The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-11

alley wall had anything to do with tho
disaster. lilo said that como time ago
MIR. Hutchinson thought perhaps tho
building was overloaded on the upper
iloors, and no got an architect to Wait
and inspect tho building. Mr.. lIallor
was not uuro who tho architect was. lilo
gave 1t as his opinion Mt that timo thu.
tho building was perfectly safe, and
said each floor would readily boar q
burden Of $4,000 pounds. On tho ton
floor there was a car load Of spokos and
nearly n car load Of rims, In all loss
than 10000 pounds. There was no
heavy metal stufl on any Of the upper
floors. Tho firm had always boon eau.
tious about overlooking tho building,
and Mr.. Aallor said no had no othor
idea than that the block would DO
standing to-day II tho Chapman wall
had not givon way first.
Yesterday strong eirdors wero taken
into the upper stories Of tho Rico & Co.
building, to DO uaed in bracing tho UP.
por tloors, weakened by tho breach in
tho north wall. 1t was reported that
this building was so seriously damaged
that it would have TO DO torn down and
rebuilt almost completely. Tho dam.
aged stock from all tho buildings was
nearly all removed yesterday and haul.
cd away,
THE WORK YESTERDAY.
Yesterday tho fire department did not
have as hard work as tho day before, al.
though the fro was.ovideutly still smol-
derins in tho ruins. Tho brick and
other debria were removed from the site
OF tho ruined buildings by n large force
Of mon aud piled up on Main street,
whence wagons aud carts hauled tho
STUFF to tho city property north OF the
P, W. &ky. freight depot. There are
thousands OF good brick in tho mass,
aud these will nc doubt DO utilized. The
work OF o%xcayating tho mass Of brick
and mortar was necessarily allow. in
spite OF the large forco employed. and
the progress madein the elor. to roach
the three dead bodies still in the ruins
was scarcely percoptible. Mos. OF tho
large timbers have been pulled out, and
what remains Is mainly bricks and NOR.
Tar, the removal OF which is necessarily
slow.
Last night work was suspended
by the tiromeu for the first time
since the buildings fell. Tho hose
was lett attached to tho plugs for
use III the case OF emergency. but the
engines were sent back TO their houses.
Late last night the ruins were still
smoking and there WAS evidently fire
among them somewhere.
THE %coRoSER's JURY.
Yesterday morning County Coroner
Schul,ze again convened the jury he
~impaueled on Tuesday. and the mem.
bers formally viewed the body OF Rev.
Father Parke, at tho Cathedral, and
that Of Harry Cowl, recovered early yes
terday morning. No testimony was
heard. and in both cases q simple YER
dict Of death by accident" was rem.
dered. This was done only to permit
the issuing Of a death certificate by the
As soon as all the bodies are
recovered Coroner Schultze will call the
Jury together to hear the evidence rs 10
the cause Of the accident, with a view
to fixing the responsibility for it, il
possible.
It is hard 70 guess how long it will
take to reach the three dead bodies still
hurled i'll the Hutchinson buildings
ruins. The story that Koran was able
to talk to the people about the wreck
while he was beneath the debris is SIM
ply ridiculous. His body. as well as
those OF Birch and Wincher, we're
caught beneath tons Of brick, lumber
and mortar. The report that he was
able TO talk to those outside doubtless
originated in the confusion resulting
from the accident, when Ford, who was
rescued, was frequently taken for
Koran. It is probable that death came
with merciful promptness to all. The
position in which Rev. Father Parke's
and Harry Cowl's bodies were found
would indicate that they had not more
than time to realize their danger until
all was over, and to those in the build
ing the end must have come as sud-
denly.
THE INJURED
Last evening N. J-Ford, who was
rescued from the ruined buildings two
hours after the accident aud taken to
the North Wheeling hospital. was re-
ported TO be getting along very well.
He suffered considerable pain, but con
siderins the awful experience he went
through and tho narrow escape he had,
was in pretty good shape.
Mr.. TT. Hutchinson was also resting
comfortably yesterday. His injuries
are not at all dangerous. although ex.
tremely severe for a man OF his age, and
he will probably be laid up for some
time.
Mr.. 0. L Williams, one OF those who
was hurt by the falling bricks, proved to
be moro severely injured than was at
first supposed. He was taken from his
home on Thirteenth street to tho City
hospital yesterday forenoon. His worst
injury seems to be tho spraining OF his
back, though his head is pretty badly
cut and he has many serious bruises.