Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-06-17

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WASHINGTON, d. c., Junt 8. -Fords
old opera-house on Tenth street, IN
which ~ esIueut Lincoln was assassi-
mated, has just failen IN. There were
OWE four hundred clerks in the build
ing. Scarcely one has escaped with
out more or less injury. twenty eight
persons had been taken out OF the ruins
up to lU.l5. The Emergency hospital
is crowded with the dead and injured.
The injuries from the very nature of
the accident are of the severest charac-
ter, crushed and broken limbs and in
ternal injuries prevailing. The ex-
element of the relatives and friends is
naturally intense, thousands surround
ing the scene, and the excitement has
spread all over the city
The first floor collapsed FIRST through
weakness caused by a new excavation
in the basement
One OF the Norkmen, a colored man
who was employed in excavating the
cellar and who escaped with only
slight cuts, says
II told them yesterday that the
archway would fall, for every time
any one walked over the floor il would
bend.
II tell you ! was scared and got ont
I just as quick as | could. There were
/ twenty men at work with me. Deed,
/ ] don know what became of them"
Every hospital in the city was
/ quickly called into requisitlon to care
/ for the wounded. AS soon as possible
/ complete roster of clerks in the
I building will be sent with names of
4 dead and injured as far as ascertalned.
The fall of the first floor carried
/ down the other three floors and with
/ them hundreds of clerks. ! he dead
4 and wounded are being taken out
rapidly by the tiremen and police.
/ All the ambulauees in the city have
been summoned and the rescued are
being conveyed to the hospitals.
IL is feared that a hundred people
have been killed. The scenes are ter
rible. Some jump from the third
floor The walls are still standing,
but every floor is down and every win
dow blown out.
The building has been condemned
as unsafe and unsuitable for the pur-
pose for which it was occupied for somt
time, but sentiment has kept it un-
changed.
The floors were heavily loaded with
the records of the pension divisions of
the war department The clerks em-
ployed there were all men.
Gen. Schohed ordered out all the
naval and medical officers stationed
here and mas also opened the Naval
Hospital 10 receive the injured. The
commandant at the navy yards has
been ordered to render all the assist
ance in his power.
Howard s. Miller of Ohio, a clerk in
the bureau, and an unknown man,
horribly mangled, have just been
brought to the Emergency Hospital
A partial list of the killed aud injured
at the Emergency Hospital is as fol-
lows
JAMES FISHBACK
ANDREW kALSTROM.
JOHN X, NELLY.
Z OSBORN ASHLEY.
OLIVER NJ. ATWOOD.
JU>Ern =. pa GER.
CHARLES II BLISS,
FREDERICK l.. DAVID.
JOHN J. GOOD,
LEWIS c. HERRICK.
JOSEPH JOU1.
JAMES j. kEARNEY.
SAMUEL Il. KINER.
JOHN II. LINDLEY.
JAMES j, LONG.
JOHN MCCORMICK.
HENRY Is MOY.
JOHN II d. WORKMAN.
HENRY PAGE.
JOHN G. REEVES.
HARVEL NJ. SHANNON.
FRANK w. TEST.
JESSE W. UNDERWOOD.
WINFRED BECK.
EDWIN ). BETHEL,
RALPH G. CLARK.
WILLIAM II. CEILINGS.
WILLIAM A. JOINER.
FOUNTAIN f. SANS.
LEWIS SULLIVAN.
MERRITT 0. CHANCE.
JOHN A. LATCHMAN.
MISS A. WESTGAIE.
HERMAN HAGE.
OLINEt d. POLLOCK.
This list, however, is subject TO
change, for il is two wears old, though
it IS from the last blue book published.
Every few minutes some maugled
victim was borne tenderly out among
those already brought out are.
{. :. MCLAUGmIN, who was on the
second floor, cut around the head
WINFREp EECH. CLERK on second door,
cut badly; he received no warning.
II. e. THOMAS, 38ig North street
rear part Of building; severely cut
IEuER. 1908 Z Street. probably
fatally.
l.. III. pESNINGroN, cut severely
il. TAYLOR. third door, hurt badly
IN arm aud leg
S. S. BAhEB, 81 II street northeast
third floor, badly hurt in head, arm
and eg.
TuoNAs JeNEs, third Loor, clerk,
badlyCut
SrEWAKr. cut about the heaa,
N,fnp Il. j. q. pRSCuLr, second
aoor. cut on head and leg and proba-