The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-11
Some Probably Fatally, and Si.5O0.O00
worth Os Property Destroyed, the
Record of Pittsburg's Fire.
REVISED LIST OF VICTIMS
LOSSES of TENANTS OF BUILDINGS
AND TOTAL INSURANCE.
Ruins stm TOO Hot to search for the
Missing-Scenes During the Fire
Several Explosions.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 10.-Eleven people
dead, twenty-seven missing and nineteen
injured, and property loss of $1,500,000, with
about $1OOO,OOO insurance, is the awful rec
ord of the big fire which broke out last
night in the Chautauqua Lake Ice Com
panys building Following is a revised list
of the dead, injured and missing:
Dead
A. J. BERRY, lieutenant of police, aged
about thirty.
JOHN DWYER. thirty-five years old, SIM
gle.
WILLIAM SCOTT, jr., aged twenty years.
son of President William Scott, OF the Chau-
tauqua Lake Ice Company
STANLEY sLITZ, aged fifteen years.
GEORGE LOVELESS, forty years old,
married.
JOHN MHANNA boolSlxeeper and CASH
ier of the Chautauqua Lake Ice Company.
WILLIAM SMITH.
ALBERT A. WOLF.
THOMAS CLAFFEY.
WILLIAM l.. WAIsLSHABENSTEIN
Unknown, supposed to be JOHN SCOTT.
the youngest son of the president of the
Chautauqua Lake Ice Company.
Injured
| ROBERT ROSAMOND, single. aged forty
years, lieutenant of engine company No. 2
right foot crushed; leg amputated below
the knee at Homeopathic Hospital. lie
was also bruised about the body.
OWEN X. FIELDER, aged eighteen; com-
pound fracture of the right leg.
GEORGE DOUGLASS, thirty-five years
old, Of Bellevue; unconscious. 1t is thought
he received internal injuries.
| OWEN MULLHAN, married, thirty years
| old; lacerated scalp.
! WILLIAM FLEMING, thirty-two years
old, single; confusion of body and scalp
wound
JOSEPH HEADLEY. aged fifty-flye
years; bruised about body and head.
| KIT WILSON, thirty-six years old. of
Paducah, KY. injuries about the head; not
fatal
ROBERT DOBsoN, thirty-five years;
badly injured about the head and body.
j. A. A. BROWN, superintendent of the
Bureau of Building Inspection: right leg
cut and bruised.
PETER MALONE. aged twenty-nine;
slightly injured about legs ~
DAVIS STEWART, aged fifty~two; badly
| cut by failing bricks.
WILLIAM DESMUKB, aged thirty-five:
injured about head and shoulders.
CHARLES WILSON; struck by falling
bricks and seriously hurt.
PETER MALONE, leg broken
- RODGERS, policeman; cut ana
bruised and injured internally.
MRS. MARY DESMUKES, aged thirty
three; cut about head and arms and hurt
| internally.
CHARLES SIMON, aged twenty. travel
ing salesman, of Cincinnati; badly cut on
head by a brick.
GEORGE KING. engineer No. engine
company; scalp wound and bruises.
JOHN HUNTERAT, stoker No. engine
company; bruised and both ankles sprained.
Missing
GEORGE NEWMAN, fire Inspector OF
Philadelphia Gas Company.
VIM. DORAN.
| VIM. FINCH.
EDWARD DONNELLY.
CHRIST SCHRIVER.
JAMES p. MORRISON.
PROF JAMES MOxAN, organist Evan
gelical Lutheran Church, Brushton, Pa
d. b. WECKERLY.
JOHN GERRY.
GEORGE M'DONALD.
JACK FARRELL
SAMUEL MLAUGHLIN.
JACOB BOOTH and party of four COM
panions, who were in saloon OH Penn ave-
nue. when the wall crushed the building,
are missing, agd supposed to be under tie
debris.
MRS. MARY MFADDEN, with her FAM
lily of eight children, are also supposed to
be under the fallen walls They lived in q
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
SEARCHING THE RUINS
All day long firemen, policemen and other
city employees have been working. at the
risk of their lives, but up to nightfaIl but
little progress had been made in the
clearing away of the debris The work will
be continued without cessation until It is
known no more bodies remain buried
Blaclsened walls tower from the midst OF
heaps of smoldering rubbish, threatening to
topple over at any minute. Twenty streams
are constantly playing en- the still burning
ruins A heavy pail of smoke overhangs
the desolate scene, and the tired policemen
have hard work to keep the thousands OF
curious onlookers from getting within the
rope Gordon. Many of the people who fled
panic stricken from their homes last night
are plucldng up courage enough to return
TO the houses not jeopardized by the fire.
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 concerned and that
many viii be in need OF aid issued pub
lie letter suggesting subscriptions from the
citizens for distribution among the needy
victims.
There is no reason TO change last nights
estimate OF the aggregate loss to property
1t is difficult TO get figures. but Insurance
experts say that it will be at least 81, 500 600.
and maybe more. Some of the individual
losses known are: w. A. Hoeveler a. Co.,
loss on building, $4,000, with $4,000 insur-
ance; loss to the 1900 customers who had
goods stored in the buildings. $4,000. About
20 per cent. of the latter had no insurance.
The Chatauqua Ice Company. owners Of the
building occupied by themselves and the
Union Storage Company, lose s275,0Oo ON
building, wagons. ice-malSing machinery.
etc. The Union Storage Company wiI losa
nothing beyond interruption 10 business.
but the loss to their customers is unofH-
cially placed at $350000 Losses 10 others
outside OF the large concerns mentioned VIII
foot up 100000. The total insurance is
xariouslx estimated from $4,000 70 sl.2Sax