'. THE ADLETS More than doubled last month. The figures are as follows: JInj-,.1893 8,004 Hay, 1891 3,770 Increase 4,231 FORTY SEVENTH YEAR TI WORST SINE 1ST 1. Oil City li TltrtB liriiii Ora w Siii Eis m TMr BeloM Deafl. OYER A HUNDRED And Hundreds More Sure Wreckage and THE PROPERTY LOSS IS 'Titusville's Identified Recovered How- Dead Now Charity is Cities The Worst Expected When Oil Creek Subsides A Belief That Hundreds Met Death in the Valley Tales of the Living That Prove the Bravery of the Dead Narratives of Narrow Escapes and Heroic Rescues Relief Pouring In Pittsburg the First to Respond to the Cry for Help Graphic Stories of the Sad Sights and Scenes. tFKOSI X STAFF COBUtSPOXDl 3TT. Olli ClTV, June 6. Oil City is buried in gloom to-night. Its citizens have just com menced to realize the extent of the calamity winch has befallen them. Although the light of the mellow moon to-night casts a subdued shadow over the scene of distress and destruction the stench from the charred and smoldering ruins still permeates the atmosphere. On every hand the fnll realization of the disaster is now apparent. Groups of peo ple are gathered even now at midnight on every corner, each relating his individual experiences, and adding to the awful his tory of the flood and fire. The two elements combined have wrought havoc in a dis trict where they were least expected. The people of the oil country are used to dis asters, and from the time since Colonel Drake struck his first well the "devil's fluid," as it as then called, has brought desolation to thousand' of homes. Xever before, however, has it baen assisted by the water;;. ad i:;rs oiDrathanil Desolation. A pall of sadness hangs over the little citr to-night. Specters of shrouds and coffins seem to promenade the banks of Oil creek and the valleys. Timid residents bhudderas they look upon the dark, whirl ing waters that possibly carry iu their bosom the bodies of those ho were among the living only yesterday. l'cople ol large hearts, sympathetic na tures and plethoric purses have been pour ing into the crippled city rendering their aid, and their strength to assist in rebuilding the town and caring for the dead and in jured. Already funerals with their melancholy drapings and saddened laces following in the train have commenced to traverse the streets. Only a few, however, have yet been seen, but within the next three days tuo score of victims will be laid away. Ituin t hero Oncg W elth Reigned. Tiie ruins of homes, workshops and re fineries drop into comparative obscurity compared to the loss of life. Oil creek was the center of the world in the petroleum trade. On its banks fortunes we're maae and lost, Becently it sunk into a depth of oblivion from which the present dis aster only has rescued it Two miles auove uu uity on oil creeK is Bouseville, famous in its time. Directly opposite from it is the famous Steel farm, where Johnny Steel, the celebrated spend thrift, sot money which he threw away. Onl v a couple 01 miles above ltouseville is the world-'amous Bvnd farm, which produced wells of astonishing caliber in those early days of the oil business. Saturday it had a population of only 100 people. Following the Bynd larm up the creek is Petroleum Center, than which no other town in the oil country enjoyed a greater notoriety. At one time it had a population of 7,000people. Xoff it has only 130. here the Head May lie FoantL Xext comes the Miller farm. It was 11 miles from Oil City and at present consists only of a railroad station, although there was a time a few years ago when it teemed with a population of 5,000 soul. Then three miles below Titusville is Boughton, where the acid works are located. Xext comes Titusville. All of the places mentioned are on the "Western New York and Pennsylvania Itail roa'l, and are located on the banks of Oil creek. They are all situated on Iotv ground. Although the damage to each is not known at present, the people who are and have been lamiliar with the country for years en tertain little hope that many of the inhabi tants of the towns have been saved. Mayor Hunt has just issued a letter to the citizens, requesting them to close their places of business to-morrow from 10 A. j:. to C r. m. that they may properly observe the .occasion, and as a mark of respect for those of their neighbors who have been lost Many of the business houses were closed to-day. Business is not considered, only the care of those who are crippled, dying or dead. "Wallace. TITUSVILLE APPALLED. THE DEVASTATION AND DEATH GKKATfcK Til AX ANTICIPATED. IS Sixty Pools Given lp by the FIood-At Lcat 48 Teople Missing One Thousand Homeless Charily Smiles Throuch tile Djrk Cloud ltuin Mill He ltrbnilt. TFHOM A STAFF COKnFSrOXOEXT Titusville, June C The dawn only re Tealcd the aw fulness of the calam ity here. The first reports did not really tell the ex tent of the disaster. livery pile of debris was a tomb, as at Johnstown. Many bodies were found sticking in the sand. The water is still so high in Oil creek that it is impos sible to recover those that have found resting place below. Forty-eight J BODIES RECOVERED to Be Found .Under the in the Tide. MORE THAN $2,000,000. 