The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-06-17
TXV ENTY- ONE DEAD
TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE in 4
GOVERNMENT BUILDING.

The Old Theatre, Where Lincoln
Was Assassinated Collapses, Carry
ing Down Scores Of Government
Clerks = Twenty one Dead and
About Fifty Injured "A Day OF
Funerals.
WASHINGTON, June 9. Another
tragedy, less national in character, but
Involving the loss of many more human
lives and much more human suffering,
has stained the walls of the old Ford
theatre, Washington, where Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated by John
Wilkes Booth in April, 1865 Tt is a
coincidence also which will go into
history that this second tragedy &C.
CURED on the very day when the re
mains Of the great tragedian, whose
life was so darkened by his brothers
crime that he never visited Washing
ton afterwards, were being laid to rest
IN Mount Auburn (Mass..) cemetery.
The house in which Lincoln died, on
theatre where he was shot and which is
sentimentally kept intact as it was on
that fatal night, looked down upon
scene of
Agony, Excitement and Grief
which even the great crime of 1866
could not parallel.
There were about 475 persons, mostly
government clerks, employed in the
building and nearly all of these were
at work when the building fell. An ex-
cavation for all electric plant was being
made in the cellar of the structure,
3-story affair, and according to the best
information obtainable the workmen
had dug beneath the foundation sup
ports in frontof the building, weakening
them to such an extent that the walls
gave way before they could be jacked.
Men who were in the building say the
crash came without warning. Those
on the top floor We're suddenly precipi-
tated to the floor below, and the weight
OF falling timber and furniture carried
the second and first floors with it, For.
tunately, only the forward half of the
floors gave way. The outer ends OF the
floors and the rear part Of the structure
remained intact. Tie walls did not
fall.
TWenty-onc Bodies Recovered
The work Of rescue continued inces-
sanity all day and at 6 p. NJ. twent ty-
one bodies had been recovered and
taken TO the 1norgue. Four more per-
sons are reported dead whose names are
probably confused with those OF vic
Tins or their bodies confused with some
St banco fns 0oafs s thE2Hs nnsh J4hyHGar 81 yrga Fs
ported is about &C. but many others
who We're able to proceed to their
homes were hurt more or less badly.
The following list OF dead with the
names Of the states from which they
We're appointed contains "a names in
Guiding one unknown and one probably
a duplication, only u bodies having
been taken from the ruins:
UNKNOWN MAN, evidently a clerk
GEORGE q. ALLEN, Pennsylvania.
GEORGE M. <AR&O OLD, colored. Virginia.
l.. w. BOYD, New York.
SAMUEL p. l5AINES, Pennsylvania
JOHN BIYSSi1tS, District Of Columbia
Il. Nj. CHAPlN, :14ulil Carolina.
ARTHUR L. DIETRICH, Kentucky
JEREHi All DALEY, Pennsylvania.
| J. Il. FA'aAN, Kansas.
j. b. GA / 8, Michigan
DAVID T. JORDAN, Missouri.
NJ. Nj. JARVIS, AieltiGan.
J. b. JONES, Wisconsin.
| +. l5. LOTUS, New York.
Z. w. NIAEDER.
B. f. MILLER, New York.
II. S. MILLER, Ohio.
j. N. MCFELI, Wisconsin.
r I I:pl,;
| E. &. SKULL, Kansas.
! WILLIAM ssCiKIEYER, Maryland.
| H. S, WOOD.
! L. M WILLIAMS, Wisconsin.