St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-11
OVER 1.OOe MEN AND WOMF9
CARRIED DOWN IN THE
WRECK.
ONE MANS INJURIES FATAL
DISASTER OCCURS IN AN OH
STRUCTURE UNUSED FOR
SEVERAL YEARS
TWO MINNEAPOLIS VICTIMS
Number of the Manned PeoDL
Not Expected to Survive
Their Wounds.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. J., July 10
The social session rendered by At
lantic City lodge to the visiting
Elks at the Baltic Avenue Casino
this evening ended in a terrible dis
aster, in which fully 100 persons
were more or less injured. The ses-
sion had just opened, and only one
of the speakers had been heard,
when, without the slightest warning,
the building, which has not been used
for several years, collapsed, and
fully a 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 We're on the first
floor of the building and immediate-
ly beneath the banquet hall were
crushed beneath the timbers and lay
helpless. The fact that all the cleo
trio 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 fire.
men and every police officer were
called to the scene as a hospital
corps. The police ambulances and
carriages OF every description were
utilized 10 convey the injured 10 the
hospitals and hotels. When the no.
lice and firemen arrived the excite
ment was so intense that they
scarcely knew where ito begin first.
EVERY HOUSE \ HOSPITAL.
An immense crowd of people had
been attracted to the place by the
noise of the falling building and the
groans Of the unfortunates who were
pinned beneath bricks and tiraters.
The streets for several blocks vera
choked- The air was full of anxious
inquiries for friends and relatives who
were thought TO have been in the
building. 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 back. In the mean
time the iremeu had set TO work TO
eXtr1cate 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 was thrown open for the
reception Of the injured and every
available conveyance was pressed in
to service TO carry them to their ho-
tells. Meanwhile physicians were on
the scene and We're doing everything
in their power TO aid the unfortunates
who had been caught in the crash. AS
quickly as the unconscious forms of
the wounded We're taken out willing
hands bore them TO the nearest place.
and everything that surgical skill
could do to alleviate their sufferings
was done.
FRANTIC FRIENDS.
The excitement amidst the assembled
crowds was even greater than that
in the immediate neighborhood of the
building. All sorts of rumors were
rife. It was first reported that the
building had caught fire and that in
the consequent panic many lives had
been crushed out Then a runor came
that the entire edifice had collapsed.
As it had been generally known. how
ever. thar the social session of the
order had been in progress in the
building, and that it would in all Iikeli-
hood be the largest attended event of
the session, every new arrival upon 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 good source that no lives had
been lost. In the excitement of the
disaster it was almost impossible 10
procure accurate details. The list Of
the injured cannot be fully compiled
tonight, but the following are the more
seriously injured:
PHE VICTIMS.
James Armstrong, theatrical agent.
New York city, exalted ruler of New
York Lodge No. /; both legs broken
Miss Armstrong, his daughter, aged
eleven, arm broken.
w. Lumbard, Boston, leg broken.
Horace A. Rudt, East Orange, N. J.,
back broken.
William Varney, base ball manager,
Baltimore, injured internally.
Mrs. F'leischman, PHILADELPHIA. both
legs broken
c. NJ Foote, arm broken.
Nathaniel Duke, body bruised.
Charles W. Farwell, Minneapolis,
nose broken.
A number of the members of Jen-
nings' band, Of Camden, N. J., inter-
nally injured
Mayer Wolfe, Atlantic City. light
house engineer. injured internally.
Charles W. Tolwell, Camden, leg and
arm broken.
Frederick Claproth, Camden, fatally
injured
P Eckman, Camden, leg and arm
broken.
Frank Bolton, clerk of Hotel Tray
more, this city, shoulder badly crushed
and otherwise injured.
Detective James Doyle, of 8Iinneap-
oils, badly bruised and injured inter-
nally.
ONE MAN DIES.
The first victim TO Succumb to his
injuries was Frederick Claproth, OF SAC
Kimer street, Camden. He died short
ly after midnight at a neighboring ho-
tel, to which ne had been conveyed.
Claproth had been in the crowd on the
lower floor of the building when the
crash came. He was caught and pin
ioned down under a mass OF timbers
and when, after great difficulty, the
police succeeded in extricating his
body, it was found that both legs and
arms had been broken He never re-