Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-04-05


pipes aoitsp---. Letting Loo-. n Million
aud . Half Gallons Of Water
PEORIA. Ill, March 5i--A few min
utes after 10 o'clock yesterday morn
Ing the Peoria Water Co. tower. To-
Gated at the corner of South Bouriand
aud College streets. fell with a deafen-
ing crash. carrying death and destruc-
ton in it, wake. One boy was in
stantly killed and fifteen persons in
Iured, of HON several with die. The
property DESTROYED i'll ent1il a lo-s
at the lowest calculation OF 1000.
and is distributed among a dozen dif-
ferent persons
The casualties were As follows:
KILLED.
Frank Hogan. "a years old, body cut
in twain.
Frank Caldwell. leg broken in four
places and injured internally; will die
Rallo King. cut about the head and
face.
Charles Lit;lefeld. cut about ths
head.
Howard Anderson, shoulder broken
aud cut and bruised.
Clyde Powell, leg broken and injured
internally.
Charles Needham, badly cut aud
bruised
Frank Caddon. hurled from a bicycle
and through a barb-wire fence.
W. d Norris, fearfully cut in the
right temple, can not survive
John Huber. badly injured internally.
Alfred Gross, injured internally.
William Kennedy. believed to be IA
tally injured.
Mrs J. Il Trapp. severity bruised
Hazel ISom. slightly injured.
Bertha Norman, injured about the
head
Mrs William MeGrath. bruised
The company had sent a force Of
men to the tower Ia repair a leak
which was noticed halfway Ia the top
of the Iz0-fOot structure. The tower
had a diameter of IN feet and a capacity
of i,S0o, 900 GALLONS. IL was supposed
to be one Of the strongest standpipes
in the entire country. II was built
some four wears ago ct solid steel. The
plates at the base were seven-eighths
Of an inch in thickness and tapered to
n quarter az the top. At the time %
tbs accident there was only a pressure
Of ~ pounds 70 the square ineh at the
base. though the stlndpipe was
built 70 withstand fully six times this
mount. There was No warning. a
succession % reports sounding like
rapai discharges Of a revolver being
( quickly followed bv the falling Of the
tower.
None Of the workmeu could escape,
and neither could a number Of boy.
who were playing base ball at the base
Of the immense pipe r. was among
thstI that the greatest amount of in
jury occurred. Prank Hogan wa.
caueht By a By plate Of steel and pin.
ionesi - the ground Ills death wa.
instantaneous. the body being cui
nearly IN ttrc- IL was necessary 10 dig
out the remains They were taken q
his home a hlac< away. where they
were taken in charge by the coroner.
II i almost a certainty that Frank
Caldwell viii die. Frank CIddou was
blown from 4 bicycle lie was hurried
through a barb-wir~ fence and was Sc
vereIy cut and bruised.
W. n Norris. John Huber. AIfre,
Sss and William Kennedy were ter
ribly injured. and il seems impossibl,
for Kennedy to get we'll lie was badil
squeezed about the chest. and has NOR,
than twenty wounds Mrs J. T. Trapy
was in the yard at the time Her HON.
vas totally destroyed She was thrown
into the nest yard and under a house
Her ehild vas asleep in a cradle. ans
was not even awakened
Hazel lsOra- whose parents resid.
next daor. was thrown many feet an,
badly hurt The house was also de
melishei in part
Jesse Norman's barn was totally de
stroyed and his house moved from IL
foundation His daughter Bertha.
yearsot age. was severely Injured aboui
the head.
VIM McGrath's house was moves
fully 10 feet from its foundation ans
every doo-. window and blind removed
Mrs Nesira,h was struck By a falling
door and severely injured
Wa Stewards house. NEXT door. wa
torn from its ~moorings and badly dam
aged
Other houses in the neighborhoos
were partially wrecked. trees were M
rooted and great destruction Of ever
kind followed
so quickly was il all done that ever
the witnesses Of the affair are able 4
tell but little concerning Il The waite
works people can assign no reason 70
the accident other than il must hav,
been the result of the ice of last win
ter. They rave been opposed u III
stand pipes from the first. and only pu
them in at a demand Of the city eoun
ell. 1t IS not expected that the pip.
will ever be rebuilt. and il i though
the other of similar capacity on tn
east bluff will be removed immediate
". There is really no necessity Of
stand pipe owing To the large reservoi
of the company
n. During the progress Of the food con.
sequent upon the letting loose of 81
much water many cellars and base
ments were flooded. aud in some eases
the water eneroached upon the IRIS
floors OF residences. damaging carpet.
AID furniture.
Sine Lives Lost by snow-SIides on Canyos
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