54 Oil City "Weeping Over 43 Bodies Softening the Sorrow in the Stricken people are reported missing in the Third ward alone. Already the flood has given up 60 of the dead. The number may reach 100. The losses in this city alone at daylight footed up over 51,000,000. At 10 o'clock the fire broke out anew, and the International refinery is to-night a pile of ruins. This increases the total $125,000, and of course'there was no insurances. The Flood 'Was Terrific. The cloud burst of Saturday night that helped let loose the floods of Spartansburg uam, which caused the bursting of the one below, also struck the house of Mr. lie Ivennie, at the northern end of Titusville. He says the house, though strong and sub stantial before, afforded no more protection than a sieve. He said it struck his place at midnight and all the force from the great water shed was concentrated here. The entire bank has been swept by water and flame. The devastated portion is two miles long by three-fourths of a mile wide. To-night a thousand people are homeless, but for the ever-reaJy hand of charity 500 would be starving. The relief committee has gotten down to work, but not enough supplies have been received to supply the demand. Headquarters have been estab lished in City Hall, where clothing is being given out by willing ladies. The nnnsrry Fed and the I'oor Clothed. In the armory of Company K, the hungry arc being fed. Sleeping quarters have also been established there and in the Music and Masonic Hall. Every undertaking room has been turned into a morgue, and some lying side by side are the dead of three gen erations in one family. Whole families have been utterly wiped out of existence. This morning Councils organized and at once commenced the work of clearing up the wreckage. The work has been divided up among the various members, and they put gangs of men to work immediately. It will take a month to clear the wreck. Most of the manufactories hare declared their in tention to rebuild at once. The Coroner will hold his inquest in this county on Thursday. Only one inquest will be held, and the same verdict returned for all the other dead. Until this evening no trains have gone out of here since Saturday. To-night the Dun kirk and Allegheny Valley got a train through north. It only did this by making transfers. All connection with Oil City is cut off, and will not be established for some time. It is also impossible to use the West ern New York and Pennsylvania bridge. Christy. TALES TOLD BY THE LIVING That Prove the Itravery f the Dead Ghastly Traces or Heroism Races for tire Jth the Fljlns Flames Experi ences That TVill Never Ito Forgotten. OIL ClTT, June 6. Special Xow that the most part of the tragedy is over many of the fortunate ones are relating their experiences and the narrow escapes they had from death while others are declaiming upon the acts of bravery performed by the dead persons to rescue the stricken by the flimes and flood. Grant Terrcillinger, who was working to save women ana cnnuren, was drowned, as was also his brother William. They dived into the waters as the flash came and did not appear again. Both were married and leave families. Wm. Eakin and his two sons, Frank and Ed Eakin, both married, lost their lives at their father's home on Seneca street They sent their mother and sister over the tem porary bridge and remained behind to pile up the furniture out of the waters. They were caught in the flames and lost The bodies of Councilman Lyons, wife and boy, when found in among the debris, presented a terrible spectacle. The wife held the boy to her breast and the arms of the husband were about his wife and child. The body of O. H. Dougherty, of the Summit, could only be identified by a frag ment found of the shirt he wore. His wife had made the shirt, and to her fell the sad lot of making the identification through re membrance of the way she made the button holes. Express Messenger John O'Leary and his aged mother were found dead together, and the scene presented was most pathetic. The son had evidently made a vain endeavor to bave the mother and then knelt by her bed side in prayer. When found he was still kneeling there, burnt in a frightful manner. A Kace for Life In a Tunnel. If. C. Turner, a barber, had an experience lie will not soon lorget, lor he was the last man to reach the Lake Shore tunnel alive He, like the others before him, ran into the tunnel ahead of the wall of flame, taking with him the awfal thought that the great billows of fire came from a torrent of oil which would pour into the tunnel alter him. But the prospect of even a few minutes more of life was better than to surrender, and the victorious race was run. Sheriff Bay was in town Sunday, and had a narrow escape when the explosion oc curred. This explosion killed two men who were standing at the bridge in front of Paul's. Tnc Sheriff was knocked uncon scious. The first thing he realized was a woman tugging at his arm crying: "For W God's sake, gave my children!" Hardly knowing wnat ho was doing, he grabbed one of them, and ran around throutzh the ward until he met a couple of men. To one of them he gave the baby, and then went back to help the mother with the other chil dren. He then sent to Beno for hose to assist in putting out the fire. The Sheriff says it was the closest call he ever had in his life, and is an experience he does not care to repeat Mrs. Sophia Briggs, aged 25, who was so badly burned, said: "I thought the Judg ment Day had come. I first ran upstairs, and fearing that the house would be swept away I took mv daughter in my arms and the six of us Mrs. Hawks, .Myrtle Hawks, aged 14, Minnie Bishelle, John Beach and Samuel Terwilliger linked arms and waded out Edith Freeman, aged 9 years, was also in the house and started to go with us, but I saw her go down in the mad waters, and I did not see her again. God only knows where my daughter is. I hope she is in kind hands. It was all so sudden and so terrible that I can only in an abstract way recollect it." Mike Hennessey was sitting on the hill side opposite the east end of the bridge watching the raging waters. He saw the flames start across the creek, and instantly he leaped across to the stave mill and started and ran farther up the hill and did not stop till he had run half a