The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-07-11

as known no one from W0at Virginia
was hurt,
THR DETAILS.
Tho Social Session rendered by At.
lantic City lodge to tho visiting EIkS at
the Baltic Avenue Casino tonight ond.
cd in a terrible disaster, in which fully
one hundred persons were more or less
seriously injured. Tho session had just
opened and only ono OF the speakers
had been heard, when without the
slightest warning. the building which
has not been used for several years, col.
iapsed, RRd fully thousand persons
were thrown to the floor beneath. Many
women, the wives OF the visiting Elks,
went down in the ruins. Fully 200 per.
sons who were on tho fret floor OF the
building, aud Immediately beneath tho
banquet hall. werO crushed beneath
timbors and lay helpless. Tho fact tnat
all tho electric lights in the building
went ont at the time the building gave
way added to the terrible situation. A
double alarm for tho fire department
was at once turned Ia and the city's tire
torco OF two hundred hremen and every
police officer in the city were called to
tho scene as hospital corps.
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
The police Rmbuancos and carriages
of every description were utilizsd to
convey tho injured to the hospital and
to tho hotels. Whom the police and
fremen arrived on the scene, the eX.
element was so intense that they
scarcely knew where to begin first. An
immense crowd OF people had been at.
tracled to the place by ths noise OF tho
falling building and the Groans OF the
uniortunNtes who were pinned beneath
bricks and ttmhers.
The streets for several blocks were
chokod. The mir was full Of anxious iu-
uulries for friends aud relatives who
were thought to have boon in tho
hnildiug. Within few minutes the
police Hurcseded in clearing tho space
in the immediate neigh horhood OF the
building and placed ropes around to
keep tho crowd back. In the meantime
the tiremeu had sot TO work to extricato
the wounded from beneath the mass OF
timbers, aud they wero aided by tho
hotel keepers and residents near the
scene. Every house was thrown open
Tor the reception Of the injured, and
every available conveyance was pressed
into service to carry thOm to their hO.
tels. Meanwhile physicians were on
the scene and were doing everything in
their power TO aid the untortunates who
had been caught in tho crash.
MANY nuMoRs RIFE.
As quickly rs tho unconscious form
Of victim was taken out OF the ruins,
willing hands boro II to tho nearest
place aud everything that surgical skill
could do to alleviate their su1Orings
was done. Tho excitement amidst tho
assembled crowds was oven greater than
that In the immediate neighborhood OF
tho building. All sOrta OF rumOra wcrO
tlc. It was first reported that tho
building had caught fire and that
in the consequent panic many
lives had been crushed out. Then II
rnmur clIns that tho entire OdilIco
had collapsed. As II had been
generally known that the social
session OF tho order had been in pro.
gro4s in tho building, and that 1t would
in all likelihood be tho largest attended
event Of the convention, almost every
new arrival upon tho scyaC was almost
frantic with grief aud anxiety for
some relative or friend. VhOir fears
wore, to an extent, qulclOd, however,
I lnuRn..I frAtN "a ffnAl
that no liyOS had been lost In the ok.
Citomont OF tho disaster, II was almost
impossible ~ procure accurate dutatl4'
The list OF tho injured cannot be fully
compiled tonight, but tho following are
tho moro seriously injured:
jamoS j. Armstrong, OI Now York,
both logs broken.
Maoor Wolfe, Atlantic City. light.
house engineer, ihtHrea internally
Charles W. TolwelI, Camden, log and
arm broken.
Antonio Claproth, Camden, log,
broken.
T. lIckrnOn, Camdon, log und arm
broken.
Frank Bolton, clerk Of Hotel Tray.
moro, this city, shoulder badly crushed
Wllll uNllNl Nl'N 'NlN'NN
Chafoq W. ltOolc, OF Minneapolis,
MANNED aud bruised.
Detective James DoolC, Oi Minnonnn.
liz, badly bruised aud injured inlot.
nalIy.
FATALLY trtr
Tho Ara. victim to 0uccumb to hi' In.
utiOs was Ftodnnck ClnprOlh, Of $40
liimbor street Camlun.
Ito died shortly Oi'or midnight nt n
ncDgIborlnr hotOl, 10 which ho had
bnnn rDnyDvU1,
lti,nuw ilurol that other lrnth1 wilt
result, aud II lsn matter oi wOudrfmunt
that ont of thu 200 or moro pcr'ona VINO
woro Oh thu Iowot llUor mono woru kill.
vi Outright
Others Injurch wcrC Miw Arm.
attOng, Of Ncw York, aged oOypn, arm
brnkoni W. Lumbnrd, BjSiuu, llntnro
Amdt, Enat Orange, n. Jn William
Vnrnpy, base ball manager, llnltimOrci
Mira FIOiachnan, Philadelphia, q. NJ
Fooia, Nathaniel Duke, ChNrlOI W,