the vid just because I KNOW it will be worthwhile?
@acbenepe 3 жыл бұрын
Utterly horrifying, Thanks H.G. Ive read several NYC histories.Most include the General Slocum disaster but this is the first i've learned of the Hoboken fire.
@boris2342 3 жыл бұрын
Lest we forget.... RIP
@jaxparrothead 3 жыл бұрын
Sounds kinda like the Great Jacksonville Fire. A spark started burning in a pile of Spanish Moss, the fire quickly spread bcuz of winds, 8 hours later almost 150 blocks were burnt. Over 2300 buildings were destroyed and 10K people were homeless
@goodun2974 3 жыл бұрын
I am guessing the moss was used for home insulation?
@jaxparrothead 3 жыл бұрын
@@goodun2974 mattresses
@nathanaelsnyder372 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing video sir
@billchoe1065 3 жыл бұрын
Morning History Guy!
@followme8238 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much. Truly a tragedy which needs to be remembered.
@brianatwell5716 3 жыл бұрын
This was enlightening. As someone who lives in upstate NY, I had never heard of this disaster.
@lorensims4846 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome history! I first really became aware of Hoboken in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy. Before that it was only a gag line on TV. I've recently been working in ocean freight so this story hits home. It's sad they didn't come up with a definite cause, but freight warehouses can be very dangerous places, as was recently demonstrated in Beirut.
@djolley61 3 жыл бұрын
This tragedy in the New York area brings to mind a sad anniversary that is fast approaching, that of the attacks on 9-11-2001. I hope you will do an in depth video of those events. If any day deserves to be remembered, it is that one.
@100dfrost 3 жыл бұрын
Good video, thanks.
@walter2990 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for bringing this incident to us, who have never heard of it. I fought a pier fire in Tampa many years ago, (it was a suspicious fire of "convince" for the developers of that island), and I thought that "This is what Hell looks like!", but that fire in no way compares to the scope of the Hoboken dock fire. No lives were lost in the Tampa fire.
@litz6033 3 жыл бұрын
I grew up not too far from Hoboken in Bergen County. I never head of this event, though. Thank you, history Guy.
@a.r.c582 3 жыл бұрын
Hobokenite here, well done!
@6thsavage 3 жыл бұрын
I like your cat's portrait. My dog has a similar one in the spirit of Queen Elizabeth I.
@tdsilverado7470 3 жыл бұрын
This is a great Story, Thank you..
@sherirobinson6867 3 жыл бұрын
Never heard this before... good job 👍
@KMac329 3 жыл бұрын
I was born and raised in Weehawken, so I find this very interesting. I'd heard of this fire before, but I never heard it explained in such gruesome detail.
@tedking6790 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great content. Algorithm go brrrrrrrr! Hoping you have continued and growing success, love your work.
@breezerb65 3 жыл бұрын
Best channel on KZfaq
@DawnOldham 3 жыл бұрын
I’m glad that something changed as a result of this horror. The size of portholes being one of them. (Seems that would have been common sense…)
@TheHistoryGuyChannel 3 жыл бұрын
Ship engineers complained that larger portholes could compromise hull integrity, and that the purpose was light and ability to move air rather than egress.
@erynlasgalen1949 3 жыл бұрын
How many of us today could fit through a 13" porthole? I remember when the sests at La Scala were widened from 12" to accomodste modern behinds.
@tomperkins5657 3 жыл бұрын
@@erynlasgalen1949 I was visiting a zoo with my grandchildren and was stunned with the amount of human obesity. Not "overweight", but obese. Most were middle aged, many in electric carts. One look at portion sizes in the past half century would attest to this.
@johnstevenson9956 3 жыл бұрын
Obese or not, I won't be going through any 13 inch portholes without leaving both arms behind.
@quillmaurer6563 3 жыл бұрын
@@johnstevenson9956 Yeah, same. I might be a tad overweight, but my quite broad shoulders would be a bigger issue than my belly.
@jeffbangkok 3 жыл бұрын
very nice way to end the evening
@cent178 3 жыл бұрын
Please do a piece about the Morro Castle disaster of 1934. This occurred off the coast of New Jersey and family history has it that my wife’s grandfather was a steward on that voyage. Love the show!!!☮️
@gwendolynnowlan2427 3 жыл бұрын
oh wow your channel got fancy. i like the logo
@JAGzilla-ur3lh 3 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this on my lunch break at work. I had been watching The Great War, but figured 1914 massacres and rapes might not be the best subject to watch in the workplace. So I came over here looking for something a little lighter in tone. I, um... might not have chosen the right video. Hey, I learned something, though! This was history I'd never heard of before, so this channel is doing its job.