mile or more. Then be returned and helped rescue a fam ily of six from the high fence at the stave works. He waded through the water up to , his neck, and while carrying one ot the young ladies out was upbraided by her for his allowing her feet to get in the water. The Engineer vt'ho Saw thg Flash. Bigler Carr, the engineer of the engine standing near the creek railroad bridge, says: "I noticed a haze rising out of the waters, and fearing it might be gas told a companion to get out of there as quick as he could so as to let me out My engine was standing on the switch near the end of the creek bridge. The special pulled down toward the depot and I got in the cab and tried to run it out ot the switch, going toward the bridge. I was then some 75 feet from the bridge. I had scarcely pulled the lever when there was a flash and I saw a slight flame dart through the cab. It scorched me about the neck and hands. I sprang off the engine and ran down the track and was about three car lengths from the engine when the explosion took place. There "was a hissing sound all around me and little flashes of flame. J. E. Lynch, who resides on Seneca street. opposite the Oil Citv Tube Works, took his wife and three children out of the house and helped them to a place of safety half an hour before the explosion occurred, and then returned to change his clothing. He was up stairs when the explosion took place, but had just drawn on his other pants. He jumped down stairs and out the doom ay into the street The thoroughfare was a running creek and he started to swim across. He had only got a little way from the sidewalk when the flames came pouring down upon him. Bealiziug his danger, he drew a deep breath, dove and swam under water until he could remain under no longer, then came to the surface. He found himself opposite the office win dow of the tube works, and, grasping a piece ot driftwood, he smashed the glass and framework, making a passage for him self. When he reached the inside he found he was in just as bad position as outside. Eeturning, he secured another piece of wood, which he carried to the opposite side of the tube works and he broke another window. In doing this a fragment of plate glass fell upon his head, which, under or dinary circumstances, would have rendered him unconscious, but, thinking ot his wife and children, he summoned all his strength and made his way into the yard of the works, where there was but two feet of water. In wading through this he lacer ated his feet stepping Upon the broken glas in the yard. He says there were 540 or S30 in the trousers he had just taken off, but he thinks'his escape was cheap at double the the price. Other rioods Were Merely Fan. J. B. Jacobs says he was standing in the rear ot Trinity Church when he observed the oil on the surface of the water. It was but a few seconds afterward that the terri ble reports came, and he bhouted to others standing by: "Bun for your lives. " As he struck Center street horses, wagons and people of all ages, sizes and de scriptions passed him in a confused mass which, to him, resembled the retreat of a defeated army. It was the first time in his life that he was bereft of his senses. "The feeling as the flames rolled over my head is beyond description." He says that the flood of 18G6 and the memorable fire of 18G5 were fun in comparison with the pres ent disaster. He emphasizes his remarks by saying: "The only thing to complete the awful scene was the sound of Gabriel's trumpet" F. C. Lynch, of the Arlington Hotel, has the honor of taking out the first corpse. He was in a boat which afterward sank and he was compelled to swim to save himself. "While working his way through the river some one on the opposite shore called to him that there was a body near him. He at once made a dive for the object After put ting the body ashore he found it was the re mains of James Holmes, a barber lrom Jamestown John O'Shea, a prominent citizen, says he was standing on Seneca street near the National Transit building when the crowd rushed past him toward the creek bank. He supposed it was a building floating down the stream. He afterward noticed benzine on the water and had just men would be an explosion, when there came a tioned it to some companions that there bang, bang, bang, and the whole creek was on fire. The crowd that had gone down to see the floating building pass came rushing back and up toward Cottage Hill. Old men, women and children were thrown down in the rush. "Directly in front of me an old, forlorn looking man fell," said Mr. O'Shea. "He glanced up so sorrowfully looking that I determined to try and save him. I did not dare to stop to pick him up, or two lives would have been lost instead of one. In stead of bending over I stretched out my arms and held the wild mob back until the old man regained his feet I then ran to the Arlington Hotel, and there, for the first time, I lost my head upon learning my wife was -out upon the street, but she is safe, thank God." The Saved Congratulating Each Other. Everybody in Oil City to-day has felt like grasping each other by the hand and extending congratulations to each other upon being alive. It is comical and none the less solemn to see women throw their arms around each other and say, "Well, I am glad. I thought you were" drowned." There is hardly a person in the town who. almost without knowing it, has not shaken hands with scores of people and extended such congratulations. Certainly the people of the city have never before felt so grate iul for their existenoe. As an example ot the terrible state of ex citement still existing here, a prisoner es caped from an officer this evening upon Seneca street, and almost immediately the course taken by the fugitive was black with men and boys in pursuit He was recap tured at the Allegheny Valley depot and almost torn apart by the mob that sur rounded him. All are anxious to render assistance in subduing any law breaker at this period in the history of the town. In order to get the relic hunters and sightseers lrom the scene of the ruins this afternoon a police man circulated the report through the crowd that two tanks ot burning benzine were coming down the stream. This state ment caused the maddest confusion and some ladies became so excited at what they thought would be a repetition of yester day's tragedy that they lainted away. FOR ADDITIONAL NEWS OF DISASTER SEE! SECOND PAGE, THE PBptitl PITTSBURG TUESDAY, JUNE 7. 