The Portland daily press., 1898-02-11

Death and observation-disclosures and
Her Eight Children Supposed to be
Under the Walls.
Pittsburg, February 1O-Eleven persons
dead, twenty. six missing and nineteen
injured, and property loss of 81, 900, 900.
with about 81, 600, 900 insurance is the
rec ord of the big fire of last night. Fol
lowing is revised list of the dead, in
jured and missing;
The dead are:
Police Lieutenant A. j. Berry.
John McHanna.
VIM. Scott, Jr.
Stanley Stiltz.
John Dwyer.
George Loveless.
William Smith.
Albert A. Wolf.
Thomas Claffri.
VIM. l.. Wallehabenstein, and an un-
known supposed to be John Scott, the
youngest son of the president OF the
Chautauqua Ice company.
The missing are:
george Newman, fire inspector of Phila-
delphia Gas company.
William Doran.
William Finch.
Edward Donnelly.
Chris Schrieyer.
James p. Morrison.
Prof. James Moxan, organist Evan
gelical Lutheran chur,h, Brushton. Pa.
d. B. Wreckerly.
John Gersy.
George Mcdonald.
Jack Farrell.
Samuel Mclaughlin.
Jack Booth and four companions who
were In saloon on Pennsylvania avenue
when the falling roof crushed in the
building are missing and are supposed to
be under the debris.
Mira. Mary McFadden and her family of
eight children also are supposed to bs
under the wall. They lived in house
on Mulberry alley which WAS crushed.
All day f1remen, policemen and other
city employees have been working at the
risk Of their lives, but up to nightfall
away the debris. The work will be con-
tinued without cessation until 1t is
known that nobody remain in the ruins.
A heavy pail of smoke ovsrhangS the
desolate scene and the tired policemen
have hard work to keep the thousands of
curious lockers 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
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the weakened walls.
Mayor Ford this afternoon. realizing:
some of the worse features of the calamity
are yet to come, so far as the dead and
heads of families are concerned, and that,
many will be in need Of prompt aid, is
sued public letter suggesti g subscrip-
tions from the citizens for distribution
among the needy victims. There is no
reason to change last nights estimate of
the loss.a 1t is difficult to get figures but
some experts say that it will be at least
81, 500, 900 and may be more. Some of the
individual losers known are: W. A.
Hoeveler g. Co., loss to building, $4,000
with $65, 900 Insurance.; 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 oc-
cupied by themselves and the Union
Storage company, lose $275,OOO on build
ing, wagons, ice making machinery.
The Union Storage company will lose
nothing beyond interruption to business,
but the loss to it's customers is unofficial
ly placed at $3.50, 900. Losses to others
outside of the large concerns mentioned
will foot up $500, 900.
The total insurance is variously esti-
mated at from $500, 900 to 81 $50, 900. A
complete list of the companies involved
cannot be obtained at this time, and the
exact amount will not be known till there
is a meeting of the underwriters.