@Shinzon23 3 жыл бұрын
Seems new Jersey always has had a...interesting reputation.
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 жыл бұрын
Tony Soprano says forget about it.
@Alex-cb2gf 3 жыл бұрын
Yes and we are proud of it....both the good and the bad.
@billsanders5067 3 жыл бұрын
There was also the Black Tom Island explosion during WW 1.
@Alex-cb2gf 3 жыл бұрын
@@billsanders5067 You can find The Black Tom Explosion on "The History Guy" channel. He is quite interesting.
@superd9072 3 жыл бұрын
LOVE your voice and your cadence
@sten1939 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@joefrank7159 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@lynnwood7205 3 жыл бұрын
OMG! I had, before it was destroyed in the Camp Fire 2018, a straight razor with the etched image of the Bremen on the blade. I wish I knew the full story of that straight razor. Always worth watching The History Guy.
@markymark3075 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@ronmaximilian6953 3 жыл бұрын
I shut her to think how many burned died of infection and shock in the days after the fire. Severe burns are hard enough to treat today, when we have antibiotics and skin grafts. As for the present, I'm hoping that in a few years you won't have reason to create a clip about the great power outage of June 30th or July 1st 2021.
@jim4859 3 жыл бұрын
Be interesting to hear your take on the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911.
@Mallettt123 3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating as always THG! On the subject of cotton based conflagrations, would it be possible for you to do a video on the Guncotton explosion of 1871? It’s a incident the happened in my hometown of Stowmarket and I would love to have a well made video by you, on the incident.
@JAF30 3 жыл бұрын
Watched this video after hear that one of the ships from "The Convoy and the U-Boat: SS J. L. Luckenbach, HMS Orama and SMU-62", was damaged in this very fire.
@privateer177666 3 жыл бұрын
Haunting Hoboken, a town with a rich history. Whatever happened to the “Clambroth House”?
@Alex-cb2gf 3 жыл бұрын
It was condemned in 2003 and torn down.
@privateer177666 3 жыл бұрын
@@Alex-cb2gf I haven’t been there since ~ ‘77. My favorites were a dozen cherrystone clams and a roast beef sandwich. W/a few cold drafts. Clamshells & sawdust on the floor seemed like a great idea at the time.
@lizj5740 3 жыл бұрын
It was condemned but then bought by others who upgraded it. Their attempt at running it didn't succeed, and last I read it is now called Biggie's.
@jimsy7al 3 жыл бұрын
@@lizj5740 Is that so?! didn't know that, also Biggie's was and I think still is originally located on Madison St. between 3rd & 4th. We used to live on Madison between 4th & 5th, late 60's early 70's.
@lizj5740 3 жыл бұрын
@@jimsy7al I only know what I have read on the Internet. Here is the street address from Biggies Facebook page: 36-42 Newark St 07030 Hoboken, NJ, US. However the most recent post on that page is 19 January (with no year; may be 2020).
@keithjones8424 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@sifridbassoon 3 жыл бұрын
I have never heard of this!
@Skullcrusher404 3 жыл бұрын
Would you be willing to a do a piece about the Labor Slugger Wars from the early 1900’s in New York? Its really interesting
@danielekkel2629 3 жыл бұрын
The history of the humble barrel is history that deserves to be remembered isn't? Mr. Thg with respect- dan
@_faultee_ 3 жыл бұрын
Hoboken station is in one of these pictures from way back. Beautiful building.
@RemusKingOfRome 3 жыл бұрын
excellent.
@NGLaw56 2 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Hoboken, 25 years and never heard this story before today.
@paulbowers1639 3 жыл бұрын
cool! another one:) I like this guy
@LuckyBaldwin777 3 жыл бұрын
What a sad story. Those poor people.
@ronstill3868 3 жыл бұрын
That was one I didn't know. Interesting.
@steveshoemaker6347 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@naturaltruth1596 2 жыл бұрын
Love the cat! Great portrait/picture....
@bsjeffrey 3 жыл бұрын
"the fire, once noticed, spread quickly"... fires are such attention seekers.
@ccswelding1599 3 жыл бұрын
"the navy of tugboats " ...i like that
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