The morning times., 1895-08-10

IN the northeast corner of the structure,
when with a loud cracking report it broke
in Two at its very center Walter Fisher, a
brother iron worker, who was nearest to
the-uufortunate man, saw him u S he went
whirIing down to his death
Great Godr' exclaimed Fisher, there
goes Beach, and he's killed"
The other workmen on the seventh story
near the Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh
street corner were William Keys, Daniel
Benson aud Isaac Lamford They heard
Walter Fishers cry, and looking dow IL
ward, saw Beach in his awful descent
As be went down he turned over and
over, his body bounding from one iron
beam or girder 10 another, until the first
floor was reached. There he hung limp
and lifeless over one of the redpaiuted
girders.
TURNED sOMERsAULTs.
In striking tie beams lin the descent 10
his death every bone III BeaCh's body was
broken. his skul crushed, his chin nearly
cut off, several ghastIy wounds made in
the head, from which blood spurted IN
reach Beach was q workman named Nc
Key He found him doubled across the
la0m. blood pouring from bis II, oUth and
the awful gashes on the head.
Some orc set up Ihout and the other
workmcn flocked about the corpse and
lowered il from the girder. Tae effects OF
ihe terrible buffeting t3e body had re-
ccived by being dashed against the nu-
nYcrous beaIns ia liz whiriiTg descent, could
then be plainly seen. II was as Imp as
a rag and tbe almost puiyerIzed bones
ground together and ratified as the corpse
was stretched upon board and removed
from the interior of the building To the
yard Beach struck the last beam sQuarcly
! on his stomach. and had il not been that
the force OF tie descent had been broken
! by the Intervening girders, Ae would no
doubt have been cut in two.
A hurry cau was sent TO the Emergency
/ Hospital and the First precinct station,
/ just around the corner of Twelfth street
/ When the patrol wagon, in charge OF
/ Policeman Sprinkle and Samuel Cock ar
rived, II was found that the Emergency
| ambulance was rot needed, and ii was
turned back. Sprinkle conveyed the body
10 the morgue, w.lcrc il presented a CORY
appearance as it lay upon the cooling
! board.
As soon as possible after the accident Mr
! j. W. Knsey, superintendent of the new
! pJsloffjce building sent teicg ram To th'
faJherof the dead man, Richard Beach, who
/ lives at No. sol Remington avenue, Bal
Unlore, announcing the sad occurrence
! and asking what disposition should be
| made OF the remains. Deceased wa $ about
twenty-three years of age, and unmarried
/ His grandmother resides i'll this city, bu
he has few acquaintances here. He haC
| been working on the building less than fou
weeks.
Superintendent Kinsey saw Beach il
his descent from the dizzy height. H
said the man was turning somersaults il
the air, and crashing from one beam t.
another. The sight was too much fo
him, and he turned his head away befor
the body reached the first floor.
MANY FATAL ACCIDENTS.
The new postoffice building has already
received a pretty thorough baptism il
blood. The first accident occurred oI
October 3, 1894, when John P. Quill, {
painter, fell from the second floor To til,
basement, breaking his left leg.
The second accident, two months later
was a fatal one A three-ton stone fe
upon and crushed the life out Of Pete
Nelson while he was at work in the tower
On December 6, 1894, William Fielde
fell from a scaffoid on the third floor t
the basement, and was so badly injure
that he died soon thereafter.
A few weeks later colored man fal
from the second story to the basement
| He struck head foremost on a heavy timber
The man was only stunned, and resumes
work on the building the same day.
On October 8, 1894, S. w. Cook, an iror
worker who was subject to vertigo, fel
from the third floor TO the basement. Th
/ was at 10 O'Clock a. n, and the injured
man was hurried to the Emergency Hos
/ pitaL There it was found that his only ap
parent injury was blue mark about hi
left temple. After the noon hour he re
turned TO the building and wanted to g
| to work. he was told to return to the hos
pitaL He did so, and growing worse, died
in great agony at O'Clock in the afternoon
Coroner Hammett viewed the remains o.
Mr.. Beach at the morgue about o'clocl
last evening. He will carefully inyesti
! gate the circumstances attending the &C
cideut this forenoon