Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-30

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lust tn Time 90 Escape.

lust On Thine 90 Escape.
CHICAGO Sept So.-At O'Clock this morn
ing q large four-story building I'm the rear OF the
Dake bakery. at Iss Ciake street. suddenly be
gan creaking like q ship I'm . heavy sea. half
an hour amer the posts began sinking through
The floors. The men working In kohisaAts
lives. a moment a 'n amer e sas icors srsasaiy
sank down until the basement was nlisd. An
alarm Alarm OF fire was turned In at ASS clock;
poneemen looking for the IRE, the walls sud
denly fell in with terrible crash. Policemen,
the street When a few bremen with lanterns
went back they found that the west and north
malls had fallen The bricks te I'M ana had
have occurred. The sides OF the building yet
stand propped up ty adjoining buildings. The
TO be above 100000. as the contents OF the
building were very valuable there being ol0,-
The second floor was stored with flour ON the
third there was q large machine shop with q
valuable plant. and the fourth floor was devoted
70 the manufacture OF printing rollers. 1t was
reported that several men were missing and
f1remen set to work clearing away the debris in
order TO ascertain whether any unfortuna,cs
Just before the walls fell I'm the gas In the
building was extinguished, and the men were
panic stricken. They took refuge under the
basement I'm front. The gradual caving In OF
engineers room. He called the attention Of
the engineer TO the fact, but the fireman told
him he was crazy, and advised him 10 see q
the alley heard a cracking sound before the
crash, but did not suspect that they were
standing near verliase hx
girders and ioists. and the collapse was caused
by the dry rotting OF the timoers where the
owners took the building alter IL had been pro-
nounced safe by architects. 1t win be torn
down. IL has been ascertaineo this morning
that no one was injured by the collapse.
Four Member. Dead I'm Three Days.
BALTIMORE. Sept. 30-To-day at the meet
ing OF the Corn and Flour exchange the deaths
of four OF the members were announced, Geo.
w. Mcclure, Usher Clabaugh, =. M. Lyle and
the oldest members of the body. Mr.. Clabaugh
succeeded his father, the late E A. Cabeugh, At
the Cloverbrook Stud farm. and Dr. zollikofer
WAS head of the house OF Stonebraker 4 Co,
-four and grain merchants Thirteen OF the
members of the exchange have died since The
When fouf deaths e occurred p within anrss 1ays
Three Lunasics Burned % Dessh.
HELENA, MONTANA, Sept 80-A special
from Warm Springs says one OF the buildings
of the insane asylum was burned yesterday,
and three inmates, A. B; Magee, Hanna Belcher
and Hector Milan persisted In the flames. lt 10
not known how the fire originated
Desperate Fight Between Boys.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 30.-A desperate light oc-
CURED yesterday between two ffteen year-old
boys, named VIM. PEBBLES and Tom Ahart The
an accidental meeting yesterday, when, sfter
few words, Ahart plunged q large knife into
PEBBLES bach, cutting cash six inches long and
an inch and a half deep. The assailant fed, pur-
sued by the wounded boy, who overlook and
felled him with heavy rock, making q serious
scalp wound and cracking his skull
Fire I'm Cimct0mott.
CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 30.-The sixstory
building at Race and Commerce streets, used
as a trunk and box factory by Mendel q Rosen-
berger, was burned early this morning. The
loss is S45, 900; insurance $40,O00. The origin
OF the fire is unknown. One hundred and
twenty employees are thrown out Of work
New York CentrMl's Dfvtdemd.
NEW YORK, Sept 3O.-The New York Central
directors have just declared Q dividend OF one
half of per cent
Decreased Registration An Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, Sept 30-The registration in
Cincinnati foots up 60,O96, which n about
5000 less than Tie total vote at the presiden-
tial election last year.