The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-06-16
A DEAD FALL.
Collapse of a Historic Building al
Washing ton.

Collapse of a Historic Building al
Washington.
The Old Ford Theater, Used by the Cow
eminent Pension Once. Goes Down
While Filled With Cierks-Mors
Than . Score Killed.
WASHINGTON, June 1O.-The historic
Ford's theater, where 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 at first >. to the number
killed and injured, as it was thought
the whole force of AIS went down in
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 precil-
itated to the floor below and the weight
of falling timber and furniture carrie
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 a few minutes
after the crash and then all the ambu-
lances in the city were 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 a 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 proba BILE duplication,
only twenty-one 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. Pagan, Kansas.
Joseph Gage, Michigan
David c. jordan, Missouri
NJ. NJ. Jarvis, Michigan
j. Boyd Jones Wisconsin
F. LOTUS, New York
F. w. Maeder
B. F. Miller, New York.
Howard S Miller, Ohio.
J. H McFall, Wisconsin.
E. G. Shull, Kansas.
William Schriever, Mar land
H. S. Wood
F. NJ Williams Wisconsin
THE INJURED.
A. L. Ames. Iowa, skull fractured and in
jured internally
F. F. Calvert, MARYLAND, right leg fractured
S. j. Dewey, New York.
Lewis Dusapy.
George w. Davis. Missouri, scalp wound
H b. Esterling, Fort Scott Kan, seriously
, injured.
Washington Frye, head hurt
w. S. Gustin, Ohio. left arm broken.
DR.. James H Howard, Maryland (colored),
scalp cut and internal injuries.
C. F. Hathaway, Ohio.
J. N. Hammer, Tennessee, injured in eye.
George Handy (colored). slight cut on head.
Thomas Hynes, Missouri skull fractured.
J. G. Johns, leg badly cut
W. Kugler, New Jersey, scalp wound.
Clifton Lowe, Iowa, scalp wound
William w. Lecture, District of Columbia.
Z. Leger. Mississippi, head cut and injured
internally.
G. NJ Mclaughlin, Tennessee
]. P. Mccormack, Wisconsin, depressed frac-
ture of ribs.
NJ. McLachlan, leg broken.
R M. Patrick New York, cuts about head
| and face.
Pody, police officer, injured after accident.
G. T. Pruitt Texas, scalp laccrated.
P. X. Pennington Alabaml, skull fractured.
Charles Robinson Colorado. slight injuries in
head and back
J. A. Stewart, cut about head.
C D ShaGholt, Missouri (colored), danger
| ously injured
F. b. Smith, Tennessee
r A Smith, Connecticut compound fracture
| of the skull
F. F. Sans, Illinois, cut about the head
! William NJ Smith
| P. U. Sommers, Ohio, ribs broken and head
| badly cut
John H. Thomas, Sedala, Mo, arm broken
| c. k Weber. scalp wound and confusion of
| back
N T. Worley, Tennessee, back and legs in
jured.
James A White, Georgia, cut on head and
| leg.
| A. G. Yount, Pennsylvania, head cut and in
jured internally.
A. C. Black, Indiana, fractured cheek bone
and arm.
| broken and scalp wounds
B. F. Driscoll, New York, scalp wound leg
| injured and injured Internally.
| J. A. Miller, District of Columbia both legs
| broken between the knee and ankle
The general opinion is that the acct
dent was caused by directly weakening
of the already weak structure by rea-
SON of excavations made beneath it for
an electric lighting system. 1t was
stated that several days ago the clerks
in the building circulated petition
protesting against this work being
continued, as they considered that
it imperiled the lives of every man
who was working in the building.
Complimentary to West Point.
| WASHINGTON, June 10.-Representa-
tive Cockrell, of Texas, who is brother
of the Missouri senator of that name,
has failed to appoint any candidate for
admission to West Point from his dis
trict and his people are wroth- Mr..
Cockren is charged with the belief that
West Point is dude factory that should
be closed up. There arc considera BILE
number of young men from his district
who would be glad of the appointment.
The chance to hire oneself at $40 a
| month room and hoard IN pef an adu.