The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-05-16
q PERSONS KILLED IN
NAPHTHA EXPLOSION
Terrible Holocaust In Pitts
burg Railroad Yards.
AWFUL SCENES OF SUFFERING
'hree hundred Others Were Injured,
and Physicians Say at Least Fifty of
THESE Will Die--Naphtha Lighted
by Fire From Switch TARGET Lamp,

These Will Die--Naphtha Lighted
by Fire From Switch Target Lamp.
Pittsburg, May 13.-Twenty.one are
dead and not less than 800 others in.
1ured as the result of the terrible
catastrophe at Sheraden last evening.
or the 800 injured the physicians say
at least SO will die.
AT $3.50 this morning nine bodies
were at the Pittsburg morgrpe and five
at the Carnegie morgue. The last
BODY Was brought in at o'clock this
morning. A list of the dead follows:
The Death List.
James keenan,, aged 7c. Chrnee;s
! clerk on wreck train, died at Mercy
hospital.
Charles Hertig, aged 13, Chestnut
Mines, Pa; died at Mercy hospital
w. w. Taylor, aged 27. brakeman,
Millers Station, o.; died. at Mercy hos.
pital.
Harry +. Smiley, aged 20. Urichs
vile, o.; level man on Panhandle rail.
roao' single; died at Mercy hospital.
Flnneryty, Sisterville, w. Va,
ased 10; died at Mercy hospital
". T.. Hanlcr. married, 2+S, five chill
dren, frenght conductor, Sheraden. kill.
Gu at wreck; body taken to McDer-
notl undertaking rooms, Carnegie.
waiter L, Wright, &c, Sheraden, kill
GU DIT Week; taken to McDermotts
undcrt' king rooms.
D'-llas M. Byerd, fir eman, aged 20,
SLeraden, killed at wreck, taken to
/ McDcrmott's undertak king rooms, Car
negie.
Pascal Madeer, 2S years old. screen
foreman, badly burned; died at ALE
gheny general hospital.
| Unknown boy, badly burned. taken
to Allegheny general hospital; died in
| short time.
| Donald Smith, aged 10, Sheraden,
son of Jerome Smith, train dispatcher,
badly burned died at Allegheny gen.
eral hospital.
George Wilson, aged Is. messenger.
| Oh Sheraden, body almost cooked;
| dled at 2:8O o'clock this morning at
| the Homeopathic hospital.
Matthew Marnon, teamster. aged "a.
single, 25 CHARTERS avenue, McKees
Rocks, body cooked; died at Home.
opathic hospital at 4 this morning.
John Swan, brakeman, aged 80
years.
Albert Mexican, aged 90, brakeman.
Hugh Flaherty, G5.
Tony Leo, laborer, 80.
- Lewis, burned to death on
track
Unknown boy, found in Gcad on farm
or >. X. Douglass, burned to a crisp
and unrecognizable.
Unknown woman, burned to death
on hill overlooking scene of explosion
Many OF the dead have not been re.
ported to the coroner and an accu.
rate list cannot be obtained at this
| time.
List of Those Injured.
The injured:
Carl Eddins, age 10, single, works
| lor western Union Telegraph compa.
n.y. hVes at Upton, Tenn; little hone
lor MIN; Albert Berry, aged IS. of
oleraden; David LaclIey, aged 23:
| MIS- Richard Ions Esplen. critical.
Wllllan Henderson, of -lliotboroupb
money order clerk in the Pittsbure
poStomce; Hugh Henderson, letter car.
Iler' Henry Holdecker, Charles Keene
- years old; George Eecne. 10: John
hehher, barber, of Braddock: John
Hailagher. of Elhotts sborough. T. T.
Na'lace, 3S. Of Tasveskyn; Squire E.
j. Hannah, of Bridgeville; w. II En-.
ii'H' fd' condition precarious; Frank
D"crrcr' Sheraden. serious; Henry
IiorDacher, Elliottsborcugh; James
Callahan, of Elliott; John TeIIineer
! aged 20, Elliott, boilermaker: Claude
fair' ~, brakeman, Mcdonald Pa.
Roy Gdthridge, 8, McKees Rocks: An.
thohy Davis, Is, laborer, Carnegie.
! Pa; Charles Schatz Is McKees
Rocks; William Cadden, 80; John
Ca"iey, %; Carl Koulson. 8. Shera.
oeh; Archie Feterly, .ailroad lnessen.
| ger ~, VIII likely die: Thomas Smith
Eihottsborough; George Wilson. 10,
| oh"aden; Alex MarricI. IS, Carnegie. .
hehry A. Denzine, %; ALLEGHENY. Ce.
| ell Dunn, III, Shoraden. probablv fatal.
! I."'hci watson, II, Sheraden; Patrick
carroll. Mt. Washington; David Wood.
i'' hlllota; James Krouse, 81, Elliott
burned; barney Mcnger, Mt. Washing.
4 'oh' waiter McCabe, 10. Elliottsbor.
oush' Mass Sadie Seymour. Charters.
may die; Tony Bowen, residence not
known; Thomas Joyce, Pittsburg:
fa'fick carroll "a, West End; Rachel