Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-02-11
PlTTSBURG FIRE.
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Eleven Bodies Taken Thus Far
From the Ruins.
The Number of Missing Is Twenty-six-
They Are Supposed to Be Under
the Fallen Walls.

Pittsburg, Pa. Feb. 1O.-Eleven per-
sons dead, twenty-six missing. and
eighteen injured and property loss of
81, 5OOO 900, with about 100000 insur-
ance, is the record of the big fire of last
night
Following is a revised list of the dead
and missing:
Dead-Police Lieut.. A. ]. Berry, John
McHanna, William Scott, Jr., Stanley
Stitz, John Dwyer, George Loveless,
William Smith, Albert A. Wolf, Thomas
Claffey, VIM. L. Wallehabenstein and
an unknown man supposed to be John
Scott, the youngest son of the presi-
dent of the Chautauqua Ice Company.
The missing-Geo. Newman, fire in
spector, of Philadelphia Gas Company;
William Doran, William Finch. Edward
Donnelly, Chris Schriever, James P.
Morrison, Prof. James MoXan, organist
of Evangelical Lutheran Church,
Brushton, Pa; D. B. Weckerly, John
Gerry, Geo Mcdonald Jack Farrell,
| Samuel Mclaughlin.
Jacob Booth and four companions,
who were in saloon in Pennsylvania
avenue when the falling wall crushed
| in the building, are missing, and are
| supposed to be under the debris.
| Mrs Mary McFadden and her family
of eight children also are supposed to be
under the wall. They lived in a house
| in Mulberry alley, which was crushed
| The number Of injured is large.
! All day firemen, policemen and other
city employees have been working at
| the risk of their lives, but up to night
| fall little progress has been made clear
| ing away the debris. The work will be
| continued without cessation until it is
! known that no bodies remain buried
! Twenty streams are constantly playing
! on the still burning ruins. A heavy
| pail of smoke overhangs the desolate
scene, and the policemen have hard
work to keep thousands of lookers-on
! from getting within the rope Gordon.
Many of the people who fled panic
stricken from their homes last night are
! plucking up courage enough to return
to the houses not jeopardized by the
| weakened walls.
! Mayor Ford this afternoon, realizing
! that some Of the worst features of the
calamity are yet to come, so far as the
| dead and heads of families are con-
cerned. and that many will be in need
| of prompt aid, issued a public letter
! suggesting subscriptions from the cit
| liens
L mere - no reason TO C1anSe LAS
I nights estimate of the aggregate loss
to property. It is difficult to get fig
ures, but insurance experts say that il
will be at least $L50O,000, and may be
more. Some Of the individual losses
known are: W. A. Hoeveler Sc Co, loss
to building, $4,000, with $4,000 insur-
ance. Loss to the 1900 customers who
had goods stored in the building, $500,
| 600. About 20 per cent of the latter had
no insurance. The Chautauqua Ice
| Company, owners of the building occu-
| pied by themselves and the Union Stor-
age Company, loose s275. 900 on build
| ing, wagons, ice-making machinery, etc.
The Union Storage Company will lose
nothing beyond interruption to business,
! but the loss to its customers is unoffi-
| cially placed at $3.50, 600. Losses to others
outside of the large concerns mentioned
will foot up 100000. The total insurance
is variously estimated.