The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-06-17
TWENTY-ONE DEAD.
TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE IN A
GOVERNMENT BUILDING,

Was Assassinated ColIapses, Carry.
ing Down Scores of Government
Clerks - Twenty one Dead and
About Fifty Injured "A Day of
Funerals.
WASHINGTON, June 9. - Another
tragedy, less national in character, but
involving the loss of many more human
lives and much more human suffering,
has stained the walls of the old Ford
theatre, Washington, where Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated by John
Wilkes Booth in April, 1855 1t is a
coincidence also which will go into
history that this second tragedy oc-
Cured on the very day when the re.
mains of the great tragedian, whose
life was so darkened by his brothers
crime that he never visited Washing
ton afterwards, were being laid to rest
in Mount Auburn Mass, } cemetery.
The house in which Lincoln died, on
the opposite side of the street from t. e
theatre where he was shot and which 3
sentimentally kept intact as it was on
that fatal night, looked down upon a
| scene of
Agony, Excitement and Grief
which even the great crime of 1865
could not parallel.
There were about ATS persons mostly
government clerks, employed in the
building and nearly all of these were
at work when the building fell. An ex-
cavation for an electric plant was being
made in the cellar of the structure, a
3-story affair and according to the best
information obtainable the workmen
| lad dug beneath the foundation sup
| ports in front of the building, weakening
them to such an extent that the walls
gave way before they could be lacked.
Men who were in the building say the
crash came without warning. Those
on the top floor were suddenly precipi-
tated to the floor below and the weight
of falling timber and furniture carried
the second and first floors with it. For
tunately, only the forward half of the
floors gave way The outer ends of the
| floors and the rear part of the structure
remained intact The walls did not
fall.
Twenty-one Bodies Recovered.
The work of rescue continued inces-
sanity all day and at 6 p III. twenty
one bodies had been recovered and
taken to the morgue. Four more per-
sons are reported dead whose names are
probably confused with those of VIC
| tins or their bodies confused witli-some
of the bodies through physical resem-
blance The number of injured re-
ported is about so, but many others
who were able to proceed to their
homes were hurt more or less badly.
The following list OF dead with t..e
names of the states from which ther
were appointed contains "a names :
Guiding one unknown and one probat y
a duplication, only u bodies havil Z
been taken from the ruins:
UNKNOWN MAN, evidently a clerk.
GEORGE Q. ALLEN Pennsylvania.
GEORGE NJ. ARNOLD oolored, Virginia.
| l.. w. BOYD New York.
| SAMUEL. +. BAINES, PENNSYLVANIA
| JOHN BUSSUS, District of Columbia.
| i. NJ. CHAPlN, South Carolina
ARTHUR l.. DIETRICH, Kentucky.
JEREMIAH DALEY, Pennsylvania. =.
J. Il. FAGAN, Kansas.
| J. y. GAGE Michigan.
| DAVID c. JORDAN, Missouri.
| NJ. NJ. JARVIS, Michigan.
J. b. JONES, Wisconsin.
f. B. LOTUS, New York.
| +. w. MAEDER.
| Il. +. MILLER, New York.
| II. 5. MILLER, Ohio
| J. y. MCFELL, Wisconsin.
WILLIAM MULLEDY, Michigan.
L. q. SKULL, Kansas
/. WILLIAM SCHRIEVER, Maryland.
II. 5. WOOD.
+. NJ. WILLIAMS, Wisconsin.