The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-11
Floor Of the Casino BuildinE Gave
Why and About 1000 Persons Fell
to the Room Beneath.
OVER 100 MORE OR LESS HURT
NO INDIANAPOLIS PEOPLE IN THE
LIST OF WOUNDED.
The Warning Factions Of the Order
United at the Business Session
Of the Grand Lodge.

cial session rendered by Atlantic City Lodge
to the visiting Elks at the Baltic-avenue
Casino. tonight. ended in a terrible disas-
ter. 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 slight
est warning, the building, which has not
been used for several years. collapsed, and
fully 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
beneath the banquet hall were caught in
the wreck. The fact that all the electric
lights in the building went out at the time
the building gave way added to the terrible
situation double alarm for the fire de-
partment was at once turned in, and the
city's fire force Of 200 men and every police
officer in the city were called to the scene
as hospital corps. The police ambulances
and carriages OF every description were
tails and to their hotels.
When the police and fremen arrived the
excitement was so intense that they scarce
ly knew where to begin first. An immense
crowd Of people had been attracted to the
place by the noise of the falling building
and the groans of the unfortunate who were
pinned beneath the bricks and timbers. The
streets for several blocks were choked The
air was full of anxious inquiries for friends
and relatives who were thought TO have
been in the building. Within few minutes
the police succeeded in clearing the space
in the immediate neighborhood of the build
ing and placed ropes around to keep the
crowd back. In the meantime the firemen
had set TO work to extrcate the wounded
| from beneath the mass of timbers and they
were aided in their work by the hotel keep
ers and residents near the scene. Every
house thrown open for the reception of
the injured. and every available convey
ance was pressed into service to carry them
| to their hotels. Meanwhile physicians were
| on the scene and were doing everything In
| their power TO aid the unfortunates who had
been caught in the crash. As quickly as the
unconscious form of a victim was taken
| out of the ruins willing hands bore 1t to the
nearest house and everything that surgical
| skill could do to alleviate suffering was
| done
| The excitement amid the assembled
! crowds was even greater than that in the
| immediate neighborhood of the building.
All sorts of rumors were rife, 1t was first
| and that in the consequent panic many lives
| had been crushed out. Then a rumor came
| had been generally known, however. that
| the social session of the order had been in
progress in the building, and that It would
convention, almost every new arrival on
| the scene was almost frantic with grief and
anxiety for some relative or friend Their
fears were. to an extent, quieted, however,
| when it was learned from a good source
| that no lives had been lost. In the excite
4 af ba cfe fefs W
| BILE to procure accurate details. The list of
| the injured cannot be fully compiled to-
night, but the following are the more serf-
/ ously injured:
MAYOR WOLFE, Atlantic City, light
| house engineer, injured Internally.
| CHARLES w. TOLWELL, Camden, leg
AIT FREDERICK Ell cLAPRoTH, Camden, leg
p. REcKMAN. Camden. leg and arm
FRANK BoLTEN. clerk of Hotel Tray.
more this city. shoulder badly crushed and
0trfLxFII cHARLEs as;'' ". FooTE. Minneapolis.
maimed and bruised.
! lis, badly bruised and injured internally.
| JAMES ARMSTRONG. theatrical agent
New York city, TX eSalted lied ruler hrnre OF New York
| MISS ARMSTRONG, his daughter, aged
eleven. arm broken.
| w. LUMBARD, Boston, leg broken.
| HORACE ARUDT, East Orange, N. j..
| WILLIAM BARNEY, baseball manager,
Bs1@0rff MRs fnfscaas nisGsa GtsrnfS PSSadepna both
! legs broken
G. NJ. FooTE. arm broken; -.
! NATHANIEL DUKE, head and body
CHARLES W. FARwELL. Minneapolis.
MONROE s. WAINWRIGHT, New York.
CERo PRESTO, Camden
| ANTONIO DIAMOND. Philadelphia.
1 N j.
MRs.. HELEN n: RoGERs. Camden.
! MRS. j. ROCKWELL. Philadelphia.
| LEOPOLD FREY, New York.
HENRY CORNEY. wife and child. Phila-
MRS. LIvEsLY and daughter. Phila-
MD, NJ D. BARRINGER. New York.
MiSS FREDENTHAL. Philadelphia.
| MISS CURING. Detroit.
MRS. ALICE ALLEN. Brooklyn.
MBs B L e PkAcIAPEi IA APEi BrSs1kllyn; Rs1,lmore
! ph MEfvIILE FL. ! IL .f1s JANSEN. Philadelphia.
MRS. JANSEN. Philadelphia.
MRs. w. MINNS. Camden.
}6sEPa 6 WiTzMAN WTiysNsS,da R9ilaaslpsIa ei,EsSarr
| LEE FRYE. Philadelphia.
| CHARLES u. SHERIFF. flttsDurS.
! MRS F. CONLIN. Rochester
MRS. HENRY HERRING. Rochester.
| MRS. RUDOLPH CHASER. Pittsburg.
| MISS. CORNEIIA CHASER. Pittsburg.
/ MRS F. NJ NEsWRERY. Pittsburg
| FRED SHI-LTIS, Pittsburg.
1 A. b. CONN, New York.
MRS. JAPHA. New York.
| NJ RICHMOND BERINGER, New York.
/ MRS FLEISCHMAN. Philadelphia.
| WILLIAM HENRY RIGA. New York.
| Jennie ROCKWELL. Philadelphia.
| MR. GARDNER. Philadelphia.
MRS L.. FREY, Philadelphia. rs
The first victim TO suceumb to his injuries
! was Frederick Claproth, of S46 kimber
| street Camden. He died shortly after mid
| night at a neighboring hotel TO which ne
1 had been conveyed. Claproth had been in
/ the crowd on the lower floor of the building
| when the crash came. Both his legs and
/ arms had been broken. He never regained
consciousness.
Indianapolis People Escaped.
Late last nisAt the Journal received a
! dispatch from Hon. VIII L. English, saying
that no one from Indianapolis was seriously
| injured in the accident at Atlantic City.
ELks REUNITED.
Differences Of the Warning Factions
at Last Adjusted.