Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-10


the names of the States from which they
were appointed, contains % names, includ-
ing one unkonwn and one probable dupli
cation, only 81 bodies having been taken
frcm the ruins. The list of dead follows:
Unknown man, taken from the ruins last
night, evidently q clerk.
GEORGE |. ALLEN, Pennsylvania.
GEORGE ARNOLD, colored, Virginia.
l.. w. BooDY, New York.
SAMUEL z. BANEs, Pennsylvania
JOHN BUssIUs District of Columbia.
ARTHUR l.. Dietrich, Kentucky.
JEREMIAH DALEY, Pennsylvania.
j. r. Pagan, Kansas.
j. Is. GAGE, Michigan.
DAVID @. JORDAN. Missouri.
Nj. NJ. JARVIS, Michigan.
j. BJYD JONES. Wisconsin.
+. +. LOFTCS, New York.
f. w. MAEDER, no State.
b. +. MILLER, New York.
HowAhD $. MILLER, Ohio.
J. II. MCFALL. Wisconsin.
+. q SKULL, Kansas.
WILLIAM SCHRIEVER, Maryland
H. S. WOOD, no State.
+. ii. WILLIAMS, Wisconsin.
DR.. NELSON, no State
G.. H. Miller is reported killed but it is
probable that the name is meant for G. r.
Miller, who was supposed to have been
0F-Lld
Jordan and Pauly have also keen attached
to the unofficial death list as having been
taken out dead, but their bodies have not
been located. Jordan is probably dupli-
cation of the name of David G. Jordan, of
Missouri, who was killed, and Pauly may
have been confused with McFall, also
killed. One man taken from the ruins
dead was identified by bystander as ''Old
Man" McCauley, who lives in Virginia,
hut i1 Roo ,Nk RaJ
the death list does not contain his name.
There were 415 persons, mostly govern
ment clerks, employed in the building, and
nearly all of these were at work when the
building fell. An excavation for an cleo
trio light plant was being made in the
cellar of the structure three story
affair-and, according to the best informa.
ton obtainable, the workmen had dug be-
meath the foundation supports in the front
of the buildings, weakening them to such
an extent that the walls gave way before
they could be lacked.
This explanation of the cause for the ac-
cident is the only one advanced, but it
seems somewhat strange in view of the
fact that the top floor gave way first.
Men who were in the building say the
crash came without warning These on
the top floor were suddenly precipitated to
the floor below, ana the weight of falling
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and first floors with it.
Fortunately only the forward half of
the floors gave way. The outer edges of
the floors and the rear part of the struc-
ture remained intact. The walls did not
fall -
sTone of those who escaped injury could
tell which of the floors first gave way. 70
the occupants of each floor there was but
one crash heard, and instantly the whole
building was filled with binding lime
dust.
Running directly through all the floors
and in the middle of the building was a
light wall, ten feet or more long and
nearly as many wide. The fatal area was
in front of this. leaving space of six or
seven feet in width uldisturbed on
either side. The entire back part of the
building, containing more than half of the
soor, space remained intact
There were many very narrow escapes
from death. A number of clerks whose
desks rested directly upon the line where
the floors broke away, saved themselves,
while the desks at which they sat were
precipitat down the awful chasm.
Others who were walking across the room
heard an ominous sound and stopped just
at the very threshold of death.
When the crash came those who sur
vived heard a mighty scream of anguish
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sight, and then cropping in the darkness
they found their way to safety, trembling
III every joint with the pallor of the dead
in their faces.
No women were employed in the build
ing, but in few minutes after the crash
came, the wives mothers and daughters
of the victims began to arrive. Within q
very few moments hundred or more men
stripped for hot work jumped into the
building and began throwing out the
wreckage in front and under the floors
| which remained standing on the rear.
q n This afternoon the body of A. M. Ger
ault of New Jersey was found. Swelling
the total to twenty three.
Secretary Lamont, who is in Chicago
photographed hat he would be in Washing
ton this afternoon to condnct an investi
cation and place the responsibility for tn
accident