Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-04-16
H0RK BEGUN YESTERDAY
Damolshing the Rear Portions Of the
Ruined Buildings,
A Formal Notice Served Upon
Greer 81 LANG at Their Request.
Boarding Up the Rice Building.
Speyer Bros. Removing.

In accordance with the contract en-
tered into Sunday between Mayor
Caldwell City Solicitor BOyce and
Chief Healy. on the part Of the city,
for the removal of the rear portions
of the Chapman and Hutchinson build
ings. HallOck Bros. put force Of men
at work on top Of the high walls yes
terday morning. and the work viii be
pushed right along The walls are
being carefully demolished all bricks
which can be gotten at without dam
ger 20 the w0rkmen being lowered
down TO the ground I'M square wooden
buckets, and are 90 be stacked up.
The lumber and joists viii be taken
ont in the same manner. The work
will occupy q week or ten days The
operations OF yesterday were not par
ticularly interesting. but still con-
siderable number OF people conHe-
gated about the ruins, and watched
every move with great interest
Yesterday afternoon the firm or
Greer < LANG requested the city au-
th0riies TO give them a formal notice,
setting forth the authorities desires
as 90 the south wall of their building,
and i'm conformity with this request,
City Solicitor B0yce prepared the fol-
lowing. which was signed by the
Mayor and Chief of the ire depart
ment. and served upon the firm by
Chief Healy.-
Wheeling. w. Va. April 10, 1895.
ITO Messrs. Greer d Laing.
Gentlemen The south wall Of
your building No. 1916 Main street,
Wheeling. ~. Va, is i'm dangerous
condition. You are therefore notified
to forthwith dism3ntle, rae to the
ground. and make the same safe.
yours respectfully,
"B. Il. CALDWELL, Mayor.
"F. J. HEALY,
"Chief Fire Department"
When CHIEF Healy served this no
tice. the firm expressed their entire
satisfaction with the requirements,
and the wall viii De taken down and
reconstructed It's removal WILL of
course. uecessitate the removal of
what remains of the north wall of the
Chapman building, and this, with the
contemplated destruction of the Rice
and Speyer buildings, will make
clean sweep of all the property and
walls damaged by the unfortunate dis
aster. and win probably run the total
monetary loss and expenditure be-
cause Of the collapse 20 considerably
more than the S150OO0 originally es-
timated Mir Johnson, the committee
in charge OF the Turner building, oc-
cupied Jointly by the firms
of Rice and Speyer, said yes
torday that the building would
come down and a new one erected in
It's place. Speter Bros. are removing
to the Jacobs & Iseuberg building, and
Rice & Co. are still engaged in the
transfer of the portion of their stock
i'm the best shape TO the Peabody
building. A force of men was set 10
work yesterday boarding up the blg
hole Knocked i'm the Rice building
The inside OF this house is a terrible
wreck, and a glance at it is enough to
discourage any but the most philan-
thropic and enterprising owner.
The funeral of Michael Koran, the
last Of the victims OF the disaster. took
place yesterday from st. JOseph's Ca
thejral. and the ediice was crowded
TO the doors, while hundreds were I'M
able 20 obtain admission The serv-
ices were conducted by Father NcDer-
mott. and were very impressive. The
A. o. II. societies of Wheeling and
Benw0od turned ont 10 the number of
one hundred and fifty headed 10y the
Opera House band. The pall-baarers
were Ncssrs. Michael McN0rrow,
James Corc0ran, VIM. r. p. Cr0gan,
Michael Tuuey. John Connell and
Daniel Corners. The Hiberuians sent
q splendid floral offerings i'm the shape
OF q harp. The iuterment was at Mt
Calvary.