The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-11
FIRE FATALITY FRIGHTFUL
ELEVEN DEAD AND 81 PERSONS
MISSING AT PITTsBURG.

Eighteen Others Injured More OF
Less seriOusIy-The Property Loss
S1,5OO,OOO with $1,OO0,OOO Insur-
ance-Searchers working in the
Ruins at the Risk of Their Lives
Walls still Standing Apt to Topple
over at Any Minute.
Pittsburg, Feb. 1O.-Eleven people Dead
twenty-seven missing and eighteen injured
and property loss of $1,5OO,OO0, with aoout
81 100000 insurance, Is the awful record OF
the big fire of last night.
Following is a revised list of the dead,
injured and missing:
Dead
Police Lieut. A. ]. BERRY.
JOHN MHAIN.
WILLIAM SCOTT, JR.
STANLEY STITz.
JOHN DWYER.
GEORGE LOVELEsS.
WILLIAM SMITH.
ALBERT A. WOLF.
THOMAS CLlAFFEY.
WILLIAM L. WALLEIHABENSTE
An unknown man, supposed to be John
Scott, the youngest son of the president
of the Chautauqua Ice Company.
Injured
ROBERT ROSAMOND, single, aged 49,
lieutenant of engine company No. 2, right
foot crushed leg amputated below the
knee: also bruised about the BODY.
OWEN X. FIELDER, aged 1S, compound
fracture of the right leg.
GEORGE DOUGLASS, 95 years, OF Belle
vue. unconscious: it is thought he receiV-
ed internal injuries.
OWEN MULHALLEN, married 80
years, lacerated scalp.
WILLIAM FLEMING, 80, single con-
fusion of body and scalp wound
JOSEPH HEADLY, aged 50, bruised
about body and head.
KIT WILSON, So years of age, OF Paul.
cab. KY. received injuries about the head;
not fatal.
ROBERT DOBSON, S5 years, badly in
iured about the head and body.
CAPT. J.. A. BROWN, superintendent OF
the bureau of building inspection, right
leg cut and bruised.
PETER MALONE, aged %, slightly in
jured about legs.
DAVIS STEWART. aged So, badly cut
by falling bricks.
WILLIAM DESMUKE, aged 80, injured
about head and shoulders.
CHARLES WILSON, struck by falling
bricks and seriously hurt.
PETER MALONE, leg broken.
POLICE OFFICER RODGERS, cut and
bruised and injured internally.
MRS. MARY DESMUKE, aged 80, cut
about head and arms and hurt internally.
CHARLES SIMON, aged 20, travelling
salesman of Cincinnati, badly cut on head
by a brick.
GEORGE KING, engineer No. engine
company, scalp wound and bruised
JOHN HUNTER, stoker, No. Z engine
Company, bruised and both ankles sprain-
ed.
Missing:
GEORGE NEWMAN, fire inspector of
Philadelphia Gas Company.
WILLIAM DORAN.
WILLIAM FINCH.
EDWARD DONNELLY.
CHRIST SCHRIVER.
JAMES B. MORRISON.
PROF, JAMES MOXAN, organist Evan
gelical Lutheran Church, Brushton, Pa.
D. B. WECKERLIN.
JOHN GERRY.
GEORGE MDONALD.
JACK FARRELL
SAMUEL MLAUGHLIN.
JACOB BOOTH and a party Of -four
conpanions, who were in a saloon on
Penn avenue when the wall crushed the
the building, are missing and are sup
posed to be under the debris.
Mrs. Mary McFadden with her family
11,f1 arn eTn n
der the fallen wall. They lived in a 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.
All day long fremen, policemen and 9th
er city employees have been working at the
risk of their lives but up to nightfall, but
| little progress has been made in the clear
| ing away of the debris. The work will be
| continued without cessation until 1t Is
| known no bodies remain buried.
Islackened walls towering from the mids
| of smoldering ruins, threaten to topple
over at any minute.
Twenty streams are constantly playing
| on the still burning ruins.
A heavy pail of smoke overhangs the
scene. and the tired policemen have hard
work TO keep the thousands of curious on
| lockers from getting within the rope cord
There is no reason to change last nights
estimate Of the aggregate loss Of property
1t is difficult to get figures, but insurance
| EXPERTS say it viii approximate $l,500,O00
| Some of the Individual losses known are
w. A. Hoeveler Co., loss on building
s75 600; loss TO the ! 1000 customers who hac
| goods stored therein, 100000.
Chautauqua Ice Company, $275,0O0
Union Storage Company and their Gus
! toners, s350,00O.
Others outside Of the large concern!
mentioned, $4,000.
The total insurance is variously estirnat
| ed from Sg0O,000 to 81, 100000
CoUP D'ETAT IN URUGUAY.
/ Tho Assembly Dissolved and n ,Iuu.