Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-08
I'D FOR THE NEEDY
they Are Everywhere Present
in the Oil Regions
suFFERIaG AND WOE IN GREAT
~ me Days Pass the Horrors Of Sundays
Pre- and Flood Seem 70 Greatly
increzs< Hourly.


uae4es horrors add 20 horrors. Not
onIy were the srst reports Of sundays
diaaster not exaggerated, they were not
large enough Constant additions are
being made 70 the death list Eighty
seven are now accounted for and the
search Is not half finished. Mayor
Hunt estimates the death ioss in Oh
City alone al $50. but these figures bid
ln1r TO De too small
There we're between $50 and 500
ho4ses destroyed. besides the various
hoesi=. works and manufactures While
the financial loss - hard 10 estimate AZ
as tizae IL Is certain 70 reach 81. csc, 900.
o. even 20 beyond that figure
Over 500 homeless people are being
taken care o. and the Presbyterian
ehuzch i being used as a temporary
house. Heartrending snd pitisal sights
meet one everywhere and tales Of hero
Ism and desperate fights with the two
Lsstroying elements are heard
i Aha Bsins Promptly Furnished
unbounded gratitude is felt and az
dressed by the relief committee here
over thu unsolicited and generous sub
hcr4p<ions and offers Of aid from out
aids persona The committee has in
Hand over $4,000, and the answers TO
inquiries received viii swell the sub
bcripacus 20 double this sum Already
hhers have beeA requests for aid
krom 500. and this number Is slow
n being swelled This by no
kneuns represents the total num-
her of suffers. as many of them
- a. a. - Aa1
for them Among the cities which have
sither sens subscriptions or made in
autries relative thereto are Pittsburgh.
New York. Toronto. Buffalo. Phil adel-
:phda. Rochester, jamestown, Syracuse.
Albany. Harrisburg. Altoona, Erie.
Cleveland. Columbus. Sandushy. Chica-
70. Cincinnati. Indianapolis. Mime
aposix. 81 Louis. St Paul. San Francis
& co. Denver, Baltimore. Washington
The question Of insurance Is most
oerious one. and adjasters are already
On The ground The total insurance is
about $500. coo. and the insurance loss
= ever yfs0.0co
A Hsro's Fate.
o. Of xhe heroes who gave his life
~ ths4 Of others was william L. Stew
- Of SiverIyviile. a small village
about mile mp OIL creek When the
tliaaster occurred Stewart ran 20 his
hems in Siverlyville and dragged
: boak 70 the waters edge He
braved the death that moved on the
watsrA and was one Of those who
helpsd 70 sAvo the west sicte victims.
Yos IN hosr he helped TO drag people out
of the houses on the bank of Oil creek,
nnd bore them IN his boat 70 safety.
q great wave Of nsphtha sp-
proached over stewards head, a
= house cracked and In an instant he
wns suguifed in . mass Of mortar and
lame. He died At his post almost ia
the very act of snatching kves from the
voginx elements His body was fear
fully battered and burned He leaves a
vifs and two children.
cAess 70 Die With Hls Agva Mother.
John OLeary. whose lie and his
mothers were blotted out, had Just as
sumed the position made vacant by the
death of Messenger Metz, who was
killed m the railroad disaster at Foster
. few days ago. When tho food and
1se struck the oLeary home John tried
- save his mother. who was almost 50
yonss OF age, but failing. he calmly
ssk down by her side and mother and
son faced death together.
YssAsss sights Asoog the MeusnGA
Many Of the bodies were in such q
eond1skn That they had 10 be buried
Monday. II is pitiful sight 70 wit
ness fhuifes searching in the water
and smoking ruins for lost loved oues
Groups of weeping men. women
and children dig and hunt for
lost ones, and when found
their grief il indescribable. There
were never saddcr scenes. not
even NJ .Johnstown. Here hundreds are
manned and burned 10 death. while al
Johnstown The number Of injured wa:
comparatively small Many of the IN
jsued have lost . leg or an arm through
The ire. ears and noses have beer
hnrned on. burned and blistered. and
stiii The victims live aud suffer.
uni~o Cfsy Fssoded.
EuE. Pa. June Sunday evensnx