Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-04-08
TORNADO'S WORK IN CHICAGO.

by Collapse of n Mammoth Building.
EHCIucAGo, April A terrific wind
and thunder storm passed over the city
at 6 p. M, wreckiny buildings and de-
molishing outhouses and prostrating
telegraph wires. The seven-story brick
building at IA and 16 Pierce street, on
the West Side, was struck by the wind
and crushed like IN eggshell. The
building was surrounded by one and
two-story buildings, the homes of labor
ing men, which were also wrecked,
killing and injuring the occupants. The
killed are as follows:
DAVID HULET, 6 months old.
HORACE MOTT, 5 years old.
EDDIE MOTT, years old.
Mrs. ELIZA ALLEN.
MRs. j. l.. GOWAN.
WILLIAM GOWAN, 3 years old.
MARY GOwAN, i years old.
MARY WALSH, 20 years Old.
a niece Of Mrs. Gowan is missing.
The ~Zniurch are:
James Gowan, so years Cd may live.
Alice Hewlett, cannot live.
Mrs. Ada Eeowen, will die.
James Mult, will die.
Mrs. James Mott, VII die.
Jane Mott, II years old; may die.
Mamie Mott, 10 years old, will probably
Gle.
Horace Wygant, will die.
Horace Wygant, infant; will die.
Mr.. Ella Gleason, slightly injured.
Mrs. Kate O'Shaunessy, slightly cut.
Mark Seavey, cut about the head by
falling debris.
There were several others who were
slightly injured.
The builIing, d seven-story brick,
fronted on Ia and IL Pierce street
and was 116 feet long by 80 feet wide.
It had just been erected by Young &
Kent, manufacturers of brass work, and
was p1ac ically completed, the, roof
having just been finished. Immedi-
ately in the real Of the building was a
two-story brick house, the homo of
Thomas Hulett, who lived there with
his wife and children. They were at
supper and We're entertaining as guests
Miss Emma Hope, e. relative, and her
friend Mrs. Keown. When the build
ing fell the force Of the terrible mass of
brick and iron, wood and plaster seemed
to be directed rearward, completely
burying the structure.
All the Inmates Were Killed or Injured.
When the building fell there was a
loud crash and a deafening noise which
continued for some time as the masses
OF debris piled on the smaller structures.
There arose cries and screams Of those
of the buried unfortunates who were
not dead OR unconscious beneath the
tons Of fallen walls. An alarm of fire
was turned in, and as soon as the ma
ture of the calamity was seen assistance
began to arrive from all directions and
the work of tearing away the wreckage
was promptly, begun. Guided by the
cries Of distress the fremen, aided by
citizens, soon began rescuing the in
jured and in less than two hours all
those in whom life was not extinct had
been removed from the ruins. The first
of the dead to be taken out were the
Gowan children, who Were found half
an hour after the disaster, and by II
o'clock all the dead bodies had been
taken out except that of Mrs. Mary
Walsh. The work of removing the
debris will continue all night, but it is
not believed that any bodies save that
of Mrs. Walsh are in the ruins now.
Eight other buildings were blown
down during the storm. A fat build
ing in process Of erection on Adams
avenue collapsed, seriously injuring
four workmen.
At the corner of Sixty-fourth street
and Chaplain avenue an unfinished
frame building went down before the
storm. Peter Blum had his back
broken and will die Frank Cobb and
P. T. Durkin, carpenters, received seri-
Gus and possibly fatal wounds. Charles
a. Heisler was blown from a scaffold
and received internal injuries that will
probably prove fatal.