The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-02-18

PITrsBuRGn. Pa. Feb. il.-Eleven peo-
pie dead, % missing and Is injured
and property loss of Sl.5OO,000 with
about 81 200. 900 insurance, is the awful
record OF the big tire Wedne sday
night
Following is revised list of the
dead. injured and missing:
THE DEAD.
rolice-Lieut \. j. Berry.
John Mcilanna.
! VIM. Scott. Jr.
Stanley Stitz.
John Dwyer.
Geo. Lovelcss.
William Smith.
Albert 4. Wolf.
Thomas Clatfcy.
William l.. Wallenhabenstein and an
unknown. supposed TO he John Scott,
the youngest son of the president of the
Chautauqua Ice Co.
THE INJURED.
Robert Rosamond, single, aged 4o
years. lieutenant of Engine Co. >; right
foot crushed. Anputated below the
knee Mt Homeopathic hospital. He was
also bruised about the body.
owen X. Fielder, aged Is, compound
fracture of the right leg.
George Douglass. aged IS years, Of
Bellevue; unconscious; thought to be
internally injured.
owen Mullhan, married, aged sc
years laceratcd scalp.
VIM. Fleming. aged 80 years. single;
confusion of body and scalp wound.
Joseph IIeadley. aged So years; bruises
about body and head
Kit Wilson. aged 60 years, of Padu.
cab, Ky; injury about the head; not
fatal.
Robert Dobson. aged IS years; badly
injured about the head and body.
Capt. j. A. Brown, superintendent OF
the bureau of building inspection; right
leg cut and bruised
Peter Malone aged 20 years; slightly
injured about legs.
Davis Stewart, aged So; badly cut
by falling bricks
VIM. Desmuke, aged 33 years: in
jured about head and shoulders.
Charles Wilson. struck by falling
bricks and seriously hurt
Police Officer Rodgers. cut and
bruised and injured internally.
Mrs. Mary Desmuke. aged 33 years,
cut about head and arms and hurt in.
ternally.
Charles Simon. aged 20 years; trav.
cling salesman, of Cincinnati badly
cut on head b. brick.
George King. engineer No. : engine
company; scalp wound and bruises.
John Hunter. No. : engine company;
bruised and both ankles sprained.
THE MISSING.
Geo. Newman, fire inspector of Phil
adelphia Gas Co.
VIM. Doran.
VIM. Finch.
Edw. Donnell.
Christ Schriever.
James L. Morrison.
Prof Jas. Moxan. organist Evangel
ical Lutheran church, Brushton. Pa.
ID. II. Weckerly.
John Gerry.
Geo. Mcdonald.
Jack Farrell.
Samuel Mclaughlin.
Jacob Booth and party of four com
panions, who We're in a saloon on Penn
avenue when the wall crushed il.
Mrs. Mary McFaddcn. with her fam
lily Of eight children. are also supposed
to be under the fallen walls They
lived in house on Mulberry alley,
which was crashed. Nothing has been
seen of them since the explosion.
All day yesterday firemer.. policemen
and other city employees worked at the
risk Of their lives. but up to nine
o'clock last night little progress had
been made in the clearing away of the
debris. The work will be continued
without cessation until it is known
that no bodies remain buried.
Mayor Ford yesterday afternoon.
realizing that some of the worse feat
ures Of the calamity are yet to come
so far as the dead and heads of fami
lies are concerned. and that many will
be in need Of aid issued public letter
suggesting subscriptions from the citi
zens for distribution among the needy
victims.
Some of the individual losses known
are: w. A. Hoevcler * Co., loss on
building. $4,000. with $4,000 insur.
ance; loss to customers who had goods
stored in the building, 100000 about
20 per cent. of the latter had no insur
ancc. The Chautauqua Ice Co.. owners
Of the building occupied by themselves
and the Union Storage Co., loss. S215..
300 on building, wagons, icc-making
machinery. etc.
The Union Storage Co., will lose
nothing beyond interruption to bust
ness. but the loss TO their customers il
unotiicially placed at $3.50, 900.
Losses to others outside of the large
concerns mentioned will foot up $780,
200.
The total insurance is variouslv csti.
mated at from $500. 900 to 81, a5O. 900 A
complete list of the companies involved
cannot be obtained at this time and
the exact amount will not be known
until there is a meeting of the under
writer's.