The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-06-20
MOST FRIaHTFuL DISASTER.
Ford's Theatre Building oollapses,
Killing and Injuring Scores.

Ford's Theatre building, Wash
ington, occupied by the records and
pension division Of the Surgeon
Generals Office, collapsed between
$50 and 10 o'clock in the morning
of June 9 with direful results.
There we're nearly 500 clerks en-
ployed in the building, and the
catastrophe was without warning.
The whole front of the building
crumbled into shapeless ruins, bury
ing scores of the helpless people in
the wreckage.
At latest accounts "a dead bodies
had been taken out, and Of 81
injured who had been rescued a
few were expected to die. All
the drugstores in the neighbor-
hood, as well as many private
houses, we're opened to receive the
suffering victims. Many who we're
hurt severely without being dis
abled stayed in the ruins to
rescue their companions. General
Schofield ordered two troops of
cavalry from Fort Meyer, just across
the river, and two companies of in
fantry to the scene of the accident.
The commandment of the navy yard
was also ordered to render every as
sistance in his power.
AS far back as 1886 the building
was officially declared too unsafe to
be the depository of the curiosities
of the army museum, and safer
place of stowage was provided for
by Act Of Congress. One theory of
the collapse is that it was caused by
excavations for an electric plant in
the cellar. Against this is the state
ment that the top floor gave way
first, carrying all the others with it.
1t is anyway regarded as burning
disgrace to the Government of the
United States that it should have
been so criminally careless of the
lives of its employees as to retain
half thousand of them in such a
death trap.
1t was in the same building when
theatre that ,J.sWilkes Booth shot
Abraham Lincoln twenty-eig years
ago. The coincidence is now re-
marked that this second tragedy in
the building should have happened
the very day that Edwin Booth, the
famous actor and brother of Presi,
dent Lincoln's murderer, was buried
The list of killed is as follows
George Allen, Geo. w. Arnold, l.
w. Body, Samuel B. Banes, John
Dossius, G.. F. Doggett, Jeremiah
Daley, James r. Pagan, Joseph B
Gage, David G. Jordan, M. M. Jarvis
j. Boyd Jones, F. B. Lotus, F. w
Haeder, F. B. Miller, Howard S
Miller, j. HI. McFall, E. G.. Shull
William Shrymer, H. S. Wood, F. M
Williams.
G. H. Miller was reported killed
but probably the name is meant fo
G. r. Miller, injured but expected tt
recover. NJ. T. Mulleby is missing
Following is the list of injured:
A. 7. Ames. probably fatally; E
, f. Calvart, S. j. Dewey, Louis Dusa
by, George w. Davis, H. B. Ester
land, Washington Fry, VS.. Gustin
) DIR. Jas. I'll. Howard, G. F. Hatha
way, j. N. Hammer, George Hand
/ (colored), j. G. Johns, w. KRUGER
/. Clifton Lowe, VIM. M. Lecture, L
!. Leger, Frank Metcalf, G.. M. Nc
Laughlin, j. P. Mccormack, M. Nc
Lachon, r. R. Patrick, G. T. Pruit
3 p. X. Pennington, Charles Robinson
J, F. j. Stewart, f. E. Sims, G. D. Shac
. bolt, F. P. Smith, r. A. Smith, F.
Sans, w. M. Smith, p. U. Somers, ,
a HI. Thomas, F. w. Test, G. r. We
: Ter, N. II. Morley, James White,
G.. Yount, Robert Smith. OF thes
only few will die according to th
: surgeon.