Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-11
NEARLY TWtSC0M
Is the List Of the Known Dead and
Missing as a Result of the
Great Fire at Pittsburg.
ELEVEN C0RPsEs ARE RECOVERED,

Missing Are Without Doubt Under the Pile
Of Debris Which Marks the Scene of the
Horror-One Party of Eight Men in q
Saloon Fails to Report and n Mother and
Her Eight Children Had Their Home
Crushed Down Upon Them.
Pittsburg. Feb. II. - Eleven people
dead. twenty-seven missing. and
eighteen injured, and a property loss of
$780, 900. wi:h about 81. 100000 insurance,
is the awful record of the big fire of
Wednesday night. Following is a re-
vised list Of the dead. injured and miss
ing: Dead-Police Lieutenant A. ]. Ber-
~. John McHanna. William Scott. Jr.,
Stanley Stitz. John Dwyer, George
Loveless. William Smith, Albert A.
Wolf. Thomas Claffey. VIM. L. Waller
habenstein: an unknown, supposed
to be John Scott. the youngest son Of
the president Of the Chautauqua Ice
company. The list Of wounded as finally
verified differs little from that sent
Wednesday night, there being but three
additional and they not serious cases.
Among c,e Missing a Whole Family.
The missing are: George Newman,
fire inspector of Philadelphia Gas COM
pany; William Doran, William Finch,
Edward Donnslly, Chris Schriver, Jas.
p. Morrison; Professor James Moxan,
organist of the Evangelical Lutheran
church. BrushtOn, Pa; D. B. Weckerly,
and John Gerry. George Mcdonald,
Jack Farrell, Samuel Mclaughlin. ia
cob Booth and party of four compan-
ions in a saloon on Penn avenue when
the wall crushed the building are miss
ing and supposed to be under the de-
bris. Mrs. Mary McFadden, with her
family Of eight children, are also SUP.
posed to be under the fallen wall. They
lived in house on Mulberry alley,
which was crushed. Nothing has been
seen of them since the explosion
Wednesday night and it is believed that
all are dead. All day yesterday firemen,
policemen and other city employees
were working at the risk Of their
lives. but up to nightfall but little
| progress had been made in clearing
away the debris. The work will be con-
tirued without cessation until it is
known that no bodies remain buried.
Blackened walls tower from the midst
OF heaps of smouldering rubbish,
threatening to topple over at any min
ute. Twenty streams are constantly
playing on 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 on-lookers from getting with
| in the rope Gordon. Many of the people
| who fed from their homes Wednesday
night are plucking up courage enough
| to return to the houses not jeopardized
by the fire-weakened walls. Mayor Ford
yesterday 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 Will be In need OF prompt aid.
| issued a public letter suggesting sub
scriptions from the citizens for distribu-
| ton among the needy victims.
Loss Is at Least 81, 100000.
There is no reason to change Wednes-
| day nights estimate of the aggregate
loss to property. 1t Is difficult to get
| figures. but insurance experts say that
it will he at least sl.5OO, eco, and may be
more. Some Of the individual losses
known are: w. A. Hoeveler & Co. loss
en- building $4,000. with $4,000 insur
ance loss to the .600customers who had
goods stored in the building $500, OOO
About 20 per cent. of the latter had no
insurance. The Chautauqua Ice COM
rany. owners Of the building occupied
by themselves, and the Union Storage
company. loss $275,0O0 on building.
wagons, making machinery. etc The
Union Storage company will lose moth
ing beyond interruption to business, but
the loss TO their customers is unofficial
ly placed at s350.C00. Losses to others
outside Of the large concerns mentioned
will foot up 100000
One More Body Found.
| Late last night the hcadless body Of
William McGonnigle. assistant engineer
OF the Chautauqua Ice company, was
| taken from the ruins and identified. The
body at the morgue supposed to be John
Scott has been positively identified as
that young man.
Two for Two Is HAD Bargain.
| Bonham, Tex, Feb. lin an at
tempt to arrest William Green and Bob
Hunter, outlaws, yesterday, both men
were killed and officers Tom Milstead
and Charles Bridges We're SO badly in
| iured that thew will likely die