The age-herald., 1898-02-11
P|TTSBURG'S
 APPALLING FIRE Eleven People Dead and Eigh-
 teen Injured. TWENTY SEVEN MISSING Loss Estimated at S1,6OO,OOO and h.
 suranCe at $t,O0O.OOO. IA MOTHER AND EIGHT CHILDREN Were Caught in Their Own Home and
 Crushed By Falling Walls. PARTY OF COMPANIONS IN A SALOON Buried in the Debris Flying From the Ter rife Explosion-Nothing But Tower
 ing Walls Threatening to Fall Mark Burned District.
Were Caught in Their Own Home and
 Crushed By Falling Walls.
PARTY OF COMPANIONS IN A SALOON

twenty-seyen missing and eighteen injured and property loss of $1,50O,0O0 with about $1, 900 GOO insurance, is the awful record of the big fire of last night.
 Following is revised list of the dead, injured and missing
 Dead:
 POLICE LIEUTENANT A. J. BERRY. JOHN M. KAHN.
 WILLIAM SCOTT, Jr.
 STANLEY STIFF.
 JOHN DIVER.
 GEORGE HOMELESS.
 WILLIAM SMITH.
 ALBERT A. WOLF.
 THOMAS CLAFFEY.
 WILLIAM L. WALLEIHBENSTEIN. AN UNKNOWN MAN, supposed to be Jacob Scott the youngest son of the presi- dent of the Chautauqua Ice company.
 The List of Injured
 Robert Rosamond, single, aged 40 years, lieutenant of engine company No. Z; right foot crushed; leg amputated below knee; also bruised about the head.
 Owen K. Fielder, aged IS, compound frac- ture of the right leg.
 George Douglass, 35 years, of Bellevue; : unconscious; it is thought he received in- ternaf injuries.
 Owen Mulhan. married, 30 years, lace rated scalp.
 
 body and scalp wound.
 Joseph Headley, aged 55; bruised about body and head.
 Kit Wilson, 36 years, of Paducah, Ky, received injuries about head.
 Robert Dobson, 35 years; badly injured about the head and body.
 Capt J. A. Brown, superintendent bu- reau of building inspection; right leg cut and bruised. Peter Malone, % years, slightly injured about legs.
 Davis Stewart, aged 52, badly cut by fall ing bricks.
 William Desmune, aged 3s, injured about head and shoulders.
 Charles Wilson, struck by falling bricks and seriously hurt.
 Peter Malone leg broken. Police Officer Rogers, cut and bruised ana injured internally.
 Mrs. Mary Desmune, aged 8, cut about head and arms and hurt internally.
 Charles Simon, aged 20, travedng saees- man of Cincinnati, badly cut on head by brick.
 George King, scalp wound and bruises.
 Those Who Are Missing
 George Newman, fire inspector of Phila- delphia Gas company; William Doran, william Finch. Edward Donnelly, Christo- pher Shriver, James P. Morrison, Prof. ames Moxan, OrgalMst Evangelical Lu- theran church, Brushiton, Pa, ID. E. Week elesly, John Gery, George McDonsad Jack Farrell, Samuel Mclaughlin Jacoo Booth and a party of four companions who were in A saloon on Pennsylvania avenue when the wall crushed the building, are missing and supposed to be under the debris. Mrs Mary McFadden with her family or eight children are supposed to be under une fallen wall They lived in a house on Null berry alley which was crushed. Notnng has been seen of them since the expsosaon last ntelrt, and it is believed all are dead. All day long, firemen, policemen and other city employees have been working at inc risk of their lives, but up to nightfall but little progress has been made In the clearing away of the debris. The work will be continued without cessation until it is known no bodies remain buried.
 Walls Threaten to Topple
 Blackened walls tower from the midst of the heaps of smouldering rubbish, threatening to topple over at any minute. Twenty streams are constantly playing on the still burning ruins. heavy pail or smoke overhangs the desolate scene, ana the tired policemen had hard work to keep thousands of curious on-lookers from get ting within the rope corden.
 There is no reason to change last nights estimate of the aggregate loss to property. It is difficult to gt figures, but insurance experts say 1t will approximate $1 100000. Some of the individual losses are: w. A. Hoeveler & Co.,, loss on building, $75000; loss to the 1C00 customers who had goods stored therein, $500,000; Chautauqua Ice company, $275 ,0O0; Union Storage com pany and their customers, $350 900; others outside of the large concerns mentioned, $300,OO0.
 Total insurance variously estimated from $S00000 to $1 ,250,O