Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-01
rom the Daily Globe, April "a. -.......
TERRIBLE DISASTER,

The Walls Of the GALAXY MiH FalL-One
Man Killed and Another Injured.
The most disastrous catastrophe occurred
yesterday afternoon, which has happened in
this city since the terrible mill disaster last
year, and in which it is thought several lives
are lost. After the great mill explosion at
tempts were made to throw down the stand
ing walls of the wrecked edifices and those
of the Galaxy mill were practiced on with
dynamite, and after blowing away
at them for O, time it was de-
termined to let them stand and
patch them up for q new mill. Messrs.
Cahill & Fletcher accordingly, three weeks
since, commenced operations, and from that
time some fifty men have been employed
upon the dangerous and threatening ruins
dangerous because the heavy walls towering
up seven stories in height had been shaken
by the explosion, and further weakened by
the attempts to cast them down, and threat
ening, as all could see, from one wall bullying
at least five feet from the perpendicular.
Yesterday afternoon there were fifty men
at work in the building, some in the base
ment, others laying joists in the second
story, and others putting up a wall to
strengthen the bulged side. All the men
were busy at their several occupations, and
little dreamed of danger. Mr.. Cahin had
just left the building when one of the hods-
men, Mike Walsh, noticed mortar dropping
from the new wall, and as he watched
small stone rolled from it's place. he shout
ed an alarm. The men for a mo-
me4t looked around them, and they
saw the towering mass Of stone
rocking and swaying to and fro above them
Not moment was to be lost, and the men
rushed frantically from the impending dan
ger. Two men, Solson and Mckenzie,
sprang from their scaffold upon the wall
they were building Some rushed to the
front. Others succeeded in getting outside
before the laundering mass came crushing
down like an avalanch, carrying with it the
beams and joists of the floors; the scaffold-
ing, crushed to splinters, was buried beneath
the heaped up debris. Some Of the wall
Eastern railroad. The scare and fright sub
siding little, it was soon discovered that
| one poor fellow at least, was sacrificed to a
crushed and mangled and lifeless. One leg
was torn from his body. the top of the head
jambed off, and his side mangled in q
frightful manner. The CHASTITY remains
were removed to Wallis Office, where an in.
quest will be held over them this
morning. The unfortunate man
was from Jersey City, and
was boarding at the Avenue house. MIR.
Hurd, another employee, was lucky enough to
escape with q confused shoulder and some
bad bruises. Mike Conner was not so for
tunate, and it is thought his injuries may
prove fatal. He is under the treatment OF
DR.. Dunsmore, at the hospital. He is injur-
cd about the head, and greatly shaken
Several men were at work in the basement
and it is thought that some of them
are buried beneath the mass of stone and
mortar. Workmen viii clear away the de-
bris to-day, and 60 on with the building
Mr.. Fletcher estimates the loss TO the firm al
$4,000. The injured man, Common, is from
Hudson, Wisconsin, and yesterday was the
first time he was ct work on the mill.