Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-06-10
DEATHS GRASP
FOrdi's Theatre Sud-
denly COllapses
killing Twenty-t,rO
Persons.
And injuring Forty
five More.
Three Michigan Men
Are Slain.
Three hundred Persons In
the Building When the

WasHircTcs. June . Aaoihes rag
edy le.s nationsi ia character. but IA.
solsus fhe pse e Haas more lives and
n.lssb 'la.e hum4n suffering. tas stained
tae ea'.- q thc Qid Foyds the4ier.
W,sfiagteu where Abraham Lincoln
vaz .ss-a-s.astesi - John Whkes Booth
in 1Fff i-fo
the aause ia which Lineoia diesi. on
49, other s4le 20 ihr slfsst opposite the
faeafer where d. uas -i;ot. and which il
sHl s-ulimeuialy Kept Ia Tact a. il Mas
that faia. r.gnt .os@kei down to-lay upon
a ssene 4 AGONY. excitement and grief
Nhl-a rfi-n III arr..t crime a H. could
ret para .rl lnd the Lorrcrs "a the
scrne effr hy ~ Besus le~senesi hy the
know ieslge that q blnn,!er. surely la fhis
ease al1.t<t -sorr than a crime had
ran-eti fha death "a from txenty 20
talffy p-f-on-. "a ths' least. aud iniii ted
uiaininss anliuInricz upoa tlfts or sixty
nE,re
Che eshlrucf, = found IN Otiicial re
Ctfsls apTear conclusive. that a. hng
a-,o a. ,--5 this bailjin- which the
.osernmsnt purchased after the asssss
insftsi sni us-d ~ an army muscum.
VA osiicialiy proclaimed by congress an
unsafe depository ior even the inaEi-
rltie skeletons. aummie- aud books of
tbe army mcsieal museuul. for which a
safer place ~ storage was provided b.
srt Il conCreks. bat notwithstanding
the Tact fnst ia ~. public PRESS. ani in
rrngrrss ais,s. continued attention was
cniei {, the bpigirg walls of the build
iug and - darkness aud genera. insult
ability ADD unsafety. 4 continued to be
uset f,,r the dsiiy employment -
ueagly 90 government clerks % the
r.'nsion fecssri shy,srDn 81 the war ~
See.
Thirty Clerks hiiIci.
With refinement - Discrimination.
h1grFsr teteecu what could b. &C.
riscrd and What c0uil not be So easily
suuplied. while the clerks we're trusted
IN The unsafe baiiding. the original
frcossis wert retained ga tho substantial
ire praof var department building
proper S. the comforting Official
assurance is given that while thirty
clerks May have h..cn killed the pension
ftcsa.- are all -avrri and uninJnred
nuithue collapsed iu the midst a
aa i ri sf0rt g. remedy some q
~ 'tsrts The uor,J q IN. dusasier.
u f0fe ~ lnF. Is emphasi8ed ~ the
firt tn1f thefe are known o. - at least
fU. Eesf 1sfernnent buildings the
g. ntfg oI.cs and tire Hiu,s.- htnldinx
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tstHH hs hour uf The diS-sstcr w.,Ts
staFf.J Alter ;he departments had
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