The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-11
A Feeling of Indignation Over
the Awful Disaster.
CORRECTED LIST OF DEAD.
Attention of Officials Called to the
Condition OF Public Buildings.
Many OF Those in Use in Washington,
Notably the Government Printing
0nice, Are Observation-Disclosures
o: the Patent Office Questioned

WASHINGTON, June 10.-The sad re-
suits OF The downfall of the cid Ford s
theatre furnished the principal topic OF
conversation all day. The opinion was
unanimous that there was. blame some
where for the shocking fatality, and many
men echoed the words Of DIR. Bartlett that
the accident was not one the responsible
ity for which could be laid upon God.
The more the matter was discussed, and
>thefarther along the work of clearing
away the debris progresses, the more evil
dent this becomes.
This morning the uninjured clerks in
the doomed building were about the
scene of the disaster discussing the situa-
tiou and holding little indignation meet
lngs. 1t was evident that feeling run
very strong among them, and many were
loud in their expressions of condemnation
for officials of the government who
herded them together IN such a building.
Colonel Stewart, superintendent of
construction of the new city postofhce.
seemed TO think, rs others do, that the
whole trouble came from a weakening of
the structure caused by excavations IN the
front part of the basement. There was
no decrease in the general feeling of in
dlgnation that fills the city over the aw-
fui disaster. There is much comment
over the fact that not flag on any public
building was half-masted today.
Though there are persons known to
have been in the building still unac-
counted for, the reported death list was
increased only one beyond the number
given last night of twenty -four. Until
late last night workmen were engaged in
removing the wreckage of the building.
The broken desks were removed. the litter
OF papers and books gathered up and such
as were of value taken to places of safety.
The clerks who escaped gathered around
the wrecked building early, recounted
their experiences in the calamity. No
suitable building has yet been secured
and it will probably be several days before
work will be resumed.
Stories OF suffering and distress grow
ing out of the calamity are heartrending.
The coroner's jury was impaneled this
morning and will begin the inquest
Monday. An investigation will also be
made by the war department. Following
is a reorganization of the death list:
GEORGE o. ALLEN, of Pennsylvania
veteran OF the war; in the department
since 1865.
GEORGE NJ. ARNOLD, of Virginia,
colorcd leaves a widow.
SAAILEL p. BANEs, of Pennsylvania,
war veteran, leaves a family.
Z. w. Body, OF New York, no de-
tails.
JOHN BUssINs, OF Washington City,
war veteran, leaves a family.
j. Z. CHAPLIN, of South Carolina.
leaves a widow and three young children.
JEREMIAH DALEY, of Pennsylvania,
unmarried.
JOSEPH R. PAGAN, of Kansas. leaves 8
widow and two little girls in straitened
circumstances.
J. B. GAGE, of Micigan. war veteran,
leaves a family.
J. NJ. JARVIS, of Michigan. no details.
j. BOYD JONES, of Wisconsin, no de-
tails.
DAVID JORDAN, of Missouri, leaves g
family in poor circumstances.
FREDERICK B. LOTUS, of New Jersey,
more than thirty years in the government
service. leaves widow and six children.
J. IL. MCCALL, OF Wisconsin, eleven
yeas in the war department, leaves wife
and child.
f. w. OTTO. MAEDER, of New York,
leaves widow.
BENJAMIN f. MILLER, OF New York,
unmarried.
MICHAEL T. MULLEDy. of Louisiana,
no details.
BURROWS NELSON, of West Virginia, a
widow and five little children survive
him.
HOWARD S. MILLER, of Chic, no de-
tails.
VIM. ScERIEBER. of Maryland, no de-
tails.
EMANUEL GATES SKULL, of Kansas,
leaves widow and one child.
FRANK NJ. WILLIAMS, of Middleton,
Wis, unmarried.
NJ. NJ. Jarvis of Michigan who was
also included in the death list is reported
alive at his home in Anacosta. L. w.
Body of New York, reported in the list
of dead, escaped uninjured. This makes
the total number of deaths twenty-five.
There is also doubt about the death OF
Jarvis.
ATT this morning a. NJ. Gerar,t. from
New Jersey, died of his injuries. He
leaves wife and one boy.
Secretary Lamont arrived here this
afternoon and soon after he reached the
city he expressed desire to see Acting
Secretary Grant and Colonel Airsworth
and these officials visited him at the hotel
and had conference in regard to the fu-
ture action OF the department concerning
the calamity.
The records of the war department
chow that the collapsed theatre bri'ding
was for years known officially to be unfit
for human occupancy by reason not only
OF structural weakness, but also because
of its defective sanitary condition. This
frightful accident had called to the atten-
ton Of officials the condition of public
buildings which are said to be more OF
less unsafe.
An official of the treasury department
whose duties require him TO be much o.
the time in the department of justice,
said the weight resting upon the floors Of
that building was alarming to a man O.
nerves. The Winder building, occupied
by the war department and the second
auditor of the treasury, has been fire.
ouently criticised and the clerks who
work there assert that It is none too safe
The Busch building, which forms the
annex of the postoffice department, is
another of those structures about which
clings an unsavory reputation for safety
and the SUBSTANTIALLY of the patent
Office, q massive stone structure, is MOI
exempt from general criticism
The building in which the Office of the
sixth auditor of the treasury department
IS located, though new one, is so heav.
fly weighted with public documents anc
other material that the floors have sunk
from two to three inches already, and the
clerks are in constant fear.
There is no more dangerous trap in The
city than the patched up government
printing office, which has been from
time to time enlightened by wooded anS
SrOn supports. On its various floors ar,
stored tons of metal, printing materia
and millions of copies of bound books, &
say nothing of the 5000 employees wht
swarm within the wall In increasin;
danger of their lives.