Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
EXACT DEATH ROLL
just Twenty-One Killed in
Ford's Theatre.
TWO THOUGHT DEAD WHO ARE ALIVE

NJ. NJ. Jarvis. of Michigan, One of Them
Condition ofthe Wounded-Most of Them
Recovering, But One Expected tn Die
Severe Criticism of the House of Repre-
sentatives and Holman, Where the Prt-
mary Responsibility Is Laid.
WASHINGTON. June 12--It is generally
accepted as a fact that the government ana
war department are responsible for the
disaster at the Ford theatre building. The
contract for the work in the cellar was
made with all necessary precautions and
the plans drawn with the same care. The
men employed to do the work were experts
in that line and so far everything was cor
rect But it was in the inspection that
the war department seems to have been
derelict. Those who did this work were
Colonel Ainsworth, who is Jan effi-
cient man in his place-that of surgeon
and head of the record and pension di-
vision, but never made any pretension to
knowledge of engineering; Captain Thorpe,
who is head of the supply branch, but who
has never had experience rs an engineer,
and Mr. Sasse. engineer of the building
who. while a good mechanical engineer is
not up in such work as he was put at.
Blame 1t the House.
Nearly every man who talks about the
disaster blaInes it on the house. and this is
the same as putting il on the shoulders on
Holman with his Il object" Many openly
charge him with niGgardliness-not true
economy-and de clare him primarily the
cause of the disaster. Senator COckrell
saws he has made repeated efforts to re-
build the old theatre or provide other
quarters for the clerks. The senate has
always assented and the house has always
refused to concur. Others declare that the
people of the United States are to blame:
They demand economy and seem to
think that the country should be run as
cheaply now rs fifty years ago
Couple More Unsafe buildings
Talk is always cheap, and just now there
is a good deal of it going on with varying
degrees of wisdom developed in the utter
ances There seems to be wisdom in the
structures against the building used by the
department of Justice; the winder building
occupied by the war department and the
Busch building. an annex of the postoffice.
None of these was built for the purpose
it is used for now. But even the patent
office building comes in for condemnation.
There are cracks in the walls and Secretary
Noble appealed in vain two years ago for
money 10 remedy the trouble.
The Correct List of Dead
y
been compiled. 1t contains just twenty
one names, but the names Of several
who were in the first list are absent. 1t is
as follows: George Q. Allen, Pennsylvania;
George VI. Arnold, Virginia. leaves a wild
ow: Samuel T. Bares, Pennsylvania,
leaves widow and family; John Bussius,
Washington, D. c.. leaves widow and fam
lily: J. f. Chaplin. Columbia, ;. C., leaves
widow and ramily; Jeremich Daley. Penn
svlvania Joseph r. Pagan, Pennsylvania,
leaves widow and family; j. B. Gage, Pc
toskey, Michigan, leaves widow and
child: A y. Gerault, Annapolis, Md,
leaves widow and family; ]. Boyd Jones.
Evansville Wis. leaves widow and three
children: David c. Jordan, Putnam coun-
~. Mo- leaves widow and child Frank b.
LOTUS New York. leaves widow and fam
ily: Otto f. W. Meader, Buffalo, \. Y,
leaves a widow: J. H McFall, Wisconsin.
leaves widow and child: Michael T. Null
ledy, New Orleans, La: Howard :. Miller,
Guernsey county, o.: Benjamin F. Miller,
Utica y. Y: Burrows Nelson, West Nir-
ginia. leaves widow and five children;
William Schroeder, College Park, Md;
Emanuel G. Shull. North Topeka, Kan.
Frank NJ Williams. East Middleton, Wis.