The record-union., 1898-02-11
Results Much More Terrible Than
Was at First Supposed.
The Death List SWelIS As the Search Of the
Ruins Continues.
Eleven People Dead. Twenty-Seven
Missing and Eighteen Injured,
With Property Loss of a Million
and Half, is the Awful Record
of the Big Fire.

PITTSBURG (Pa), Feb 10.-Eleven
people dead, twenty-seven missing and
eighteen injured and property loss OF
Sl,oOoWD is the awful record of the
big fire of last night
Following is a revised list of the
dead. injured and missing:
The dead: Police Lieutenant A J.
Berry, John McHanna, William Scott.
Jr.. Stanley Stitz. John Dwyer. George
Loveless, William Smith Albert a..
| Wolfe. Thomas Claffey, William r.
Wallrhabenstein, an unknown man.
supposed to be John Scott, the young-
est son of the President of the Chautau-
qua Ice Company.
| The injured: Robert Rosamond. sim
| GLE aged 10 years. Lieutenant of En-
gine Company > right foot crushed.
amputated below the knee. and bruised
about the body; owen N Fielder. aged
10, compound fracture of the right
| leg; George Douglass % years old from
Bellevue, unconscious, injured inter-
nally: Owen Mulligan, married. 80
years Old lacerated scalp; William
Fleming, - years. single confusion of
body and scalp wound; Joseph Head
ley, aged % years. bruised about body
and head; Kit Wilson. 80 years old OF
Paducah. Ky, injured about the head
not fatally; Robert Dobson 81 years,
BADLY injured about the head and body;
Captain A. j. Brown, Superintendent
of the Bureau of Building Inspection,
| right leg cut and bruised: Peter Ma
lone, aged 20 years, slightly bruised
| about the legs; David Stewart. aged 50.
badly cut by falling bricks: William
Desmuke. 33 years, injured about head
and shoulders; Charles Wilson. struck
| by falling brick and seriously hurt: Pc
ter Malone, leg broken Police officer
Hodgens, cut and bruised and injured
| internally; Mrs. Mary Desmuke. 81,
years old, cut about head and arms and
Internally injured; Charles Simon. 50
years, travelling salesman of Cincin-
anti, badly cut on head: George Kins,
Engine Company No. {, scalp wound
ana bruised; John Hunter. Engine No.
| {, bruised and both ankles sprained
! The missing:s George Newman, Fire
| Inspector of the Philadelphia Gas Com
pany; William .Doran, William Finch,
Edward Donnefiy, Christie Schriver.
James P. Morrison, Professor James
Moxan. an organist at Evangel Church.
Bushton. Pa; D. B. Weickerly. John
Gerry. George Mcdonald. Jack Far
| rell. Samuel Mclaughlin.
| Jacob Booth and a party of four COM
| parions who We're in a saloon on Penn
avenue when the building crashed, are
missing, and supposed to be under the
! debris
| Mrs. Mary McFadden. with her family
| OF eight children, are also supposed to
| be under the fallen walls. They lived
| in house on Mulberry alley which was
crushed Nothing has been seen of them
since the explosion last night and it is
| believed all are dead.
| The scene at the Morgue to-day was a
narrowing one. AS soon as badly burned
and mangled bodies We're recovered they
were taken there, where they were
washed and placed in presentable con-
| dition. Every victim was covered with
wood and dirt, and most everybody was
| scalded and charred. Bones protruded
from the charred and broken hands of
some. and gaping wounds were found
here and there over the bodies
The injured We're taken to the Homeo-
pathists' Hospital and as fast as they
were brought in We're placed in the
emergency ward and scattered through
out the various wards and in the corri-
| dors.
| 1t was just 100 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 hight. and occupied almost the entire
block between Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets, and Pike street and Mulberry
alley.
The first floor was occupied as offices
of the Union Storage Company and the
ChautauQua Lake Ice Company. The
second floor front contained the stables
of the Chautauqua Company and in the
Twelfth street end they had their ice
making plant. which occupied the first
three floors. This was filed with valu-
able ice making machinery and other
property of the Chautauqua Company.
The balance of the building was occu-
pied by the storage company.
Immediately upon the discovery of the
fire an alarm was sent in and responded
to promptly, but owing to the construc-
ton of the building it was practically
| impossible to fight the fire from with
out while the volume of smoke inside
made it impossible to fight it from with
in. The only walls dividing the great
building We're closed by heavy doors,
and those We're locked.
For three hours the fremen worked.
scarcely knowing what they were doing.
The iron shutters We're impregnable to
their attacks. The smoke that found its
way out of the building filled Mulberry
alley and Pike street, sitting the fire.
men and rendering them practically
Sightless. 1t would clear for moment
or two, and they would again endeavor
to make some headway. but to no ad-
vantage. Finally at IL o'clock the
flames burst out through the roof and
shot upward a hundred feet in the air.
making that part Of the city as light
as Ga1-.
This was the first note of alarm that
started the flight of residents from their
homes on Pike, Thirteenth and Twelfth
streets Women and children started
| forth barefooted and in their night
clothes. bearing what little they could
carry in their arms of their household
effects The police were watchful. and
the crowds were kept back by fire lines
and the fearful heat of the flames.
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