The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-08
hundred it will be less than now antici.
pated. Following is the
LIST OF THE DEAD,


pated. Following is the
LIST OF THE DEAD.
Select Councilman John b. Reinbold,
proprietor of the Bellevue Hotel. While
Mr.. Beinbolds family, all but two of
whom were at home, hurried away TO a
place of safety, he ran to the barn to un-
tie the horses. His body was found
about O'Clock in the ruins of the barn.
He had one leg buned off, but was lying
under heavy piece of timber and had
evidently been knocked senseless by the
same. He had been partly burned in
the body when the timber fell and was
but little dishgured.
Among the first bodies reported found
were four at the south end of the w. N.
Y. & P. creek bridge. Three of them
were finally identified as those of H. w.
Shafer, of Franklin, operator in the
Office of Cornwall & Reed and the Postal
Office; book agent named Bristol; Chas.
Miller, machinist in the National
Transit shop. They had been watching
the flood at that point, were literally
roasted as quick as flash and dropped
almost together in heap.
Daniel Sullivan, aged forty-five, for
merly an engineer on the w. N. Y. g.
p, was found dead on pile of boards
in Wick's lumber yard. He was unmar-
ried and lived with his parents. Mrs.
John Roach and little child were burned
and drowned at their home on North
Seneca street. The husband and father
saw them die and his efforts to save
them are expected to result in the loss of
his own life. Grant Terwilliger, who
was heroically working to save women
and children, was drowned, as was also
his brother Will. They dived into the
water as the flash came did not appear
again. Both were married and leave
families.
E. V. r. Planke, here on business
trip from Carthage, N. Y, was among
those in the vicinity of the creek rail-
road bridge and was burned to crisp.
The bodies of Councilmen Bartholo-
new Lyons, his wife and fourteen-year
old boy, when found in the ruins of their
home presented touching spectacle.
The wife held the boy to her breast and
the arms of the husband were about both
the wife and child.
Mrs. Edward Mills, of 80 Seneca street,
was found in the evening with her two
children burned almost beyond recogni-
tion.
A. f. Moran, of Rochester, N, Y, aged
about thirty years, was found drowned
on Seneca street.
James Rogers, of the Clapp farm,
started to float down in boat from one
of the refineres and was lost. VIM.
White, of Clapp farm, was in the boat
with him and was also lost. He leaves
a wife and five children.
Edward Heating, w. N. Y. & p. sec
tioh boss, was dreadfully burned, and
after running to his home on Palace
Hill, dropped dead.
Willis Stewart, of Siverlyville, one of
heroes of the rescuing party, who was
caught in the fearful flames also per-
ished.
Harry Holmes, of jamestown, n. Y,
a young barber about twenty years of
age, employed in John Uhlanders shop,
was drowned on Seneca street.
Farther up the body of Walter Nc
Pherson, of Housewife, was found
Express Messenger John O'Leary and
his aged mother were found dead to-
gether and the sight presented was both
evidently made a vain endeavor to save
the mother and had then knelt by her
bedside in prayer. When found he was
still kneeling there burned in the fright
full manner indicated in the report above
of the bodies at the Mayors office.
The body of H. d. Dougherty, of the
Summit, was found at s o'clock this
morning. The only manner in which it
could be identified was by a fragment
found of the shirt he wore. His wife
had made the shirt and to her fell the
sad lot of making the Identification
through remembrance of the way she
had made the button holes.
William Eakin, aged llfty-five years,
and his two sons, Frank and Ed Eakn,
both married, lost their lives at the
fathers home, on Seneca street. They
sent their mother and sister over the
temporary bridge and remained behind
to pile the furniture out of the water.
They were caught in the flames and lost.
The bodies of all were found and identi-
fled this morning.
The body of Sheridan Wick who is sup
posed to have jumped into the water TO
escape death by fire, was found this
morning near the Wick Lumber yards
and taken to the Mayors office.
Ed. Mills has been found frightfully
burned. Three other children are yet TO
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