The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-06-11
BLAME The OFFICIALS
All Washington Indignant 0Tsf The
CartlesSntss That Il Really nurdeL
LIST OF THE FATALITIES
Other Buildings Occupied Dy the
Government Known to Be
as Unsafe as Was
Ford's Thoater.

wAsHiSoroN, June io.--The sad results
Of the downfall of tho old Ford's thoater,
have furnished tho principal topic OF con-
nous that there is blamo somewhere for
tho shocking fatality, and many men
ECHOED tho words of DIR. Bartlett, that tho
accident was not one the responsibility
for which could be laid upon God. The
moro tho matter ia discussed and tho
farther along the work of clearing away
the debris progresses, tho moro evident
this becomes.
This morning the uninjured clerks in
the doomed building werc about the scene
OF tho disaster discussing tho situation
and holding little Indignation meetings.
II was evident that tho feeling ran very
strong among them and many vero loud
in their expressions OF condemnation for
the officials OF the government who hcrtled
them together in such a building. Colonel
Stewart, superintendent OF construction
of the new city postofllce. seemed to think,
as others do. that the whole trouble came
from the weakening of the structure
caused by the excavations In tho front OF
the basement. There 10 no decrease in
the general feeling Of indignation that
Nils tho city over the awful disaster.
There is much comment over the fact that
not nag on any public building is half.
masted to-day.
Though there are persons known TO
have been in tho building still unac-
counted for this morning, the reported
death list las been increased only one.
Until late last night the workmen were
engaged in removing wreckage OF the
building. Broken desks wcro removed,
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and such as were of value taken to places
of safety. No suitable building has yet
been secured, and It will probably be sew
eral days before the work can be resumed.
The stories of suffering and distress
growing out of the calamity are heart.
rending. A coroner's jury was impanelod
this morning and will begin the inquest on
Monday. An investigation will also be
made by the war department. Following
is a recapitulation of the death list:
GEORGE u. ALLEN. Pennsylvania, vet.
Gran of the war, in the department since
1866.
GEORGE NJ. ARNOLD, Virginia, coiored,
| leaves widow.
SAMUEL p. BASEs Of Pennsylvania, q
| veteran. leaves family.
JOHN BussIus of Washington City, war
veteran, leaves q family.
J.E. CHaPIs of South Carolina, leaves
q widow aud children.
JEREMIAH DAILY OF Pennsylvania. un-
married.
JOSEPH r. FAGAS of Kansas. leaves a
| widow and two little girls in straitened
circumstances.
J.B.GAoE OF Michigan. war veteran,
leaves a family.
| j. NJ. JARVIS, Michigan, no details.
]. BOYD JONES, Wisconsin. no details.
| DAVID JORDAN, Missouri, leaves a
| family in poor circumstances.
FREDERICK 3. LoFrus, New Jersey,
more than 10 years in government service,
leaves a widow and six children.
| J.H. MCFALL, Wisconsin,, II years in
war department. leaves a wife and child.
F. W. OrroM,EpEH, Of New York, leaves
| a widow.
BEyJAMi. F. MILLER, New York, un.
married.
MICHAEL I. MuLLsDY, Louisiana, no
| details.
BURROWS NELSON. West Virginia, leaves
q widow and Two little children
| e HOWARD g. MILLER, Ohio. no details.
WILLIAM ScBaIEBER, Maryland, no de-
tails.
| EMANUEL GATES SHrLT, Kansas, leaves
| "a widow and one child.
| FRANK NJ. WILLIAMS, Middleton, Wis,
unmarried.
| Lewis w. Boody Of New York. who was
reported killed, is alive and we'll.
! NJ. NJ. Jarvis of Michigan, who was also
| included in the death list, is reported alive
and at home in Anscosta.
AT o'clock this morning A. NJ. Jerault,
a clerk from New Jersey, died of his in-
juries. He leaves a wife and boy. Most
of the injured arc improving.
SALE OF OFFICIAL RECORDS.
| Secretary Lamont arrived hero this
afternoon. Soon after he reached The city
he expressed "a desire to see Acting Secre.
tary Grant and Colonel Ainsworth, and
those officials visited him Mt the hotel aud
had a conference IN regard to tho future
| action Of the department concerning the
calamity. The records OF the war depart
! i,,eut show that tho collapsed theater
building was for years known officially 10
| be unfit for human occupancy by rca son,
not only Of structural weakness. but also
| because of its defective sanitary condition.
The frightful accident called to the atfen.
,ion of the officials the condition OF other
public buildings which are said to be more
or less unsafe.
oTHE. EIcKEry BUILDINGS.
An official Of tho treasury department,
whose duties require him to be much oi
tho time In tho department of justice said
that the weight resting upon the floors oi
that building was alarming to a man oi
nerves.
The windcr building, occupied by the
war department and the second auditor
of the treasury. is frequently criticized
aud the clerks who work there assert that
it is none too safe.
Tho Busch building. which forms an
annex TO the postoftlce department is an
other of these structures about which
clings an unsavory reputation for safety
and tho substantiabilty of the patent of
flee. a massive stone structure, Is no
exempt from the general criticism.
The building in which the office OF thu
sixth auditor of tho treasury department
is located. though a new one. is SO heavil,
weighted with public documents ant