Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-02-10
TERRIBLE FIRE!
PittSbure, Pa, Swept by a Ter.
rible COn0aeratiOn,
Many People Killed and Injured by
the Pierce Flam.s.
Prcp.riy Loss over a Million and Z
Half Dollars.
LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. i0.-The loss OF
life and destruction by Gre at Thirteenth
and Pike streets last night were the
greatest In the history OF Plttsburg. At
least fifteen people were killed. over a
score injured and property valued at one
and half million dollars was destroyed
The list OF dead 30 far as now known Is
as follows:
Dead: Lieutenant Of Police John A..
Berry. aged 30 years; William Scott, Jr.,
20 years old, a son Of President VIM. Scott,
OF the Chautauqua Lake Ice company
John Dwyer, 80 years old, single; Stanley
3. Ritz, aged 10; George Loyeless. 40
years old, married; unknown white man.
aged about % years; Mrs. Mary Sipe,
aged 50; Mrs. sipe. aged "A years, mother
Of Mrs. Mary sipe; Stanley sipe, aged 10
years; Lieutenant Joseph Johnston, OF
No. engine company; Fireman White.
name unknown, aged about 40; william
l.. wallenstein, an employe Of Rudens-
mems milk depot; two unknown men.
Eighteen were seriously injured and
three are missing.
The estimated losses are: Union
Storage company, t775,0OO; Keeyeler's
storage warehouse and contents, $50 coo;
ChautauQua Lake lee com 1any, tl50000;
small Pennsylvania avenus houses. S25,.
600; total, 100000.
Badly injured-Robert Rosamond, sim
gle, aged 4O years, lieutenant engine
company 2; owen n. Fielder, aged Is;
George Douglas, 90 years old; Owen Mul'
hgan, married, 80 years; William Flem-
iug. 80 years, single; Joseph Headley,
aged 90 years; Kit Wilson, 30 years old,
Paducab, KY; Robert DObsOn, 30 years;
Captain A. j. Brown, superintendent OF
bureau building inspection; Peter Ma
lone, aged 20 years; David Stewart, SO;
William Desmuke, 80 years; Charles
Simon, G8 years; George King, engine No.
Z; John Hunter. engine No. 7.
The missing, supposed 10 be In the
ruins: Nathaniel Green, accountant Of
the Dali Myer building; Thomas Lineh,
Howard Barry.
II is believed that at least ten more
bodies are In the ruins. which are still
too hot 10 be moved.
The property loss will reach sl,500OOC
and may exceed that amount.
II was just 7:55 o'clock last evening
when smoke was seen issuing from the
fourth floor OF the Union Storage COM
paDy's building on Pike street near
Thirteenth. The building was six
stories In height and occupied al
most the entire block between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets and Pike street
and Mulberry alley. The first iloor front
was occupied as offices Of the Union StOr-
age company and the Chautauqla Lake
Ice company. The second floor front
contained the stables OF the Chautauqua
company ard in Twelfth street, and they
had there The ice.making plaut which
occupied the three Grst floors This was
filled with valuable ice-making machin
cry and other property OF the Chautaud dua
company. The balance OF the building
was occupied by the storage company.
Immediately upon the discovery Of the
Are an alarm was sent In and responded
TO promptly. but owing to the eOnstrue
tlon OF the building 1t was practically
impossible to fight the fire without while
the volume Of smoke inside the particu'
lar division occupied made II impossible
20 fight 1t from within. The only open
ings In the three fire walls dividing the
great building we're closed by heavy
iron doors and these were locked
For three hours the hremen worked
scarcely knowing what they were doing
The iron shutters were impregnable Il
their attacks. The smoke that found itl
way out of the building filled Mulberr!
alley and Pike street, sitting the fire
men and rendering them PRACTICAL,
sightless. II would clear for a moment
or two and they would again endeavOr Il
make some headway, but 10 no avail
Finally at II o'clock the flames burst ou
through the roof and shot upward hun
dred feet in the air and making tina
part OF the city az light a
day. This was the first note o
alarm that started the flight Of the resi-
dents from their homes on Pike, Thir
teenth and Twelfth streets. Women AM
children started forth barefOoted and II
their night clothes followed by husbands
bearing what little they could carry OI
a.. - ID An,.aahaIA afT
police we're watehful and crowds weT
kept back by the fire lines and the fear
full heat OF the flames. Suddenly abOy
the roar OF the flames and the putting o
Gre engines which we're everywhere, cam
the powerful noise OF the tiTst explosion
and the falling walls fOretOld death an
destruction in thunderO1s tones. Thos
within the FIRE lines were seen TO fall Il
all directions. Those outside the line
were not without reach OF danger.