St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-22
GALE FATAL CHICAGO.
Three People Kilied-Many In.
jured by Falling Scaffold.

JuFeu ny railing ScahoIu.
CHICAGO, Jan. 21.-Several people
were badly injured today by the falling
Of a portion of the scatfolding OH the
new Fort Dearborn building at Clark
and Monroe streets. The heavy timbers
were blown from position, and falling
fourteen stories buried two men, one of
whom, j. ID. Burke, ticket broker,
was thought to be fatally injured. The
other men seriously injured are: A. J.
Donaldson, clerk. shoulder crushed; {;
Frank Woodward. teamster, arm crush
ed; William Lucius, printer, scalp
wound; Ii. S. Fisher, rest aurant en-
ploye. badly bruised; Ii. II. Irwin, clerk,
dangerous internal injuries; George
Bey, stenographer, head badly cut.
A half dozen other people were struck
by flying timbers, but not seriously
hurt.
The Fort Dearborn building, which is
nearing completion, is one of the most
elaborate OF the sky-scraper office5build-
ings in the city. Around the top two
stories, on the scatfolding extending
several feet from the walls, had been
bull ii heavy casing for the protection
of the workmen. The high wind had
loosened many of the heavy planks,
which had been falling at intervals
since the eaIly morning. Several peo-
PIE had been slightly injured, and the
police had cleared the sidewalk be-
aeatb the dangerous structure. Work.
men were sent TO repair the Scafolding,
when a strong blast of wind caught a
a large portion of the casing and tore it
from its faSteningS. The heavy tim
bers. in falling, sailed across the street
f,It rgf " M,
street, The crowds. hearing the crash.
reached places of safety before the cas-
ing struck. Store windows we're
smashed in, and much dam.
age was done to neighboring
property. Ambulances were hurriedly
called and the badly injured removed to
hospitals or their homes, and the near
by drug stores were soon crowded with
people who had been slightly bruised
by falling timberS or cut by flying
glass. 1t was at first thought that sew
eral people had been killed, but it was
found later that none but Burke and
possibly Irwin were fatally hurt. The
street was crowded at the time of the
accident, and many more fatalities
would have occurred had not the great
Height from which the casing fell given
the passers-by time to escape.
The gale which crushed the scaffold-
ing on the Fort Dearborn building
caused damage in many other places in
the city. Signs were torn from their
fastenlngs and hurled through store
windows, chimneys were blown down
and sidewalk displays of goods badly
scattered.
The west wall of the building at so2
50 Ii
two wOrkmen narrowly escaped death.
The interior of the building had been
destroyed by file, leaving the walls
standing. The men were at work in
the back of the building when the wall
fell. and although bruised by tlying
bricks and timbers escaped serious in
jury. The front portion OF the building
was buried under the debris and com.
pletely wrecked.
Accidents caused by the high wind
continued to be reported all day. About
2 O'Clock the tlirty-fCot flag staff on
Kinsley's restaurant, opposite the gov
ernment building, was torn from it's
base and hurled to the street. crashing
into a window and dangerously iniuring
Edward Harper, an eXpressman. who
was sitting in his wagon by the curb.
He was knocked senseIess and it was
thought that his skull was fractured.
A little later heavy plate glass win
dow in the Hartford building at Dear
born and Madison streets was blown i'm.
James Henson, who was standing i'm
front of the window was struck bv
large falling section of the glass and
cut almost In two. He died shortly after
the accident. Several pedestrians were
badly cut by flying glass, one man
fainting from loss of bloodWhile await
ing physician.
During the afteroont h gale seemed
to Increase in v0Ie nee, and falling
signs and chinineyS were numerous.
Joseph Huutal. te MISTER, while stand
ing on a load OF lumber on West Four
teenth street was blown to the ground.
His neck was broken, and he died i'll
stantly.
Leroy T. Stewart, eX-president of the
Marquette club, was passing the Hart.
ford building at Dearborn and Madison
streets when a window in the tenth
story was blown in. A large piece of
the FALLING glass struck him in the leg,
seyering an artery. He was taken to
the Presbyterian hospital, and will res
cover.
The top of the heavy chimney on the
Methodist Church block was blown off
this evening. and fell upon a crowded
street car which was passing. The roof
of the car was bent i'll, but nobody was
injured.