Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-12
GOWN THE BLUFF.
ne Accident which Befel Mike Hoar.

The Accident Which Befel Mike Hoar.
The all-absorbing topic yesterday upon the
streets the topsy-turvy toss, on the night
previous, of the soldier down the bluff between
the Rogers block and the upper Third street
elevator. The spot has, of late, become UNI
pleasantly notorious, in consequence of two
previous fatal accidents having occurred there.
Every tongue seemed to wag in the middle
about the affair, and the death Of the soldier
was early reported, which increased public in
dignation to the highest pitch of excitement.
In the midst of all this hub-bub, GLOBE re-
porter visited the hospital in company with
DIR. Stein, the county coroner. Mike hoar
reported yesterday as "Horan,' in consequence
of the in ured mans difficulty of utterance-
was found lying comfortably, and as active a
corpse as the circumstances would permit. He
stated to the coroner, in the presence OF the
GLOBE reporter, that he felt sore IN the region
of the chest, and across the stomach, but did
not complain otherwise He had, said the nurse,
been bleeding at the right ear, but the traces of
blood had lust been wi ped away. His eyes
wore bright, CLASSY look. He confessed he
had been drinking literally for some days pre-
viously, had no money in his pockets exceeding
forty or fifty cents and had no quarrel with
any man.
As the man was evidently on the highroad to
recovery. and plainly had little recollection of
the previous nights proceedings, the reporter
and the coroner left. Just at this juncture,
DR.. Byrne, the post surgeon at Fort Smelling,
drove up, and the GLOBE reporter returned
with him to Hoar's bedside, and still nothing
new was developed as to the cause OF the in
Jury to the man in the hospital ward
The GLOBE reporter then held conversation
with DR.. Byrn in the corridor OF the hospital.
during which the medical officer stated that
Hoar had been assigned to the regiment in
consequence of his skill carpenter, one of
that class being always attached to each COM
pany, if possible. Hoar had always behaved in
most remarkably exemplary manner, until
paid off the other day, when he commenced to
drink, and drank to excess. He had so
near approached to the ',Jlm-]ams -sucn was
the doctors phrase-as to 60 to his company
officer and complain that his (Hoars) comrades
had design upon him. Hoar was ordered to
report to the surgeon, but he never did SO, but
came to st. Paul. In conclusion, Dr.. Byrne
impressed upon the reporter not to place any
credence in Hoar's statement that some one
had thrown him the bluff, as such was
most likely the result of his diseased magma
ton, which had previously betrayed itself at
Fort Smelling during the few days previous.
The next point the reporter visited was the
starways in and around the Alhambra and ele-
vator The downward stairway to the Alham-
bra is fenced in SO as to make it impossible for
a man to fall beyond the first flight of one
story and that was just where Hoar did not
fall. Descending the zig-zag stairway down by
the engine house, around the lower platform,
the reporter came to the door on the northeast
corner of the elevator. The door opens on a
platform leading to stairway at right angles
to the platform leading to it:
When open, the door admits of
The passage of man between it and the
railway Just under the door-platform the
mans hat was found, and on the opposite side
from the platform, on the edges OF the rocks,
some five feet below were marks, quite recent,
which might have been caued by the parties in
search on the night previous. The marks on the
rocks were on their upper edges Hoar, proba-
bly,, fell through the gap thus indicated.
The GLOBE reporter then interviewed per-
former of the Alhambra, 'the ODonaghue,
who stated that he was standing in the bar
room of the Alhambra, when he heard knock
at the door on the Landing
leading down stairs below the landing entrance
to the theatre. He went to the stair door. He
saw the man through the cracks of the door. He
told him he had not the key to let him through,
and told him to go round meaning down stairs,
and up by the elevator stairs. This was be-
tween eight and nine o clock in the evening.
Ned Campbell said he was sick in bed on the
night of the accident When he leased
the place, he had heard of
the accidents occurring on the stairs, and
had taken the precaution to build the fence
and door leading to the Alhambra. The key
to the door leading down stairs over the bluff,
he kept behind his bar, on the same ring the
key to his money drawer. and the door was
never opened after the saloon opened for the
night. He had the same precautions regarding
the doors leading to the porch in
rear of the saloon, and in proof of his assertion
produced the keys from behind the bar.
This was all the evidence the GLOBE reporter
could collect. Whether Hoar fell from the
angle platform Of the elevator, above described
and imagined he was struggling, in his semi
odelirious state, with one whether he
clambered up the Alhambra stairs, descended,
and then fell down the elevator stairs, will re-
main mystery, In any case it must be said
that the blades of grass and other fragile OBJ
;jects above the elevator door remain erect and
undisturbed, and, if Hoar had fallen from
above an these would have indicated his fall
from the higher elevation of the Alhambra
steps.