Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-20
Fall Of a Sixty-Foot Smoke Stack in
Chicago.
OVER A HUNDRED PERSONS HURT
Ex-District Attorney MiIcrist's Mar
row Escape.
MANY RUMORS CIRCULATED

CHICAGO, November 20.-A sixty-foot
steel smoke stack was torn from the Uni
versity Club building by the wind today.
and. crashing on to the skylight of the
Handy Abstract building. on Washington
street, drove a shower of two-inch glass
into the offices below, dangerously injuring
two men and cutting and bruising almost
every one of the 125 people in the offices.
The dangerously hurt are H. II. Handy,
president of the Handy Abstract Company;
c. o. Bostrict a clerk
Others who were seriously injured are
ex-United States District Attorney Thos.
MilCrist, Taylor IL. Snow, a real estate
dealer; G.. A. Tallman, clerk; j. y. Common,
clerk; Nj. ii. Brown, an attorney.
Ii Is not thought that either Handy's or
Bostrict's injuries would prove fatal, al
though both suffered severely from loss OF
blood.
The accident occurred just before noon,
when every desk in the abstract offices was
occupied and while large number of at
torneys and clients were transacung bus
mess there. The bfg skyiight, covering a
large portion OF the building, was protected
by strong and heavy steel netting. and
that alone prevented the heavy smokestack
from going through the roof.
Had IL done so large loss of life would
have resulted, as twenty-five or thirty
clerks were punched close together below
when IL struck. Ex-United States District
Attorney Alilcrist narrowly escaped death.
"A large piece OF glass struck him on the
SuOuluer, cutting ClOtncS anu
leaving long, ugly cash. AS it struck he
leaped to one side just as piece of the
skylight three feet square crashed down
eusew.seson the spot ~ mere he had stood
III. III. Handy. the millionaire president OF
the company, was cut iii dozen places.
A large fragment of glass grazed his head.
tearing a large wound lin the side of his
face, both hands and arms We're cut and
his right shoulder was cut to the bone.
The noise of the crashing glass aud the
cries of the alarmed clerks caused small
panic In the building. the tenants jamming
the corridors and stairways in their rush
for the street
Several young women clerks and stem
crushed in the crowd. but none were dan
gerously@ hurt A score of physicians were
called to dress the wounds. and carriages
and ambulances were called out to carry
away the injured.
1t was rumored that portion of the
building had collapsed. but examination
showed that the building was uninJured
aside from the breaking of the skylight.
portion of the falling smoke stack
struck the roof of the restaurant of William
Boyle. creating a panic among the people
at luncheon there. but no one was injured
The Handy building is handsome struc-
ture with a sixteen story front on WASH
ington street diagonally across from the
city hall The offices of the Abstract Com
pany are situated in a broad, one-story
addition running back to the alley in the
rear. The University Club building 'front.'
Ing on Dearborn street, is twelve stories
high. and the sixty feet of steel stack fall
Ing from its height of 112 feet struck the
one-story Handy addition with terrific
force.