Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-07
AT rIrUsv1LLE.


and Blackened Ruins.
TrrUsvILLE, Pa, June 6.--Never in the
history of Titusville has such scene Of
desolation been unfolded to the gaze as
the Associated Press representative saw
this morning when he entered the main
thoroughfare. The first sight was men
carrying dead body on q stretcher.
Within fifteen minutes the sight became
so common that it ceased to occasion
surprise.
1t is now estimated that fully 100 per.
sons were drowned or burned to death.
The money loes reaches million and q
half or two millions. The property de-
stroyed includes railroads, factories, re-
fineries, dwellings, etc.
The fire was caused by spark from
locomotive. Mechanic street. occu-
pied by the poorer classes for residences,
ie simply blotted out OF existence. Not
vestige of the dwellings that lined the
streets, is left standing. The greatest
loes OF life occurred here. The food and
fire were so swift. that whole families
were swept away before they. realized
the danger. The volume of the food
was greatly augmented by the breaking
of the dam at Riceville and Spartans-
burg. aN
THE LIST OF VICTIMS.
As far as learned the list Of the dead
is as follows:
Fred Reid; Mrs. Mary Haehn and
four children; Mrs. Fred Campbell and
two children; Oliver Edgar, a boy two
children of Joseph Speigel; Mrs. John
Quinn and two daughters !, Mrs, Fur
man (colored); Mrs. A. Jacobs and
Miss Delie Rice; q man named Engirsky
and son an unknown man; Mrs.J. H.
Bingerheimera and seven children; Fred
Leuers and wife.
Missing and almost surely lost: A
man named Roulbe and son, Mrs. Henry
Price, Miss Furman (colored), Mrs. Fred
Reid, Frank Foster, Mrs. Osman and
two children, Mrs. G. p. Casperson,
John and Mary McFadden, Henry Rich,
Mrs. Jacobs, Miss Coda Cohen, q man
named Elsky, Mamie Quinn, Mrs. Neal
Mckenzie, John McPhadden and sister,
Mary Mrs. Fred Luehers, VIM. Reck-
erts, child; two Bingzeimer children,
Mrs. @. p. Casperso, George Pease, Mrs.
Lena Osmer and two children, Joseph
Spiegel's two children, Mrs. Fred Reid
and daughter; Frank O. Foster, boy
Fred Copy.
The total number Of bodies 60 1far re-
covered Cat 10 80 a. n.y. is 55. The
work of searching for the dead is still
being prosecuted. The weather isgrow-
ing warm and charred flesh ia beginning
to pollute the air.
PROPERTY LOSSES.
The following named are among the
principal works destroyed: Frank
Woods oil refinery, loss $4,000 Beebe
& Sons tannery, $50. 900; the freight sta.
tion of the Western New York and Penn.
sylvania, and freight train, loss esti-
mated at 100000; j. Aloze. radiators,
Perry station, SIC, 900; George Stephens,
shops, building and stock, $25, 900
American oil works, $40 900; r. @. Rob
ineon and Foggan refinery, $4,000; j,
P. Thomas, International refinery, $751;
900. The Standard Oil company's loss
is unknown. Other losses aggregate
$50, 900.
The railroad tracks are washed away
above the city for distance of fifteen
or twenty miles, and travel both north
and south is cut off, and will not be re-
stored for two or three days.
It's reported that John D. Rockefeller
has instructed the Standard Oil buyer
here to draw on him for $l00, 900 for the
relief of the sufferers. ess
The body ofzFred Iiuers was discov'
cred this afternoon. making in all fifty
ak victims 80 far. The facilities tol
caring for the dead are limited, and elk
teen unacceptable bodies were PLACED
in sacks and laid aside till they coult
receive further attention. Coroner
Strauss impaneled a jury today and
viewed the remains. He said the YER
dict could be nothing else than the &C
OF providence.
Every bridge in the county, with thu
exception of three railroad bridges. il
swept away, and the roads are 90 badly
torn up that it will cost an immense
sum to repair them.
Hundreds of families are homeless
and great distress prevails. Assistance
both essential