The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-11
ably fatal; ]. Melville Janson of Carncros

ably fatal; J. Melville Janson of Carncross
badly cut; Mrs. Janson, compound frac-
.ture of leg; Mrs. Anton Webber of Brook
lyn, back injured; Mrs. Henney, bruised
about the limbs and teeth knocked out;
John Throun of Baltimore, severe cut on
the head; James Long of Camden, a rev.
enue officer. nose broken Mrs. Will
liam W. Mines of Camden, fractured
elbow and badly bruised; Frank Wise
man, cornet-player, ankle fractured; ].
l.. T. Eckman, Mount Holly, N. j.,
barytone, ankle fractured; G. L. ]. Guest,
clarionet player, leg broken F. Demond,
internally injured; Frank Bolton, eye cut
and badly injured; DIR. Frye of Pom
County, Va, seriously bruised and bad
sprain of leg; C. F. Sheriff, shoulder and
knee badly bruised; Mrs. c. F. Sheriff, left
side injured; J. NJ. Newbury, foot badly
bruised; Mrs. William Lee, badly shaken
up; Mrs. R. CHASER, very seriously bruised;
Miss Colvin of Allegheny, Pa, head cut
and left limb bruised Mrs. Knox Little
of Newburg, N. Y, badly shaken up; Mr..
Lee, Camden, internally injured; Mrs.
James Armstrong, injured internally;
tured knee; Leopold Frye of Phila-
of jennings band. Camden, leg broken;
Mrs. Neill, wife of Frank Neill of Baltimore
Lodge, leg hurt, taken to the Mansion
House; Major Wolf, leg injured; Mrs D.
Uffel of Camden, sprained ankle; Mrs.
Morris A. Rogers and Mrs. William E.
Hustled, badly bruised about the body;
Byron w. Orr, editor of the Social Session,
ankle sprained; Mrs. Orr, ankle injured;
Horace Grant of Orange, N. j., leg broken,
head cut and badly bruised about the body;
Mrs. John D. Lenchner of Camden, seri-
ously injured and taken to Schauffter's;
William Treadwell of Boston Lodge. past
exalted ruler, seriously bruised, but in
iuries not dangerous.
By o'clock more than 1900 people had
gathered on the floor of the pavilion, an
| ticipating pleasant evenings enjoyment.
The bands attached to the visiting lodges
had given a fine concert, and Captain
Samuel Perry of the Atlantic City Lodge
had just begun the preliminaries of start
ing the social session. The night was
fine one, and as the strains of the music
floated out over the ocean, it seemed that
gathered together anywhere.
But there were several hundred people
who noticed the vibration of the floor, and
left the pavilion fearing that the great
weight would lead to its destruction and
| the consequent injury OF the merry makers.
Fearing to create panic, they quietly ap-
| preached some members of the visiting
lodges and discussed with them the ad-
visibility of bringing the affair to close,
SO as to relieve the floor of portion of the
weight.
| While they were talking the crash came.
A portion of the floor, about thirty feet
| square, located at the middle of the
pavilion and near the railing on the board
sidewalk, came tumbling down, bringing
along about 100 people. In a second the
electric lights on the second floor were
extinguished, but luckily those on this
floor kept burning long enough to permit
some of the panic-stricken people to get to
| the stairway, which remained intact, and
reach the board walk. Men, women and
children were jammed together trying to
escape by the stairway, while the victims
of the crash were screaming for aid to ex-
tricate them from the falling beams and
| timbers.
When the first feeling of panic had SUBJ
sided the surviving Elks gallantly rushed
to the rescue of their injured brothers and
| friends in defiance of the danger that con-
| fronted them, as they did not know the
| instant the remainder of the pavilion
| might bury them among the ruins.
| While the work of rescue was going on the
| lights on the first floor became extin-
guished and plunged the place in
darkness.
Men ran to the car barn of the trolley
road near by and obtained a number of
headlights from the cars. These were most
useful in assisting the work of the res
cuers.
In the mean time the people who were
seated in the vicinity of the break found
themselves in imminent danger of falling
through the hole. Indeed, some were
obliged to clutch the edge of the floor to
keep themselves from falling through.
Maurice A. Rodgers, ex-president of the
Senate of New Jersey, and member of
the Camden Lodge, was seated by the side
of his wife in the section that fell. Mrs.
Rodgers was precipitated to the ground,
sustaining only nervous shock. Senator
Rodgers had both hands caught between
| two beams and hung suspended in the air
| until released by some unknown person.
An alarm of fire was turned in, but when
| the tiremen arrived all the victims had
| been released. Before the arrival of am
| balances a number of omnibuses were
pressed into service to carry away the
wounded to their hotels or to the city hos
pital.
| Frederick Claproth, a member of Jen-
nings' band of Camden, died at the City
| Hospital late tonight as the result of his
| injuries.
WILL JOIN THE TRUST.