Pittsburgh, PA Tornado, Jan 1889 - Two More Bodies

The Dead at Pittsburg.

PITTSBURG, January 10—Up to one o’clock this afternoon, the list of deaths by yesterday’s accident reached 14. Two more bodies were found and four deaths occurred among the injured. Five persons are missing who are almost certainly in the ruins.

The body of Willie Goettman, aged sixteen years, was recovered at ten o’clock tonight. Young Goettman was alive several hours after the accident, and talked to his rescuers as late as 9 o’clock last night, but they were unable to locate him, and it is probable that he died from exhaustion. Four bodies were taken from the ruins today, making sixteen so far recovered. The rescuers are still at work and expect to reach Dr Road’s body before morning. Eight persons are still missing and believed to be in the wreck.

At midnight the seventeenth body, that of Charles McKeown, packer for Weldin & Co. was found in the rear of the store. His head was smashed to a jelly. The work of rescue is now so well systemized that the clearing away of the debris is being rapidly accomplished. It is thought that the remaining bodies will be secured before morning.

The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, GA 11 Jan 1889

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The body of Willie Goettman was unearthed at 9 o’clock.

Just at midnight the body of Charles McKeown was found under a mass of ruins in the rear of Weldin’s store. He had been employed as a packer in the establishment. He was 33 years of age and single.

One of the two terribly mutiliated bodies which were found early in the morning and taken to the morgue has been identified as that of George Biendinger, a bricklayer. The other is supposed to be that of J. S. Hiltabdle, of Allegheny.

The News, Frederick, MD 12 Jan 1889