The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-24
ecoros Of People Covered in a
Collapsed Building.
DFgD AND WOUNDED TAKEN OUT.
cad Scenes About tho Ruins''-The
buildings Collapse and Take Fire
,,tth Dozens of Poor Beings Eli
tombcd In the Burning Mnss-'Brave
wor,, orthe Fire Department..

:Ean :i..i was heard sullen roar. The
1"ar ,,, was followed by an irruption and q
mass ,v OF brick, stone and timber was
hurled thirty feet heavenwNrd.
The cries OF terror Of men ana the
oImnst human screams OF the horses
was only small accompaniment OF the
,@rrible scene which instantly followed.
So, more than Il second could possibly
have elapsed before the front walls OF
Tas M GS, 70, y and "a fell crashing into
,bc % street. The great walls slowly
r,Ilcd and swclled out with IN undulat:
;nr motion until they gave away, and
in a momant there was not STICK or q
stone standing above the first floor
A number oi electric wires had been
,orn down. Fortunately, the current
lad been turned off from all but one,
Int that one lOy spitetully flashing out
IN deadly fluid.
II the fire department could have been
M the scene at the time OF tue explo..
sion, the terrible effect OF the fire would
have been prevented. As it was, the
iir.t contingent OF the department did
dot appear until five minutes after the
suddenly the fire burst out in darkly-
coLoycI aamcs from the third, fourth
and fifth stories OF that part OF the build
jpg on Park Place next to Greenwich
street. When iull force OF tiremen
aid at last get to work, the headway OF
the fire was soon checked by their skill
ed endcayors.
There was u cheap restaurant on the
ground floor in which it was thought
there we're about twenty-five persons
when the accident happened. In tho
upper portion OF the building there was
a large number OF working people. 1t
is not known how many people were
employed in the places. Assoon as the
flames were under control, the work Of
recovering the bodies was begun.
After twenty minutes work the men
gaw the dead body OF man down in the
heap OF brick.
Al 2:2j o'clock, the bodyof man was
found. 1t was burned and charred SO
that the features were unacceptable.
TAKEN OUT ALIVE.
After working heroically for nearly
twenty minutes, Edward S. Mulligan
raised little girl in his arms. She
was alive and conscious after having
been buried under the mass OF brick
seven feet deep. The girl, when found,
was clasping the hands OF her dead sis.
ter Jennie, and she begged the tiremen
to take her sister out OF the ruins also.
Another body, burned fcarfully, was
taken from tho ruins at 2:45 p. m. A
few minutes later the bodies OF a little
boy and girl we're found. Later In the
evening Captain 0'Connor, of tho Oak
street station, at his own risk, started
men out to employ 100 Irishmen to
assist in the work.
One Of the thrilling episodes was
when Chief eastman and his flremen
had nearly succeeded in getting one man
ont. Six or seven were in sight, and il
the bricks had remained us they origin.
ally fell, all might have been rescued.
AS 1t was, this one man, who had be-
fore him new chance for life, was
forced to be abandoned. The cries OF
the surrounding people alarmed Cash
man aud his men just in time. They
ran back out OF danger and the hanging
remnant OF the wall fell in tho place
where they were standing. Instead OF
crushing them, it dashed life and hope
ont OF the victims who were SO nearly
extricated from their dangerous posi-.
ton.
When 1t was 9 o'clock this morning
the newspapers went to press with the
details and the story OF the searching
for dead was cut of at that hour But
there came no abatement then in the
systematic and ceaseless work OF the
tremen. The tugging and delving and
holsting went forward tirclessly hour
after hour among the timbers.
AheIectric arc lamp had been tackled
10 post across the street from the
ruins, SevGnty.iive Italians had been
placed among the ruins to assist tho
ilremGn. All night the refuse was car
Tied along and added, until when dawn
high.
IN a doorway within the police lines
and close by the ruins sat 4 woman, a
Young woman who checks we're scSlded
and swollen with tears. With folded
arms, one hand tightly clutching a wet
handkerchief, she sat upon
chair, some one had pro.
Wded her head bent forward
ana her eyes constantly following tho
WORK going on, above the body OF n
man she had loved for she was tho
alllanced bride of the young man Peter.
son whose father owned the restaurant
MneFe ,,m many are believed to have been
Killed while nt lunch.
Al o'lO o'clock another body, that OF
man about 8 feet inches tall, was
taEen out. In the pockets OF his
trousers was found two cents, At 6:95
o'clock the body Of young man nppar-
tnuy about nineteen years old was
found 1t was clad in dark trousers
ana tennis shirt. At $3.50 o'clock n
naIt CAME in the work. Then other
nfe'nen gathered, each one who
watched chSsdknewanothercruShedo or burned
body had been found, ond the woman
s,ting there, where she had been ali
nish', started forward as though she
Mould run to satisfy herself. Her LOST
hau i Deen found, but he had no word for
Hr', ana she was not permitted then to
gee w Ihe dreadful work Of the wreckage
upon him. The man they were lifting
ou' @ from among the brick and timbers
wa was me a5 girls lover, Andrew B. Peter.
son, . years old.
me complete list OF the identified
ueaa up TO 10 p. m. is as follows:
len Leonard F. Cole, forty years, Brook.
,,;e5 JShn l,! Gibbs, four years, 9s7 Green.
e. SRrah Psat ann Ann lIeagney, Elk years, No.
A'Shaei s!attery, aity.ave years,