The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-07
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A Wild Day In Ills
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FROMFIRE And FLOOD
Result Of the Fearful Disaster in
Pennsylvania.

Result Of the Fearful Disaster in
Pennsylvania.
LOSS OF LIFE is APPALLING
The siekening Scenes ut Oil City and Titus
yilie-Men, Women and Children Meet
Their Death by Flame or Flood.
TITusvHLE, Pa, June 6.-Never in tho
history oil Titusville has such scene of
cesolation been unfolded to the gaze, as
the Associated Press representative saw
this morning when he entered the main
thoroughiare. The first sight was that of
men carrying dead body on a stretcher
Within fifteen minutes the sight became
so common thatit ceased 10 occasion sur
prise. II is now estimated that fully a
hundred persons were drowned or burned
TO death. The money loss is a million and
half 10 two millions.
The territory covered, by food and fire,
with destruction for two miles includes
railroads, factories, rehneries, dwellings,
etc.
THE LIST or DEAD AND WOUNDED.
AS far as learned the list of dead is as
follows:
FRED REED.
Mrs. MARY HAEnN and four children.
Mrs. FRED CAMPBELL and two children.
OLIVER EDGAR, boy.
Two CHILDREN OF Joseph Speigei.
MRs. JOHN QUINN and two daughters.
Mrs. FIRMAN, colored.
Mrs. A. JACOB and child.
Miss d. RICE.
Mr.. ENGRIsKY and son,
An unknown man.
MRs. j. H. BINGERHEIMER and seven
children.
FRED. LEVITT and wife.
HENRY Rich.
Miss GoLDA COHEN.
MIR. ELsKY.
MAMIE QUINN.
Mrs. NEAL MCKENZIE.
JoHN MCFADDEN and sister MARY.
Mrs. FRED LUTHER.
MILAN REKERT's child.
Two BINGENHEIMER children.
N1RS. ". d. OASPERSON.
GEORGE HEAsE.
Mrs. LENA OsMER and two children.
MRR. FRED REID and daughter.
FRANK c. FOSTER.
FRED CLoPPY.
The total number of bodies received at
1870 am, is tifty-fve The work of
searching for the dead is still being prose
cute1 The weather is growing warm and
the odor of charred flesh is beginning 10
pollute the air.
SPARK FROM A LOCOMOTIVE.
The fire at Titusville was caused by
spark from locomotive. Mechanic street,
occupied by the poorer classes for resi-
dences, was simply blotted out of exist
ence. There is not vestige of dwelling
OF that street left standing. The greatest
less of life occurred here. The fire and
flood were so swift that whole families
were swept away before they realized
their danger The volume of flood was
greatly increased by the breaking of the
dam at Rockland, Spartansburg.
MORE FIRES
TITUsvILLE, Pa, June 6.-Queen City
laundry has just caught fire. Danger
threatens the unburnt district.
PITqsBURG, Pa, June 6-rhe following
has beer received IRON the mayor of Oil
City: The loss of life becomes hourly
more apparent. Sixty-tbree bodies have
been recovered. With the subsiding flood
the loss of many more will undoubtedly be
found. Over q hundred familes are home
less. Loss, 500, 900 to Sl,z00,0OO
AT OIL CITY
OIL CITY, June 6.-Eghteen miles of
death and desolation is the story in brief
OF the awful catastrophe which descended
on the borders of Oil Creek from Titus
a. 49,
creek the food and fire left ruin and wreck.
ann it will take day before the record of
death and destruction can be completed
The fire burned itself out this morning and
the burning oil passed away. The creek
and river, however, are rising.
Few spectators watching the food when
the explosion occurred can give q good
idea of what happened. All agree that by
the terrific explosion the whole air was
nlleu win flames, quickly followed by two
other explosions Three gasoline tanks
exploded almost instantaneously.
The oil on the creek blazed up, the gas in
the air burst into flames, water land and
air, all were. literally ablaze and men,
women and children were PROSTATE.
Many never arose. Some who did found
themselves in lake of flames. The null
titude fed with screams of anguish
for higher ground. In the rush
pied upon and badly injured.
Some were hurt by borses, others ran AND
eaped into the water and were drowned.
Tue flames ia the air quickly burned out,
but LETT huge volumes of smoke beneath
which reared the fierce flames of burning
oil on the water. Many submerged houses
and shops were soon in flames Many PEG.
pie confined were unable to escape from
the fire. Within sight were thousands
who heard their piteous cries as they
burned to death or leaped into the river
and persisted by both flood and fire. Ii is
marvellous that from the valley OF death
any were saved alive. 1t is strange that out
of the commingling of fire and food any
houses escaped.
HERO.
Many of those who will live had better
be dead, for they are so fearfulIy burned
and disfgured. One of the heroes of The
occasion is w. L. Stewart, who after
spending an hour in o boat rescuing i'm
perilled people, went down TO death under
the fal ling of blazing house
THE CASUALTIES.
Among the dead are: P. j. FEENEY.
wife and eight children.
J. HAssoNFRITz and four children.
H. LEONARD, wife and children.
The following bodies are identified
EDWARD KEATING, railroad section boss.
UNKNOWN MAN.
WILLIS STUART.
DANIEL SULLIVAN,
JAMES HOLMES.
JOHN B. REYNOLDS.