Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-06-17

/ Fl. B. HAMAND, severely cut
/ +. X. BENNINGTON, face and head
cut.
CHARLES SINS, cut aud bruised
! FRED CALVERT, bruised.
/ - MErCALF, badly cut.
j. DEWEY, bruised.
c. 5. McLAuGHIIN. badly bruised.
WILLIAM LECTURE of Virginia, badly
cut about the head.
). w. Tess, cut and bruised.
CHARLES K. MILLER, injured head
and legs.
- AMEs, bruised.
5. ID. DEWEY, cut and bruised.
- KUGLER, badly crushed.
G +. HATHAWAY, shoulder crushed
DIR. MCCORMACK, head cut and badly
bruised.
JAMES E. WHITE, badly cut about
the head
The remains of another young man,
not vet identified have just been
placed in the morgue at the Emergency
Hospital
This makes the number of ascer-
tanned deaths up to the present time
eleven, but every minutes delay in re-
moving those bur ed under the ruins
increases the probability Of fatal re-
suits.
There are believed to be fully sixty
clerks still in the ruins. The most
heroic efforts are being made by the
fremen and police to reach them. The
cavalry have just gone u the scene to
clear the street.
There were ABOUT 425 clerks EN-
ployed in the building, which was &C
CURED and preserved by the govern
ment few years ago because OF its
historical associations
A most remarkable statement waa
made this morning to the effect that
Gen. Ainsworth, who is chief of ths
division, stated to a Congressional.
Committee last year that the building
was perfectly safe. The immediate
cause of the collapse was the under
mining of the building by an electric
light company.
Captain Griffith of 427 Tenth Street,
crippled clerk, was at work at his
desk when he heard the crash. Look
ing up quickly he at once dropped on
the floor and crawled under a table.
Then the crash came, the debris just
grazing him. Leaving behind his
canes, which he is accustomed to use
in walking, he crawled toward this
back alley, where friend found him
and took him home.
When at l0:45 o'clock, the workmen
came to MIR. Hammond, a clerk resid-
ing on Thirteenth Street, he was found
alive but hurt about the head and
face As he was borne to the ambu
lance his face was wreathed in smiles.
so glad was he 20 escape before being
sutfocated, for he had been hemmed in
in narrow compass for almost an
hour.
The rescuing party heard a faint cry
for help under heavy iron beam.
| After some work the well-knOwu
features of Douglas r. Miller came 10
view. He was lifted out almost life,
less and DIR. hewitt pressed whisky
flask to his lips and administered
drugs to him hypodermically lie
was sent to the Emergency Hospital
A young man named Mellac claims
to have been the first to leave the
building He was in the second story
when he looked up and saw the ceiling
giving away. For two years he had
plotted out route of escape. He al
ways knew the building would fall
some day. He got through by the side
building.
Another man saved himself by jump
ing from the window into the awning
OF a tobacco store next door.
Arthur Sehatz, a clerk on the third
floor. in Chief Clerk Ionts division,
told his story of the catastrophe. lie
was sitting in the front portion writ
ing when, without a moments warn
inr. he saw the front floor cave in.
carrying with it Messrs. Yont
4 Drew. Patrick, Taylor ana the en-
/ tire section under Mr.. Patrick.
There were at least sixty men
precipitated from this floor. The
cave IN look place auout root from
where he was sitting. 1t was like an
earthquake. There was absolutely no
warning whatever The floor fell in
and carried with it score of human
beings. The clerks who remained in
the building stood speeches. and
( with blanehed cheeks 1t was only
+ for moment, however, and then like
one man the remaining clerks, number
ing about seventy-fve, rushed for their
/ lives TO the rear of the building and
escaped over the adjoining roof
J Some Of the escapes have been mar
yelous. Men have been taken out from
under piles of heavy timbers who have
seemingly received only external cuts,
some heavy girder having saved them
from worse injury,
After an hours work there was still
twenty or thirty feet of debris piled
up in the basement and ii will be
many hours before il can be definitely
known how many are dead and in
iured Every Few minutes a body is
uncovered and then there win be loud
7 cries Tor a stretcher The stretcher
is brought hastily and the body laid
out on il.
The tangle Of stuff inside of the
building that had 10 he cleared away
in getting at lod.es was terrible.
+ Girders. bricks beams, desks, furni-
ture ia were ineNuicably piled to-
Eether Several hundred men were at
work clearing away needless
of the danger that menaced
them from the possibi ity Of
falling walls. II was diff
cult ms well as dams erous task, hut
there was far less confusion than one
would have eNre ted Men turned
{ pale ana sick d q. horrible spectacle
The object Of Postmaster General