The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-07-13
JOY TURNS TO WOE.
Terrible Disaster at an Elks Jolli-
fication In Atlantic City.
Gallery OF the Casino Building Fails, Pre-
eipifnfInx Hundreds Onto the Heads OF
Other Hundreds Below over
500 Hort~one Ia Dead.


ATLANTIC CRY, n. j.. July 1.-THE
social session rendered by Atlantic City
lodge 70 the visiting ell<s ~ the Baltic
avenue casino Wednesday evening
ended ia disaster In which fully ZOO
persons were seriously injnred. The
session had just been opened and only
one az the speakers Ind been heard,
when, without the slightest warning,
the building. which had not been used
for several years, collapsed and fully
LOCO persons were thrown 70 the floor
beneath. Many women, the wives OF
the visiting cllxs, fell in the ruins.
Fully 200 persons who were on the first
floor of the building and Immediately
beneath the banquet hall were crushed
beneath the timbers and lay helpless.
The fact that all the electric lights in
the building went out NJ the time the
building gave way added TO the con-
fusion.
An alarm was Immediately turned in
and the city's force of 600 flremen and
all the police officers in the city were
called to the scene rs IA hospital corps.
The police ambulances and carriages.
OF every description were utilized to
convey the injured 70 the hospital and
TO the hotels
When the police and firemen ar
rived on the scene the excitement was
SO intense that they scarcely knew
where TO begin. An immense crowd
had been attracted TO the place by the
noise Of the falling building and the
groans of the unfortunates who were
pinned beneath brick and timbers.
In the meantime the firemen had set
TO work to extricate the wounded from
beneath the mass of timber, and they
were aided In their work by the hotel
keepers and residents near the scene
Every house was thrown open for the
reception of the injured, and every
available conveyance was pressed into
service 20 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.
The list Of the injured cannot be full
ly complied, but the following are the
more seriously hurt:
James Armstrong. theatrical agent. New
No. |; both logs broken.
Miss Armstrong;. his daughter aged III arm
broken
w, Hubbard, Boston; leg broken
Horace Aruat. East Orange. y. j.; back
broken.
William varncy. baseball manager. Da,ti-
more; injured internally.
Mrs. Fieischman. Philadelphia; both legs
broken.
Nathaniel Duke; body bruised
Charles w. Fnrwell, Minneapolis: nose
broken.
Mayer Wolfe. Atlantic City, lighthouse en-
glneer injured internally
Charles W, Tolwen. Camden; leg and arm
broken
Frederick Claproth, Camden leg brokon.
T. Eckmnn. Camden leg and arm broken.
Frank Bolton clerk OF Hotel Traymore, this
city; shoulder badly crushed and otherwise
Charles w. Foote, OF Minneapolis; manned
and bruised
Detective James Doyle. OF Minneapolis:
badly bruised and injured Internally.
numter Of the members OF jennings band
OF Camden, n. j.. internally Injured.
The first victim 60 succumb 20 his in
juries was Frederick Claproth, OF $40
kimer street, Camden. He died short
~ after midnight at neighboring ho-
tel. 10 which he had been con-
veyed. Claproth had been in
the crowd ON the lower floor
of the building when the crash
came. He was caught and pinioned
under q mass Of tinbers, and when.
after great difficulty, the police suc-
cecded in extricating his body, it was
found that both his legs and arms had
boon broken. lie never regained con-
sciousncss.
II is now feared other deaths win re-
suit. and it is n matter OF wonder that
more persons who were on the under
floor were not killed outright. The
news of the disaster spread with such
rapidity that by midnight messages
were being received from anxious rela-
tives of visiting elks from all parts of
the country.
LEWIS FORGERlES.