Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-15
THE ST. PETERS FIRE.
The Cathedral Is Not a Total Loss---Ser
vices to be Held To-day.

The Cathedral Is Not a Total Loss---ser-
vices to be Held To-day.
PITTsBURG, November 13.-The scenes
around st. Peters pro-cathedral, Allie
gheny, all day, which was destroyed by
fire ut an early hour this morning, was
one of desOlatiOn. The Columbia Engine
company was kept on duty until about 3
o'clock, and large crowds ofpeople from all
portions of the city visited the ruins.
A call was made upon Bishop Phelan
and he said: IL cannot tell how soon We
will commence to rebuild, but | will call
for meeting Of the committee tomorrow
and we will decide ut once. Yes, sir, we
saved all the portable yaluableS in the
church. but we had some very valuable
Punishment that was stationary, and of
course that is all gone. No, sir; cannot
say from memery how much the church
cost exactly, but | think it was about
Sl4O, 900 Our loss by the fire is hard To
estimate but | rather think it will be all of
the insurance, which is somewhere in
the neighbOrhOOd Of 100000 and
possibly more. Had the walls
and steeple been injured of course it would
have been great deal worse, but we have
| all around the inside of the church an
eight inch brick wall which protected the
stones from the heat, SD that the walls and
stone in the foundry is uninjured. Yes,
! sir, we will hold service tomorrow ut q,
| . and 1880 a. M. in the school building
connected with st. Mary'S German Gothic
| lie church on the corner of North and
| Liberty streets, and will continue to meet
| there until our church Is rebuilt The
reverend gentleman was very busy, his
residence being thrOnged with visitors OF
all classes calling to offer their coincidence
| IN the loss of the church building.
Mr.. CoSgrOve, the secretary of the
Church society, said: Il cannot say
where the insurance is placed exactly, but
think it is nearly all in eastern companies.
| Yes; | think $40, 900 If about all we have
on il, and also believe our loss will be
| every dollar of that. Will We rebuild:
| Most undoubtedly, and also think that
operations will commence Just rs soon rs
/ the embers cool OIL. | had the architect
! down there this morning, and he eNamln-
ell the walls and Steeplc and said they
we're uniniured, which ofcoursr was good
news for us. We have had Prof. Smith
here for the past five weeks working at our
organ and getting it into proper shape.
He had all his tools there and they were
all destroyed. His loss will amount to
fully $500, and feel sorry for him rs II
will be u dead loss to him
From another source it was learned that
the New England Mutual Insurance conf
pany carried 1000, the German. OF New
! York, s., 900, both with ArrottS agency
the Citizens, $1,000; the City. $1,000, and
the Allegheny, 5000, the latter compan'
les being PittSburg organizations. Mr.. Hay
the plumber, stated that he had suffered
no loss; except the window frame OF hr
back building being burned. The resi-
dents of the neighbOrhOOd are loud II
their praise of the manner in which the
fire was managed by the Chief Crow anC
the the extraordinary cNertiOns made by
department to prevent the spread o
the flames, which they think was wonder
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