Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1891-04-16
FRIoHTFuL CALAMITY.


Sise Live. Lost by renemens Fire IN
Rochester. pam italian Family of
Seven. with the Exception sf Que Young
Girl. Among the Drsd-The Charred Re-
mains OF the Victim. Found In the
Ruins
ROCHESTER Pa, April THE most
frightful calamity that has ever be-
fallen this place occurred early this
morning. and as a result nine lives were
lost Between the Rose building. cor
ner of Brighton and New York streets.
and the railroad crossing. were a row
of cheap frame tenement houses, the
FIRST floors of which were occupied as
business houses. shortly after mid
night fire was discovered in the lower
building. and an alarm was given
The hrc gradually spread To the
second and third houses, and in
a few minutes all were in flames.
But few of the citizens were on
the scene until the fire was well under
headway and efforts were made tn save
property, but with poor effect. a. the
buildings being of highly infammablc
material burned rapidly. In the midst
of the hottest part of the fire an Italian
girl about 10 years Of age. appeared at
the window of one of the burning build
ings and leaped toward the ground. two
of the fircmen catching her before she
struck the ground Between her sobs
she stated that all her fathers
family were vet in the burning house.
but as the flames now had full control
OF the building il was impossible To
save them. and seven persons perished
in the Italian family. The rooms occu-
pied by the Italians were in the center
of the building. and when IL was found
that lives had been lost n careful in
quiry was made regarding the occupants
of the first building to take fire
1t was inhabited by shoemaker
named Edward ]. keenc, with n
family consisting of wife and
three children. None of the family
could be found for time, but during
the height Of the excitement Mrs Kecnc
with two of her children arrived from
Pittsburgh ON train No. I. IL was then
feared that Mr. kccne and his eldest
son Walter, aged ; years.twere lost
Brave men at once went tn work among
the burning timhers and soon discovered
the eharrcd remains of father and son
close together. but burned to an un-
recognizable mass. The eorpses with
those of the Italians that have been re-
covered are lying in a stall at Hayes
livery stable The names of the vic
Tins are as follows:
Edward j. kcene. 80 years of age.
Walter keene. . years.
Rutteito Ceapio. - years
Annie Ceapio. wife of above, 81 years
John Ceapio. II years.
Rose Ceapio. ; years
Victoria CeaPio. brother of Rutteito;
age unknown
Joe Romio. age unknown
The nine bodies arc 50 badly burned
that they are unrecognizable- There
has also been 500 in gold found among
the ruins which belonged To the Ital-
ians. The Italian girl the only one
saved. says there is still 500 in the
ashes.
IL is thought that the Italians became
81 confused that they could not find the
stairway, which was n narrow one. and
to reach it required the opening of two
doors in the rear of the building. and
they were burned la death The Ital-
ians were very intelligent. and worked
in the Rochester tumbler works. The fire
originated in keene'S kitchen All the
! household goods. together with Ed
wanis' tea store. Halls millinery store
and keene's shoe-shop. are destroyed
! There is insurance on all the stores.
! The buildings belonged to John +.
. Smith and yy,rt. not inSnr.e,i