The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-07-18
A HUNDRED INJURED
SAD ACCIDENT MARS THE SOCIAL
SESSION OF THE ELkS

At Atlantic City, n. J.-Casino Ruildins
Collapses-A Thousand in the Banquet
Hall Precipitated to the Floor Beneath.
Scores of Unfortunates Extricated From
the Ruins and Conveyed to Hospitals
and Hotels.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. July 1a.-The
social session rendered by Atlantlc
City lodge to the visiting Elks at the
Baltic Avenue Casino, ended in terri
BILE disaster. in which 100 persons were
more or less seriously injured. Inc
session had just opened and only one
of the speakers had been heard, when'
without the slightest warning, the
building, which had not been used 1or
several wears, collapsed and fully 1000
persons were precipitated to the moor
beneath. Many women, the wives OF
the visiting Elks, went down IN the
rpin Fully 200 persons who were on
the first floor OF the building, and I'M
mediatelv beneath the banquet hal
were crushed beneath the tlmbers, ana
lay helpless. The fact that all the
electric lights in the building went out
at the time the building gave way,
Added to the Confusion.
An alarm was Immediately turned In
and the city's force of 200 tlremen ana
every police officer In the city were
called to the scene as a hospital corps.
The notice ambulance and carriages OF
every description were utilized to con-
yey the injured to the hospital and TO
the hotels When the police and nre-
men arrived on the scene the excite
meut was so intense that they scarcely
knew where to begin first. An I'M
mense crowd of people had been at
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. Within a
few minutes the police succeeded In
clearing the space in the immediate
neighborhood of the building and
placed ropes around to keep the crowd
hack In the meantime the firemen
had set to work to extricate the
wounded from
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.
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.
Detective James Doyle, Minneapolis,
badly bruised and in ured 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 a neigh boring hotel to which
he had been conveyed. 1t is now
feared other deaths will result, and it
is a matter of wonder that more per-
sons who We're OH 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 i'll all parts of the country.