The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-26
terrible accident yesterday two

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FRANK ALBERT.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM.
The injured: 4,
w. j. Harrison. colored.
]. B.. Brown.
FOL McNutt.
II. Maser.
By the giving way OF a scafolding at
the fourth floor of the block these six
men were precipitated down 65 feet to
the cellar.
The accident occurred close to 1:30
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The men
had just resumed work after the noon
hour There are always numerous spec
tators of the work in progress, and
those who happened to be looking at
the work on the fourth floor saw five
men carrying a gin pole along the
scaffolding at the orthwe corner of
the building. Another man was stand
ing close to them. They had reached
the center of the ~scaffolding when the
scaffolding pulled out. rave way, and
down to almost certain death went the
six men in a mass of timbers, bricks
and piles of terra Gotta.
The crash was terrific. 1t could be
heard for blocks. and mingled with the
terrible uproar were heard the heart
Tenutns SCTtdIls VI lie ldtilnS iltHs ~
the spectators II seemed agonizing min
utes before it was all over. 1t could
not have required more than two or
three seconds before the entire mass
was down in the cellar. but IL seemed
minutes to the spectators. Great iron
beams encountered in the fall were
bent and partially stopped portions of
the falling mass. One man, Maser,
hung for fully 10 seconds on an iron
beam at the second story, and h he
fell off again and ollowed the mass
down to the terrible pile of debris and
human flesh In the cellar below.
From the spectators there went up
a great cry of horror and then hun
dreds of men started for the cellar TO
assist in the work OF extricating the
men from the pile of debris. In the Gel
lar were a number of men, among
whom ]. y. Mayne and John f. Turner
were the first to reach the scene. All
of the men who had fallen were par
TALLY covered with boards and bricks.
Maser was first taken out and did not
seem to be badly hurt, and was able
to walk with some help. By the time
Maser had been taken out scores of
willing hands were there to overhaul
the debris and take out the men. None
of the men were dead when first taken
out. Albert was carried a few feet and
then laid down, as he was evidently
dying. He lived -four or five minutes
dltl NAltl Al10 AooAs
ham was carried to the middle OF the
cellar and was laid there. There
seemed scarcely any life in him. After
he was laid down he gasped twice, par
TALLY raised himself, and fell back
dead.
McNutt and Brown were carried out
of the cellar and taken to Newbro's
drug store. One of them was taken by
hack and the other by ambulance to
Murray & Freund's hospital. Maser
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hospital. Brown n Cunningham, the
dead men. were wrapped in sheets and
| removed to Sherman's undertaking
rooms. Both bodies were badly man
gled.
The six men who fell were all iron
workers: only one of them, however,
Harrison, the colored man, was brought
from st. Paul by the contractors None
Of the six men were married. OF the
two men who were killed little is known.
Frank Albert was a German and had
only been in the United States a month
or two and had been recently employed
on the building. He was about 80 years
of age. There was a deposit check in
his pocket on Berlin.
John Cunningham, the other dead
man, has relatives in Barraboo, Wis,
| and they have been te~legraphed TO. He
was about So years Of age. He was a
Butte man and had lived in Montana
10 years.
1t is believed that all the four injured
men will recover. Their injuries are
very serious and they are badly broken
up, but the physicians in charge are con-
ident that two will recover and think
all have good prospects.
]. b. Brown is at Murray & Freund's
hospital. He is 20 years of age and
boarded at McGuire's boarding house.
He is a member of the Butte Miners
union and worked at the High Ore mine
No. 2 of the Anaconda company up to a
, month ago, when he went to work on
the building. He is suffering from a
general confusion of the body and has
internal injuries. the extent of which
cannot be told as yet. He is one of the
most seriously injured Of all, but he has
good prospects of recovery. He lived in
Butte and Montana several years. COM
ing here from Iron Mountain, Mich.
John McNutt is suffering from a deep
incision over his left eye and he will
probably lose the eye. He has a frac-
ture OF the left arm N a fracture of
the right leg n a general confusion
of the body. McNutt had lived in Butte
about a year and comes from Eau
Claire, Wis.
At the Sisters hospital are w. II.
Harrison. colored. and II. NJ. Maser.
Harrison is suffering from a fracture
of the skull and has painful Commissions
on the back and sides. At first his case
was regarded as hopeless. but IL is now
believed he will recover. When first
taken TO the hospital he had no feeling
in his legs and IL was thought his back
was broken. Now, however, he can
move his legs. Harrison was brought
out from ST. PAUL by the iron con-
tractors.
II. Nj. Maser has no broken bones, but
is badly bruised up. He is regarded as
in the least danger of any OF the men.
He has hurts enough, however. His
chin is badly cut up and his left eye has
a bad cut and the sight may be lost. His
left leg IS a mass OF bruises and his
right leg also has bruises. In fact he
has bruises about all over him. Maser
is 81 years OF age and a native Of Bo-
hemia. He is very well known in Ana
conda and Philipsburg. where he has