1892-TWELYE PAGES. DEV0UREDJ9Y FIRE, Oil City Property That Was Licked Up by tlie Ter rible Cataract. LIKE A BLINDING CLOUD The Greasy Black Smoke Bises From Ruins of Many Homes. TANKS BURST FORTH IN FLAMES And Add the Faluo of Their Contents to the Enormous Waste. A LIST OP THE UNFORTUNATE LOSERS IritOM A STAFF COnRKSPONDENT.l Oil Citv, June G. Words are inade quate to describe even in the minutest de tail the appearance of the burned and flooded sections of the city as seen in the full light of day. Although the excitement has quieted down to a certain degree, con fusion among the residents still runs high and business is almost entirely suspended. To make matters far worse, a great number of strangers, many of whom are relic hunt ers and thieves, are crowding into the town from nil available points. These at once make for the scenes of the tragedy, where they seriously inconvenience the men en gaged searching for the bodies of the dead and lost treasures. The militia regulars, together with the police, are still patrolling the streets, and, although they render ef fective service, their numbers are insuf ficient to cope with the vast throngs. If confined to facts of the scene witnessed when the flood and fire came words would scarcely approach the requirements of the terrible situation. As the terrible cataract of flood seething flame and blinding smoke rushed over the populated portions of the city, the people whose faces were a moment before wreathed in smiles, fully enjoying the pleasures of life, were quickly clouded with horror, frieht, anguish and despair. Bealizing the full extent ot their danger, many immediately made for the hills, while the weaker members representing old men, women and children, were left behind to perish. A Mud F.nsh for the Hills. In the mad rush that ensued some of the fugitives were forced down and trampled under foot. No eflort was made to save them, and there they lay in the path of the water and flame until overtaken by death. That the main portion ot Oil City was not completely wiped from the face of the earth is the wonder of everyone, aud its partial salvation was due to the fact that the wind suddenly changed its course to the eastward and the splendid, untiring work of the fire men, together with a number of volunteers. That part of the city lying north of the boiler works, alone Seneca street and be tween that street and the Western New York and Pennsylvania tracks, which por tion of the city had been inundated by the flood, was the first to go. It emhraoed nearly, If Trot tuilyT" 100 residence?,' and they were quickly burned to the water's edge, and the flood ran leaping over their ruins. Sweeping down to the Center street bridge across Oil creek, the flames began to cut their terrible swath of destruction through the Third ward. The Bellevuo barns were the next to burn, quickly fol lowed by the hotel, Paul & Son s furniture and .undertaking establishment, the Pe troleum Hoube and the 20 buildings lying between the creek bridge and the alley below the Petroleum House. A ?uarter of a mile below the flame swung in rom the river and burned the Oil City Coal and Lumber Company's mill, the Chautau qua and Sandy Lake Ioe Company's build ing, the Diebold residence and C. Boss' tenement house. Flames Beach the Business Center. Above the creek bridge, besides the resi dences in the inundated district as noted above, the Oil City barrel factory, the new buildings of the Oil City Tube Works and intermediate buildings in that section were destroyed. A train had been run out on the New Tork,, Pennsylvania and Ohio bridge to hold it down. Six of the cars were burned and the bridge badly damaged. The creek bridge ?was saved by the hard work of the fire 'department, and the fire was kept to the west side ot the creek, though it twice leaped over and caught the belfrey ot Trinity Church and the Derrick office. At this time the entire creek was one solid mass of flame over 70 feet high trom the Clapp farm to the mouth of the creek, a distance of a mile, and from there the burning oil from the ex ploded tanks followed the current of the river to Two Mile Bun. The fire licked up the buildings on both sides of the creek where it curves along North Seneca street, a distance of four or five blocks. Several derricks and tanks of oil on the west bank of the rreek were quickly consumed. Chief Fisher had called the firemen out long be- tore anil tney were ready tor business, ana how well they did their duty is shown by the fact that they confined the fire to tlie west side of the Third ward trom Main Btrcet to the Petroleum House, a distance of two squares. The blazing river fired the United Lumber and Coal Company's saw mill and several dwellings five squares further down. Kstlmated Loss In the Third Want The following is the list ot estimated loss in the Third ward: UnitedLumber and Coal Company's mill and lumber, $3,000, partially insured; Chau tauqua Lwke Ice houses, loss, 1,003; William DIeboId's hoase and furniture, loss, $1,000, $GJ0 