Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-02-10
DREADFUL DISASTER
Pittsburg Last Night Visited by the
Most Appalling Conaagration
in Its History.
rs LIVES CERTAINLY LOST
Twenty Persons Badly Hurt and Some
Bodies Supposed to Be in the Ruins
Property Loss is Placed at
$l,500,0OO.

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Pittsburg,sPa., Feb. 10.-The loss of
life and destruction Of properly by fire
at Thirteenth and Pike streets last night
was the greatest in the history of Pitts
burg. At least Is people were killed, over
q score injured, and property valued at
81 500, 900 destroyed.
The list of the dead, as far rs known,
is as follows:
Lieutenant of Police John A. Berry,
| aged 30 years.
John Dwyer, IS years old, single.
William Scott. aged 20 years, son of
President William Scott, Of the Chau-
tauqua Lake Ice company.
Stanley s. Ritz, aged Is.
George Loveless, 40 years old, mar
ried.
An unknown white man, aged about
rs years
Mrs. Mary Sipe, aged so.
Mrs. Sipe, aged "a, mother OF Mrs.
Mary Sipe.
Stanley Sipe, aged Is years.
Lieutenant Joseph Johnston, of No Z
engine company.
Fireman, white, name unknown, aged
about 40.
William l.. Wallenstein. employe Of
Rudensmen's milk depot.
| Two unknown men. -
Eighteen more are seriously injured
and three are missing.
The estimated losses are: Union StOr-
age company, SITS, 900; Kevelers' storage
warehouse and contents, $500, 900; Chau-
ta,qua Lake Ice company, $l50,OOO:
small houses, $225, 900; total, $l,500000.
Many People Injured.
The badly injured are:
Robert Rosamond, single, aged 40
years. lieutenant of engine company q;
Owen N. Fielder, aged IS; George Doug
lass. 55 years old; Owen Mulligan, mar
ried, 80 years: William Fleming, 32
years, single: Joseph Headley. aged 55
years; Kit Wilson, 30 years old, Paducah,
KY: Robert Dobson. 35 years: Captain A.
J. Brown, superintendent of bureau of
building inspection; Peter Malone, aged
20 years; David Stewart, aged 50; Will
lam Desmuke, 33 years; Charles Wilson:
Peter Malone; Police Officer Hodges;
| Mrs. Mary Desmukes, SO years; Charles
Simon 36 years; George King, engine
No. z; John Hunter, engine No. 7, mis-
sing, supposed in the ruins; Nathaniel
Green, accountant, Dali Myer building;
Thomas Lynch; Howard Barry.
1t is believed that at least ten more
bodies are in the ruins which are still
too hot to be removed.
/. The property loss will reach $1,5O0,-
600 and may exceed that amount.
1t was just 1855 o'clock last evening
when the smoke was seen issuing from
the fourth floor of the Union Storage
company's building on Pike street, near
Thirteenth street. The building was six
stories in height and occupied almost
the entire block between Twelfth and
Thirteenth Streets and Pike street and
Mulberry alley.
The first floor front was occupied rs the
offices of the Union Storage company
and the Chautauqua Ice company. The
of the Chautauqua company and on
Twelfth street they had their ice-making
plant which occupied the three first
| floors.
This was filled with the valuable ice
making machinery and other property
of the Chautauqua company. The balance
Of the building was occupied by the
Storage company.
Discovery of the Fire.
| Immediately upon the discovery of the
fire, an alarm was sent in and responded
to promptly, but, owing to the construc-
tion of the building, it was practically
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out, while the volume of smoke inside OF
the particular division occupied, made
it impossible to fight it within.
The only openings in the three fire
walls dividing the great building were
closed by heavy iron doors and these
were locked.
For three hours the iiremen worked
scarcely knowing what they were doing
The iron shutters were impregnable tt
I.their attacks. Tho smoke that found
its way out Of the building filled Mul
berry alley and Pike street, sitting fire
men and rendering them practically
sightless. 1t would clear for moment
or two and they would again endeavol
to make some headway, but to no avail
Finally, at II o'clock, the flames burst
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feet In the air and making that part o.
the city as light as day. This was the
first note Of alarm that started the
| flight Of residents from their homes or
Pike, Thirteenth and Twelfth streets.
4 Women and children started forth
bare-footed and in their night clothes
followed by husbands, bearing what little
they could carry in their arms Of theil
household effects.
| The police were watchful and the
crowds were kept back by the fire lines
and fearful heat OF the flames.
/ Suddenly above the roar Of the flames
and the putting Of fire engines, which
were everywhere, came the most power
full noise OF the first explosion and thu
din Of falling walls foret0ld destruction
and death in thunder0us tones.
Those within the fire lines were seeI
to fall in all directions. Those outside
the fire lines were not without reach Q
danger.
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