Evening journal., 1895-07-11
ONE HUNDRED CRUSHED
Social Session Of the Ellxs Ends
In Disaster.
FLOOR OF TIE CASINO COLLAPSED.

FLOOR OF TIE CASINO COLLAPSED.
There We're a Thousand People In the
Building at the Zine ono Of the Vic
Tins Dies. ana the injuries Of others May
Prove Fatal.
ATLANTIC CRY, July 11.-The special |
session rendered by Atlantic City lodge to
tho visiting Elks at the Baltic Avenue
casino ended in q terrible disaster IN
which fully 100 persons were more or less
seriously injured.
The session had just opened and only
one Of the speakers had been heard when,
without the slightest warning, the build
ing, which has not been used for several
years, collapsed, and fully 1000 persons
were thrown to the door 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 beneath tho
banquet hall were crushed beneath tho
timbcrs and lay helpless. The fact that all
tho electric lights in the building went out
at the time the building gave way added
to The terrible situation.
A double alarm for the fro department
was at once turned in, and the city's on
tire force Of 200 liremen and every police
officer in the city were called to the scene
as q hospital corps. Thopolice ambulances
and carriages Of every description were
utilized to convey the injured to the City
hospital and to their hotels.
when the police and lremen arrived on
tho scene, the excitement was so intense
that they scarcely knew where to begin
first An immense crowd Of people had
been attracted to the place by the noise Of
the falling building aud the groans Of the
unfortunates who were pinned beneath
bricks and timbers. The strcets for sew
eral blocks were cholSed. The air was full
Of anxious inquiries for friends and rela-
tives who were thought TO have been in
the building Within few minutes the
police succeeded in clearing the space in
the immediate neighborhood Of tho build
ing and stretched ropes around to keep
the crowd back.
Digging Out the Injured.
In the meantime the fremen had set to
work to extricate the wounded from the
mass Of timbers, and they were aided in
their work by the hotel keepers and resi-
dents near the scene. Every house was
thrown open for the reception Of the in
iured, and every available conveyance was
pressed into service 20 carry them to theii
hotels.
Meanwhile physicians were on the scene
and were doing everything in their power
to aid the unfortunates who had beer
caught in the crash. As squiokly as the un
conscious form of victim was taken oul
Of the ruins willing hands bore it to thi
nearest place. and everything that surgi
cal skill could do to alleviate their suffer
ings was done.
The oxcltement amid the assembled
crowds was even greater than that in th
Immediate neighborhood sf the building
All sorts Of rnmors were rife. 1t was frs
reported that the building had caught fire
and that ia the consequent panic man.
lives had been crushed out. Then q rumo
came that the entire edi1co had collapsed
AS It had been generally known, how
ever TINT the social session OF the orde
had beon in progress in the building am
! that it would be in all likelihood the lara
est attended event Of the convention, AZ
most every now arrival upon the seen
was almost frantic with grief and anxiet
( for some relative or friend, Their feal
were 70 an extent quieted, however, who
/. | Il wns learned from good source that i
lives had been lost.
q In the excitement Of the disaster it W.
: almost impossible to procure accurate d
tails. The list Of the injured cannot
F, fully complied now, but the following a
tho more seriously injured:
List Of the Injured.
James J. Armstrong Of New York, bot
n legs broken.
4 engineer, injured internally
Charles w Tolwell, Camden, leg al
arm broken.
"a Antonio Claproth, Camden leg broke
IL Eckman, Camden, leg and arm br
Q ken
If Frank Bolton, clerk Of Hotel Traymor
ID this city, shoulder badly crushed and OF
a erwise injured.
IL Charles W. Foote Of Minncapol
nt MANNED and bruised.
T. Detective James Doyle of Minneapol
badly bruised and injured internally.
es James Armstrong, theatrical agent NJ
IN York city, exalted ruler of New Iof
Ii lodge No !, both legs broken.
lg Miss Armstrong, his daughter, aged
arm broken.
~ w. Lumbnrd, Boston, leg broken
10 Horace Arudt, East Orange, ~ j., ba
oe broken.
MAAlNti y army t'tt7tf' -1t ~ -
m timore, injured internally.
100 Mrs. kleischman, Philadelphia, hS
60 legs broken.
to G. M Foot, arm broken.
Nathaniel Duke, head and body hruis
Charles W Farwcll, Minneapolis, ~
n. broken.
va AZ number of the members of the u
re, nings band Of Camden, n. j. interna
ID, injured.
on Ihc members Of The Washington E
"a and thcir friends escaped without iniu
20 The first victim TO succuRib to his
ia iurics was Frederick Claproth of SIG IN
iv Der street, Camden. He died shortly ~
ne midnight at d neighhoring hotel to VIII
ng ho had boon conveyed.
ng Claproth had been in the crowd on
We lower floor Of The building when the cr
Nv came Hewas caught and pinioncd "a
tae under q mass of timbcrs, and when, a
oil. | great difficulty the police succeeded
extricating his body, Il was found
both his legs and arms had been brok
He never regained consciousness.
dc- IL IS now feared that other deaths
ser result, and it is g matter of wondern
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