Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-06-17
A DEAD FALL.
Collapse OF Historic Building a
Washington.
Tho Old Ford Theater. Used by tho Gov
eminent Pension Once, Coos Down
While Filled with Clcrks-Mers
Than . Score Killed.

Ford theater, Wnere Lincoln was aS-
sissinated, now used as a branch OF
the pension office. collapsed yesterday
morning, with awful loss of life. The
accident was caused by undermining
for an electric light plant, though the
building had been condemned good
many times. The government is great
ly blamed for allowing so many en-
ployes to work in a building admitted
TO be unsafe. Exaggerated estimates
prevailed ut first as to the number
killed and injured. as it was thought
the whole force of 415 went down in
the ruins, but this was n mistake as
many were in that portion of the build.
ing which failed to collapse.
Men who were in the building say
the crash came without warning. Those
on the top floor were suddenly precip-
itated to the floor below and the weight
of falling timber and furniture carried
the second and first floors down. For
tunately only the forward half of the
floors gave way The outer ends of the
floors and the rear part of the struct-
ure remained intact and the walls did
not fall. Within an hour the news was
known all over Washington and hun
dreds of anxious relatives and friends
swarmed in the vicinity of the old the
alter. Women appealed anxiously to
every bystander for information about
some particular person. Men with
tears in their eyes besought the blue.
coats to let them through the lines that
they might obtain some knowledge OF
their friends and relatives. A general
fire alarm was turned in few minutes
after the crash and then all the ambu.
iances in the city We're summoned. AS
quickly as possible the police and fire.
men formed reserve brigade and
ready hands assisted them to take out
the killed and wounded. In less than
an hour about twenty-five people had
been taken out and every few minutes
thereafter some still form would be
borne on stretcher from the building.
The following list of dead thus far
reported, with the name of the state
from which they were appointed, con-
tains twenty-five names, including one
unknown and one probable duplication,
only twenty ne bodies having been
taken from the ruins:
DR.. Nelson
George Allen Pennsylvania
George W. Arnold, Virginia
L W. Woody, New York.
Samuel p Bines. Pennsylvania
John Bossius, District OF Columbia
Arthur L Dietrich, Kentucky.
Jeremiah Daleyo,
James X. Fa:ln, Kansas
Joseph Gage Michigan.
David c. Jordan, Missouri
NJ NJ Jarvis, Michigan.
]. Boyd Jones Wisconsin
+. b LOTUS, New York
+. w. Maeder
b. F. Miller New York.
Howard S Miller, Ohio.
j. H. McFall, Wisconsin
+. G. Shul, Kansas.
William Schriever, Maryland
H. :. Wood.
FIN williams Wisconsin.
THE INJURED.
A. L. Ames. Iowa, skull fractured ana IN
jured internally
F. Calvert, MARYLAND, right leg fractured
S. J. Dewey, New York.
Lewis Dusapv.
George w. Davis. Missouri. scalp wound
n ID,
injured.
Washington FRYE, head hurt
W. s. Gustin, Ohio. left arm broken
DR. james H Howard, Maryland (colored),
scalp cut ind internal Injuries
C. T. Hathaway. Ohio.
JIM Hammer. Tennessee, injured in eye.
George Handy (colored). slight cut on head
Thomas Hynes, Missouri, SKULL fractured.
j G. Johns, leg badly cut.
w. Kuger, New Jersey. scalp wound
Clifton Love- Iowa scalp wound
William W. Lecture, District OF Columbia.
L. Leger Mississippi, head cut and injured
internally
G. NJ Mclaughlin, Tennessee.
up Mccormack, Wisconsin, depressed frae
ture OF ribs.
NJ McLachlan, leg broken.
II. NJ. Patrick, New York. cuts about head
and face.
Pody, police otiicer, injured after accident
G. T. Pruit.. Texas, scalp lacerated. &.
p. X Pennington Alabama, skull fractured
Charles Robinson, Colorado. slight injuries 10
head and back
j. A Stewart, cut about head.
F. f. Sims.
C d shadbolt, Missouri (colored), danger
ously injured
+. b. Smith, Tennessee.
r. Smith, Connecticut compound fracture
OF tue Skull
F.F Sans Illinois, cut about the head
William NJ Smith.
p q. Sommers, Ohio, ribs broken and heat
badly cut
John IL Thomas, Sedalia, No, arm broken.
C X Weber. scalp wound and confusion
back
TT worley. Tennessee. back sad legs in
jured-
James A. White, Georgia, cut on head ant
leg.
A. G. Yount, Pennsylvania, head cut and in
jured inteSpally.
A. c. Black, Indiana, fractured cheek bond
and arm
Charles J. Moore, District of Columbia, rib
broken and scalp wounds
B. f. Driscoll, New York, scalp wound, LEI
injured and injured internally.
J. A. Miller. District Of Columbia, both leg
broken between the knee and ankle
The general opinion is that the acci