Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-09

the sky is still black with heavy smoke
from the burning refneries, cooper
shops, radiator works, hotels, fur
niture factories, freight depots and
dwellings.
on. CRY. Pa, June As each hour
passes horrors add to horrors Not
only were the first reports of Sundays
disaster not exaggerated, they were not
large enough. Constant additions are
being made 10 the death list. Eighty
seven are now accounted for and the
search is not half finished. Mayor
Hunt estimates the death loss in Oil
City alone at $50, but these figures bid
fair TO be too small
There were between $50 and 800
houses destroyed, besides the various
hotels, works and manufactures. While
the financial loss is hard to estimate at
this time it is certain to reach 81. $50, 600,
or even go beyond that figure.
At late hour siXty-seven bodies had
been taken from the ruins. Those
who are acquainted with the locality
where the greatest damage was done
say the loss of life must reach at least
$50, and many put the figures at 200.
The number of bodies recovered gives
no fair estimate of the number lost.
The section where the loss of
life is greatest was largely occupied by
foreigners employed in the tube works.
No one knows their names and it will
be impossible to ever learn just how
many are missing. In this section,
also, were a vast number of children.
OF all the bodies recovered only ten
were children, and the great question
is, what has become of the rest of
them?
TITUsvILLE, Pa, June 7.--Peop e are
just beginning to realize the extent of
the awful calamity wrought by fire
and flood upon this city. The scene
of desolation is terrible. Soon after
daylight appeared the sight of
men carrying dead bodies through the
streets on stretchers became so com
mon as to occasion no surprise. At
the present writing it is estimated that
fully $50 persons have been either
drowned or burned to death The
money loss will run from 81, OOO,-
600 to $4,000, 900. An idea of the
amount of territory covered by the
flood and fire can be obtained when it
is stated that over miles of property
were destroyed This includes rail-
roads, factories, refneries, and private
dwellings, etc.
A total of fifty five bodies had been
recovered up to 1890 o'clock p. m. The
work of searching for the dead is still
being prosecuted with the utmost vigor,
as the weather is beginning to grow
warm and the odor of the charred re-
mains of human flesh and animals is
beginning to pollute the air.
1t is reported on reliable authority
that John d. Rockefeller, president of
the Standard Oil Company, has in
structed Joseph Seep. the buyer for the
Standard Oil Company here, TO draw on
him for 500. 900 for the relief of the
sufferers in this district.
Hundreds of families are homeless
and great distress prevails Assistance
is needed and that quickly as, while
those remaining are doing all in their
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they have not The means at their com
mand to continue the assistance
Clothing and food are both essential
Committee. have been organized to
make systematic arrangements for the
care and comfort of the destitute living
and for the proper interment of the
dead.
f4xr bov sr,
1862 and as a city in 1870 II has thirteen
churches, three public schools six banks, TWO
oil rehneries mandatory OF engines Of en-
CINE boilers, 3 barrel factory ana other indus
tries.
Titusyine is on oil creek and on the Allegheny
Valley railroad ana is the terminus OF the Dun
kirk Allegheny Valley ana Union Titus
vile railroads 1t is 80 miles south Of Dunkirk
and about p miles east Of Meadvnle II is the
most populous town Of Crawford county. 1t
has nine churches, several banks, an opera
house and high school, hotels printing offices
and newspar rs Ttusville has several Oil
wells. oil refnerieS, steam sawmills, large iron
works, which produce engines, boiler tubes ana
other machinery, and manufactures Of barrels
wagons and Of tools FOR working oil wells
ERIE, Pa, June Sunday evening
Clark's milldam at Union City burst
and a wall of water swept through the
town, carrying thirty houses from their
foundations, and, while many persons
We're hurt, none lost their lives Hun
dreds of horses and cattle were
drowned The damage will reach not
less than 100000 The towns of Gar
land, Pittsfeld, Columbus and many
other places are under water
Four Men Instantly Killed.
boiler in Kenzie g. Cougilrs tile works,
~ miles south Of Idaville, White
county, exploded at $50 yesterday
morning, four men being killed The
dead are James Cougill, Bert Roller.
David Taylor and George Williams