The herald., 1898-02-10
SIX BODIES NOW RECOVERED
AND MORE ARE LYING UNDER
THE DEBRIS
Fire Starting in Cold Storage ware
house Causes Damage Mount
ing Into the Millions
Associated Press Special Wire

night fire started in the large three
story cold storage house of the Chau-
tauqua Lake Toe company. occupying a
block from Twelfth to Thirteenth
street, between Pike street and Null
! berry, and before the flames were SUD-
dued at 1:25 a. m. nearly $20Oo,00o worth
of property had been destroyed, at
least six lives lost and many peop!e
badly injured.
The fire. in point of fatalities, Is the
most serious that Pittsburg has had IN
wears. The department responded quick
ly and a general alarm was sent IN.
other alarms quickly followed, and at
midnight the Allegheny department was
called on for help.
The origin of the fire is not known.
The vicinity is composed of mixture
of huge warehouses and many private
residences, the inhabitants of when ned
in alarm, carrying with them as much
portable household property as they
could.
There were frequent explosions, when
added greatly to the CONSERVATION ana
alarm. The streets were blocked with
people and their goods, which inter-
fered with the firemen, who were al
ready handicapped in their eHorts 10
control the flames on account OF the
windows and doors of the burning bulio-
ings being strongly barred with heavy
iron shutters. At 11:15 p. m. an expio-
sion of whisky stored in warehouse
occurred, blowing out the Mulberry
alley wall Of the building with terrible
results.
At the time firemen, policemen. news
paper men and others crowded the
streets nearby and the alley. Many were
caught in the falling walls. How many
will not be known until the debris are
cleared away.
Many people were injured by flying
bricks and beams, and all the ambu-
Iances and patrol wagons of the city
were called into service.
Telegraph, telephone and electric light
wires at the corner of Thirteenth and
Pike streets fell shortly after the explo-
sion and killed an unknown man.
Just after the explosion the large
warehouse Of w. A. Haverler & Co., sit
uated on Pike street, directly opposite
the Chautauqua company's building
was ablaze and in a short time was be-
yOnQ nope OF Saving.
AT about lis the fire was put under
control and no further spread is expect
ed The two large buildings are total
wreck and the loss cannot be much less
than million dollars.
At a. m. there are six dead at the
morgue. Only five of them have been
identified. The identified dead:
A. ]. BERRY, lieutenant of police.
WILLIAM SCOTT, Jr., son of VIM.
Scott, president of the Chautauqua Ice
company.
MRS. SIZE, aged so.
STANLEY SIZE, aged %.
DAVID LOVELESS. aged So.
JOHN SCOTT, brother of William, is
missing and is supposed to be under the
debris
Seriously injured:
CAPTAIN J. A. BROWN, building in
spector, both legs broken.
OWN X. FIELDER, fracture of right
leg.
WIN. FLEMING, crushed by falling
rafters; may die.
The following is the list of losses OBJ
tainable tonight:
Hoverler Storage company, building
and contents, 100000.
| Chautauqua Ice company, s150,000.
Union Storage company, s175,O0O.
Some of the heaviest individual losers
| who had consignments in the ware
house:
/ The Economy Distilling company,
5000 barrels of whisky, worth S150,000.
| Monongahela Textile company, wool
dealers, 125,000 pounds of wool.
Collins Cigar company, twenty five
! carloads tobacco.
w. II. Williams, commission merchant,
| twenty carloads of sugar.