Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-01
Summary Of News.
WerNEspAY. JUNE q.

The Sangerfest at Cleveland, Ohio,
is largely attended.
Brazil ard Portugal are rejoicing over
telegrsphic communication by bottom
of the Atlantic.
The party for the prohibition Of the
manufacture and sa.o of liquor for bev-
ersge purposes is in convention at Au-
burn, n. Y. Twenty-Five counties are
represented. A state ticket has been
nominated.
The Democratic party of Maine are
holding their State convention. Four
hundred and twenty-five delegates are
present. Hon. Jas. A TItcomb has
been nominated BY acclsmation for Gov
ernor. The resolutions declare in favor
Of speedy resumption of specie pay
ment, free e-trade, and a sweeping de-
nunciation Of every body but the Dem-
Ocratic party. 1t is
Ne and nv wife,
Ny son. Joe, and his wife,
We four, and no more, for G cd 3 sake"
The Congressional joint committee
reported just previous to adjournment
that two Washington detectives were
implicated in setting up the blowing up
of the safe IN the office of the District
of Columbia, for self-aggrandizemeut,
and the disgrace of prominent citi-
zen whom they did not Ike.
A great catastrophe has overtaken
the people of Syracuse, N. Y. The
floor in the Baptist church gave way,
killing twenty persons, and iDjurIng
about two hundred others. A straw
berry festival was being held in the
parlor Of the Central Baptist Church,
when without any warning the floor
gave way. precipitating roomful into
the story below. The parlor was on
the second floor and the room under
meath was also full of people. Soon
ten thousand people were there and tre-
mendous excitement prevailed. Thou
sands are gathered here asking after
friends, waiting for the dead, OF attend
ing to the injured. The entire police
force and fire department of the city
was called out and took charge of the
work of recovering the dead and
wounded. The walls of tie bridge did
not fall in. but are seriously damaged.
The church is comparatively new one.
A Few minutes before the floor gave
way it trembled SO that many persons
left the room, fearing an accident which
bad been predicted by many. The ac-
cident was caused by the giving way of
joist which supported the floor. The
ioist ran from both sides of the room
across a stringer, the middle OF which
was supported BY iron rods from the
roof. The stringer gave way pulling
tie ceiling and roof over upon the peo
pie and precipitatiug them into the
room below. The scene within the
building was terrible in its details ard
that without the edifce heartrending
fathers and mothers searching for their
children. husbands looking for their
wives, wives mquiring for their hus-
bands, brothers for sisters and children
for their parents, of whose fate all were
uncertain and in dread. Quietly but
rapidly the work of extricating the
people was carried on by the aid of
lanterns, while some busted themselves
BY showing up the slanting sections of
the foor. Many others were aiding
men, women aud children to free them
selves, aud as fast as the living and
dead were rescued they were passed out
/ through windows aud doors, where
ready hands assisted to convey the dan
gerously injured and dead TO physicians
Offices and neighboring houses. The
work was vigorously but slowly prose-
cuted, and before midnight the last %
the living and the dead had been taken
out. The floor which fell was support
ed by iron rods from wooden buitress
under the roof; these rods went through
the lower bat not through the upper
chord of the truss. The lower chord
had been splieed wrong side up, and at
that point was first 10 give way. The
floor, having no props beneath it, sank
in the form IF letter V. Most of the
deaths were caused by the falling tim
bers oil the truss. Some victims, how
ever, were smothered By the Plastering.
The foors OF the church were support
ed originally by iron pillars. A shoi t
time agp the church building commit
tee, with the consent, they say, of the
architect, removed the iron Pillars.
The result was this terrible calamity.
The truss was not only imperfectly con-
structed, but the most prominent build
ers in the city declare it was rotten.
1t IVES put in green and has the dry
rot.
Bridge No. 60, on the Erie railroad,
eleven miles east of ElmiIa, was burn
ed. A spark from locomotive fired it.
1 The Women's State Temperance { on
vention met at Pittsburg, with large
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