The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-11
Eleven Bodies Of the Dead Have
Been Recovered.
IwESIY.sEvEN ARE STILL MISSING,
Eightccn lnjurcd. Some of Them So.
ricuris.-t'ropcrty loss st,J0N,M,O
with Insurance OF si,OOO, OU0.

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is the awful record OF tho big Are of las
night. Following is a revised list OF tn,
dead. Injured and missing;
The dead;
Police Lieutenant a. j. Berry.
John McHanna.
William Scott. Jr.
| Staaley Stits,
John H. Myer
George Loyeless.
William Smith.
Albert A, Wolf.
Thomas Claffcy.
William l.. wallcrhabenstoin.
Unknown, supposed to be John Scott the
youngest son OF the president OF the chau-
tauaua Ice company.
the injured:
Robert Rosamond. single. aged Il
years lieutenant OF engine COM
psny No 2. right foot crushed leg ampu.
tated below knee. at homeopathic hospital.
He was also bruised about the body
George Douglass 81 years. OF Bellevue,
unconscious; it is thought he received In
ternal injurics.
Owen Muiihan, married, so wears old.
lacerated scalp
William Fleming, 50. single. confusion or
body and scalp Wounds.
Joseph Headley, aged 90, bruised about
body and head.
Z kit Wilson, S6 years old, NJ Paducah. KY
received injuries about the head; not fatal
Robert Dodson. 50, badly injured about
The head and body.
Captain j. A. Brown. superintendent Of
the bureau OF building inspection. right
leg cut and bruised.
Peter Malone, aged 20. slightly Injured
about legs.
DAVIS Stewart, AGED 81. badly cut by fall
iig brick
William Dosmuke, aged So, injured about
head and shoulders.
james Wilson. struck by falling bricks
and seriously hurt.
Peter Malone, leg broken.
Officer Rogers, cut and bruised and In
jnred internally.
Mrs. Mary Desmulse. aged 3s. cut about
head and arms and hurt internally.
Charles Simon. aged 20. travelling su.cs-
man OF Cincinnati. badly cut on head by a.
brick.
George King, engineer No. engine Gem
pany, scalp wound and bruised.
John Hunter, stokcr No. engine COM
pany bruised and both ankles spraiied
Missing;
Nathaniel Greene, accountant Dallmyer
supposed TO he in the ruins,
Thomas Lynch. ice man In employ Of
Chautauqua company, supposed to be IN
the ruins on Thirteenth street.
Eward Berry, Waterman OF the storage
building
Newman, fire insurance inspector OF
Philadelphia,
-. Dorian.
William Finch
Edward Donnelly.
Chris Schriver.
james p. Morrison.
Professor James Moxan, organlst Evan,
geical Lutheran church, Brushton, Pa
Z. p. Eckerty.
John Gerry.
George Mcdonald
Jack Farrell
Samuel Mclaughlin
Jacob Booth and party OF four com
panions, who were In II saloon on Penn
avenue when the wall crashed the buiid-
ing, are missing and supposed to be under
he debris
Mrs. Mary McFadden and her family OF
eight children are supposed 10 be unlcr the
Tallen walls. They lived in a house on
alley, watch was crushed. Moth
ng has been seen OF them since the ex
plosion last night and 1t is believed all
ire dead.
All day long fircmen. policemen and
,ther city employees have been working at
he risk OF their lives but up to nightfall
,ut little progress has been made In the
clearing away of the debris. The work Will
De continued without cessation until II is
inown no bodies remain urder the build
ng
Blackened walls tower from the midst
VI the heaps OF smoulyerIng rubbish,
threatening to topple over at any time.
twenty streams are constantly playing on
he still burning ruins. heavy pail Of
imoke oyerhanes the dcsolate scene ana
he tired policemen have hard work to
seep the thousands OF curious onlookers
rom getting within the rope Gordon
There Is no reason to change last nights
Of the aggregate loss to property.
Il Is difficult to get figures. but Insurance
say II Will approximate 81 300
100 Some OF the individual losses known
IRE: w. A. Hoeyeler a. Co.. loss ON build
ng $4,000: loss to the 1900 customers
who had goods stored thcreip s5n0.0nD,
1hautauqua Ice company. s275,000; Union
Storage company and their customers.
s350. 900: others outside of the lDrge con-
,erns mentioned. 100000 The total in
'urance Is variously estimated at from
800. 900 to f1,250,000.
Business Block mt Laredo Burned.
Laredo, Texas. February 10.-A dis
,st,ous fire occurred in this city last night.
-esuliIng in the destruction Of the large
iwo-story business block OF Thomas 7.
Farrell on Flores avenue. together with
III the contents. The building was OF
:upied on the ground ntor by Mrs. Louis
Pasoo's millinery establishment and Ald2r-
nan Eugene Christen's barber shop and
bath rooms. On the upper floor DR. A. r.
had his dental parlors ard IN
hem the fire originated. II appears that
he doctor had been using charcoal hte
md although he thought II had bscn ex-
ingnished IL seems he WAS mistaken. The
ire must have burned for some time before
/ was discovered. The losses are estimated
Ibout as follows: Thomas Farrell. on
.niidinc x7aO0. Mis- Louis Pasno. on