Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-07-11
loss or SO, 900. 900.
Report of the board of Inquiry Into
the sohnstoSyn pisnster.

the DOWNTOWN Cisnster.
JoBNsT WV, Iuiy Secretary Davies
Of the board Of Iuquiry has made COM
pllation OF the losses reported and esti-
mated, which the board has confirmed.
This Is not the owners estimate of loss,
but very conservative estimate placed
upon all losses by the board. In deter
mining these losses allowance has been
made for property that has been saved,
hence this 10 an estimate only of total
losses. The following are the figures
This aggregate OF the local committees
estimates of loss in Glasses Let, ID, 81,
18th and 9th is 81, 19l, 747. The total nnm.
Der of cases in these classes is 36t.
The average loss, there ore, is 81, 424
The total loss In clBss 9th is 81 ,1l2, 1873;
numher OF cases, 4i5; average loss,
SO 400. The aggregate loss of borough
property, all the boroughB having re,
ported, is $i6S, $50. The damage TO
school property reported from seven
school districts is $50, 1872. The fire
companies, six in number, report loss
of S37,l5 Losses of private corpora
tions 20 far reported amount to
| 81 73l 1862.
We have not yet heard from the Cam
bria Iron Company, the Jamestown
Manufacturing Company, or the Cambria
and Westmoreland Natural Gas Company,
says the report. Doctors Bsale and
Father Trautwein have not reported for
the churches. The total loss reported to
date, including individual losses and the
losses of boroughs, schools, private cor
ations and fire companies is 81, 1874 ,O64.
Up TO $50 p. m. to-day (July h)
blanks to the numter of AL have been
filed in addition to those acted upon for
| future action OF the board and local COM
rni,tees. Assuming that the average loss
in these cases will be equal to the average
| loss in the csses already passed upon, VIZ /,
| 81 $50, there sbouiG be- added to the total
stated above, $76l, $50, making grand
total OF IS 655,l
A committee from Chicago, having the
| fund for the sufferers from that ciiy in
charge, stopped OF in town this after
noon. They will go to Oresson to NOR
row, and the action OF the state counts.
sion there will cause them to determine
what to do with their money.
THE LOSS OF LIFE.
The number of lives lost Is to day as
| uncertain and as far from determination
as it was FIVE weeks ago. Father DAWN
OF Cambria City, who in that village
alone banded $50 bodies, holds to the
beisf that fully 5000 people were lost
altogether. @. B. CLARK. who had inst
completed directory OF the devastated
section short time before the flJoi,
estimates the loss of life at 900. He
says it m,y be higher, but certainly will
not 60 lower. DR.. Bsae, who mad charge
otthe morgue had q record ot2 400 bodies
recovered when he handed control over
to the state. At the bureau of informa.
ticn there is a record Of only l 600 bodies.
1t is known that many OF the dead were
buried without any registry being made
of them. Thomas Richards SAWS that,
az near as can be judged by the informs
tion now ct hand, over 8 900 persons are
missing and not accounted for; these, of
course, are in addition to the known
dead. Mr. CLARK, who has gone over the
ground very carefully, estimates the loss
iu Hometown at 5000. Oonemaugh. $50
to 600; Woodvsle, 800; Cambria City,
800. The surviving doctors OF the town
are quoted as estimating the number OF
dead at 1000, and that figure is as likely
asauy othertogo down u history MIR CLARK
says that as near as he can determine by
comparison with his directory, QUO
hou0es were destroyed, valued altogether
at Sc 900, GOO, and he puts the total loss
of property at $4,000, 900.