Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12

Dennis was taken care of at his home, because
his injuries were not considered SO serious.
Yesterday, however. the boy took such bad
turn that it was thought advisable to take him
to the hospital also.
THE LATEST RECOVERY.
On the cyclones worst scene of action nothing
further of Importance happened until after
noon. The removal of the stock from the book
store continued; one of the derricks in the Will
ley building was taken away; and, in the mean
time, gang of men was kept employed in the
rear of the western part of Weldin's establish
ment. Here large portion of the Wiley
building had fallen down. One of the
derricks had tumbled in there, carrying with it
death and destruction. Several of the men
who had been working in the building at the
time of the disaster stated that Richard Car
roll, a cousin of Roger O'Mara. Assistant Su-
the derrick when the crash came. II was
thought, therefore, that he would surely be
found there. The sisters of the young man,
who, by the way, was but q years Of age, were
at the ruins during the forenoon. anxious to
hear whether their brother had been found.
They had been at the morgue and at all the
hospitals innumerable times, but always they
had to be turned away because the man could
1t was 2:45 o'clock when Martin Frank. the
Building Inspector, who was standing at the
opening which the men had dug in the cellar at
Weldin's called one of the workmen's attention
to rag protruding from the debris. The
workman, Daniel Mckinley, stopped to pick up
the supposed rag; but it wouldn't come. He
pulled again. harder and harder, until at last
he uncovered human leg.
There is another body!" the bystanders ex-
claimed, and at least 20 men jumped forward,
offering their assistance.
keep back those men I" Captain Dan Sylvus
ordered The Building Inspector now took
directed charge of the men and the way to get
at the body. Its position was indeed very
DIFFICULT TO GET AT.
The main pole of the derrick. which had
fallen down here with its appending spars and
beams, must have descended with a terrific
force, for it stuck at least three feet in the
ground. Just near the base of the derrick and
the beams the body was discovered. The pro-
cess of extrication was very toilsome. Beam
after beam, spar upon spar were pulled out;
but still the derrick defied all the efforts of the
rescuing party. Frank at last had a strong
rope tied around the beam, ten men were told
to pull at ii, and there was tug of war against
the cohesive quality of three feet of ground
and large union of human strength: but the
latter gained the victory. The derrick being
pulled out, and the body being bare, it was
found that the victim had fallen with the
derrick, head foremost and with such force
that the man stood literally on his head. Sew
eral of the bigger spars had penetrated his
body, and death, o. course, must have been
He was taken to the morgue
in the patrol wagon and afterward removed to
his home. A peculiar coincidence in the case
of this man. who was later identified as Richard
Carroll is the fact that his father, John Carroll,
met his death about ten years ago by falling
from building where he was occupied as a
Dricklayer.
THE DEATH LIST
now numbers l6. Some were killed outright,
while others have since died at the hospitals.
The list is as follows:
JONES. GEORGE MASON.
CHARLES FRITCH. JOHN HILL.
WM. GOETTMAN. JOSEPH Earring.
JOHN ROBERTSON. GEORGE MCGOUGH.
SAMU Ell BROWN, JR. CHARLES MCkEOWN.
DIR. JAMES l. READ. L. SHIFFHAUER.
GEO. BLENDINGER. RICHARD CARROLL.
JOHN BARBER. SAMUEL STRINGER.
The injured persons are: all doing very well, |
with but one exception. Quintius Barber, col |
ored, one of the men at the Homeopathic Hos.
pital, was very low last night, and the chances |
were thought to be against him.
George W. Rodgerson, of Beaver, brother of
Contractor John T. Rodgerson, who was killed |
in the horror of Wednesday. said last night |
that his brother is the eighth member of a fam |
lily who was killed by accident The father was |
killed by falling from derrick; the mother by !
being struck by the fall of chimney; one |
brother was killed in foundry, another in a |
quarry; another fell into we'll; another was |
whirled to death around shafting. and an |
other was killed on a railroad. G. W. is the |
only surviving member of the family, and says |
be desires to die in a similar manner.