The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-10
DEATH N 4 CRASH.
A War Department
Annex COllapSeS.
over 20 LIVES LOST.
Fifty Or Sixty Clerks On the
List Of Injured.
KNOWN 70 Be UNSAFE.
The Structure Thrice Con-
dGmned as Dangerous.
HISTORIC IN HORRORS.
The Building Formerly
FOrd's Opera House.
The Structure Thrice Con-
dGmnGd as Dangerous.
HISTORIC IN HORRORS.
The Building Formerly
FOrd's Opera House.

Lincoln Shot by Booth in One Of It's
Boxes-Meny Thrilling Escapes and
Appalling Soenes-Sections of the
Three Floors Left Clinging to the
Walls With Part of Their Occupants
Upon Them-The Ruins Soon Sur
rounded by Distracted Relatives of
the Victims-Measures for the Re-
lief of the Survivors-Weake of
the Foundation by Workmen the I'm
mediate Cause of the Catastrophe.
Washington, June "A flag floating at
half-mast over the old Fords opera house
advertises the terrible catastrophe which
befell a section of the war department
clerical force to-day. The Associated
Press will cover the main details and so
this dispatch will deal only with individ-
ual Georgians. AS far as can be ascer-
tanned five or six young fellows from that
state were employed in the wrecked
Office.
S. A. Moreland of Newman, a 81 200
clerk, escaped without injury through
window.
A. C. Black of Rome was badly hurt,
but is doing very well tonight Secretary
Hoke Smith is so much interested in
young Blacks welfare that he sent out
special messengers to learn about him.
A late evening extra reports jeff Carter
of Savannah among the saved.
AN ELBERToN MAN BADLY HURT.
w. Manley Grogan, young man whose
home is at Elberton, is badly crushed and
some fears are entertained that he may
not recover. He is the son of a clergyman
of Elberton.
Claude MCLAUGHLIN of Talbotton is Sc
verely hurt, but his injuries are not dan
gerous. His cuts and bruises are mostly
about his head. He is married and his
wife and two children are in the city.
r. E, Wilson, whose home the MORNING
News correspondent has failed to locate,
is another Georgian name on the missing
list
GRIFFIN MANS ESCAPE.
Another one of the severely injured is a
young Mr.. White of Griffin, whose arms
and hands were badly cut and bruised,
but he was discharged from the hospital
as soon as his injuries were dressed.
The killed and wounded will number
quite hundred.
A strange coincidence is that this his
toric old house collapsed on the funeral
day of Edwin Booth the actor whose
brother shot Lincoln within it's walls
nearly thirty years ago.
There has been no business transacted
in the departments to-day of consequence.
The whole city is in mourning and every
one feels depressed over the great
calamity.
MOSES has A CLOSE CALL.
Representative Moses narrowly escaped
being in the wreck. Along with Repre-
sentative Richardson of Tennessee, he was
just about to enter the building when the
crash came. He was on his way to see
Mr.. Mooreland, his constituent, who is
one of the clerks in the Office. With COM
mendable kindness of heart he has visited
all OF the injured Georgians, and sent tel
egrams to their absent kinspeople
CONDEMNED YEARS AGO.
BY the Associated Press.
Washington, June 9,-Another tragedy,
less national in character, but involving
the loss of many more lives and much
more human suffering, has stained the
walls of the old Ford theater, Washing
ton, where Abraham Lincoln was assas-
sinated by J. Wilkes Booth in April, 1868,
and the horrors of the scene are by no
means lessened by the knowledge that
blunder, surely in this case almost worse
than crime" had caused the death OF
from 20 to 80 persons, at least and IN
ticted fearful injuries upon so or 60 more.
UNSAFE FOR YEARS.
Evidence found in the official records
makes it appear conclusive that as long
ago as 1885 this building, which the gov
ernment purchased after Lincon's assas-