Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-10
FIFTEEN WE'RE KILLED.
Belief that at Least Ten More Bodies Lie in
the Ruins.
MORE THAN A SCORE INJURED BESIDES,
Greatest Fire Horror in the History of
Pittsburg -Firemcn Fought Flames
and smoke with Dificulty.


night was the greatest In the history
of Pittsburg. At least fifteen people
We're killed, over a score injured and
property valued at one and a half mil
lion dollars was destroyed.
The list of dead, injured and missing,
as far as known is as follows:
The dead
Lieut.. of Police John A. Berry. aged
about 30 years.
John Dwyer, 80 years old, single.
William Scott Jr.,2O years old, single
of President William Scott of the
Chautauqua Lake Ice Co.
Stanley S. Ritz, aged Is.
George Loveless, 40 years old, mar
ried.
Unknown white man, aged about 25
years.
Mrs. Mary Sipe, aged so.
Mrs. Sipe. aged "A, mother of Mrs.
Mary Sipe.
Stanley sipe, aged 16 years.
Lieut.. Joseph Johnston. of No. en-
CINE company.
Fireman. white. name unknown.
William l.. Wallenstein. employed in
Hudensman's mill depot.
Two unknown men.
The injured:
Robert Rosamond, single. aged 40
years, lieutenant of engine company
No. 2, right foot crushed, amputated
below the knee, He was also bruised
a.bout the body.
owen N. Fielder aged IS, compound
fracture of the right leg.
George Douglas. 55 years of age,from
Bellevue, unconscious, Internally in
jured.
owen Mulhgan, married, 80 years,
lacerated scalp.
William Fleming, 80 years, single,
confusion of body and scalp wound.
Joseph Heaoly, aged 90 years, bruised
about body and head.
Kit Wilson, 30 years old, of Paducah,
Ky, received injury about head, not
fatal.
Robert Dobson. 90 years, badly in
jured about the head and body.
Captain A. j. Brown, superintendent
of the bureau of building inspection,
right leg cut and bruised.
Peter Malone. aged 20 years, slightly
injured about legs.
David Stewart, So, badly cut by fall
ing bricks.
William Desmuke. SO years. Injured
about head and shoulders.
Charles Wilson, struck by falling
brick and seriously hurt
Fster Malone, leg broken.
Police officer Hedges, cut and
bruised and injured internally
Mrs. Mary Desmuke, 80 years old, cut
about head and arms and internally
injured.
Charles Simon. 80 years old. travelling
salesman of Cincinnati, badly cut on
head.
George King, engine No. company.
scalp wound and bruised.
John Hunter, engine No. z, bruised
a,,H IAtI al
The missing are:
Nathan Cleour, accountant in the
Dallmeir building, supposed to be in the
ruins.
Thomas Lynch, ice-man in employ
Chautauqua Co., supposed to be in
ruins.
Howard Barry, Waterman of storage
building.
1t is believed that at least ten more
bodies are in the ruins which are still
too hot to be moved.
The property loss will reach s1,500000
and may exceed that amount.
The estimated losses are:
Union Storage Co., $4,000.
Keevelers, Storage warehouse and
contents. $500, 1000.
Chautauqua Lake Ice Co., $780, 1000.
Small Pennsylvania avenue houses,
SIS 600.
Total, sl.5Oo,O0O.
The individual losers In the Union
Storage Warehouse are:
Economy Distilling Co.. 200 barrels Of
whisky in bond.
G. w. Schmidt Co., whisky in bond.
J. w. Friday Co, whisky in bond.
Monongahela Textile Co. wool deal
ers, $4,000 pounds of wool.
Collins Cigar Co, 25 carloads OF to-
bacco.
Pittsburg Dry Goods Co., $4,000.
Patrick McGraw & Co., Allegheny
wool dealers. s25,000.
American Cereal Co., $1,000.
Dilworth Bros, large quantities Of
canned goods.
w. II. Williams. commission mer-
chant, 20 carloads of sugar.
These losses are all covered byinsu-
rance placed with George w. McCand-
less & Co, of this city.
II was Just 7:55 o'clock last evening
when smoke was seen issuing from the
fourth floor of the Union Storage COM
pany's building on Pike street near
Thirteenth. The building was six
stories in height and occupied almost
the entire block between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets and Pike street and
Mulberry alley. The first floor of the
front was occupied as offices of the I'm
ion Storage company and the Chau-
tauqua Lake Ice company. The sec
ond floor front contained the stables
of the Chautauqua company. and in
tHt iMtliNh rtTtet emu lney nau tnplr
ice-making plant which occupied the
first three floors.
This was filled with valuable ice
making machinery and other property
OF the Chautauqua company. The bal
ance OF the building was occupied by
the storage company.
Immediately upon the discovery of
the fire an alarm was sent in and res
ponded to promptly but owing to the
construction of the building 1t was
practically impossible to fight the fire
from without, while the volume of
smoke inside the building made 1t i'm
possible to fight It from within. The
only three openings in the fire walls
dividing the building We're closed by
heavy iron doors and these were locked.
For three hours the firemen worked
scarcely knowing what they were do
ing. The iron shutters We're imprer-
nable to their attacks. The smoke that
found its way out OF the building filled
Mulberry alley and Pike street, sitting
the fremen and rendering them prac-
tlcalIy sightless. II would clear for a
moment or two and they would again
cndeavor 10 make some Roadway, but
to no avail.
Finally Mt II o'clock the flames burst
out through the roof and shot upward
hundred feet in the air and making
that part OF the city as light as day
This was the first note of alarm that
started the flight OF residents from
their homes on Pike. Thirteenth and
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