The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-07-18
MANY ARE INJURED.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT SOCIAL
GATHERING.
The Building in which a Reception
to EIks at Atlantic city n. a.. Is
Held Suddenly COilnpses-A Hum
Dire People Injured, Some Fatally

| City lodge 10 the NisltihS lin" ~ '~
Baltic avenue Casino last evening
ended i'm a terrible disaster III when
| fully 100 persons were more or less
seriously injured. The session han
lust opened and only one of the speak
| ers had been heard. when, without the
| slightest warning. the building. when
has not been used for several years,
| collapsed. ana fully thousand per-
| sons were thrown TO the moor De-
meath. Many women. the wives OF the
visiting Elks, went down In the ruins.
Fully2 90 persons who were on the
| first floor of the building, and imme-
| diately beneath the banquet hall, were
| crushed beneath the timbers, and lay
helpless. The fact that all the electric
| lights in the building went out at the
time the building gave way, added TO
the confusion. An alarm was immedi-
ately turned in and the city's force OF
900 firemen and every police officer III
the city were called to the scene rs
hospital corps. The police ambulance
and carriages of every description
We're utilized TO convey the injured to
the hospital and the hotels. When the
police and tiremen arrived on the
scene the excitement was so intense
that they scarcely knew where to be-
gin first. An immense crowd of peO-
pie 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 tim
berS. The streets for several blocks
were choked. The air was full of
anxious inquiries for friends and rel
atiyeS who were thought to have
been in the building. Within few
minutes the police succeeded III clear
ing the space in the immediate neigh
bOrhoOd of the building and placed
ropes around to keep the crowd back.
In the meantime the tiremen had set
to work to eXtriCate the wounded
from beneath the mass of timbers,
and they were aided in their work by
the hotelkeepers and residents near
the scene. All sorts Of rumOrs were
rife. 1t was first reported that the
building had caught fire and that in
the consequent panic many lives had
been crushed out Then a rumOr
came that the entire editice had col
lapSed. AS it had been generally
known. however. that the social SEES
sion of the order had been in prog
ress in the building, and that il would
in all likelihood be the largest at
tended event of the session. almost
every new arrival upon the scene
was almost frantic with grief and
anxiety for some relative or friend.
Their fears were. to an extent, quiet
ed. however. when it was learned
from good source that no lives had
been lost. In the excitement of the
disaster it was almost impossible to
procure accurate details. The list OF
the injured cannot be fully complied.
but the following are the more seri-
Ously injured:
James J. Armstrong, New York,
both legs broken.
Mayer Wolfe, Atlantic CITY. light
house engineer internally injured
Charles w. Tolwell. Camden. leg
and arm broken.
Antonio Claproth, Camden. leg
broken.
p. Eckman, Camden. leg and arm
broken.
Frank Bolton clerk Of Hotel Tray.
more. this city, shoulder badly crushed
Charles w. FOote, MinneanoIis
manned and bruised.
detective James Doyle. MinneanoIis
pauiy bruised and injured internally.
One Death Results
The first victim to succumb to his
Injuries was Frederick Claproth. of
SAG kimer street, Camden. He died
at a neighboring hotel to which he
had been conveyed. He had been in
the crowd on the lower floor of the
building when the crash came. He
was caught and pinioned down un.
der a mass of timbers, and when. af-
ter great difficulty, the police sue
ceeded in extricating his body. II was
found that both his legs and arms
had been broken. He never regained
CONSCIOUSNESS. 1t is now feared 9TH
er deaths will result, and it is q mat.
ter or wonder that more persons who
were on the under floor were NOT
killed outright. The news of the dis.
aster spread with such rapidity that
by midnight messages were being re.
ceived from anxious relatives of via.
itlng Elks in all parts of the country
James Armstrong, theatrical agent
New YORK city, exalted ruler of New
York lodge No. l, both legs broken,
MISS Armstrong, bis daughter. oged
IL. arm broken
w. Lumbard. Boston. leg brol,on
Horace a. Rudt, East Orange Y v
back broken.
William Earney, base ball manager
Baltimore, injured internally.
Mrs. Fleischman, Philadelphio both
legs broken. win
~
q; NJ. Foote, Minneapolis. arm
broken. 'u
Nathaniel Duke, body bruised
Charles w. Farwell. Minneono,i,
nose broken
And number of the membars 10
Jennings band, of Camden. intarna,I,,
injured. N''i!