Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-04
TTIy7Y-FOUR KILLED.
j; oi,,,ter in the City Hall at London
ie''' Ontario.
.,0p,e ASSEMBLE IN PUBLIC MEETING


,ordon, ont, jan - 49, riued
LOhu'i known to have been kiiieu
perso"s injured by the collapse Oh a
ana i'" ,ha city hall last night anu IL
ilo0r :" ,he list is likely to be iarsei'
Is sHi'' ,ho injured being In serious
iialii Both the hospitals a,e -
eor ", nlebt closed the municipal cam
i i.as and the hall was crowueu ..,,,i
pabA .nc addresses of the successiui
ea anu ,o o'clock this CTuesday) morn
w bodies of the following hhu
ins len out and Identified: Is. Hea-
oeep y r,eekett, f. Luxton, N. Caroth-
"rs r. Leigh, : Harris, T. WI eurhe'
,.h, smith, - Talbot. A. Philips 1o''i
1,',nnsr Ben Nash, j. w. Bortiand,
iu'" Frank Robinson, James NC
tohn Barridge, oswald Bruce, D.
Ll1 w, II. Dell. stephen VIII
- Tobn Fellows, Allen Towe.
The injured are:
wilson. the mayor-elect, leg
broken; Alderman Carothers, smsnsy
ip,,tnrnd Edward Mopkin' BurGess,
ll ,iyuntu Gray, leg broken; Wiiliaiil
ni,,''% water commissioner-elect, bauly
J joins, - Fleming. both arms broken;
pruL ',,o 'narchud; John Blonch; Alder
n Tooner. - Van Wyck; George W.
Notae citv editor News; Harry russ
more. reporter on the Advertiser s'dn'
nv g,,1sa Who were more seriously m
,iH wore taken to neighboring drug
Jos whence they We're taken to the
s1i,aIs ar to their homes, after tneir
i,irios had been attended to. me
i nLna we're taken to the committee
roo,ns of Alderman Parnell, the oe-
feated candidate for mayor airecty
across the street: III, .v,,,,a md
,,atbored in the city hall, where 1t had
been the custom in years past ior .he
successful candidates to address, the
neonle The hall was crowded TO the
yerv doors. probably 1000 people being
iontned in its narrow space. Ihere
us n mil in the proceedings when the
andisncn called for several of the new
iy-aIpcted alderman at once, and there
vas some delay in securing n speaker
IN address them. Alderman Carothers
ioined the mayor in an effort to secure
quiet, ,,,,. u NJ
Toothe was pushed forward to the
nlntform 10 which the speakers stood
| As he reached IL there was an ominous
Grabbing and the raised platform on
which the mayor and newly-elected
aldermen were seated seemed to pitch
forward to the floor. There was sag
ging Of timbers and the next moment
$50 people were hurled twenty iee' "
the floor below.
beam running twenty feet along
the center of the hall had given away
and the crowded mass standing above
that section OF the floor was thrown in
Il heap to the bottom a large safe
stood in one corner Of the hall and,
at, 4.,fi no a
ton, came crashing down on the heads
of the victims
Following the crash there was a
wild rush for the doors. AT the south
door where the majority of the crowd
had entered there was Il terrific panic.
Those in front were thrown down by
the oncoming rush, shrieking and
fighting for the door and safety. Only
one-half Of the rear door, space of
probably three feet, was open and in
the mad rush no one thought to open
the door in its entirety and 500 people
struggled through the narrow space,
the strong bearing down the weaker.
Alderman Neil Cooper was among
the first to be dragged out of the mass
of broken beams. He was quickly car
fied to an adjoining room and in a mo-
ment half n dozen more were keeping
him company Several men lowered
ropes and endeavored to haul the
wounded out of the pit. From under
the massed weight of the broken
beams came many cries for help. The
windows on the ground floor were
broken in and the living and the dead
We're tenderly passed to the waiting
ambulance.
An investigation of the wreck. after
me catastrophe had happened, dis
Closed the fact that whole section of
,he ioor had dropped, the joists hav-
G
we WORK had been done with a saw.
inc building was an old one, having
peen erected early in the sos and of
iate Years additional stories had been
placed on the old walls.
IN the Grand opera house, which
!oihs the wrecked building, the first
act of The Girl of Paris" had tust
been completed, when word was whis.
pered through the theater of the dis
asler, a panic was imminent, but was
tu'ueu ny the actors and ushers. and
me people quietly left the building.
tMMohy Oh those carried down by the
~ moor We're boys IA to 16 years
s GU. some OF them managed to sauirm
Hom under the heavy beams ,vhcrn
men could not move. Deanite tbis
ih11WeVer' number of them wers
~ lhelF lives being crushed out by
we oeains, which gradually settled
~" thenl' borne down by the heavy
Sn Jn sure ana the steam coil which had
'"j XII on top of the wreckage.
,b nuGrnen Cnrothers and Taylor. al.
hlo ouEh injured and covered with
ord uIeu to secure some sort of
I'M una system in the rescue work.
, uut The excitement was SO great that
o mey could make but little impression
o on sle crowd. Although .ne platform
, ya winch the speak@rs of the eveninr
Hrst Standing was apparently the
eie", mug to give way, the MAYOR
DEAN '1 ,h many aldermen escaped the
who foiIin OVERLOOK so many others
tion t ~, them into the lower Dor
b ,om Of The building. An Inquest bn 5
'Ne" ordered for tomorrow morning.