Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-15

dows in the dwelling houses were broken;
across Smallman street, in Fishers foundry,
the windows were smashed and the sheet
iron side in many places punctured by fly
lug bricks The north side of the building
escaped ruin with the exception of its east
ern end, the roof of which had partially
fallen in.
WORK OF RESCUE.
The debris was piled up high and thick,
and the rescue party could progress but
slowly. Owing to the character of the ma
terial, it did not require much skill to
check the fire, which had commenced. Be-
fore the bricks had cooled the work of
rescue had begun. The first four men taken
out were dead. G US. Lingelbach, the en-
gineer was found near mis- engine. His
body was trightfully mangled, his legs and
right arm being torn of, the ragged flesh
hanging down in long shreds. His head
and face were partially blown away. His
body was taken to the morgue. Lingelbach
resided at No. 129 Howard street, ALLIE
gheny.
Daniel Clark was taken out dead and re-
moved to the undertaking establishment of
McCabe Bros. His brother took charge of
remains and sent the body to his late home
near Mt. Savage, Nd.
A complete list of the killed and injured
is here given:
THE DEAD.
GUS LINGELBACH, engineerS Is years old, sin
gle, lived at 129 Howard street, Allegheny.
JACOB RHENHEIMER boilermaker, 2S years
old, married, lived on the Southside.
CHARLES AULENBACHER, boiler maker, IS
years old, married, lived at 1S2 South Six
teenth street.
DANIEL CLARK, boiler maker, 80 years old,
single boarded on Twenty-sixth street. Re-
sides at Cumberland, Nd.
#. THE INJURED.
TIMOTHY CARTEN, aged 26 years; married;
lived in Lawrenceville; had fracture of the
base of the skull and was badly burned about
the face and hands
FRANK MANEsKY, Is years; laborer; resided
on Fourteenth street; had bad scalp wound
and was severely burned on the head.
MARTIN CoNNERS, "a years old; single; helper;
had fracture of the leg, bad scalp wound
and otherwise badly bruised.
HARVEY BARR rear 24l9 Penn avenue had
severe scalp wound, both hands badly burned
and burned on the back of the head and
neck.
j. II. McCooL. Ridge avenue, near Arch, scalp
wound and bruised about the back.
JAMES MCKEE, Sharpsburg badly bruised on
right leg
CHARLES FORREST, corner kenova and Lytle
streets badly cut about the head.
A half dozen others were slightly cut about
the hands, but their injuries are trifing.
MANY EXCITING INCIDENTS.
Many narrow escapes occurred. A little
girl named Annie Gillespie, whose parents
live in Mackerell court, had just returned
from school and was in closet which stood
near the east wall of the building. When
her mother heard the explosion she ran out
to the spot and after a hard struggle she
seized the child by the arm and dragged her
out of the building, Just as it was struck by
some falling debris and crushed in like an
egg shell. Mrs. Gillespie was struck by a
brick and had her left arm badly injured.
Annie's side was injured, but not seriously.
Joseph Kreh had started for a short cut
through window that opened into Null
berry street, and had just reached the win
dow and placed his hands on the sill,
preparatory to leaping through, when
the crash came. The next thing he knew
he was fired up against wall, on the oppo-
site side of the alley. Strange as it may
seem he was not I'M ured in the slightest
John Baker, a boiler maker, had his
hand on the boiler turning off steam valve
when. he says, he felt himself being drawn
upward. He was thrown through glass
window and landed on the opposite side of
Mulberry alley. He felt around and caught
hold of the end of house and lifted himself
TO his feet. He was but slightly inj ured.
CHICKENS WERE KILLED.
An ol0 lady DY the name OF Mrs. Michael
Cronan had about 60 chickens in a coop ad-
joining the wall of the building. When
the wall fell the roof was crushed and
number Of the chickens were killed. The
others escaped and for a while the air was
full of flying chickens. Mrs. Cronan be-
came so much excited between the loss of
life, and the loss of her chickens, that she
tainted. 1t was at first reported she was
killed, but she recovered from her fainting
spell and spent the time in bewailing her
loss.
Henry Carl, an employe of the works, was
just coming out of the Office when the ex-
pIosion occurred. He was thrown up in the
air, and landed against buggy, on Twenty
third street. The latter was thrown over
and one side of it mashed to pieces
William Frouer was working in the CEN
tral portion of the main building. He was
hurled through the door into Mulberry
alley, where he was picked up unhurt.
An old lady named Mrs. Metzgar was
Just sitting down to her dinner with her son
and daughter when the house was struck BY
a falling wall. A mass of debris poured
into the room through hedoor and window
None Of them were injured. The house is a
wreck.
1t was feared that the walls would fall,
and force of workmen were Immediately
placed at work strengthening them and