The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-13
CALAMITY AT OGDEN.
Total Collapse of Building
That Was Being Erected
For Edison.
TWENTY MEN CRUSHED.
Several Killed and All the Rest
Badly Hurt-Caused by
Falling Derrick.
Special to the Jersey city Netcs.

OGDENsBURG. N. j.. Aug. 13. 1S92.-A
building which was being erected here
fell yesterday afternoon, burying twenty
men beneath the ruins. One dead man
and four fatally injured have already
been taken from the ruins, and the work
Of digging out the remainder is still GO
ing on.
The accident ACQUIRED by the sudden
giving way of derrick, causing the en-
tire structure of massive wooded beams
and timbers to- o-collapse. But few of the
workmen employed on the building es-
capped.
There was great excitement, and big
crowd of men employed in other factories
stopped work and the search for the
bodies under the wreck of the collapsed
building was Immediately begun.
The first victim taken out was an
italian workman. The man was dead,
his body being terribly mangled. Soon
after three others were discovered and
were removed in q dying condition.
UD to late hour last night twelve men
had been taken ont from the ruins of the
Elapsed factory, all seriously and four
fatally wounded. Several of the others,
1t is also feared, will die.
THE RESCUERS AT WORK.
The work of rescuing the victims from
che ruins was Kept up all night Many
of the men who were at work in the ere c.
tion OF the factory lived in the neighbor-
ing villages and when they did not return
home from their work at the usual time
their friends and other Workmen came o
seek them.
and the work OF rescue is being pushed
forward very fast.
1he Injuries of those taken from the
ruins are of the most terrible nature, the
limbs of some being torn off, while the
faces and bodies of others were crushed
almost beyond recognition.
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The known dead are Charles McCon-
nell, of Hopatcong. N. j., and the Italian
laborer, whose name aud residence are
unknown. Among the injured are man
named Pierce. of Dover; William kock
and Ezra Larch. The other Injured per-
sons are Italians, known only by num-
bers.
a special train early this morning car.
ried the injured to St Joseph's Hospital,
in Paterson.
A PET SCHEME OF THE WIZARDS.
Mr.. Thomas A Edison is very much de-
pressed at the fatal accident yesterday.
The building was for the New Jersey and
Pennsylvania Concen trating WORKS,
whose Office IS in NeW York, a pet enter
prise of the Wizard. That the building
collapsed was no fault of Mr.. Edison's
Company. however. The building was
being put by contract. aud the collapse
was probably due to the haste of the men
erecting it,
Ex-senator. Ward. of Sussex, has been
constructing the building. 1t was about
so by 200 feet. About seventeen bends
had been raised when one went over, car
rying all the Others and making a COM
plete wreck of the structure. Mr.. Edi-
son himself directed the work of rescue
Immediately after the accident the
company sent messengers for physicians.
Within an hour Drs. Address, Cursan,
Pellett. Bird and F. J. Connolly, of New
ark. were at the place. All the Injured
who were in condition to be removed
were sent TO the hospital.
INVESTIGATING INTO THE CAUSE,
Mr.. Edison has ordered rigid lnvesti-
CATION into the cause of the fatal accl-
dent, and the responsibility will be
placed where it belongs.
Since Mr.. Edison became interested in
the abandoned iron ore mines in the
mountains OF Sussex county he has spent
much of his time there, ald he was on
the grouBds yesterday when the acci-
dent occurred looking after the details of
The work.
The company was adding an immense
sterehouSe to the plant for the bricks
compressed from the iron concentrates,
In raising one Of the sections Or bents.
one OF the guy ropes broke, letting the
heavy section fall against those already
in position, and the whole strucE Eure fell
to The 0r0un0