Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1897 — EURIED IN THE RUINS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EURIED IN THE RUINS.

One Man Killed and Many Injured in the Pittsburg Fire. One fireman ia dead and four others are hurt as a result of the Pittsburg fire, and the losses aggregate $2,700,000. Fifteen hundred persons are thrown out of employment. It is tie worst conflagration Pittsburg has bad since the memorable railroad riots of 1877. The dead fireman is George Acbeson. His body was found under the debris of the Citizens’ Traction Railway shed. The buildings destroyed were: Thomas C. Jenkins’ wholesale grocery, Liberty street; Joseph lxorne & Co.’s dry goods establishment, Penn avenue; Horne’s office building, Penn avenue, containing the

stores of W. P. Greer, china and glassware: E. E. Heck & Co., drugs; Boisel & Erwin, millinery; Dabbs, photographer; numerous doctors’ offices, etc.; John Hall, Jr., farm implements, Liberty street; 1, W. Scott & Co., farm implements. Liberty street; Scobie & Co., farm implements. Liberty street, building partially saved, but contents destroyed; Hauch, cigars and tobacco. Liberty street. The full insurance lists will not be compiled for several days. Joseph Horne & Co.’s loss on building and dry goods stock is $900,000. The insurance is $728,000. Of this amount $300,000 was on the building and $35,250 on the fixtures. The insurance on the Home office building was about $(54,000. Thomas C. Jenkins carried $552,500 worth of insurance.

MAP OP THE BURNED DISTRICT.