The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10
DEADLY AND COSTLY
DESTRUCTIVE AND DISASTROUS FIRE
AT PITrsBURG LAST NIGHT.
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Nearly S2,OoO,OOO Worth of Property
Licked Up by the Flames and
Many Lives Imperiied.
AT LEAST SIX PEOPLE KILLED
AND MANY OTHERS INJURED BY A
SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS.
Cha utauqua Lake lee Company's Cold
storage House and other
buildings burned.

PTrTSBURG, Pa, Feb. AT $50 tonight
fire started in the large six-story cold stor-
age house of the Chautauqua Lake Ice Com
pany and before the flames were subdued
at LIS a. M, nearly $2,OOo,00O worth of prop
erty had been destroyed. at least six lives
lost and many people badly injured. The fire,
in point of fatalities, is the most serious
that Pittsburg has had in years. The de-
partment responded quickly and a general
alarm was sent in. Other alarms quickly fol-
lowed and at midnight Alleghenys depart
ment was called for help. Following is a
list of killed so far as can be learned to-
night:
MRS. SIFE;, aged fifty years
STANLEY SIZE, aged fifteen years.
DAVID LOvELESS, aged thirty-five.
POLICE LIEUTENANT A. j. BERRY,
who was acting captain.
WILLIAM SCOTT, jr., aged twenty son
of w. A. Scott. president of the Chautau-
qua Ice Company.
UNIDENTIFIED BODY.
Some of the injured whose names have
been secured are:
CHARLES SIMON. a travelling salesman
from Cincinnati, badly cut on head.
WILLIAM FLEMING, squeezed by fall
ing rafters; may die.
DANIEL MALONEY. carried through to
the cellar, but dug his way out. He is hurt
internally.
CHARLES WILSON, bridge builder, bad
ly cut and hurt internally.
WILLIAM DESMUKE, puddler. head
and shoulders badly cut.
MARY DIGsMUKE, his wife, hurt in
ternaly.
DAVIS STEWART, badly cut on head.
CAPT. j. A. BROWN. building inspector.
both legs broken.
ROBERT ROSAMOND. lieutenant Engine
Company No. ,, leg crushed, necessitating
amputation. body bruised.
OWEN X FIELDER, compound fracture
of right leg.
GEORGE DOUGLASS, Bellevue, thought
TO be internally injured.
OWEN MITLLEHAN, scalp lacerated.
JOE HEADLEY, body and head cut
KIT. WILSON. Paducah. KY. head cut.
ROBERT DAVIDSON, head and body in
jured.
The fire started in the storage building
of the Chautauqua Lake Ice Company. and
the origin is unknown. The vicinity is COM
posed of mixture of huge warehouses and
many private residences, the inhabitants
of whom fled i'm alarm. carrying with them
as much portable household goods pos
sible. There were frequent explosions,
which greatly added to the CONSERVATION
and alarm The streets were completely
blocked with people, and their goods inter-
fered with the fremen, who were already
handicapped in their efforts to control the
flames on account of the windows and doors
of the burning building being strongly
barred by heavy iron shutters. The build
ing occupied the block from Twelfth TO
Thirteenth street between Pike and Null
berry. alley. Tn Ice company has
its ice making plant aud storage
warehouses on the lower floors,
and the Union Storage Company
occupied the rest of the building with mer-
chandise of all descriptions. the property of
innumerabIe merchants and householders of
the city One OF the compartments was
used rs the government bonded warehouse
and contained about four hundred barrels
of whisky and alcohol. Fifty horses belong
ing 70 the lee company were stabbed in one
end of the building. but were AZ rescued in
safety. The windows of the blccl were pre-
tected by heavy iron shutters. which could
not be opened. and for this reason the fire.
men were badly handicapped being unable
to get at tho fire properly.
At ll:l5 y. m. an explosion OF whisky oc-
Cured. which blew out the Mulberry-alley
wall. with terrible results. Al the time the
alley was filed with firemen. police. news
paper and others. Many were caught
by the falling wall. Rumor had at least
twenty-five or thirty men stil under the
debris. Six dead have been taken out,
amonG them Police Captain Berry. Many