The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-02-15

CURED this morning on the premises OIL
the Smithffeld Flax Spinning company,
Ltd. the front Of which takes up the
greater portion of one side of Smithfield
market, While the main portion of the
building, where the calamity occurred,
extends rearwards for some distance
toward North street. The building is
a four story one the ground floor be-
ing used as a roughing room, the next
two as spinning rooms, and the top-
most OF all as a reeling room. The ac-
cldent occurred about half-past 3
O'Clock, when, it is to be presumed,
most OF the hands were busily engaged
| IN their daily occupations. AT that
! hour, without any warning to the un-
fortunate creatures inside, at least
twenty feet of the outside wall gave
| way from top to bottom and fell with
| a tremendous crash onto a smaller
| outbuiiding, the roof of which was
completely demolished. The floors,
| heavy in themselves, for they are all
of composition of brick and concrete,
! supported by iron beams, We're still
! further burdened by an immense mass
! of machinery. and deprived of their
| outside support, the entire three floors
| fell almost simultaneously with the
! wall, making a complete gap in the
! center of the building and depositing
| hundreds of tons of bricks, concrete,
machinery and iron beams onto the
| ground floor.
| Up to Z o'clock in the evening thirty
| three persons in all were brought to the
Royal hospital as the result of the dis
aster, and of these ten are dead. Eight
whose injuries were not serious were
! able to proceed home with their friends.
| 0f
victims buried beneath the debris were
| still re-echoing around Smlthheld
| square, and the vast body of the work.
| ers were still painfully dazed and in q
state of frightened doubt as to what
| would happen next, a clergyman from
| St Mary's presbytery (ReV. James
Small, C. c., came to the mill with the
utmost celebrity. and soon pushed MS
way into the yard, which by this time
was filled with frantic women. Con-
stable Dennis Murphy of Queen street
was also on the spot the first, we un-
derstand, but not recognized on ac-
| count of his plain clothes. Acquainted
with Father Smalls desire to admin
| lister the last rites of the Cathonc
church to as many of the injured as
possible-and an alarming number was
seen in all attitudes of SuHerlnS anu
| agony-the burly constable dashed 1or
the stairs of the mill, and, resardleSs
of the threatening appearance OF the
broken building. the two hurried up the
stairs to the upper stories, where sew
eral injured were seen crushed ana
thrown aside by the machinery. Fa-
ther Small placed himself in every dan-
ger to get near the objects OIL ms al
tention Standing on the brink Oh d
terrible chasm filled with steam sent
forth in volume from the broken pipes,
drenched with water, and surFouhueI
by the greatest danger, the herolG
priest rescued where he could diu
where not he administered the conso-
Iations of religion to the injured by his
side with as much GOODNESS and syInpd-
tbv as if at a deathbed in the street De-
low The Sacrament of Extreme INC
tion was given to many OF the pauly
injured. r,o+,o,,
In the meantime, down below, tather
Daniel Magennis, also curate OIL ol
Mary's. was working in the unaer sC @
RIGS with such vigor and bravery,
meath overhanging masses OF ColoSSai
machinery, as to extract the ,.eI,r,S no
avnrpssed admiration of the surroullu-
ing SPECTATORS, who now peSdh w ."
ther from all quarters.
II is stated that an influential meet
ino- of Jews will shortly be helC III
Dublin re the recorders recent ultei
ance.
Al the annual meeting of the lrlsh
Association for the Prevention OIL u
temperance, held on Thursday III tile
Rotundo, Dublin, resolutions "eIe
adopted deploring the increase III lil1
number of public houses IN lrelahu,
and asking the government LOT Iurlhei
restrictive legislation.
On Tuesday morning at Ringsend'
County Dublin, a man named Joseph
Kearns. publican and provision oealer
in Ringsend, attempted to strike ms
wife with a large bacon knife WIlie
She was engaged in dressing herseh |
to attend a funeral. She succeeded IN |
avoiding his attack and got out OF the
room. he following her with the knlfe.
The police were called in, ana the
knife having been taken from heafhs,
he was brought to lrlshtoWn SCatloli
and there charged by his wife as pelhg
a dangerous lunatic.
Mr.. Michael Koran, who was released
from Castlebar jail on Friday morning.
after undergoing a coercion sentence Oh
one month. accompanied Mr.. Wllllam
Duffy M. p. to the 10:40 p. m. tram
ON Friday night When he was leaving
tha station he was set upon and stoned
hv mob His condition is very serl-
Gus. and the treacherous act mas ere
ated great indignation all over the
town. At the fortnightiy meetlhs VI
the district council on Saturday the
attack on Mr.. Horan was strongly con-
demned. DR.. Knott is IN constant
tendance on Mr.. Horan. At the weekly
meeting of the Castlebar branch OF the
United Irish League yesterday Mr.. NJ.
Tavelle V. P. in the chair, resolu-
tion was also passed strongly denounc-
ing the outrage.
On Saturday afternoon at Dublin Mr..
Gill. secretary of the department OF
agriculture and technical instruction,
formally opened new scientlhc LABOR
atcry. which has been fitted up in the
Sandymount Academical institution,
school which had already come under
the direction of this department.
On Friday. at Dublin, man named
Michael Conroy. whilst working on
erected at new buildings
which are being put up in Ratnsford
street in connection with the premises
of Guinness & Co, slipped and fell to
the ground, He was taken to Stevens,
hospital and died there the same day.
Mr.. John ]. Walsh. manager of the
branch of the Munster and
Leinster bank. is to be transferred to
the important branch of the same bank
at Middleton, as manager.
.:
We regret to announce the death of
Mr.. Joseph Tobin of the firm of Tobin
& Sons. Waterford, which took place
at T1..a more ON Sunday morning.