Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-06-15
AN AWFUL ACCIDENT
FoR.O's OPERA HOUSE IN WASH.
INGTON COLLAPSES.
Several Hundred Government EN-.
ployes Buried In the Dcbris-Twen.5
ty-One Taken Out Dead and About
Fifty Injured.

pl0yes Buried In the Dc.bris-Twen.
ty-One Taken Out Dead and About
Fifty Injured.
Washington. June TO- = Hundreds of
men carried down by the falling walls
of a building which was VIGOROUSLY in
secure. Human lives crushed out BY
tons of bricks and iron and sent un-
heralded to the throne of their Maker,
Men by the score MANNED and dis6gured
for life! Happy families hurled into the
depths of despair. Women calling for
their husbands. Children calling for
their fathers! Mothers calling for their
sons! Not an answer to cry.
This is but a shadow of the awful
calamity that befell this city yesterday
morning. Words c, mot picture the aw-
funess of the accident. The imagination
stands back and fails to give any idea
of the scene. Its horrors will never be
fully told. Its suddenness was almost
the chief horror. In moment, in the
twinkling of an eye. there was change
and men who came to the scene of their
daily toll this morning will never return
alive.
this morning that the floors of the old
Ford's thcater building, on Tenth street
occupied by the recC r,lS and pension d.
vision of the surgeon generals Office. fell
in as though they had been the cards of
card house. On each floor there were
scores of men at work. Without warning
they We're carried down as by an awful
cataract. The floor was made up of
iron Orders, hardly strong enough to
support the walls. but heavy enough,
heaven knows. to stamp out human lives;
Of bricks that were held together by pas-
ter long since dried out: of wooden beams
that had been in place too long. There
was no escape from such a flood.
Twen,y-cisht years ago there was an
other tragedy within the walls of this
building. The news of it was flashed to
the four quarters of the earth and it
brought CONSERVATION wherever it went.
The man who was killed was the presi-
dent of the United States. AS though
the building had borne curse upon it
from that time. it ended its career in Il
fitting manner. But how much better it
would have been if the government had
removed the structure years ago. ThoS,
in the multitude " no could think of some
thing beside the catastrophe alone re-
marked upon the strange coincidence
that the building in which John Wilkes
Booth slew President Lincoln should fall
and kill scores Of people Oh the very day
that the body of the assaSsins brother
was being laid to its final rest. There
was no connection between the events.
but the Supersttious shuddered and the
strong minded commented
The crash came without a moments
warning. and like a flash 4U were car
ri"l down with the wreck. Few escaped
without injuries of some kind. but in the
majority of eases the injuries are slight.
Work was at oEce begun to rescue those
yet living and recover the bodies of the
dead. AT night when all the debris had
been removed the terrible nature of the
accident was shown by the mangled
bodies of twenty-one men and the
bruised and bleeding forms of forty-nine
others. The following is list of the
dead. 1t contains twenty-five names.
including one unknown and one probable
luplication-that of B. T.. and H. S.
Miller:
Unknown man: George Allen, Penn
sylvania: George w. Arnold. Virginia. L.
W. Body. New York: Samuel p. Banes
Pennsylvania: John Bossius. District of
Columbia: Arthur l.. Dietrich, Kentucky;
Jeremiah Daley Pennsylvania: James K.
Pagan. Kansas: Joseph B. Gage, Mich
igan: David e. Jordan. Missouri: NJ. NJ.
Jarvis. Michigan: ]. Boyd Jones. Wis
consin: +. B. Lotus. New York: F. w.
Maeder: B. F. Miller. New York: H. S.
Miller. Ohio: J. H. McFall. Wisconsin:
e. q. Shull. Kansas; William Schrieyer,
Maryland: H. S. Wood: +. NJ. Williams.
Wisconsin,
The injured are: A. L. Ames. Iowa:
+. +. Calvert. Maryland: S. J. Dewey.
New York: Louis Dusapy: George W.
Davis. Missouri: H. B. Esterling. Fort
Scott. Kan: Washington Fry; w. S.
G,lstin. Ohio: DIR. James H. Howard.
Maryland; G. +. Hathaway. Ohio: J. n.
Hammer. Tennessee: George Handy:
Thomas Hynes. Missouri: J. G.. Johns;
W. KuGlar. New Jersey: Clifton Lowe.
Iowa: William w Lecture. District of
Columbin: L. Leger. Mississippi: Frank
Metcalf. Massachusetts: G. NJ. McLaugh-
lin. Tennessee: j. 2. Mccormack. Wis
consin: NJ. McLachlan: r. NJ. Patrick.
New York: Pody, police officer; G. I.
Pruitt, Texas: P. X. Pennington, Ala
bama: Charles Robinson, Colorado; ]. A.
Stewart; +. +. Sims: G. D. Shadbolt,
Missouri: +. p. Smith, Tennessee; R. A.
Smith. Connecticut: William NJ. Smith;
P. L. Scmmers. Ohio: John H. Thomas,
Sedalia. Mo: F. w. Test. Illinois; G. r.
Weller: n. T. Morley, Tennessee; James
A. White, Georgia: 4. G. Young Penn
sylvania: Frank Metcalf; A. l.. Ames;
Robert Smith: A. G.. Black. Indiana;
Charles J. Moore, District of Columbia:
B. F. Driscoll New York; J. A. Miller,
District of Columbia.
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