The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-18
Three-StOry Building Came Down
With a Crash.
SIXTEEN PEOPLE CAUGHT
SOME SERIOUSLY INJURED, BUT
NO LIVES LOST.
Building Was Being Remodeled and
Portion of the Front Wall Had
Been Torn Out-Mirec -Ilous Es-
capes of Some of the 1nmates-A
Cool Policeman.

Butte, Mont. Sept. 1.-THE York
block, a three-story brick structure on
West Park street, collapsed about 1890
this morning, carrying down 10 people,
burying some of them, but so far as can
be learned, killing no one, though many
profess to believe a search of the de-
bris will reveal the presence OF some
bodies. The building, like all big blocks
in Butte was used for stores on the
lower floor and for lodging rooms ABOVE.
The lower floor was being remodeled, to
be used as big dry goods store Inc
front of the first story had been torn
out and the walls above were being sup
ported by false work, preparatory TO
putting in the Orders and posts of iron
The partition through the center, Which
helped to support the floors above, mad
been torn out, thus weakening the up
per part of the building.
Suddenly the whole building was felt
to CULVER and then there was omlnous
crackings. The workmen made dash
for safety. but some of them We're
caught. The front wall seemed to. give
AWAY all at once and came down like a
board on edge, piling up in the cellar
The floors and roof from the front 10
within 20 feet of the rear came down IN
a heap.
The fire department and citizens went
to work on the wreck at once ana every
available team in town was pressed IN
TO service to take off the debris as last
as it was removed. OF the IA wOrkmen,
F. c. Yeager, William Barker, James
Myers, Samuel Corkell, John Zellner,
Henry Shadinger, F. S. Woodcock and
John Foote were injured, their hurts
consisting principally of bruises and
cuts.
Johnson had q miraculous escape. He
fell beside a pile of debris just nigh
enough to save him from the raining
floor above. He crawled out unassist-
ed.
Mrs. Annie NcCaughey, who had
charge of the third floor lodging, was
on the second floor at the time: she
went down clear to the bottom in the
wreck. She crawled out from the
wreck Her shoulder blade was broken
and she was badly bruised by a beam.
Her own room, which was in the rear
of the building-the part that did not
fall-was not disturbed, and Saso-
line stove was found burning as she left
If Mrs. Mollie Kuhn, her daughter, oc-
cupied a room on the third floor near
the middle of the building. When she
felt the building rock she rushed out
and to the rear, and escaped to the roof
of an adjoining building. everything
Annie Bertsch and her sister, Miss
Mary Sullivan. were in the rear of the
building. They jumped from the rear
window to the roof of the next house
and escaped. Colonel P. r. Dalman was
on the second floor near the rear, and
the rush of air threw him back into the
uninjured part of the building. Police
man Shea roomed in the building. After
the crash he found himself standing on
aIOa Of wreck His room wall
had fallen out. He calmly dressed him
self and made his way to the adjoining
building. 1t will be several days before
the wreck can be cleared away.
The people in charge of the house say
all in there are accounted for, but it is
believed that the search will reveal
some bodies. Had the affair occurred
at night at least so people would have
gone down in the wreck.
Tragedy at Phoenix.
Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 17.-William Bel