The daily gazette., 1877-07-28
PITTSBU llG.
LIABILITY OF ALLEGHANY CoUN
ny FOR THE LOSS.

ny FOR THE LOSS.
Ter this head the Commercial of
esday says Pittsburg has had her
lnistic dance of death and destruc-
nd with returning reason calcula-
ire being made as to the amount
will be necessary to pay the piper
H seems no reason to do ubt that
. h as already quoted in this paper
all property destroyed on the
Sunday" and although the ag-
can only be approxiaated it is
emily appalling even at the lowest
suggested. On Sunday last pre-
to the destruction of the Union
Hotel high official of the
bylvauia Rlilroad Company fig
pp, at a rough estimate a loss of
5,0CO coo. Subsequent TO that,
nion Depot the Pau Handle build
Pm Seventh avenue the Adams
ess depot, the Elevator and a
number OF cars were destroyed
10 much private property on Wash
'n avenue. Eight millions is claim
be a low estimate and many put
ZEN millious. Only one suit has
'een instituted against the country
of Mr.. Cohn, a pawnbroker
le place of business was broken
by the mob and ransacked. His
, is for $1,000. Johu Baton, Esq
|senting the owners of n cooper
and other property on Washing
Street has notified the County
hissioners of a claim for $l56 QUO
Psses sustained through fire. The
fs have not yet been prepared, but
be ready shortly, Mr.. Stewart
pei for another one of the WASH.
N avenue sufferers will shortly
praecipe and ere long these
Is will assume mammoth proper
evening contemporary forget
hat no suit for damages can be
sht against the Common wealth
L The declaration that "prevailing
'on Is that the losses will lie be-
p the county and the State" II
.ounty is liable at all she will be
y liable and will have to bear
ptden alone, Another evening
IN aiiudlng to this question di-
lae damage up among the tax
OF tne couaty, which would be
uai W $ll3 for each taxable and
III Is doubted whether this can
co 'lecled- very doubtful-ae il
u require tax levy of four pei
on The present valuation"
AMONG THE RUINS. "1
pc view from the depot ruin to
y ty-elghth street is sufficiently
uresque TO satisfy the most exact
'nihu: Where lately stood magni
II buildings, teeming with life anc
ueSs' are seen naught but charred
'er and heaps of ashes. OF the
lreds OF railroad cars which but {
nays " ago stood on the tracks D
!, ,enhsylVania Company,remain bu
us ana All 8, which are lr Jken a n
,tu in all possible shapes. Neve,
,e more complete, neve,
M 'ne power ola mob more com
ely illustrated. The round-hous,
ae In the Philadelphia soldiers
! oeSleged, aud where they en-
~ ~ danger and privation almost ur
S s,eled from Saturday afternoon
sunday ! morning, is one of tn,
, points of interest 10 the immens,
ugs OF people which continue Il
again from daylight till dark
esen long after nighltall.
give defLite idea of the extern
'e building destroyed dimension,
poru0n may be mentioned. The
81 shops were thirteen hundred
'rCnt and one hundred and sevent,
leet in diameter, one having
Weight and the other for:y-foul
'', and capable Of containing al
over two hundred locomotives
hundred aud twenty wer,
.oyed In there on Sunday. The Cal
% were over four hundred feet ia
W h ana nearly seventy in width
ShOn WAS eighty feel
and forty wide. The lumoeI
gts fau walls one hundred feet lonl
llty wide. Shops for IN CINE re
were one huudied and eight,
aong and sky wide. The ma
: shops was twu-hundred and tweI
81 and seventy wide, and tn,
11smlth shops in connection on,
,red and ten feet in length. TIL,
large buildings burned were III,
s'er Depot and the Union Depo