The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-11

Atlantic City. \. J., July 10.--The social
session rendered by the Atlantic City
lodge to the visiting EIks at the Baltic
Avenue Casino this evening, ended in a
frightful disaster. Fully 100 persons were
more or less injured.
The session had just opened and only
enc Of the speakers had been heard.
when without the slightest warning, the
building, which has not been used for
several years. collapsed and fully a.
thousand persons were thrown to the
floor beneath.
Many women, the wives of the visiting
Elks, went down in the ruins.
Fully 200 persons who were on the first
floor of the building and Immediately be-
meath The banquet hall, were crushed be-
meath the timbers and lay helpless.
Pinned Under Debris.
The fact that all the electric lights in
the building went out at the time the
building gave way added to the confus-
ION. IN alarm was Immediately turned
IN. ana the city force of 2lO firemen and
every police officer in the city were called
TO the scene as d hospital corps. The
police ambulance and carriages of every
description were utilized to convey the
injured 10 the hospital and to their no
When the police and fremen had ar
rived on the scene, the excitement was
TO begin an immense crowd of people
had been attracted 10 the scene BY the
noise OF The falling building ana the
SlOdnS OF the unfOrtunateS who were
pinned beneath bricks and timber. The
streets for several blocks were choked.
The air was full of anxious inquiries for
friends ana relatives VINO were thought
TO nave been in the building. Within a.
lew minutes the police succeeded in
clearing the space in the immediate
nelgnbOrhOOd of the building and placed
ropes around to keep the crowd back.
Extricatine the Wounded.
In the meantime the fremen had set to
Work TO eXtricatc the wounded from be-
meath the mass Of timbers and they were
aided in their work by the hotel keepers
and residents near the scene. Every house
injured and every available conveyance
was pressed into service to carry them
TO their hotels. Meanwhile the physicians
were on the scene and We're doing ali in
their power TO aid the unfOrtUnates who
had been caught III the crash. As quickly
as the unconscious forms Of the wounded
were taken out willing hands bore them
10 the nearest place, and everything that
surgical skill could DO 10 alleviate their
sufIerCgs was done The excitement
amidst the assembled crowds was even
greater than that in the immediate neigh
borhOOd of the building. al sorts of rJ-
morS were rife. As it had been generally
known that the social session of the order
had been in progress in the building. and
that il would in all likelihood be the l9rg-
est meeting Of the session. almost every
new arrival upon the scene was almost
frantic with grief and anxiety for some
relative or TREND.
No Lives Lost.
Their fears were to an extent Quoted.
however, when II was learned from a.
good source that no lives had been lost.
In the excitement OF the disaster it was
almost impossible to procure accurate de
tails. The list Of the injured cannot he
accurately compiled tonight, but the fol-
lowing are the more seriously injured:
James 2. Armstrong, New York, both
Mayer Wolfe. Atl.utic City, lighthouse
engineer. injured internally.
Charles W TolWell. Camden. n. J., leg
Antonio Clapworth Camden leg broken.
?. Eckman. Camden, Les and arm
Frank Bolton. clerk in Hotel Traymor,
of this city. shoulder badly crushed and
otherwise injured.
Charles " Foote. of Minneapolis,
Mimi. manned and bruised.
Detective James W Doyle, OF Mlnne-
apolis, Mimi, badly bruised and injured
The terms upon which the order was
united provide that the constitution
adopted a Atlantic City last year be
submitted 70 the subordinate lodges and
If not ratified BY majority. then the
constitution Of Detroit viii be in effect;
that the nine lodges admitted by the
Jamestown faction he considered legal
and given new numbers In the case OF
the two PunZSutawney, Pa, lodges, one
of which is united with the jamestown
faction and the other with the Atlantic
City faction the grand exalted ruler was
directed to notify them to consolidate
All lodges that have paid their per cap
tia tax to the Jamestown grand lodge.
will be considered as paid to the regular
grand lodge. The question OF paying
bills incurred by the jamestown faction
was referred to committee.
officers will he elected tomorrow. Five
thousand Elks participated in the annual
parade this morning.