The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
Thus far forty-two bodies have been

| linus lar IOrJy-JWO BODIES have been
found.
The Coroner and jury are now viewing
| the rmains.
There were several
TEMPORARY MoRGUES,
and the sight presented at each seemed
more horrible than the other. At the
City Hall was sight to cause the most
stolid heart to siclien and the strongest
frame to tremble at the spectacle that
met the gaze. Lying side by side were
the charred remains of ten of the victims
stretched out along the wide hall on the
ground floor.
ONE LOOK AT THE AWFUL WORK
was enough to crafty the curiosity of the
morbid sight-seers. Silent in death,
burnt beyond the semblance of human
beings were forms that with the rising
of the mornings sun were full of life,
ambition and hope. AT night their
souls were in the beyond. AT the farther
end of the hall lay all that was once a
| happy family. Bartholomew Lyons,
wife and son, all terribly burned. Next
to them lay Mrs. Mills aud her twin
daughters. The former was only slight
ly burned but the latter two
were burned to a crisp. Only the
bodies were left and the BACKED
| ahd Grip arms were clasped about one
another; showing that they were in one
| ahother's embrace when the summons
came. Mr.. Mills only came to this.country
from England little more than year
ago. -Four months ago the remainder of
the family arrived, and now all have
been swept, as with breath, from the
face of the earth. Walter McPher-
son and Grant Terwilliger. lay
side by side, the former only
slightly burned but the latter beyond
recognition. The left hand was burned
| off and the stub of the arm was raised
imploringly toward Heaven. Mrs.
O'Leary and her son John, an express
messenger on the Valley road laid side
by side. The former was a frightful
sight but the latter was even more
shocking to behold. Nothing but the char
red trunk remains. The head,
arms and legs were charred
entirely consumed and all that remained
presents more the appearance of pice
of burnt wood than what was only few
hours before human form.
WHERE THE FIRE STARTED.
Two BLIZZARD men were STANDING
the south stone pier of the creek railroad
bridge when the gas commenced coming
down the stream. 1t seemed to hang
over the water like a haze, kind of
transparent simmer, such as is some
times caused by the sun on hot sum-
mer day. The air was soon i'm
pregnated with it and the
odor became 80 strong that
the spectators commenced feeling dizzy.
j. L. Dorsworth, II. w. Shaffer and
some others who were killed were stand
ing by the side of the BLIZZARD men
when they concluded it was time to
move away from deadly enemy which
could not be seen. Mr.. Dorsworth
was standing with his hands
on his hips, looking up the stream when
the BLIZZARD men left him. The news
paper men crossed the foot bridge and
had just started down Shamrock street,
when, glancing across the creek, to
where Livseys wells, on the west bank
of the creek, by the side of the Lake
Shore Railroad track, a flash was seen.
THE GAS HAD IGTTED
Instaneously it flashed across the creek,
ahd in half the time it takes to write it,
everything between the startling point
and w. N. Y. q p. tracks, east
of the Barrel Works was in
sheet of flame. The BLIZZARD men
started up the hill and had gone perhaps
fifty feet when the explosions occurred.
AN ENGINEERS EXPERIENCE.
Bigler Carr, the engineer of the engine
standing near the Creek railroad bridge,
near the barrel works, says: 81 noticed
haze rising on the water and fearing it
might be gas, told the engineer of the
special which was standing near, to get
out of there as quick as he could so to
let me out, My engine was standing on
the switch near the end of the Creek
bridge. The special pulled down toward
the depot and got in the cab and tried
to run it out of the switch, going to-
wards the bridge. was then some 70 feet
from the bridge. l had scarcely pulled
lever when there was a flash and saw a
slight flame dart through the cab. 1t
scorched me about the neck and hands.
| sprang Off the engine, and ran down
the track and was about three car lengths
from the engine when the explos sion
took place. There was kissing sound
all around me, and little flashes of
flames.'
One of the men who work in the Union
Refinery was near at the same time, and
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