Insurance; W. H. Loot's stole, hotel, bain and household goods, loss, $20,000, par tially Insured; T. 11. McHale's general store and building, loss, $1,600, partially insured; Hill & Seeinke, paper ana paint store, loss, $1,000, insured; George SIgman's barber shop, loss, $1,000, Insured; five trclght cars on the Now York, Pennsylvania and Ohio bridge destroyed and bridge damaged, Uo estimate made; Geqrce Thomas' shoe shop, stock and fixtures, $600, no insurance; Ed Fltzpat rick's blacksmith shop and tools, loss, $1,100, insured; It. D. Nnylor's plumbing shop, stock and ilxtures, $3,000, buildinj, $1,000, no Insurance; Fleiscbman's tailor shop, living rooms, confectionary store and rooms of Gertie Foster combined, loss, $3,500, insured; James Ale Hale, three two-story frame houses, lurnlture and clothing, loss $18,000, partial Insurance; the Midias Oil Company's three story frame building, total loss; Lizzie Anderson's dress making estab lishment in which Patrick Ready also re sided, another of the MIdias Oil Company's buildings, total loss, $1,000; Keinbold's car riage repository; Myers & Heasley's black Hinith shop and Leslie's harness shop, stock, tools and fixtures, $12,000; George Paul A Son's four-story furniture establishment, warehouse filled with china and the cabket warehouse with the finest caskets, remain der of building packed to the root with fine furniture, the proprietors haying just bought their spring stook, loss estimated at $52,000 partially covered by Insurance; Will iam Daubenspreck's two-story frame house and store, loss, $2,000; Kramer's three-story tenement house, burned to the water, no loss stated. The new tube mill 320x180 feet, which has been under construction lor the past four months and which was nearly completed, was almost destroyed by fire and the re mainder so damaged it Is of no use. The damage to the building is estimated from $35,000 to $45,000. The damage to the old tube mill is prlnclpallyby water and it Is im possible to place .an estimation uoon the loss, but the damage unquestionably will bo J "chyj us tuo luruaces win nave iu uu ic huilt A conservative estimate upon the ag gregate loss of the OH City Tube Works and Holler Works is $80,000. Tanks of Oil Succumb to the Flames. The fire spread up the creeK almost as rapidly, but was attended with no loss of lilc. The Pennsylvania Befining Company, owned by A. D. Deming & Co., lost three agitators, 12 tanks and about 10,000 barrels of oil in various stages of refining. The loss will reach 60,000, with insurance of about a third of that amount The Penn sylvania refinery at the Clapp farm owned by Justice & Suhr, together with the barrel factory and machinery, was destroyed. The loss is estimated at 565,000, partially in sured. In the Imperial barrel factory the greatest loss is to machinery and stock which, owing to the inundated condition of the ground and buildings, cannot be given with anything like certainty. The loss is certainly over $100,000. The Vallev refinery lost a big iron tank, at Bouseville, and were other wise damaged by water. Their total loss is estimated at 815,000. Seneca and Stevens streets are still inundated, and no coherent estimate was obtainable of the loss or state ment of insurance. The following is a list of property de stroyed: Throe two-story frame buildings, owned by C. Kramer, loss $3,600; Louis Foquet, dwelling and store, $1,500; Nicholas Smith, house and furniture, $2,000; Thomas Wilson, cottage and household goods, $1,000: Barthol omew Lyons, house and furniture, $1,500; Scott Campbell, nouso and furniture, $1,000; Frank Wright, same, $1,000; John Sullivan, same, $800; Joseph Hammer, house and fur niture, $1,100; house and furniture belonging to Messrs. Blaok, Cartwright, Wick, Kopner, Aikens, Haassenfritz and Steele THE FIBST TSAIN OUT. It Starts for Dunkirk in Charge of Superin tendent Ketchnm. Titusville, June 6. Special. TheD., bllSlggfr ;Hj-f-- H 1 THE WEECKEp POBTION OF OIL CIT1'. , The dotted line designates the Bluff, and the shaded sections the portion swept by flame and flood. The site of the naphtha tank where the explosion occurred is also shown. A. V. & P. B. B. started a train to Dun kirk at S o'clock under the charge of Super intendent Ketchum. This is the first train since Saturday on any road. He expects to reach Dunkirk by mid night, although reports from above here are to the effect that the broken straw has badly damaged the towns of Garland, Grand Valley, Pittsfield, Youngville and "Warren. ON THE UPPER ALLEGHENY. Thousands of Oil Well Bigs and Dwellings Near Franklin In Kuins Not a Bridge Left Between That Town and Tltnsvllle Lives ProbaDly Lost. Franklin, Pa., June 6. Special' Beports of the disaster caused by the floods of Sunday still pour in from everv direc tion. The country north of Franklin has sustained a terrible loss to growing crops. The waters of the Allegheny are slowly receding, and along its banks is the wreckage of thousands of oil well rigs and dwellings, and, it is feared, the bodies of many human beings. Northward, between Franklin and Titusville, there has not been a bridge left standing. The village of Cooperstown, 18 miles north of here, was almost completely under water, and the destruction toproperty there is heavy. Houses and stores were inun dated, and many thrilling escapes lrom death are reported. At 5 o'clock Sunday morning Mr. Hanna attempted to carry his wile and children to a place of safety, the water having entered his residence. When near high ground he stumbled and fell, and with wife and children would have drowned but for timely assistance. The bridge over Sugar creek at this point went down, carrying a number of persons with it, but fortunately they all escaped. The water rushed