Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-11

Insurance of More Than a Million.
explosion of Ammonia Tanks
Worked tbs Most Diretul Destruc-
Miraculous Escape of Aus
in Beach, Former Wheeling
Man, from Death.
piusburg, Pa, February 10.-Eleven
naopIe dead, q missing and IS injured,
and property loss of $1,5O0,000 with
about $1,000, 900 insurance, is the awful
record of the big fire of last night.
Following is a revised list of the
dead. injured and missing:
The dead are:
POLICE LIEUT.. A. j. BERRY.
Holm MHANNA.
VIM. SCOTT, JR.
STANLEY STITZ.
JOHN DWYER.
GEORGE LOVELESS.
W1l. SMITH.
ALBERT A. WOLF.
THOMAS CLAFFEY.
VIM. l.. WALLARATZSTEI
AN UNKNOWN, supposed to be John
Scott, the youngest son of the presi-
dent of the Chautauoua Ice Com
pany.
The injured are:
ROBERT ROSAMOND, single. aged 40
years. lieutenant of engine company
No 2, right foot crushed. Leg am
putated below the knee at Homeo-
pathic Hospital. He was also
bruised about the body.
OWEN K. FIELDER, aged Is years,
fracture of the right leg.
GEORGE DOUGLASS, So years, of
Bellevue; unconscious. 1t is thought
he received internal injuries.
OWEN MULLEHAN, married, aged so
years, lacerated scalp.
WILLIAM FLEMING, 81 years, single,
confusion of body and scalp wound.
JOSEPH HEADLEY, aged So years,
bruised about body and head.
KIT WILSON, Sc years old, Of Padu-
cab, KY, received injuries about the
head; not fatal.
ROBERT DOBSON, 50 years old, in
jured about head and body.
CAPT. A. A. BROWN, superintendent
of the Bureau of Building Inspec-
ton, right leg cut and bruised.
PETER MALONE, aged 20 years,
slightly injured about legs.
DAVIS STEWART, aged 50 years, cut
by falling bricks
WILLIAM DESMUKE, aged SO years,
injured about head and body.
CHARLES WILSON, struck by falling
bricks.
POLICE OFFICER. RODGERS. cut
and bruised and injured internally
PETER MALONE, leg broken.
MRS MARY DESMUKE, aged SO
years. cut about the head and arms
and hurt internally.
CHARLES SIMON. aged 90 years,
travelling salesman of Cincinnati,
badly cut on head by brick.
GEORGE KING, engineer No. engine
company, scalp wound and bruises
JOHN HUNTER, stoker, No Z engine
company. bruised and both ankles
sprained.
ne missing are:-
George Newman, fire inspector of
Philadelphia Gas Company; William
Doran. William Finch, Edward Don
leliy, Chris. Schriver, James P. Morri-
son, Prof James Moxan, organist
evangelical Lutheran church, Brush
on, Pa; D. B. Weckerly. John Gerry
ieorge Mcdonald, Jack Terrell,
samuel Mclaughlin.
Jacob Booth and a party of four
companions, who were in a saloon on
rem avenue when the wall crushed
lhe building, are missing and are sup
posed to be under the debris.
MIS- Mary McFadden. with her fam
ny OF eight children. are supposed to
oe under the fallen wall. They lived
IN house on Mulberry Alley which
was crushed Nothing has been seen
VI them since the explosion last
u'sht and it is believed all are dead.
ALL DAY LONG
oremo1, policemen and other city en-
p'oyes have been working at the risk
vi their lives, but up to nightfall but
"''le progress had been made in the
Gearing away of the debris The work
VIII be continued without cessation
ultll it is known no bodies remain
buried.
Biackened walls tower from the
nildst of smouldering rubbish, threat
eNlhg to topple over at any minute.
"ehty streams are constantly play
ing on the still burning ruins. A
"eaFy pail of smoke overhangs the
QeSoiate scene, and the tired police
men have hard work to keep the
Aousands of curious onlookers from
S7ltlug within the the rope Gordon.
many of the people who fled panic
~''ieken from their homes last night
"'e plueking up courage enough to re-
'"'A though jeopardized by the fire