The state chronicle., 1893-06-10
A TERRIBLE DISASTER.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE

as many of the clerks were sent di-
rect to their homes. The correct
number will doubtless exceed fifty.
General Grant says that the rolls
showed that the full force employed
in the building number 514 per-
sons. A number of these persons
were absent On leave, Or because OF
illness, SO that probably not more
than 400 or $50 persons were in the
building when the crash came.
Then, as only half of the floors fell,
the number of persons who went
down was further reduced, and of
those who actually fell, many es-
capped with slight injuries or with
out harm.
Dr.. Shannon, Of the personal
staff of the Surgeon General in
charge Of all the government medi-
cal officers, and every such officer,
was promptly ordered to the scene
Of the accident, or to various hos
pitfalls. The ambulances of the Red
Cross Society rendered conspicuous
service.
The rescuing parties worked in
cessantly in the intense heat, but
there was one part Of the ruins left
to the last A few feet back of the
front walls, when the day was far
advanced, there was still large
quantity of wreckage which had
not yet been explored. It is nearly
IN the center Of this section of floor
that fell, and that fact led to the
belief that number of bodies
would be found beneath it. It is
out in tie open space, where no
falling timber, arrested in its fall,
might shield the unfortunates from
the crushing weight of the falling
floor. As there seemed to be no
hope Ct saving the livess of any
who might have fallen, the efforts
OF the workmen were first directed
to exploring the sides OF the build
ing.
When the crash came there were
supposed to be in the building 1876
clerks, Is messengers, 20 laborers,
G total CT 534 persons. A tour of
the city hospitals, completed at
lA0, resulted in obtaining the fol-
lowing additional details RESPECTING
the arrivals of the dead and in
jured i
Emergency Hospital-22 injured;
dead, Il. S. Wood, M. ". Joervis,
and two names not taken.
Providence Hospital-E. Leger
Miss }, head cut and injured inter
nally; ". S. Gusting. (Ohio) left
arm broken.
National Hospital-Clifton Lowe !
,Iowa), scalp injured.
Freedmen's Hospital-Dr. James |
d. Howard, col, (Maryland), SCALP !
cut and Internal injuries. He is a |
graduate OF Howard University and |!
Married. /
Garfield Hospital-John Il. !
thomas, (Sedalia), arm broken. !:
2 p m.--There were sixteen dead !.
It the morgue. They are George /;
N: Arnold, col, OF Virginia; B s. |
Miller, OF New York; John Buss;us.
District Of Columbia; George @ |!
sllen, Pennsylvania; T. B LOTUS
New York; David G. Jordon. Mis-
our; Samuel P. Banes, Pennsyl-
.ania; Willhem Screiver, Maryland:
!: 3. Gage, Michigan; J. r. Fagan, /
Aansas; J. Il. McFall, Wisconsin,: !
!: ". Bcody, New York; F. MI
Williams, Wisconsin. There are
hree bodies said to be F. W. |
laeder, r. 8. Dieterich aud ]
.oung. |
The partial list of injured at Emer- |
ency hospital is as follows: Fred
'alvert, Chas. Metcalf, Sd Dewey. |
F. n Test, =. Kugh.
er, Pennington Ames, Charles R
llller, G. F. Hathaway, R. Nj. Pat
lex, j. A. Stewart, F. F. Sims, Louis
'usapy, G. N. Mclaughlin. |,
The following were seriously but
OF fatally injured, and were taken |
, neighboring drug store: J Ill
homas, F. 3. Smith, A. n. Geraultl
nd Esterling, Of Fort Scott, Kan.
hadbolt, of Missouri; and colored
ian, was dangerously injured after
70 accident. Is
Jeremiah Daley, Of Pennsylvania, 1t
led on the operating table of the II
mergency hospital while the sur. i
cons were dressing his wounds. Is
PROBABLY TWENTY FIVE DEAD. I
WASHINGTON, D c., June 9-11 LOO i
M.-The total casualties as near J
can be ascertained are as follows: s
wenty-cne dead bodies ere at the t
orgue and the emergency hos t
tsl. -Four more persons ars re- i
'rted dead, whose names were f
'obably confused with those of the
ctlms ct or their identity confused
|th some Of the bodies through -
lyslcal resemblance. Two per. II
ms whose names were included in v
@ carrier list Of victims taken from "
9 ruins escaped unipjured. The c
amber of I'M ured reported is about c.
ty but many others who we're able K
proceed to their homes were hurt q
ore Or less badly. IL
A body found ahortly after 5 "a
lock was vaguely identified to-
ght as DR.. Nelson. H.
The Borden Trial. i
Southern Associated Press. IL
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