The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-01-08
RloR. WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9. 1898
TWENTY-FIVE KILLED.
Shocking Accident Follows an
Election Celebration at New
London, Ont.

London. Ont, Jan. 4.-No new victims
have been found in the ruins of the city
hall. which collapsed. The following is
a revised list of the dead and the more
seriously injured.
The dead are:
BENJAMIN j. NASH. carriagemake.
JOHN TURNER, carriasemaker.
JOHN BURRIDGE. shoemaker.
FRANK ROBINSON; plasterer.
CRAWFORD BECKETT, contractor.
EDWARD LUNTON. farmer.
w. II. DELL. baker.
X. 5. LEIGH. plumber.
ABRAM PHILLIPS, -four dealer.
BENJAMIN JACQU ES, painter.
STEPHEN WILLIAMS. laborer.
". c. SMITH, gardener.
l.. W. BI RkE, insurance agent.
JOHN FELLOWS
JAMES HARRIS. mouder.
WILSON CAKKUTHERS, farmer.
w. J. BORLAND, woodworher.
NOBLE CARRUTHERS, JR., son Of No
bic CarrutherS.
FRED HEAMAN. son of W. Heaman
w. f. TALBOT, young son Of w. Talbot.
maker.
ALLEN ToWE, son of f. Towe.
HERMAN HILBERT. peddler.
JAMES MLEAN, young son of James Nc
Lean.
The injured are:
Fred II. Frye. Louis Steinburg. Frank c.
Freeand, William Gibson, Thomas Hogg.
Jr., James Cutler William Durnon Moses
Miners. Aid. Charles Taylor. Charles Gar
rett, Albert Joyce, William Stone. Edward
Marshall, William Cox Joseph Murray, J.
{. McNaughton, John Bartlett, ID. Sweeney.
William ElwoOd Charles kidner. Maurice
Baldwin. AID: Neil Cooper John Dromsole.
Fred Ward, James Sussex. William Baker.
Henry Glendcnning. -- Schofield, James
Dean, - Johnston. Moses Mines, Albert
Joyce, Michael Morkfn son OF James Mat
tinson, and Ed Barrett.
The accident was the sequel to the mu-
nicipal election yesterday. The elections
had been fought on strict party lines and
when the returns showed the Conserva-
tives had elected their candidate for may
or, DR.. John ID. Wilson. and had secured
Il majority of the council. the victors,
with some 2OOO supporters, adjourned TO
the city hall to listen to the promises of
the newly elected
The hall was jammed To the doors. Peo-
pie We're standing in the window seats, on
the stairs, and the floor of the hall was
packed.
The speeches had gone along for an
hour, and about 10 o'clock the small plat
form on which the new mayor and his
cabinet were seated was the center of
attraction.
suddenly there was cracking sound
from the platform on which the Spea kers
of the evening were seated. The plat
form seemed to pitch forward, the tim
bers around it gave way. and down
through the floor hundreds of people We're
hurled.
CraShing down upon the heads of the
doomed ones came Il huge safe and iron
steam coil which were standing in the
corner of the hall
Jagged beams and timbers from the
broken floor were hurled down upon the
sccthing mass of humanity. Seen from
above all seemed struggling for life, ike
the crew of a sinking vessel. Some Of
those least injured dragged themselves
painfully to the walls and endeavorcd To
reach the floor from which they had
fallen.
Down in the pit lay scores of motionless
figures
Many lads. who had climbed behind the
mayors chair as a coign of vantage We're
among the victims, and screams for help
in their childish treble added new horror
to the scene.
The fall from the floor above to the
mayors office was about twenty feet.
The weight of the falling mass crashed
through the floor of the mayors office,
underneath, and through into the base
ment. The greater portion of the dead
We're taken from the cellar, having been
instantly killed by the fall.
The fire department, police and ambu-
lance corps We're quickly on the scene,
and organized in the work of rescue.