The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-14
crowd, including many Of the visiting chief
engineers, watched them In Il heir work.
rwo BODIES FouNp

engineers, watched them In heir work.
TWO BODIES POUND.
About balf-past Z o'clock the flremen,
wofking by lamp.llght, were rewarded for
their faithful lsbors by dndng the bodies
Oh Mr.. Warren and bIs helper.
MI. Warren was quite dead. Indeed, II
Is almost certain that he died an instanta.
neous death, judging by the terrible wounds
on the bead. His helper, Marcelus Mosby
!eiloredl, was, remarkablelo say, taken out
breathing.
In the first place. great heaps OF stuff had
fallen into the alley, and TO get down the
threatening corner much more had been
pulled In there. In some places the doris
was four or five feet deep. But It seemed
that door or blind had fallen so as TO par
tally protect Mosby. He was found not
far from MIR. Warren.
He was insensible, but In the cursory ex.
examination OF bin on the sidewalk no
very serious wounds were found; but as
be had been two and a half hours nearly
smothered by mortar and weighted down
by building material, 1t is almost incon-
ceiyible how he can recover. He was re-
moved TO the almshouse for treatment.
WILLIAM WELLINGTON WARREN.
Mr.. Warren, who came TO so sudden and
untimely a death, was born in Hanover
county, near Galnes's Mill. He was i'm his
thirty third year. He lived with his sister
at 500 New street, Union Hill, and was
employed as plumber and gas-fuer by
James Z. Phillips, Esq. Mr.. Phillips speaks
OF the deceased as worthy young man
and splendid mechanic.
HE fnnaroI yrilI fota ,,looo of
this afternoon from 500 New street. He
will be buried at 0akwood with military
honors by the Richmond Grays, Of which
he was memSer.
HOW Mr.. LlGGLN ESCAPED.
1t seems that Mr.. LIegan and the colored
man with him escaped by running towards
a chimney, TO which they clung as soon as
they felt the roof sinking.
The slateIs were finishing up the north
side OF the roof; there had been no slate
put upon the south side. The roof was OF
the kind very commonly called "comb y
roof, but named more properly perhaps
"gable" roof.
THE CONTRACTORS.
Mr.. James L. Tyler, a well known build
er OF this city, was the architect and gene
raj contractor. General-Manager AXtell
gave him plan for the ground floor and
general directions as TO how the building
should be constructed. Mr.. AXtell desired
a comfortable and seryiceable building. free
from ornameutation. He left it TO Mr.. Ty-
Ter to say bow thick the walls should be.
On the east end OF the building a heavy
vault was built from the basement to the
top floor. A passage-way ran through the
building from end to end, and the division
walls to same were OF brick.
The other contractors were w. Ellis Red
ford, brick work; S. f. Liggan, slate work,
and James K. Phillips, plumbing. Mr.. T..
W. Kelley was sub-contractor for por-
tion Of the carpenters work.
1t is impossible just now TO place the
blame; whether It was in the planning or
in the workmanship, or in both, remains to
be asceriained.
The brick walls, be il understood, did not
give way at all except at the northwest cor
ner, where the weight OF the collapsed roof
spread them out both towards Cary street
and towards the allev. Otherwise the walls
were intact, except where some courses
were overthrown by the lateral weight OF
the fllttening roof.
Coroner Taylor will hold an inquest to-
udi anu WIN tuuCdNol W Etb hL tue ldCl-s
CONDITION OF MOsBY.
About 9 O'Clock last night Mosby, the col
ored man caught In the alley with lir. War
ren, was still alive, and his respiration was
reported better.
At IL O'Clock. in response TO a telephone
message from this Office to the almshouse as
TO how Mosby was getting on, came the fol.
lowing:
"By order Of the Superintendent, we
don't answer questions after 8 O'Clock"
The deceased Mr.. Warren was brother
Of Policeman Warren.
The young man Smith, who came very
near being caught under that portion OF the
roof which toppled over into Cary street.
had one Of his ankles sprained and was 80
bruised up that he had to take to his bed
yesterday evening. He is employed at
Adams bakery.
RECAPITULATI0N.