Little Falls weekly transcript., 1895-07-12
HUMID INJURE|:'D!' l d ] !
Sad Accident Mars the Social
0 Session Of the Eiks at Al
lantic City, N. J. M
CASINO BUILDING C0LLAPSEs.
"a Thousand in the BanQuet
Hall Precipitated to the
Floor Beneath. s1
SCORES Of UNF0RTUNATEs
Extricated From the Ruins and
.**s Conveyed to Hospitals
.,~~ and Hotels.
CASINO BUILDING CoLLAPSEs.
SCORES Of uNFoRTuNATlEs i s:

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July IL ny
social session rendered by Atlantic
City lodge to the visiting Elks at the
Baltic Avenue Casino, ended in a terri
bic disaster, in which 10 persons were
more or less seriously injured. The
session had just oI~ned aud only one one
&of the speakers had been heard, when,
without the slightest warning, the
building, which had not been used Tor
several years, col .apsei and fully LOCO
persons We're precip>tated to the floor
beneath. Many women, tue wives ol
the visiting E.ks, Went Gown in the
ruin. Fully 200 persons who We're On
the first floor OF the building, And I'M III
mediately beneath the banquet hal
were crushed beneath the tlmuerS, and
lay helpless. The ia t thas all the
electric lights i'll the building went ont 1t
at the time the building gave way.
... Added to the Confusion. ,ss.-- NH
An alarm was Immediately turned -
and the city's force OF 20U firemen and md
every police officer in the city were
called to the scene as hospital corps.
The police ambulance and carriages ~
every description were utilized to con.
vey the injured to the hospital and to
the hotels. When the police and fire.
men arrived on the scene the excite
ment was SO intense that they scarcely
knew where to begin first An iml. I'M.
mense crowd of people had been az
tracted to the place by the noise Of the
falling building and the groans Of the
unfortunates, who were pinned be-
meath bricks and timbers. Wlthina q
few minutes the police succeeded M1
clearing the space in the immedia
neighborhood Of the building all1
placed ropes around to keep the crowd
back the meantime the freMsl nj
sis Had seF 5to work Us extricate Tie
wounded from 4. N =. &. n i.$:zS .$5#S ass
Beneath the Mass Of Timbers,
and they were aided in their work BY
the hotelkeepers and residents near the
scene. AS quickly as the unconscious
forms of the wounded were taken out,
willing hands bore them to the nearest
place, and everything that surgical
skill could do to alleviate their suffer
ings was done. The list Of the injured
cannot be fully compiled at present
but the following are the more seri'
riously injured:
James j. Armstrong, New York, both
legs broken. r. 81
Mayer Wolfe, Antlantic City, injured
internally.
Charles w. Tolwell, Camden, leg and
arm broken. %%
Frederick Claproth, Camden, legs and
arms broken.
P. Eckman, Camden, leg and arm
broken.
Frank Bolton, Atlantic City, shoulder
crushed and otherwise injured.
Charles w. Foote, Minneapolis, manned
and bruised. &5 "a a--
Detective James Doyle, Minneapolis
badly bruised and injured internally.
The First Fatality.
The first victim to succumb to his in
juries was Frederick Claproth Of Cam
den, N. J. He died shortly after mid
night at neighboring hotel to which
he had been conveyed. It is now
feared other deaths will result, and it
is a matter Of wonder that more per-
sons who were on the under floor were
not killed outright. The news Of the
disaster spread with such rapidity that
by midnight messages were being re-
ceived from anxious relatives Of visit
ing Elks in all parts Of the country.