Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-11
EIGHTEEN PERSONS INJURED.
MANY OF THE MISSING SUPPOSED TO
BE UNDER THE DEBRIS.
Woman and Her Eight Children Prob
ably Among the Dead-LOss Is
Fully SI,5OO.OOO. With Only
About 81 100000 In
surance.


Following is a revised list OF the dead:
Police Lieutenant a. ]. Berry.
John MCHanna.
William Scott. Jr.
Stanley Stitz.
John Dwyer.
George Loveless.
William NJ. Smith.
Albert a. Wolfe.
Thomas Claffey.
William r. Walphabenstein.
An unknown. supposed to be John Scott,
the youngest son of the president of the
Chautauqua Ice Company.
List of Injured.
Robert Rosamond. single. aged 40 years.
lieutenant of engine No. g right foot
crushed. Amputation below the knee at
Homeopathic hospital. He was also bruis-
ed about the body.
Owen X. Fielder, aged IS, compound frac-
ture of the right leg.
George Douglass, 80 years, of Bellevue,
unconscious; thought to have internal in
juries.
owen Mulhan. married 30 years, lacerat-
ed scalp.
William Fleming, 80 years, single, contu-
sion of body and scalp wound.
Joseph Headley, aged So years, bruised
about body and head
Kit Wilson, So years, of Paducah, KY,
received injury about the head. not fatal.
Robert Dobson, 35 years, badly injured
about the head and body.
Captain j. A. Brown, superintendent of
the bureau Of building inspection, right
leg cut and bruised.
Peter Malone aged 20 years, slightly in
jured about legs.
Davis Stewart, aged 50, badly cut by
falling bricks.
William Desmuke, aged SO years, injured
about head and shoulders.
Charles Wilson. struck by falling bricks
and seriously hurt.
Peter Malone, leg broken.
Police Officer Rogers, cut and bruised and
injured internally.
Mrs. Mary Desmuke, aged SO years, cut
about head and arms and hurt internally
Charles Simon. aged % years. travelling
salesman of Cincinnati; badly cut on head
by a brick.
George King, engineer No engine COM
pany, scalp wound and bruises.
John Hunter, No. engine company,
bruised and both ankles Sprained.
List of Missing.
delphia Gas Company.
William Doran,
William Finch,
Edward Donnelly,
Christ Schriven.
James P. Morrison.
Professor James Moxan. organist Evan
geical Lutheran church, Brushton. Pa.
d. B. Welckerly.
John Gerry,
George Mcdonald.
Jack Farrell,
Samuel Mclaughlin.
Jacob Booth and party of four compan-
-bn in IN, paYr, S,-l, 10
avenue when the wall crushed the building.
are missing and supposed to be under the
debris.
Mrs. Mary McFadden, with her family
of eight children. is also supposed to be
under the fallen walls. They lived in a
crushed. Nothing has been seen of them
since the explosion last night. and it is be-
lieved all are dead.
All day long, firemen. policemen and 9TH
er city employees have been working, at the
risk of their lives. but up to nightfall but
little progress had been made in the clear-
ing away of the debris. The work will be
continued without cessation until it is
known how many bodies remain buried.
Ruins Are Still Burning.
Blackened walls tower from the midst of
heaps of smoldering rubbish. threatening
TO ,opple over at any minute .r TWENTY +;
burning ruins. A heavy pail of smoke
overhangs the desolate scene and the tired
policemen nave nara work 10 keep the
thousands of curious onlookers from get
ting within the rope Gordon. Many of the
people who fed panic stricken from their
homes last night are pluckng up courage
enough to return to the houses not jeopar-
died 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 in
jured heads of families are concerned, and
that many will be in need of aid. issued a
public 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 s, 500 900
and may be more.
Some of the individual losses known are:
S15.000. with $4,000 insurance; loss to the
l.60O customers who had goods stored in the
building. SjO0.OO0. About 20 per cent of the
latter had no insurance. The Chautauqua
Ice Company, owner of thebulding occu-
pied by it and the Union Storage Company,
loss. $4,000 on building. wagons, icemakng
machinery. etc.
The Union Storage Company will lose
nothing beyond interruption to business,
but the loss to its customers Is unoffi-
cially placed at s350,Go0.
Losses to others outside of the large con-
Germs mentioned will foot up $500 000
The total insurance is variouSy estimated
from 100000 to s1250.Oo0. A complete list
tanned at this time. and the exact amount
will not be known until there is a meeting
of the underwriters.