down the streets of the village, washing them out and, spreading over the farm lands, destroyed acres ot growing crops. Sugar creek has not been so high since 1865, and the water passing down the valley has left a terrible 'tale of destruction in its wake. A locomotive went through the bridge at Saegerstown, and traffio in that direction has been cut oft It is impossible to estimate the loss. PHILADELPHIA SENDS AID. Two Commissioner Appointed to Expend 810,000 lr Necessary. PnrLADELPHlA, Pa., JuneG. A meet ing of the citizens to form a permanent Be lief Committee was held to-day in response to Mayor Stuart's call, and it was decided to send Budolph Blankenburg and Bobert M. McWade as commissioners to the burned and flooded oil districts. In view of the Governor's proclamation the commissioners were authorized to ad vance financial aid not to exceed $10,000 im mediately. The commissioners leave tor Oil City "to-night. TOTAL C0NTBIBTJTI0N3 07 CASH. They Amonnted to Over 810,000 Up to a Lato Hour Last Night. Oil City, Pa., June a Special At the meeting in the Oil Exchange so iar the known contributions are 55,300 from Oil City and (4,000 trom outside of Oil City, including some money from Pittsburg not tnoluded in the fund represented by the Committee of Belief trom that city. Outside assistance offered Titusville amount to 58,860. The' Adams Express Company has offered the nse of all its priv ileges between this town and Pittsburg. Mtimtth DAMAGED Hundred Known Victims Offered Up on tho Awful Funeral Pyre. H0EEID GHASTLY SIGHTS Greeted Thousands of Visitors to the Temporary Morgues. WBOfcE FAMILIES COLD IN DEATH. Dreadful Fate of ilany Who Dreamed 5ot t of Their Ending Doom. . a , NUMBERS AJI0X itlcT fcu V'D3IISSIXG W Kf FROM A BTJLYT COUEKHWn- r r. T- ,. t.. Sr V. kjiu wii, tiuue o. it" is y. If whefn all is known thedeath list . V" k a nearly or. quite lOOrCoroner J. M". jw den swore in hisinry this morning, and the work has been'severe. The following are the names pf the jurymen: C H. Duncan, foreman;' M. Lowentritt, "William Gates, J. H. Payne, D. H. Merrit, "W. L. Lay. To-night the list of those who have been identified or partially so stands as follows: WILLIAM EAKIX. EDWAKD EAKIN. E. VT. BURNAK. BARTHOLOMEW LYONS. KATE LYON'S, his wife. WILLIAJI LYONS, his son. Six-dav-old Infant or D. CAPLIN. MRS. FLORA O'LEARY. JOHN O'LEARY, her son. EMMA BRIGGS. MRS. MILLS and twochildrensupposed to be hers. Unknown child found in front of Briggs House. WALTER McPHERSON. JAMES BURNS. Girl, unknown, about 12 years old. H. W. SHAFER, operator Postal Tele graph Company. J. L.DORWORTH. HIRAM D. DOUGHERTY. CHARLES MILLER. EDWARD MILLS and three girls snp posed to be his daughters. JAMES HOLMES, Jamestown, N. T. E. V. K. PLANK, Carthago, Jefferson county, N. Y. CHARLES BAKER. JAMES W.BRISTOL. DANIEL SULLIVAN. JOHN RIENBOLD. MRS. JOHN ROACH. HAS1eNFr'EtZ1 t0 " of WILLIAM EDITH FREEMAN. Body of a babv found nn Senata nfi-not- .1?J5lltlon to tl,e Coroner's list EUGENE FRITZ died at 3 o'clock and Miss HAWK died at 2 o clock. Scenes at the Temporary Moigaes. In addition to the above number there are seven bodies that remain unidentified. There were three or four temporary morgues and the scene presented at each seemed more horrible than the other. At the City Hall was a sight to cause the stolid heart to sicken and the strongest frame to tremble. Lying side by side were the remains ot 10 ot the victims stretched out along the ide hall on the ground floor. One look at the awful work was sufficient burnt beyond I tne semoiance ot numan beings. At the further end of the hall lay all that was once a happy family, Bartholomew Lyons, wife and son, all terribly burned. Next to them lay Mrs. Mills and her twin daughters. The iormer was only slightly burned, but the latter two were burned to a erisp. Only the bodies were left, and the blackened arms were clasped about one another, showing that they were in one another's embrace when the summons came. Mr. Mills came to this country lrom Eng land a little more than a year ago. Four months ago the remainder of the lamily ar rived, and now all have been swept awtiy as with a breath. "Walter McPherson and Grant Terwilliger lay side by side, the former only slightly burned, but the latter beyond recognition. Tho left hand was burned off' nnd the stub was raised imploringly to heaven. Mother and Son Lay Side by cld. Mrs. O'Leary and her son, an express messenger on the Valley road, lay side I y side. The former was a rightful sight, but the latter nas even more shocking to be hold. Nothing but the charred trunk re mains. The head, arms and legs u ere en tirely consumed, and all that remained presents more the appearance of a piece of burnt wood than what was only a lew hours before a human form. Your correspondent while at the ruins on Seneca street saw several bodies recovered trom beneath the smoking aud accumulated debris, one of which was so badly burned and charred that when the workman tritd to pick it up it partially fell to pieces. Never were laborers so tender jis the men engaged in the humane work of searching for the dead. The unsightly object was finally gathered up and placed in a box and carried to a wagon, in which it was removed to the morgue, located at the Ivy Club block. It was said that the remains were those of a woman, but it would have been impossible to the ordinary spectator to tel! her trom a piece of wood. The head, arms and legs I were entirely burned away, and the trunk. I prf? . which alone remained, was shriveled to a third of its natural size. Besides the dead, there are a number of people missing, but, as a number of names have been handed in that were afterward iound to be among the living, no accurate report can be secured. Soini of the Badly Injured. Among the injured are: EDWAKD JAMES, both knees cut. PATRICK FEE.VEY. hands nnd faco cut. LOUIS HASsEN'FKITZ. seriously burned. CHAULEs COUUUK, burnod about the faco and body. GKOEGE STECK, burned about the face. J. E. LYXCH, cut on head and feet lacer ated. JOHN UHLAKDEK, Sr., head and kneecap gashed. K. B. JIAGEE. cut on tho arm. HEN'HY JiKUNSELL, badly burned; will die. ANN a BRUNSELL, his daughter, and John, tho youngest boy, were with their father, will probably both die. MRS. PATRICK FEENET, badly burned; 'hor children wore burned Internally aud ( will die. JOHN ROACn, burned fatally. MRS. SOPHIA BRIGGS, burnod about face, neck and hands. MISS MINNIE RUSSELL, of Pottstown, Pa., burned serlonsly about lower limb;). MRS. FREEMAN", her sister, in tho sarao condition. FRANK HASSENFRITZ, burned seriously. 