The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-12

official Of the treasury department,
whose duties require him TO be much
OF the time in the department OF Justice,
said that the weight resting on the
floors of that building was alarming to
man OF nerves Tho building was for
some time used by the old Freeman's
Bank, Without having been strength
ened in any way, it was transferred to
it's present use, and gradually all it's
floors have been stored with the weight
OF accumulated books and records. The
top floor was used as a storeroom, and
is packed with an enormous weight of
books,
The Winder building, opposite the
state department, now occupied by the
war department and the Second Audi
tor OF the Treasury, has frequently
been criticized, and the clerks who
work there assert that it is none too
safe. E
Tho Busch building, which forms an
annex OF the postotfice department, is
another of those unsafe structures. 1t
was In this building about year ago,
during storm, that a stampede Of
panic.stricken clerks was narrowly
averted, Several attempts to brace it
up have been made
The patent office, massive stone
structure, is not exempt from the gen.
eral criticism. The northwest corner
OF the patent Office ia so crowded and
packed with voluminouG and enormous
" heavy records that the walls have
cracked until great gaps appear. Sec
retary Noble made.Rn-nrg appeal for
Qn appropriation that would remedy
the evil, but his appeal was ignored
and nothing was done,
The building in which the office OF
the sixth auditor OF thetreasury depart
ment is located, though new one, is so
heavily weighted with public docu-
ments and other material that the
floors have already sunk from two to
three inches, and the clerks are in con-
slant fear from day to day.
There is no more dangerous trap in
the city than the patched-up govern
ment printing office. which has been
from time to time strengthened by
wooden and iron supports. On its var
ious floors are stored tons OF metal,
printing material and millions OF copies
OF bound books, to say nothing OF 1900
employees who swarm within the walls
in increasing danger OF their lives.
The reported death list has increased
but one beyond tho number given,
namely 22. One other death. that of
A. NJ. Gerault, of New Jersey, is re-
ported, making the twenty-third on the
list Of dead,
OF all the horrors OF Friday and of
all the woes they leave behind none is
moro sad than the death OF DR.. Burrows
Nelson, of West Virginia, Ho was a
dentist and practiced his profession in
the odd hours left him from his desk
duties. His family was large and he
found double work necessary to support
it. A widow and five little children
survive him. His wife is on the eve
OF het sixth maternity He leaves
nothing, his profession and position
being all that he had. His was the
last body recovered. His family were
anxiously inquiring for him all the
day, but were under the impression
that he had taken day off and gone
fishing. For some reason he had va
Gated his desk and gone to the lower
floor Just before the crash came. Had
he remained seated, the. probabilities
are he would have been uninjured, as
his desk was located in n part OF the
building not affected by the cavern.
His wife is nearly crazed by lie loss and
insists on seeing her dead husband, but
this has been forbidden by the physi-
clan.
The correct list OF the dead from the
disaster is as follows:
Allen, George O., Pennsylvania, fifty
two years, unmarried.
Arnold, George NJ, Virginia, fifty-fve
years, leaves widow.
Banes, Samuel P, Pennsylvania, fifty
five years, leaves widow and family
Bussius, John, Washington, titty-four
years, leaves widow and family.
Chaplin, ]. E., Columbia, Richland
county, s. O., leaves widow and family,
Daley, Jeremiah, twenty-four years,
Howard, Center county, Pa, unmar-
rled.
Fygan, Joseph r., thirty.seven years,
native Of Pennsylvania, leaves widow
Gage, j. B., fttv.eight years, Potos-
key, Emmett county, Mich, leaves
widow and child.
Gcrault, A. N, Annapolis, Md, APP
pointed from New Jersey, leaves widow
Jones, j. Boyd, Evansville, Rock
county, Wis, forty.eight years, leaves
widow and three children.
Jordan, David o., Putnam county,
No., leaves q widow and child.
Lotus, Frederick b., titty-seven years,
New York, leaves widow and family.
Meder, Otto +. w, thirty.eight years,
Buffalo, N. Y, leaves widow.
McFall, j. H., thirty-fye years, Wis
consin, leaves widoY and child.
Mulledy, Michael r., forty-lve years,
New Orleans, La.
Miller, HoSatd s., Guernsey county,
Ohio.
Miller, Bonjamin f., fiity.ono years,
Utica, N. Y, unmarried.
Nelson, Burrows, thirty-seven years,
West Virginia, leaves widow and five
children.
sChrieber, William, College Park,
Prince George county, Md.
Shull, Emanuel g., thirty-eight years,
North Topeka, Kas., leaves widow and
child
Williams, Frank NJ, twenty.clght
years, East Middleton, Dane county,
Wis, unmarried.
who DIR. Nelson was.
Dr.. Burrows Nelson, whose horrible
death In tho disaster ID referred to In