Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-13
TWENTY KILLED
Frightful Disaster at Pitts
burg last Evening.
EXPLOSION OF NAPTHA
OVER 800 MORE oHLEss SERIOUS
LYl HURT.
Estimated That Fifty of These Will
Die-Lists Of Dead and In
jured.
EXPLOSION OF NAPTHA

PITTSBURG, Pa, May 13.-Twenty-one
persons are dead and not less than 300
others are injured as the result of a terri
BILE catastrophe at Sheraden last evening
OF the 300 injured the physicians say at
least fifty will die.
At $50 o'clock this morning nine bodies
were at the Pittsburg morgue and five at
the Carnegie morgue. The last body was
brought in at o'clock this morning.
A list of the dead follows
James Keenan, aged twenty, single, Car
negie, clerk on wreck train; Charles Heart
ig, aged thirteen, Chestnut Mines Pa; W.
w. Taylor, aged twenty-seven, brakeman,
Miller's station. Ohio; Harry F. Smiley
aged twenty, Urichsville, Ohio; - Finner-
ty, Sistersville w. Va, aged forty: G. E.
Hunter, freight conductor, Sheraden; WAL
ter E. Wright, aged g. Sheraden; Dallas
M. Byrd, fireman aged %, Sheraden; Pas
cal Nader, section foreman; unknown boy;
Donald Smith, aged ten, Sheraden; George
Wilson, aged fifteen messenger, Sheraden;
Matthew Marnon, teamster, aged twenty
four, Is CHARTERS avenue, McKee's Rocks;
John Swan, brakeman, aged thirty years.
Albert Mexican, aged twenty-five, brake
man; Hugh Flaherty, sixty-ive; Toney
Leo laborer, thirty; Lewis, burned to
death on the track; unknown boy, found
in potato field on farm Of ]. r. Douglass,
burned to crisp and unrecognizable; I'M
known woman, burned to death on hill
overlooking scene of explosion; Lawrence
Keenan,, clerk Carnegie
Many Of the dead have not been reported
to the coroner and an accurate list cannot
be obtained at this time.
List of the Injured.
The injured-Carl Eddins, aged nineteen,
single, of Upton, Tenn; Albert Berry, aged
thirteen, of Sheraden: David Lackey. aged
tWenty-three; Mrs. Richard Ions. Esplen;
VIM. Henderson Of Elliottborough; Hugh
Henderson, letter carrier; Henry HoIl-
hooker. Charles Keenan,, Lawrence keenan,.
John Renner. barber of Braddock; John
gallagher, Elliottborough; ]. ]. Wallace,
Tasveeskyn; Squire j. E. Hannah. Bridge
Vile; David Lackey. Pittsburg; W. H.
Enoch, Frank Doerr, Sheraden; Harry Her
packer, Eliottborough; Charles Renner,
braddock. condition serious; James Cal
lahan, Elliott; John Tellinger, Elliott;
clyde Fair, brakeman, Mcdonald Pa: Roy
Guthridge, McKees Rocks: Anthony Davis
laborer, Carnegie Pa; Charles Schatz, Nc
KEGS Rocks: William gladden.. John Cawlev
Earl Koulson, Sheraden Borough; Archie
Feterty railroad messenger; Thos Smith,
Elliottborough; George Wilson, Sheraden:
Aiexander Mesick. Carnegie; Henry A. Den
zine, Allegheny; Earl Dunn, Sheraden:
Thomas Wilson, sheraden; Patrick Carroll
Mount Washington; David Wood Elliott
James krouse. Elliott Barney Menger,
Mount Noun, Washington; Walter McCable
tiers; Tony Bowan, residence not known;
Thomas Joyce, Pittsburg; Patrick Carroll.
West End; Rachel Aben, West Carson
street street John Warchok. Carnegie: Ravel
Carnegie; Edward F. Ballinger, Canton,
Ohio; Conrad Flick, Cecil: Mrs Margaret
Morrison, Sheraden Frank Morrison, She
raaen; James Wan, Sheraden; Patrick Cain,
Sheraden, brakeman, badly burned about
the head; Clyde Grinnage, burned about the
race arms and body, serious; A P Wilson
Those injured and taken to their homes
follows: Frederick c. Sauer. the architect
of Allegheny; Harry Jones, Allegheny; Mil
dred Brown, Sheraden: John Davis, Elliott,
burned; Charles Crotzer, Sheraden; E. W.
campbell Camp sheraden: viii Sunderman,
Elliott; Henry Miller, Elliott: Robert Davis
Elliott, seriously burned about body: John
Davis, Elliott; Walter McCabe, Elliott,
severe, thought to have inhaled flames
George Seibert, Elliott
Injured Taken to Their Homes.
List of injured taken to their homes:
Capt. William Boyd.
Hosemen John Roberts, VIM. Simpson,
Louis Amen and Patrick Gallagher.
Driver William Behold and Engineer
Harry Mooney, members of No. 10 hose
slight.
Mrs. Adam Sauer Cork's Run.
MRS John kearns, Cork's Run.
" ID ouSli, age fourteen, COrk Kun.
George Strasser, thirteen, Esplen
Ed"ard Smarter, twelve, Allegheny.
Herman GeGdell, eighteen, Esplen
Amos Dimmick, thirty, Allegheny.
| serious.
Hiram Daggs, Esplen.
James Clark twenty, PittSburg.
NJ. V. Douthitt, fifty, McKee's Rocks.
j. j. Wallace, age thirty-five, body liter
| ally roasted, condition serious.
VIM. Cracker, twenty seven, Allegheny.
VIM. Lannan, switchman, forty, Allie
! gheny; serious.
| Robert Davis. twenty-three Elliott
Martin Naughton, Sheraden
bridget Seymour, fifty-eight, Corks Run
Mrs. Julie Ansell, thirty-eight. Sheraden
Frank Cultuer, thirty, Carnegie.
| Matthew Moreland, twenty-five McKee's
| Rocks; will probably die
John CoWley, South Side.
| Albert Berry, drug clerk, Sheraden, six
| teen, burned all over body.
Thomas Wilson, fifteen years old Siberia
| den.
George Wilson, fifteen, Sheraden
John Davis, age nineteen, carpenter, Eli
| oft Borough
| Robert Henderson engineer Of train haul-
| ing oil cars, slightly burned.
Chris Keenan,, Carnegie, badly injured
| casper Moran, eighteen Carnegie.
| James Reagan, thirty-five, Carnegie.
James Medley, Pittsburg.
| Albert Wettengel. Elliott Borough
| - Davidson, seventeen, Elliott
| - DAVIDSON, twelve.
| Herbert Goethe, eight Esplen.
Edward Spath, John Gillen and RED"
| Calvert, McKee's Rocks, firemen, seriously
burned about their hands and faces.
Mrs McDermott and four children, Carrie,
| age thirteen; Harry, ten; Aida, six, and
| Emily, age four.na barned about face and
| hands. o ;.uoD
Bert Rosebery3 thirteen.
Miss Minnie Brown and Caroline Bennett,
| thirteen EACH 10 80
Charles Wright coaored.
| Frank Jones. lodi I
Another Explosion Feared.
The officials Of the Pan Handle railroad
fear a worse explosion than the three
which wrought s9dnidsah damage yesterday.
danger line has been established 800
yards on all sides Of the burning wreckage.
and the railroad police are keeping the
curious crowd back A few feet below the
burning wreckage the big thirty-six inch
main Of the Philadelphia company, which
comes from theogas afelds in the south
| western portion u the state. and which SUP.