Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-06-24
COLLAPSED BUILDING.
A Soldier Hung-The After
math OF the Convention.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
A Lod ying House in Portland Col.
lapses.


lapses.
PORTLAND, June 24.-The tbre,
two-story frame buildings, Nos. s7l
SO, 81 and 90, North Front street, be
tween Everett and Flanders, fel
with crash at exactly O'Clock last
night, and Immediately took fir,
from the explosion of a number o.
kerosene lamps. No. s7l, which il
the second s.o.y $ ot the building, was
occupied by Mrs. A. Baker as lodg
ing house. No. SO was occupied at
a restaurant. No. 81 was vacant.
No, 90 was the Shamrock saloon
kept by Pat Mooney.
Altogether 40 person were in th'
building at the time, and, remark
able to say, % of them escaped viii;
out a scratch. Eleven were more ~
less injured, and at IL 80 p. IN. it WAS
believed that three were buried "
der the ruins, probably killed. Th'
ruins took fire, but 1t was soon eX
tinguished. 1t is believed that about
twenty people were in the house at
the time of the collapse, but 1t Is SUI :
posed most of them escaped. Up tc
II O'Clock three persons had been
taken out of the ruins. One man had
his collar bone broken, a woman had
q leg broken, and an italian woman
who kept fruit stand in the build
ing was chopped out of the debris,
apparently unipjured. Firemen are
still searching the ruins for bodies.
The building stood ON short piles,
and water is several feet deep under
the building.
All those who were in the build-
ing have been accounted for except
shoemaker named Lauhfield anG
one child who are supposed to be uu-
der the debris. The lodging house
was occupied principally by Japan
ese and dagoes. The building was al
old one, and the foundation is
known have been rotten for long
tim.
The body Of Laughfieid was re-
covered. In all about dozen per-
sons were injsred, among them Mrs.
Rivers, of Spokane.
They cost $4,000 when new. Mrs. Bn-
ker's loss Is $500, and she has $500
insurance. The damage to the stock
in the japanese store is estim lted at
$500. Hollem's saloon is gutted.
His loss is about $3.50.
A young woman was taken out of
the ruins about midnight and con-
veyed to st. Vincents hospital. Her
injuries are not serious. Her name
is not known. The firemen had not
found the body of Sallfeld or the ba-
by up to a. IN. They will probaols
lind the bodies this morning.
1t was impossible to tell how
many had been killed in the disas-
ter. The proprietor of the house be-
lieves that there are three or four
who still remain in the ruins. AT
about o'clock this morning fire
again broke out in the wreck and
two streams were turned on. The
smoke that was raised was so dense
that if there was any life left in the
victims, suffocatien would soon have
extinguished it. The firemen are
still at work. They propose to con-
tinue until every unfortunate one
had been taken out.
PORTLAND. June24. The search in
the ruins of the collapsed building
for the bodies of the shoemaker
Sallfield and the baby Of the variety
actress was discontinued at $3.50 thit
morning till $3.50 when it was again
resumed. Injured are doing wei
at the different hospitals.
PORTLAND. Or. June 24.-Ihi'
afternoon the bodies were recovered