3IRs. JOHN HAWKS, seriously burned ahont the face and neck. MYRTIE HAWKS, her daughter, burned about the body and spine injured; will die. MARYFEEMER, fatally burned. MATHEW SIMON, nose broken. GEORGE COX, cut about head, bad sealp wound. THE TITDSVILLE VICTIMS. Oyer Half u Hundred Dead Alrraly Identi fied by Their Friends una Family of Nine Perish Together, a .Mother and Iler Fight, Children. Titdsville, June C Special The re vised list of dead up to 6 o'clock was: MRS. MARY HOEnN and four children, Mamie, Gertie, Peter and Clara. MRS. FRED CAMPBELL and three chil dren. OLIVER EDGAR. FRANK WHALEN, wife and two children. 3IRS. JOnN QUINN and two children. AUNTY FURMAN (colored). MRS. A. JACOBS and child. MRS. DELILAH KICE. AN UNKNOWN BOY. MRS. JACOB JJINGENnEIMER. JACOB BINGENHEIMEB, JR., aged 19. KATIE BINGENHEIMEB. aged 15. LESLIE BINGENIIEIMER, atjed 13. EDWARD BINGEMIEIMKK, aged 1L EARLIE BINGENIIEIMER, aged 9. HARRY BINGENIIEIMER. ngod 7. WALTER BINGENIIEIMER, aged 3. BABY BINGENIIEIMER, agedSdays. MRS. NEIL M'KENZIE. JOHN M'FADDEN aud wife. MARY M'FADDEN. FRED LEVEKSr ORD nnd wife. INFANT of Mrn. Wm. Eckert. MRS. C. P. CAS PERSON. GEORGE PEASE. MRS. LENA OSMER and two children. JOE SPIEGAESand two children. FRED REEIJE, wile and two children. FRED fOFKY. 11 veari. FRANKIE FOSTER, 12 years. MISGOLDIE COHEN. HENRY RUHL, of Buffalo. ENGLESBY, a tailor. DEVOTION OP A SON. It Prevented John O'Lenry From Blarry Ing for Fivo Years Now HN Bride That Was to Be Weeps Over Ills Charred Bemains. Oil City, Pa. Jnne G. Special The brave, honest, filial devotion and pathetic termination of a sweet romance, that is sadly coupled with the frightful death by fire of Adams' Express Messenger, John O'Leary, places his name among the ones that should be inscribed in letters of gold at the top of the list of martyrs. The sad tale was related to me by ronte agent H. I. Schroyer, who was intimately acquaintede with the affairs of the young man, and as h spoke his eyes filled with tears. O'Leary had been in the employ of the Adams Express Company for the" lat 13 years, ever since his father died, leaving the orphan the only support of the invalid widow. He was but a boy of 14 years then, and since that time he worked with an energy, iaithfulness and fervor that at tracted to him the attention of the high officials of the company, and as a reward he was promotejl step by step until he passed through the initiatory toward great eter nity. Some little time ago an incident oc curred that showed a new trait in his ster ling character. A vacancy occurring in one of the offices of the company in Harrisburg, and the position, a very desirable one, was offered to young O'Leary. He replied with a slight quivering of the lip from the disap- E ointment, that he could not accept it, as is mother did not wish him to leave her home in Oil City, and he could not leave her. Ho Conld Not Leave Ills Mother. The same opportunity came twice alter that, once for an office in "Washington, and the route in Philadelphia, but the young man made the same reply, he could not leaye his invalid mother. Last Friday he came here to take charge of the car upon which Messenger Metz was killed at Foster. The train upon which he arrived is scheduled to arrive at uoon, but during the accident it was three hours late and O Leary was delayed so that he could not return to the city before Monday. Had it not been for this delay O'Leary would probably now be among the living. Monday was his regular day in town. Upon this trip he was accompanied by Boute Agent Schroyer, his superior officer, and to him he expressed himself as bein pleased at missing the train, as it gave him an opportunity of seeing hii dear old mother, adding with a sympathetic sigh at the untimely death of Metz, that it was an ill wind that blew no one good. Then the young messenger opened his mouth to speak, but hesitated. "What is it my boy?" asked Mr. Schroyer. "Well, sir, you see, I want to ask a fa vor. I want to get off" lor about ten days about the 27th of this month, and also would like to get transportation for myself and one to Philadelphia and Washington. Ho V. :t Going to Bo Married. "Going to take your mother on a trip?" "No, sir. The "truth," he hesitated,then continued rapidly, "the truth is I am going to be married upon the 28th and we want to take a little trip. I have been trying to get married for the last five years.but some how or other I never before could get the money ready, but now I am all right." That was Friday evening. Last night a weeping girl, Miss Annie Sullivan, a sweet faced school teacher of Parker, stood over the charred remains and grieved pathetic ally at the horrible and sudden taking off other lover. Boute Agent Schroyerrcceived a telegram from John A. Herring, General Manager of Philadelphia, to spare no ex pense in caring for the remains of the young man and his