Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-22
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| A Portion OF the New Capitol Nuiiaing ~
Madison, Wisconsin,, Coilspses, Buying
/ Forty Workmen IL. the Ruins-Five Al.
ready Dead Many More Fatally and Sc
| ssously Injured, and Others Still Missing
"A Heay Accountability Resting some-
where. ~
| MADISON. WIS, Nov. s.
This afternoon was witnessed the most
! terrible accident that has ever befallen the
city. Ten minutes before two o'clock the
great iron pillars supporting the roof Of the
| second story Of the balcony of the south
| wing Of the Capitol building swung out Of
place, owing to detective masonry, aliow.
| ing the entire south wall to fall with . ter
rible crash. Immediately the roof OF the
| entire wing dropped in with deafening
roar, sending up cloud of dust and broken
timbers. The wild cries of The imprisoned
and crushed workTnen sent q thrill of hor.
'ror throughout the capital About forty
rhasons, plasterers, laborers and carpen.
tiers were at work upon the wing, and they
| went down in the ruins. As soon as the
dust settled willing hands were at work
taking out the dead and injured. The fol-
lowing are all the names obtainable to-
night: 't
J. Bernard Higgins, laborer, fifty years old.
Madison.
William Edgar, mason, Madison, buried
under debris; horribly crushed. 1 Psi
z Michael Zewank, mason,, Madison, died
/ after being taken out. ,,55-es,4 s.sif 1fY
William G. Jones, mason, Milwaukee,
skull fractured; died since taken out.
James Kelly. died after being taken but.
INJURED.
Miles Maxwell, plasterer, Of GAINESVILLE;
badly cut on head. ifiif.f Fl 1850 ~
william Ross, plasterer, of :Sheboygan;
probably fatal. s3tis.g ,4AEs
William Junge, carpenter, Of Madison;
badly scratched.
Arthur Lynch, Of Madison; head badly
hurt; delirious. -
.IlEd. Balm, mason, of Sank City, single,
aged %; seriously cut.
ED Page and j. o. Page, masons, OF
Middleton, young men, brothers; badly
I'd, Ed: Kingsley Kin mason, Milwaukee; hurt
James Dowell, mason, Madison, an old
settler, aged sixty, both legs broken; will
Patrick o ~, Ia. lshorsE, 1T LET arm
William Burke, ST., laborer married,
with four children, badly, cut about the face
and chest injured. 's%hf
Ed! Kinseila, bricklayer, of Milwaukee,
cut about the head and back. ...g.t,s
Cyrus schenck, of shopiere. Rock Coun-
ty, cut on the back of head and in the right
Henry Diedereck, mason, OF Milwaukee,
left leg broken. flia ne
Mike Zewauk. ST., mason, of Madison. ~
j. Bamen, plasterer, of Madison, face and
back injured. saaIt2
John CLARK, plasterer, of Milwaukee..lan
arm broken. Coy >,
Pat Gary, Of Madison, badly crushed. 4.
Ed. Gleason, laborer, of Madison, fore
man of Turner's, hurt by box of glass
falling on him. ga
{ A calling of the roll showed twelve men
upaccounted for. The list of the dead will
not, it IS believed, fall below fifteen.
although it will take until tomorrow to find
out the condition of all those yet in the
ruins. i4sst f,8
for the, extension Of the north and south
wings OF the capitol building. Since that
time work has been carried on, and up to to-
day the outside mason work of the south wing
roof had been placed. The roof was sup
ported by massive iron pillars and it was
some defect in the mason work upon which
these pillars rested that caused the terrible
catastrophe. Itrequired but slight move,
the side walls, which had only just been
completed, and the giving of but few
inches in the substructure effected the dam
age.
The two large upper stories were the
ones that fell-the third and fourth. They
were divided into large rooms for the His
torical Society. Iron columns and girders
were used. No timber whatever was used.
Most of the wings are four stories high.
The men were engaged to-day in building
chimneys and arches on the upper floors.
The contract for the extension was taken
by Bently & Son of Milwaukee and o. +.
Nolan. of GAINESVILLE, the latter superin-
tending the work.
y "A dispatch was received from Governor
Rush. at ayfields instructing all care to be
taken of the dead and injured. He will re-
turn in the morning. ~ "1i''t
The. Mayor of the city has ordered an in-
quest held In the morning. A full and rigid
Investigation will be had and the blame
Mr.. Jones, Of Madison, is the architect
who drew uplthe1 plans, and H. g. Koch &
Co., of this city, are the consulting archi-
tects. The firm had the contract to erect
the north and south wings. The north
wing is about completed and the south, is
the wing that fell. The work was cofn-
menced year ago last Juiie and the con-
tract price was SIS, 900. Both wings were
to have been completed March l. The con-
tractors were trying to hurry the work 80
as to close the building in before tho No
vember storms set in. = $50
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