Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-09
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
Ford's Opera House, The Historic
Building, COllapSes'
DEAD AND WOUNDED IN THE RUINS
Great Excitement In Warrington
Partial List Of the Dead
aud Injured.

HOUSE on lthNh shAtNhf 80
dent Lincoln was assassinated, mas
lust fallen In. Great lots OF I've i
feared. The fret floor collapsed through
weakness caused by oKcavaiing Gel
,nr. and ia It's fall carried down three
Il ors and with them hundreds o.
clerks. The dead and wOundeI ART
bslng taken out rapidly by the hremcn
and police. All the ambulances IN the
city have been summoned ana the
rescued are being conveyed TO
the hospitals. II Is feared that
hundreds Of people have been killed.
The scene was terrible. Some jumped
from The third floor. The walls are
ain ntanding, but every floor Is down
and every window blown out. Tho
building has been condemned ~ un'
ssfe FOR some time, but teutimont has
Kent n unchanged. The doors were
heavily loaded with the records OF tho
record and pension divisions oftho war
The ciorssemployed there are allmen
There were over 400 clerks In the
building. Scarcely one escaped with
out more or less injury. Twenty
eight were taken from the ruins up 10
lO.l6 am. The Emergency hospital
IL crowded. The iDJurics, from the
very nature Of tho affair, are very
severe, consisting Of crushed, broken
limbs aud internal Injuries. Thou
eands surrounded the scene and the
excitement spread all over the city.
Every hospital In the city has been
called on 10 care for the wounded.
Eight dead bodies have just been
taken out OF the ruins unidentified.
General Schoteld has ordered two
troops Of cavalry from Fort Meyer Just
ncfoss the river and two companies e. (
infantry 10 the scene. The secretary
of tho navy has ordcred out all the
naval medical officers stationed here
ana has opened the naval hospital TO
receive tho Injured. The commands
aut nj the navy yard has been ordered
to render all the assistance In his
power. At 1880 n. m. II was feared
that there were stlll eight bodies IN the
ruins. Another man has teen taken
cut deaJ, Howard y. Miller, OF Ohio,
clerk In the bureau, and an unknown
man have been brought to Emerg-
eney Hospital dead,
Tho remaina Of n young man not yet
identified have Just been placed In the
mOrgue, ut the Emergency hospital.
This makes the number Of known
dead 10 the present time eleven. lt IL
believed that there are fully sixty still
Ia the ruine. The following IL
partial list OF wounded at Emergency
Hospital! Fred Calvert, Chas. Metcalf,
X. w. Dewey, VIM. Lecture, r.. n.
Test, Z. KughleT, Pennington Ames,
q. Il. Miller, &, +. halfway, II. n.
Patrick, J. a. Stewart, Lewis Depway,
J. N. Mclaughlin.
The bodies OF II. s. Woods and a
clerk named Jarvis have been taken
from the ruins. The following sefi.
uuely injured were taken 10 neigh.
boring drug store: J. 4. Thomas, +. II.
smith, Il. Sterling Of Fort Scott,
Kansas; ShEdbolI Of Missouri, col.
Vrod.
LATEST REpoRTs.
At 1880 O'Clock y. m. II was stated
that IL would probably he two or three
houis before the mass Of debris could all
be cleared away and the exact num-
Ter o. those who went down In the
crash known. When the crash came
there were supposed 10 he In the build
INK four hundred ana ninety six
clerks, eighteen messengers, twenty
laborers: i've hundred anu thirty.four
In all. Up to this hour, sixteen bodies
had reached the morgue. A tour Of
the city hospitals gives the following
detAiis; Emergency hospital twenty
foufinJuTeJ, four dead; Providence hos.
pital, T.. Leger, Mississippi, head cut
anu Injured internally; W. s. Gustln,
Ohio, arm broken; National Homeo.
lathio hospital, Clifton Lowe, Iowa,
hcalp injured; Freedman's hospital,
DIR. James Howard, colored, scalp cut
and internal injuries; Garfield Mem.
oTial hospital, J. II. Thomas, Sedalia,
No. arm broken.
DEAD AT THE MoRGUE.
The following Ia list Of dead at the
morgue AS near as can DO given;
George Arnold, colored, Virginia.
ID. h. Miller, New York.
John Bussius, District OF Columbia.
q. ID. Allen, Penna.
II. ID. LOFTS, New York.
ID. &. Jordan, Missouri.
=, Il. Barber, Penna.
VIM. Schriver, Maryland.
j. y, Gage, Mich.
j. X. Pagan, Kansas.
j. II. MoFall, Wis.
H. W. Body, New York.
y NJ. Williams, Wis.
=, Aso three bodies said TO be those of
~ W. Moode5 II. =. Dietrich and a
man named Young.
Lhese ldentiiications are not com.
pete There Will DO "a Joint meeting
u tue district c0mmlssionetH and hoard |
OF trale this afternoon 10 consult mon
lolief methods for the families of the
uLiOrtunates. '' VI '"'
CAUSE OF THE DIsAsrRR.
Ihe cause Of the collapse ia suppo,ed
70 nave been the digging unoer tbs
lou ndat lions for the purpose of nitting
IN an electric light plant; out. M nsar
hs can be Rscertainp1 noy,
the top floor gave way ~,
carrying the others down win ~
fortunately the entire building az
h!t collapse, as In that case, the Iass ~,
NE would have been much prastas
As II was, only tho front part W.;
VOW u, leaving more than half Of ~.
moor space intact. Because OF this
many llves were saved. some cIsrbs
ailthg At their desks were lelt sittIn,, az,
'he Drink while the desks AT W hioh H. az
.Al went down. Willing hands 49,
70 WORK a. soon rs the first shock ~
lasseui TO rescue the dead and dvins'
Hhu wounded from the ruina, p1i,ass
anu soldiers were ordered to the soens