Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15

O4u ODeId-HOuSe on 16nIn OlEeet, III
which z esluenU Lincoln was assassi-
IA ted, mas just falIen IN. there were
OvtA four huDured clerks in the build
Ing. Scarcely one mas eS aped with
out more or less injury. Twenty-eight
persons had been taken out of the ruins
up to 1O.15. The Emergency Hospital
is crowded with the dead and injured.
The injuries from the very nature of
the accident are of the severest charac-
ter, crushed and broken limbs and in
ternal injuries prevailing. The ex-
element Of the relatives and friends is
naturally intense, thousands surround
ing the scene, and the excitement has
spread all over The city.
The first floor collapsed first through
weakness caused by new excavation
in the basement.
one of the workmen, colored man
who was employed in excavating the
cellar and who escaped with only
slight cuts, says:
Il told them yesterday that the
archway would fall, for every time
any one walked over the floor it would
bend.
Il tell you | was scared and got out
just as quick as I could. There were
twenty men at work with me. Deed,
don know what became of them"
Every hospital in the city was
quickly called into requisitlon to care
for the wounded As soon as possible
complete roster OF clerks in the
building will be sent with names Of
dead and in ured as far as ascertalned.
, The fall of the first floor carried
down the other three floors and with
them hundreds OF clerks. he dead
and wounded are being taken out
rapidly by the fremen and police.
All the ambulances in the city have
been summoned and the rescued are
being con eyed to the hospitals
1t is feared that hundred people
have been killed. The scenes are ter
rible. Some jump d fl ON the third
floor. The walls are still standing,
but every floor is down and every win
dow blown out
The building has been condemned
as unsafe and unsuitable for the pur-
pose for which it was occupied for some
time, but sentiment has kept it I'M
changed.
The floors were heavily loaded with
the records of the pension divisions of
the war department. The clerks en-
ployed there were all men.
Gen. Schofeld ordered cut all the
naval and medical officers stationed
here and has also opened the Naval
HOSPITAL TO receive the injured. The
commandant at the navy yards has
been ordered to render all the assist
ance in his power.
Howard S. Miller of Ohio, clerk in
the bureau, and an unknown man,
horribly mangled, have just been
70 ;+o1
A partial list of the killed and injured
lows:
JAMES FISHBACK.
ANDREW KALSTRCM.
JOHN r. NELLY.
OSBORN ASHLEY.
OLIVER NJ. ATWOOD.
JUoEfH >. BAUER.
CHARLES II. BLISS.
FREDERICK E. DAVID.
JOHN j. GOOD.
LEWIS c. HERRICK.
JOSEPH JOUY.
- JAMES J. KEARNEY.
SAMUEL R. KINER.
JOHN III. LINDLEY. -~I
JAMES J. LONG.
JOHN MCCORMICK.
HENRY i. MOY.
JOHN III. d. WORKMAN.
HENRY PAGE.
JOHN G. REEVES
HARVEL M. SHANNON.
FRANK w. TEST.
JESSE w. UNDERWOOD.
WINFRED BECK.
EDWIN S. BETHEL.
RALPH G. CLARK.
WILLIAM II. Ceilings.
WILLIAM A. JOINER.
FOUNTAIN f. SANS. =
LEWIS SULLIVAN.
MERRITT o. CHANCE.
JOHN A. LATCHMAN.
MISS A. WESTGAIE.
HERMAN HAGE.
OLIN E2 d. POLLOCK.
This list, however, is subject 20
change, for it is two years old, though
it is from the last blue book published
Every few minutes some mangled
victim was borne tenderly out Among
those already brought out are:
{. 5. MCLAUGHLIN, who was on the
second floor, cut around the head
WINFRED BECK. clerk on second floor,
cut badly: he received no warning.
II. c. THOMAS, 1919 North Street,
rear part of building: severely cut.
LEeER, 1908 E Street; probably
fatally.
?. Il. PENNINGTON, cut severely.
j. L. TAYLOR, third floor, hurt badly
in arm aud leg.
S. 5. BAKER, 81 Fl Street northeast,
third floor, badly hurt in head, arm
and leg.
THOMAS JONES. third floor, clerk,
badly cut.
STEWART, cut about the head.
MAJOR 3. j. O. DRIsCoLL, second
floor, cut on head and leg and proba-
BILE internal injuries.
UAPTAIN IL. II. WILLIAM, tnlro noor,
IS.
- GALAGER, FIRST floor, badly cut
- YOUT, third floor, internal.
ROBERT LINDEN, 937 Massachusetts,
Avenue, arm broken and injuries to
head and arms; rescued by Mr.. Good
acre.
w. S. GUsTIN. sos K Street north
west, home Blanchester, Ohio, COM
pound fracture of leg and internal in
juries.
c. A. HARPER, 2O32, 1 Street, injuries
to head and internal injuries.
CHARLES P. MILLER, 537 Florida
Avenue, severe and perhaps fatal in
juries to legs, arms, head and body.
c. D. SHADBoLT, Pennsylvania Ave
nue., near Georgetown, probably fatally
injured, severe cuts and bruises about
head and body. and legs probably
broken.
j. j. JONES, cut and bruised.
r. NJ. PALUCK, bruised about body. |