The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-10
A TERRIFIC BLOW.
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William Robson, Rebecca Pouse,
Kate Reidenauer, Rose Clemmer,
These are ali the dead who have been
taken out. Clerk Autenback said &C
midnight he believed that fully forty
bodies were in the ruins under the
three floors. His list of employees was
lost and, owing to the confusion in TAX
ing out the injured, he was unable to
furnish q list of the killed, but eighty is
a conservative estimate of those who
lost their lives.
AMONG THE WOUNDED ARE
Geraldine Lazler, Annie Lead, Bertha
Kuser, Ella Lamm. Emma Rauensahn,
George Holman, Ella Kari, Minnie
Merkell, Sallie Hasson. Lizzie Owens,
Bertha Hermann, Marie Mellon, Ellie
Salmon, Lille Plyfum, Katie Hepler,
Mary Cunnius, Mary Evans, EHe
Bright, Howard and Addie Beycker,
Annie Fry and many others, whose
names cannot be ascertained in the
confusion of tonight. Augustus
Roschy was foreman OF the first and
second floors of the silk mill. The re-
porter interviewed him and his state
ment is a. follows: cit was about 5 20
O'Clock when went in the second story
to turn on the electric lights, after H.
had done that, l stood looking about
the room about ten minutes. Suddenly
l heard
ALOUD RUSHING NOISE,
which I thought was cyclone. The
building then shook. l was standing
in the southern end of the room, and
before 1 could back to the window l
felt the building sinking. Quick as
the PORTION of the room that
1 went in went down. The girls rushed
about me crying and screaming and
calling for help. They did not realize
what was taking Llace. 1t seemed to
me as if the centre of the building was
struck first. | cannot describe the
scene 1t was awful. l could not do
any thing and could not think of what
| should do. Our end of the building
vent down first, and while the floor
was sinking it seemed to me as if the
girls in the other part of the room
were on top Of hill; that was the way
it impressed ne. While
WE WE'RE GOING DOWN,
l saw other portions of the floor fall.
In minute all was over. The scream
ing of the girls was hesrtrendiDg. l
was knocked down under some heavy
imbers and held fast by my foot.
C ould move every other part of nay
b2dy txcepting my les. Ir;ached down
will my knife aud CUT the snoe off my
foot. In this way l became loosened |
and managed to rise amid the screams |
of the girls, the falling of beams and |
bricks, and succeeded in escaping. |
got out of the ruins on the eastern side |
Of the buildings, but how, do not |
know. I called to the girls as loudly as |
[ could. They were all terribly e1-
cited, and l never witnessed anything |
SO awful in my life. Many OF them |
heard me and worked themselves to- |
wards me. AT some places it seemed as
# the floor was closed
AS A SOLID MASS.
and the girls would creep and crawl
around the machines, and creep on
their hands and knees until they got to
the opening where l was. The ma
chimes saved many from being crushed
to death 1 believe that fully 100 per-
sons escaped with me. | remember
seeing them run across the commons
ia different directions to their homes
terrified, naturally. Some ran away
short distance and !hen returned to the
ruins. The entire buildings are down.
The girls came back to look
Tor their brothers and sisters
DR. friends. We could hear
the means and shrieks Of those impris-
Oued in the ruins. The rain was pour
ing down and all around was dark. 1
was ba1ly bruised and burt about my
body, head and limbs, and went home
after saw 1 could do nothing. Be
tween $50 and 800 operatives were in
The building. About4 O'Clock l allowed
sixteen girls to go home. All the floors
we're in operation. The report that 100
went home at O'Clock is not trae."
George Grimshaw, Jr., one of the pro-
orietors OF the mill, was upstairs writ
ng a letter. He went down with the
wreck and was badly hurt about the
pack and limbs, and sustained cash
a his hand. John Reber, the engineer
If the silk mill, is another one of the
killed; his head was cut clean open as
With sword.
AMONG THE KILLED
aiken out of the ruins late tonight,
ire: Charles Reitbuier, Harry Crothers,
Harry Jones, Fally Hackel, John Gore
nan and Jane Sutheiner, NJ. y.
Among the injured are Kate Keppler,
Mary Evans, Mary Hartman, Kate
Matilda Taylor. Sarah Shade,
Kate Sullivan, Annie Krlck, Frank
3haeffer. Lizzie Berren, N. Kepler, Miss
Lizzie Mavlor. Charles Ludwig. Cecil |
5leicher, William Snyder, Albert Burk-
hart, Jane Thompson, and Mary
Many of these are seriously |
1urt and have broken limbs and |
several internal injuries.