Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-24

vibration OF the heavy presses" Many
OF the witnesses who saw the craah say
the building slowly bulged out In the
middle until II had formed n notice
able curve from the roof 10 the ground,
and then fell.
The building where the accident oc-
CURED was occupied by ten different
firms. IL was flve-story brick struc-
turc l35 feet on Park place, including
03, 20, 12, ~, 20 and IS. The fourth
and nth floors Of the place were. va.
cant. The basement aud ground floor
u No. 20 was occupied by Il. Bones
field & Co., manufacturers n bronze.
Next 10 Bonesfeld IN No. ~ Fred w.
rrippe had drug Atoro occupying the
basement. Andrew Peterson kept
restaurant on tho ground floor Of No.
~ and had his kitchen In the base.
mUnt. There was but one entrance ON
the Park place side, between Nos. "a
and 10. West Of the entrance ON the
ground floor was vacant store, half OF
No. 20. The other half Of No. "a was
occupied by j. Gilmour, umbrellas aud
parasola In the basement under Gil.
mour. Eugene II. iIagney had a
plumbing shop. On the ground floor
shop and under hun IL. MinconR had n
barber shop. The second floor OF Nos.
O., ~, - and7i was occupied by Ellis
a Mcdonald, blank book and pattern
makers. Tho South Publishing Com.
pany had the Same space on the third
floor. The second and third il0ors OF
Nos. 10 aud - and the fourth and
nth floors of Nos. 20, - aud ~ were
occupied by Liebler x Mas, lltho-
grapes. a. w. Lindsay occupied the
fourth aud fifth floors Of Nos. 20 and
Is with his type foundry. raylots
building was erected twenty-five years
ago. II was Ave stories high and butt
81 brick, with wooden supports.
There were no partition walls. Each
floor was supported by fourleen'inch
beams, running from tho wall facing
the street 10 tho fro wall, separating
the Taylor building from tho roar of
the building on Barclay street. strip
Ped Of the flooring the building wa. nn
immunsc shell, crlss-cros.ed with
wooden supports. The rear wall which
still stands uninjurcd. Is three bricks
thick. What remains Of the front
wall Is what u known az an eighteen
inch wall. The stairway was an open
one, and the elevator was closed with
hand.trap. II was lighted by gas
and kerosene. Altogether
tine PREMISES ARE usDEsmAnLr,
and In several Instances Insurance was
refused. II was considered by the in-
surancc firm, who furnished this de-
scfiption, as an omnibus risk, not 10 bu
touched Mt n less rate than 3 or per
cent. On first-olass buildings the rate
IN from onc.nfth 10 one.half per cent.
The iron fire escape stretches from
tho roof ON the Grcenwith street side
| down 10 within about twelve feet Of
the ground. IL crosses the windows Of
| a. W. Lindssy'a establishment on the
fourth aud filth floors, and tho win.
dows Of Lieblcr 4 Mas Office aud
stock rooms on the second aud third
fioors. Many escaped TINT way. When
the alarm came many make a rush foI
the windows, and II IL not thought
that any who were In that section Of
tho building have persisted.
MIKE CARROLL,
q subway pipeman Of $40 Tenth
avenue, emerged from the cloud OF
dust and smoke aud rushed up the
street. Carroll was considerably un.
ncrved. "rho watchman," he aid,
'askod mo 10 look out for him while
he went 10 dinner. sat ON an old
nail kcg, Just outside OF Potcrson's
restaurant, when felt tho explosion.
II lifted mo OF my seat mud tumblod
me over into the road. | got up and
ran, dropping my coat, and the wall
behind mt buried a man who was fol-
lowing me. There were about twenty
people IA the restaurant, and / know
there were elk or seven cooks
mud helpers In the kitchen IN
the basement. don't see how any
Of them got out. In Rosenfcld's base
ment there were Ave girls washing
themselves, ready 10 leave work. |
watched thom, aud they were In the
basement when ran past. They wer,
employed cutting gold lcafand putting
II Ia books. I don't know whore tho
explosion came from. II seemed 10
come from all around and then III,
| wall rounded out aud fell. Four chill
dren were playing Just In front OF the
building and woman was wheeling
| n carriage with baby in II. They
cannot have escaped. A man Jumped
| from wagon and got away. | hay,
| not seen the wagon since"
Carrol's coat was found near the body
OF tho man he had seen trying TO ~
cape.
A. W. LINDSAY,
who employs between forty aud any
hands, half Of them girls, was not IN
his Office when the accident happened
lie expressed himself as but little sur
prised, aud said that for long time h,
Ind considered the building unsafe
| He thought that the weight ON the up
pcr floors was more than n buildinl
without partition walls should be mad,
10 bear. His theory Of the collapse Il
that there was no explosion, but tina
the continual Jarrlng OF tho many
printing presses, all working the sam,
way, had shaken some Of the shorI
crossbeams from the main supports
and that the shock Of the floor which
had given way, jumping from tn,
LEAN along this front wall, Ind Jerket
tho wall from it, perpendlculsrity an,
that 1t had Immediately fallen 10 tn,
street, dragging tho interior OF IN,
building by the iloorings with II. Tn,
noise, described by those In the vicin
ily as that Of an explosion, Mr.. Lind
say believes TO have been caused by
tho cracking Of the great beams. Their
was no light In the rear Of the building
except what came from the front win
dows. Nearly all Of the pressmei
worked by gasllght. The gas pipes
broken by the fallen walls and machip
cry, were doubtless responsible for tn,
flames which arose with such awful
rapldity.