Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-06-15

fortunatrS crowd began TO assemble in
and out of the hospital, many of them
being the wives. daughters and relatives of
the dead and injured Their weeping and
frantic cries for information were heart
rending.
As quickly as the surgeons. who were
shortly reinforced by the yonng men
graduates oil the city. could do so, they
examined and dressed the wounds. and
the injured we're then sent up stairs to
more comfortable quarters.
II WIS With great difficulty that the
policemen could Keep the relatives of the
| injured out of the building and while
! outside their agoniaing cries could be dis
| tiuctly heard by the poor unfortunates
| who lay helpless.
Priests and ministers were soon on the
| spot ana being ut once admitted repaired
| To- the cots Of the injured, where they ad-
mnlstercd spiritual consolation.
| Three men reached the hospital in a
| dying condition, SO badly injured that they
we're takrE from the dressing room and
| sent to the mOrgue, whore they shortly eX
| piIcd. Charles 5. Miller and J. Brad
Jones were among them, while the other
was young man of handsome appearance
aud about p years Of age. The first two
were horribly mutilated but the last one
did not bear an apparent trace OF even an
abrasion.
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stores adjacent to the accident similar
scenes We're being enacted.
In the meantime the work of rescue was
going bravely OH at the ruins.
TERRIBLE SCENES ENACTED.
The scenes are terrible. Some jumped
from the third floor. The walls are still
standing, but every floor is down and
every window blown out
The building has been condemned as
unsafe and unsuitable for the purpose for
which il was occupied for some time, but
sentiment has kept it unchanged. The
| floors were heavily loaded with the records
of the Pension division and Of the War
| Department The clerks employed there
| were all men.
THE FLOOR BENT UNDER THE TREAD.
1870 a. m.-One of the workmen, col
ored man who was employed in eXcavat-
ing the cellar and who escaped with only
| slight cuts, SAYS Fl told them yesterday
that the archway woGd fall for every
| time any one walked over the floor it
would bend. tell you was scared and
| got out just as quick as could. There
were 20 men at work with me. Deed |
don't know what became Of them"
| Every hospital in the city has now been
called into requistion to care for the
| wounded. As soon as possible complete
roster Of the clerks III the building will be
| sent with names of dead and injured as
far as ascertained
EIGHT DEAD BoDIES TAKEN orr.
1O.45 n. m.-Eight dead bodies have just
| been taken out of the ruins. They have
not yet been identified.
General Schuiield has ordered two troops
| Of cavalry from Fort Myer, Just across tho
river, and two companies of infantry from
| the Arsenal to the scene of the disaster
The Secretary OF the Navy has ordered
out all the naval medical officers stationed
here, ana has also opened the Naval Hos
fital 10 receive the injured. The COM
mant at the Navy Yard has been ordered
to render all assistance in his power
EIGHTY VICTIMS IN THE Ruins.
/ 1850 o. MT is feared there are still S0
bodies under the ruins. Another man has
Just been taken ont dead,
Howard s. Miller OF Ohio, clerk in the
bureau, and an unknown man. horribly
mangled, have just been brought to tho
Emergency Hospital, dead
SOME or THE INSURED.
partial list of the injured at the Emer
gency Hospital is us follows Fred Cal
vert, Charles MGtCalf, 5, u. Dewey, William
Lecture, r. y Test, - kughler, Pen
nington. AmeS, Charles Il, Miller. c. H.
Hathaway. r. NJ Patrick. !, A. Stewart
+, F.Sms Louis busapy G.N.McLaughin
HEROIC EfFbhIS NJ hfSi Y u.
II a. m.-Thc remails of n young maj
not yet identified have Just been placed il
the morguc at the Emergency Hospital
This makes the number of aSceraincC
dead up to the present time IL, but every
minutes delay in removing those burict
under the ruins increases the probabilities
of fatal results.
There arc believed to he fully 60 clerk
still in the ruins. The most heroic ciiurt
| hai Ia Nv hn
to reach them. The cavalry have jus
gone to the scene to clear the streets
4 coLoRED CLERKS 5 HoRRlRLE DEATH.
George NJ. Arnold, colorcd clerk ap
pointed from Virginia, was seen at Il thirt
story window. lie was warned not I,
jGmp, but despite the protestations o
numbers of people, he climbed out am
lowering himself from the sill, let 60. III
fell upon IA covering at u lower door All,
slid OFF into the cobhle stoned alley striS
ing OH his head, instantly killing him. Hi
head was mashed TO Il Jelly and the cobbie
for distance Of several yards were bespat
tered with blood.
A YOUNG HERO SAVES MANY LIVES.
One of the bravcst and most daring inc
dents connected with the calamity wa
performed by a colored boy, 10 or 70 year
of age, named Basil Lockwood. As soon u
the floors collapsed and the dust cleare
away, realizing he danger Of those az tn
rear windows who were wildly climbin
out and calling for aid he climbed up To
large telegraPh Poie hs h,Hh as the tnit
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Assistant Secretary Of War Grant wa
r one of the first officials to visit the seen
of the disaster and Immediately CAV
| orders by telephone ard mounted meSSel