The morning call., 1891-12-05
EIGHT MEN KILLED,
Terrible Work Of a Blizzard at
st. Paul.
Caught Beneath the Falling Walls Of a
Burned Building.
The Walls TOppled Over Without Warning
and Buried Fifteen Men Under the
RuinS-SeVen Injured.
special TO THE MORNING CALL.

ST. PAUL, Dec. AT As o'clock this
afternoon force of men were engaged in
clearing away the debris from the ruins of
the burned building formerly occupied by
Farwell, Ozmun & Co. and Briggs, Cooper
d. Co.. when one of the walls fell with ter
rife crash, killing eight men instantly and
injuring seven others. some of them seri-
ously. Five bodies SO far have been taken
from the ruins. and it is thought two or
three more are still under the wall.
There is supposed to have been fifteen
men beneath the wall at the time it fell,
and the majority of them were killed or re-
ceived injuries which will likely prove
were at once summoned. and the police at
tempted to organize the laborers who were
not under the wall and get them to work
removing the dead and injured. The men
were wild with excitement, however, and it
was long time before more than half
dozen could be induced to go to work In
less than half an hour the men had taken
out ten companions, five of whom were
killed and five injured, one fatally. Con-
tractor Wilcox was taken out dead and
mangled beyond recognition.
FRANTIC WITH GRIEF.
The wounded were removed to the City
Hospital, and the dead, with the exception
Of one man, were laid out in the Great
Northern freight-house One man was
Identified as Chris Larson. Lauer, the fore
man of the gang about the building, was
frantic with grief and excitement and could
not give the names of any of the men,
though he knew them ALL Neither could he
tell the exact number of men under the
wall when it fell. The wall appeared firm
and gave no sign of weakening up to tho
time of the fail. The excavations about the
base had caused it to tumble Most of those
taken from the ruins were badly crushed
and bruised. Tie others were not so badly
mangled, but evidently had been killed by
bricks falling on their heads. Of those
wounded ana taken to the hospital only
two Will recover.
LATER ACCOUNT.
Eight instantly killed, three fatally in
1ured, and four severely cut and bruised, is
the record, which can, to large extent, be
credited TO the billiards. advent in this city
to-day. A wall, already weakened by hav-
ing the supports burned away. became top
heavy when the supporting debris was re-
moved from against it, and went over with
crush before the gale with the result
stated. Fifteen men were working close to
the center wall in the burned out Shepard
building, on East Third street, when the
wall, without warning, crashed down on
tae N, burylug them beneath the ruins and
killing or stunning all. Not one escaped
and all were so terribly mashed and mangled
1t was with much difficulty that they were
identified.
THE KILLED.
The list OF killed Is as follows:
EDWARD WILCOX, contractor.
JOHN ADAMSKI.
CHARLES KATRlTSKI.
JOHN KOLESKI.
FRANK SEWEL.
CHARLES KLIES.
FRANK MARKS.
PETER LARSON.
FATALLY INJURED.
The fatally injured are:
FRANK TEsHLER.
HENRY MURPHY.
JOHN MAURER.
The injured are:
FRANK ST. PETER
THOMAS MORTER
NIKE MCNAMARA.
STEPHEN RoHDE.
THE WORK OF RESCUE
There were no groans or cries from the
Injured as the poor fellows were extricated
from tue ruins by their fellow workmen,
Not one had retained consciousness, The
most careful handling possible seemed to be
torture most horrible, for the rescuers were
not wen drilled to the gruesOme task at the
outset and did not work together as thew
did later. In their disconnected efforts tbey
seemed at times 10 be pulling men almost to
pieces, and the faces of the workmen were
almost as CHASTITY as if they had been dead
themselves. The majority Of the men were
under the south side of thu wall. and here
the heaviest part of the wall fell. Two
were taken out from the north sida