The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04

l.. w. BURKE.
JOHN SMITH.
- TALBOT.
A. PHILLIPS.
JOHN TURNER
BEN NASH.
J. w. BORLAND.
- HILBURN.
FRANK ROBINSON.
JAMES MLEAN.
JOHN BARRIDGE.
OSWALD BRUCE.
B. JACQUES.
w. II. DELL.
STEPHEN WILLIAMS.
JOHN FELLOWS.
ALLEN TOWE.
Unidentified man.
The injured, so far as can be learned In
clude the following:
DIR. WILSON, the mayor-elect, leg
broken.
ALDERMAN CoRRoTHERs. slightly in-
jured.
EDWARD MORKIN.
BURGESS.
WILLIAM GRAY, leg broken
- FLEMING, both arms broken
WILLIAM JONES, water commissioner
elect, badly bruised.
JOSHUA DARCH.
JOHN BLANCH.
ALDERMAN NEIL COOPER.
- VAN WICK.
GEORGE w. YATES, city editor of the
News.
HARRY PAssMORE. reporter on the Ad-
vertiser staff.
How many were injured will never be
known. as those who suffered but slightly
at once made for their homes or were cared
for by friends. Those who were more seri-
ously injured were carried to neighboring
drug stores, whence they were taken to the
hospital or to their homes after their in
iuries had been attended to. The dead were
taken to the committee rooms of Alderman
ParneI, the defeated candidate for mayor,
directly across the street.
THE HALL WAS FILLED.
AT the close of the polls a crowd gath
cred in the City Hall, where it has been the
custom for years past for the successful
candidates to address the electors. The
building was crowded to the very doors.
probably two thousand people being
jammed in the narrow space. There was
lull in the proceedings when the audience
called for several of the newly-elected al
dermen at once, and there was some delay
in securing a speaker TO address them. AL
derman Carrothers joined the mayor in an
effort to secure quiet.
In response to numerous calls r. T.
Toothe was pushed forward to the plat
form on which the speakers stood. AS ne
reached it there was an ominous cracking
and the raised platform on which the
mayor and newly-elected aldermen were
seated seemed to pitch forward to the floor.
There was a sagging of tmbers, and the
next moment $50 people were hurled twenty
feet to the floor below. A beam running
twenty feet along the center OF the hall
had given way, and the crowded mass
standing above that section of the floor was
thrown in a heap to the bottom. A large
safe stood in one corner of the hail. and
with huge steam coil, weighing half
ton. came crashing down on the heads OF
the victims.
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for the doors. At the south door, where
the majority of the crowd had entered.
there was terrible panic. Those in front
were thrown down by the on-coming rush,
shrieking and lighting for the door ana
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
tbe door in it's entirely, and five hundred
people struggled through the narrow space.
the strong bearing down the weaker. With
in a moment after the floor had fallen in
there were not more than three persons in
the hall on that portion of the floor which
had not fallen.
Alderman Nell Cooper was among the
first to be dragged out of the mass or
broken beams. He was quickly carried 10
an adjoining room, and in ; moment half
dozen more were keeping him company.
Several men lowered ropes and endeavored