The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-12-21
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TEL kiLLED cF NAMED BY
FALLING WALLS.
INTERIOR OF STRUCTURE DEMOLISHED
BUILDING ADJOINING HAD BEEN
GUTTED BY FIRE IN THE RE-
CENT BIG BLAZE,
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Minneapolis, Dec. 21.-Eight per.
sons are believed TO have been killed
and as many more were seriously In.
jured by the collapse, shortly after
midnight, of the south wall OF the
Peck building on Fifth street, which
was Quilted by the big fire last week.
The wall was blown over by the
wind, which was blowing gale, fall.
Ing on the roof of the three-story
Crocker hotel building, burying tho
sleeping occupants In the wreckage.
The fire department responded to an
alarm, when it was found that the
! wall had carried the entire interior of
the hotel building into the basement.
The dead and missing are
HANS ANDERSON, frozen to death,
q livery employe.
JAMES HAMILTON, frozen to death,
a livery employe.
C. NJ. KENYON, foreman Daniels
linseed mill, crushed in the ruins.
WILLIAM LILLYBLADE, employ
Daniels linseed mill, crushed by fall
ing wall.
MRS. JENNIE MURPHY, crushed
and died during the morning at the
city hospital.
WILLIAM ZIMMERMAN, iaborer,
crushed by the falling walls.
WILLIAM BRAY. contractor. killed
while he slept.
JOSEPH TIOLET, coachman, killed
while he slept.
The following were rescued in an
injured condition;
James w Crocker, proprietor, in.
ternally may die.
Mrs. j. w. Crocker, badly cut and
bruised
Hannah. their daughter aged nine.
slightly.
Howard, their son. aged seven,
slightly.
Mrs. Evelyn Williams, daughter OF
Crockers, cut and bruised
Margaret La Claire, ribs broken.
Mrs. Anna McNevin, internally.
Lottie Kruger, unconscious from
fall.
Fire Breaks Out in Wreckage.
The falling walls broke loose gas
lets and overturned stoves and when
the fire department reached the scene
the wreckage was ablaze in several
places. Quick work subdued the
flames and the work of rescuing the
imprisoned victims was begun. In the
course of an hour eight injured were
taken out and sent to hospitals.
The recovery of the dead was much
slower work, as the bodies were bur-
led under tons of debris. Search for
the dead and missing still continues.
The walls of the Peck building,
which was completely gutted of all its
floors in the disastrous fire of Dec. IL,
were built of brick, two thicknesses.
Building Inspector Houghton looked
them over and while 1t is said that he
had intended TO condemn them he had
given no specific directions. The NOR.
tar was weakened by the heavy fire
which 1t had withstood.
The Crocker House was situated
over three store rooms and occupied
the two stories above the ground floor.
1t was a fimsy old place: the parti-
tions cracked and cayed in like so
much paper-they were only lath and
plaster; and the whole structure
S seemed rotten to the core. When 1t
went 1t went with an appalling crash.
The occupants of the hotel were, as
q class, people in medium, even poorly,
circumstances. They We're employed
mostly in the linseed oil mills, in
livery barns and in restaurants and
department stores.
Phil Carlin. business agent for the
Building Trades council, refused to
let the union bricklayers go TO work
on the Peck building the day preced-
ing the disaster, as he considered the
walls in a dangerous condition. He
stated that the walls should be pulled
down with cables and when Building
Inspector Hpughton refused to accede
to his request he refused to let the
men go TO work.