mother. There was a tremor in the tones of the route agent as he told me the dreadful story, how O'Leary heard the warning cry, out of his great love tor his mother endeav ored to assist her to a place of safety until the last moment had sped and the two doomed beings were carried off by the flood and then burnt to a cinder by the seething, writhing flames which greedily ate every thing in their way. His name is known to all here and all are inexpressibly sail. "West. THE HALF WAS HOT TOLD. A Dispatch That TVns Kecaived at the State Capital Yesterday. Habrisburq, Pa., June 6. The follow ing message was received at the Executive Department this evening from "William Mc INaughton, President ot Select Council, and AVilli3 P. Benedict, President of Common Council of Titusville: Our misery is greater than wa can And words fo express. Tiio press dispatches or last night are not exaggerated in the least. Indeed, not half the misery and distress has been told. SUMMER RESORTS Advertisements page 10 to-day. Best list of hotels at leading re- s sorts will be found there. THREE CENTS j KllciP AT MINNEAPOLIS. Tlie rresiflcntal Nomination. Hanging on' 100 or So Donbtfnl Yotes, ALL ER03I THE SOUTH.. Some Fine Work Being Done by His-, sionaries on Eoih Sides. THE PATE0XAGE AND PROMISES Thicker Than the Far-Famed Leaves in Yallamhrosa. A Conservative Poll of All the Delega tions Gives Blaine and Harrison About 400 Each A Desperate Strug gle for the Necessary Votes That Are Lacking Tho Contests to Be Carried Up From Committee to Convention C. L. llagee There to Bo the Presi dent's Champion Some Little Talk: Yet for a Third Man The Blaine Men Anxiou3 Only to Beat Harrison "With Anybody. FEOII A STAFF COBKESPO'TOENT. Minneapolis, June C. One hundred uncontested, hesitating and scattering dele gates, including those who have declared for Alger, hold the balance of power be tween James G. Blaine and Benjamin Har rison. Of the absolutely certain votes the two leading candidates make almost aneqnal division, and the Bepublican renomination for the Presidency now depends largely npon the decision of the convention a3 to who are the delegates from Alabama and Louisiana. A comparative handful of colored men, some of whom have offices and some of whom want them, are apparently in a posi tion to name the man whom one-half or more of the voters of the United States will support for the highest honor in the land. Upon this group of uncertain quantities is now being bestowed the attention of a horde of enthusiastic workers and some of the shrewdest politicians of the party. A Table 37.ul p Tp to B-.tte. The Dispatch correspondent has de voted the day to a careful canvar r tho various State delegations, and so far as pos sible of their individual members; the result shows that the Maine man has. 400 friends who caii surely be counted on, ancfitaftEafc present occupant ot tne v nite nouse 13 only a short neck behind in the race as it now stands. Here are the figures tor it: State. Blaine Ilarri- Unoer- son tain Alabama 0 0 23 Arkansas.. 0 1G 0 California 11 7 0 Colorado 8 0 0 Deleware.... i 3 0 Connecticut... 9 3 0 Florida 6 2 0 Georgia 4 13 Idaho GOO Illinois U CO I Indiana 0 SO 0 Iowa 8 18 0 Kansas II 6 0 Kentucky C 20 0 Louisiana........... 0 0 IB JUaine . 12 0 0 Maryland ... 4 12 0 Massachusetts 20 10 0 Minnesota Jo 8 0 Michigan 0 0 23 Misisainpi 0 0 IS .Missouri XJ 20 2 Montana 6 0 0 Nebraska 0 13 4 Nevada GOO New Hampshire 7 10 Now Jersey 6 14 0 NewYorfc 60 17 0 North Carolina 0 13 4 North Dakota 5 10 Ohio 22 22 2 Oregon ... 3 0 0 Pennsylvania 52 10 2 Rlude Island 8 0 0 South Caiolma 8 10 0 Tennessee 4 16 4 Texab 8 22 0 Vermont 6 2 0 Virginia 10 6 2 "Washington 8 0 0 Wot Virginia 2 10 O Wisconsin 9 15 0 "Wyoming .. 3 3 0 Arizona 2 0 0 New Mexico 2 0 0 Oklahoma 0 2 0 District of Columbia. 2 0 0 Utah 2 0 0 Totals 401 337 110 Contests That Are of Importance. In the above Michigan's 28 vote3 ara placed in the scattering list, because it has been positively announced that the name of General Alger will be presented to the con vention, backed by the solid vote of his own State, npon the first call of the roll at least. The seats frcm Alabama and Louisiana ara contested, and for that rea-on are placed in the uncertain column in forming a con servative estimate. The National Com mittee, though, will place the names of tho anti-administration contestants upon the Toll, and the matter will be carried into tha convention. Here, it is expected, will come the test of strength which will definitely indicate tha final outcome of the struggle. If the Blaina delegates retain their seats they will bring the vote of the Plumed Knight to tha yery verge of the nominating line, and accessions, from the Alger forces and those wavering ones who want to be on the winning sida are depended upon to do the rest. Tho South to Decide the Strusrcle. The strngglo will be lought and won or lost in the South, and the Harrison mana gers are as fully aware of this as the oppo sition. They will carry the Alabama and Louisiana contests to the highest possible tribunal, and a battle royal is expected on , the floor. C. L. Mageo is relied upon to lead the administration forces at this crisis' of the proceedings, and there are many who predict riotous scenes before a decision U' recorded. Alabama and Louisiana are not tha only doubtful spots in the South. Scattered all) through that section are individual dele-' gates and groups of two or three whom both, the Blaine and Harrison leaders are afraid to trust out of their sight. It is upon this clas3 that the managers of the second term propaganda are now directing their most" energetic labor. An anti-administration Senator,, whose I -
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