Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-11
LIST Of THE DEAD
Victims of the Pittsburg Fire
Identified.
Il KILLED; 26 MISSING
Bodies Recovered from, tho Ruins. Many
Persons Injured In the Contiagra-
tlon. Loss VIII Reach
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tBy Telegraph.)
PITTSBURG, Feb. 1O.-Eleven people
dad, twenty-siX missing and nineteen
injured, and property loss of s., SOC, coo,
With about $1,000. Geo insurance. is the
awful record of the big fire of last night
following is a revised list of the dead.
injured and missing:
DEAD.
Police Lieutenant "A. ]. Berry
John McHanna-
William Scott, Jr.
Stanley Stitz.
John Dwyer
George LoVeless.
William Smith
Albert A Wolff.
Thomas Caffey
William l.. Wallzhalbenstin.
An unknown boy, supposed to be John
scott, the youngest son of the president
fracture of the right leg.
hEU RED.
Robert Rosamond, single aged 40
lieutenant of engine company No 2,
right foot crusnId; leg amputated be-
low the knsepat Homeopathic Hospital
He was also burned about the body
owen *. Fielder, aged IS, compound
fracture of the RICH elg.
George Douglass, aS'sd 35, of Bellevue
unconscious; it is thouht he received in
tSrnaT injuries.
Owen Mullehan, married, aged 80, lac
eratSd scalp.
William Fleming, aged so. single, con-
fusion of the body and scalp wound.
joseph Hvadley. aged So, bruised
about body and head
Kit Wilson, ag'Ed So, of Paducao, Ky,
received injuries about the head; not
fatal :
Robert Dohson, aged 50, badly injured
about head and hpdy.
Captain ]. "A. "A. Brown, supSrinten-
dent of this. Bureau of Building Inspec-
uon; right leg cut and bruised
Peter Malone, aged 90. slightly injured
about EGGS.
Davis Stewart, agsd 50, badly cut by
falling bricks
William Desmuke, ag d SO, injured
about head and shoulders.
Charles Wilson. struck by falling
bricks and seriously injured.
Peter Malone. lvs broken.
Police Officer Rogers cut and bruised
and injured internally
Mrs. Mary Desmuile, aged SO, cut
about head and arms and hurt Internal
ly.
Charles Simon. aged go. travelling sales
man, of Cincinnati; badly cut on head
by brick.
George King, engineer. No engine
company. scalp wound and bruises.
John Hunter. stoker, No engine
company. bruised and both ankles
Spraine1.
MISSING.
George K. Newman fire INSPECTOR of
Philadelphia Gas Company: William
Doran, William Finch. Edward Dom
nelly. Chris Schriver. james p. Morri-
son. Professor JANIS Moxan. organist
Evangelical Lutheran church, Brush ton,
Pa; d. b. Weickerly, John Gerry. Geo
Mcdonald. Jack Farrell. Samuel Nc
4aughlin, Jacob Booth and a party of
Tour companions. who We're in a saloon
on Pann avenue when the wall crushed
the building. are missing and are sup
posed to be under the debris
Mrs. Mary McFadden with hsr fam
liy of eight children, are also supposed
10 be under the fallen wall. They lived
in house on Mulberry alley, which was
crush=d. Nothing has been seen of t!p:m
since the explosion last night and it is
believed all are dead.
All day long fireman, policemen and
other city employees have been work.
ing, at the risk of their lives but up 10
nightfall little progress had been made
IN clearing away the DEBRIS The work
Wlll b. continued without cessation until
1t is known that no bodies remain
buried. Blacken-d 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.
Mayor Ford this 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 con-
cSrned and that many will DE in need
OF prompt aid. issued a public letter.
suggesting subscriptions from the citi-
zens for distribution among the needy
victims
There is no reas son to- change last
nights estimat e of the aggregate loss
to property. 1t is difficult to get fig
urSs, but insurance experts say that it
viii. be at least $1,500,O00 and may be
more.
Some OF the Individual losses known
ara:
W. A. Hoeveler & Company. loss on
building $1,000 with $64. 900 insurance;
loss to the 1000 customers who had
goods stored in the building $500, OOO
ABOUT ~ per cent. of the latter had no
insurance. Ths. Chautauqua Ice Com
paEy, owners of the building occupied
by themselves and the Union Storage
Company, loss $z75, 900 on building, wag-
ons. icS-making machinery, etc. =.
The Union Storage Company will los.
nothing beyond interruption to business.
put the loss to their customers is unof
fieia3ly placed at $3.50, 900. Losses to
others outside of the large concerns
mentioned will foot up $500 900.
Toe total insurance is variously esti-
mated at from 100000 to s., $50, OOD
Two Sections Were Run.
The Chesapeake & Ohio passenger
tram was run in two sections to Rich