The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-29

The colloquy between Mr.. Herman
ana the witness was resumed.
You say we had no business on the
staging" inquired Mr.. Herman.
II do"
How were We going to raise the COL
umn?''
"rha was none Of my affair. ] know
now, but / had nothing 10 do with it,
IF We were not to use II why did
there
That l regard as irrelevant"
MI. Kirk here took up the examina-
ton and asked: Previous to this
time had the brick and iron men been
in the habit of using the same scat
fold?"
Not before Friday" said the witness
They hitched a guy rope to the staging
Friday. and I moved my men away for
fear they would be pitched into the
street. When The iron men erected
columns away from our staging they
used none whatever. u used a der
rick instead. On this occasion their
derrick would have had TO have been
moved from the other end of the build
ing If they used 1t. SO they used the
staging and gin pole"
Juror Collins asked: What do you
him was the direct cause of the acct
dent?"
Il think the great weight must have
sagged the staging. pulling the up
right which supported n end Of the
staging out from the wall and letting
it down."
H. A. Fitch. local agent for the Gil
lette-Herzog company, which has the
contract for the iron work. took the
stand, and denied that the iron work.
ers were erecting iron from the staging
that fell, and had no iron resting on
IL. In response to a question from the
coroner, the witness admitted he was
not at the building at the time of the
accident.
You say you were not there at the
tim of the ACCIDENT" asked a Juror.
The witness replied that was correct.
Then how can you tell that no iron
rested on the scaffold?"
Il have been told So" was the re-
ply.
You had six men and a gin pole on
the s~caffold?" inquired the juror.
w had" said the witness.
You know it of your own knowl-
edge?"
II know it because they went down"
Then it was a fact that you were
using the staging?"
n witness admitted that was a fact.
Mr.. Whitesides inquired: IF you did
not intend using the scaffold, why were
our men on it?"
The witness replied: They were
simply walking on it. We could not
erect the column without walking on
the scaffold. We could have raised the
column had the staging not been there.
but 1T being there, we could not avoid
using IT,"
Mr.. Kirk asked: Il understand these
are merely conclusions YOU have come
to from YOU Investigation"
The witness replied: "Tha is COR
Robert c.. Logan. a colored man i'm
the employ of Foreman Whitesides,
stated hat he. with others. was or
dered off the scaffold on Friday owing
to the iron workers using it, his EN-
ployer considering II unsafe for both
crews to occupy the staging.
Mr.. Fitch asked if the staging that
fell was built Friday or Saturday. The
witness could not state. but supposed it
was all put up at one time.
Mr.. Whitesides was recalled, and
that the staging along the Main
street side was built Friday. and that
the north side Saturday morning.
They were both the same. The men
had been ordered off the one on the
Main street side Friday because the
guy line used by the iron workers in
erecting a column vas attached to his
and he was afraid TO have his
men stay there.
At this time Coroner Tremblay an
that the inquest would be adj
TO this evening at Z o'clock.
The funeral of John Cunningham,
was to have occurred yesterday
morning, was postponed by Undertake
err Sherman. as he believes he has got
track of relatives of the deceased. Mr..
telegraphed yesterday TO the
city marshal of Caledonia, Mimi. and
the wire was answered by =. f. Gun
ningham, who asked for a description
of the dead man. This was wired back,
and an answer came to hold the re-
until further instructions. Mr..
thinks he has at last found
the unfortunate workman's relatives.
The injured at the hospital are al
making rapid Improvement. and the at
tending physicians now think they are
Of danger.