Show FIRST fIRS T EXPLOSION BR B ICI CRO 0 WD SECOND AND AID 11 KILLED A SCORE f in the they Railroad oad Yards at Pittsburg Pitts burg Caused Caf e the Loss of Twenty y Lives and the Injury of Hundreds Victims Covered Burning Oil Beg to Be Killed Scenes Were V f Appalling A palling Pa f MaS short Sheri P Y daB daa yard of the It Pan Handle rail ran read lG was waa the scene efte this evening Ing or of orthe the Ute most t disastrous and aDd fire known In to this section for many m years A wore of lives liftS were loot t a alii about a JIG persons were so to badly burned that ac according according cording to th tM the Judgment of t p in attendance 75 15 p per r cent of them than will die from the effects of their THe muse CUM et ei the fhe was wu the tM explosion of a a train of core cars which widell were being W d at pt the be n L LIa y std la In ta the t switching the rear rea oar ar r ra a car ear forward The TIM leaking naphtha ig lg ignited from a switch light causing an ex explosion explosion which wilch threw the u flames Hausa nut futy nf feet f high Much of the escaping e ph ran through Corks Cora run TUn to E Ea lain laina borouch boroo a distance of one and aad oe n k if rases aud d caused another r explosion ion blowing to items atoms th the Seymour hotel and the Ute Collins Collin house hOUM on River road and badly wreck wrack wrackIng wrecking Ing a frame building nearby In which h were congregated or more mere men raen from t Pittsburg and arid vicinity betting batting on the races raees and aDd ball same games Yew Few ew of the of 0 this tills g escaped p d injury many muY being badly hurt Mrs Seymour and aM her daughter r of the tile hotel botel were seriously and aad it is feared eared fatally Injured The TIle first fI car of exploded about t 4 40 A od and the Ute pie at st attracted atI a large crowd ea 0 can Stice seMe lining the hills on oa both sides of parallel to the lh I railroad The second ar r exploded about I but it was when three more mOle cars of th tie UW i iy stuff slut went up with a roar that lie be e beard heard for miles mike that the work o ot Uon tion really began besan A torrent of r n flama flu led ed forth rh on n each side of the trio tree ng g peck bArk the thet I terrified t spectators urge rge rge of arl arI arlof tillery Ullery tille and sending rot r Meat of flame name I Iones ones Oler their heads he J r ron Mont Pelee P lee on a small settle seals The at t followed fallowed IOD was wu beyond d d ec 1 The had Juul heated t I the thair air to such uch an before before the third explosion many m ed un unconscious t conscious by the ex Q a and the tb gaseous fumes fume and wag carried away awaS when the t tover SO Skins swept over oyer the e excited t C crowd j There Thue was an for tor or a ae pie ment Then followed e a of or frenzy Men fen and women WOlDen t th thing Ins Ing ablaze abla ablaI Mere s I their they faces laces scorched dl stored and ami their their hair burned off oer r I heads heads ran ra wildly shrieking hit bit thither only intent on oa escaping e fr awful f fu fur r nace nave of tin fin fI y J Some Sorge gave Jve vent to cd ed appeals te to kill kUl their thew end and a put tb t of their rate mill miller cry ery sued and ku c cis tb their h sir curb cud i looks J and light summer summer clothing pillars of fire cried orIed piteously ae an they were swept along by the a tide tWe ef of b g humanity The townspeople le did all in h their ei power for tO the b stricken victims r and all lr the Pittsburg ambulances ambulance were immediately Immediate dispatched to the scene with a corps of or physicians MaRY Many of those not seriously burned were removed to their homes ht mes in Sheridan Sharidan while others were sent to the various Pittsburg hospitals and aDel the dead deed removed to undertaking establishments e m hi Sheridan and vicinity and to the Pittsburg morgue m The names of the deed dead are Albert Mc McKean McKean McKean Kean brakeman Sheridan John olta Jol Swain S ln brakeman Sheridan unknown J n boy y died on way to Allegheny A general hospital ho H F 0 O died at Mercy hospital Finnerty aged 40 years Va Ya died diM at Mercy Mer y hospital Charles CharI Hertig Chestnut mines died at Mercy hospital W W Taylor 27 r years old of Rulers Millers station died at Mercy hospital G E 1 Hunter 16 29 years old leaves leaves widow and five children of Sheri Sheridan Sheridan Sherian dan an died tiled at Mercy Hospital JIo W EWright E IE I Wright right 36 26 years old Sheridan died di d at Mercy hospital bo Dallas Dallas Bert art 28 38 years ears old of or Sheridan died at Mercy Mere hospital un us unknown I known white man about bo 40 yea seers re old oW Douds died at Mercy boe l David DR Smith aged I years rs of Sheridan Sharidan Bled at a Alleghe y general hospital |