Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-03-05
LIVE WORKMAN
FOUND IN DEBRIS
Buried In Mass OF Ruins He
Lived Thirty Hours.
DIED ON WAY TO HOSPITAL.

Many 'orkmen Still unaccounted for.
Search Is Going on With Renewed
Energy-Hundreds of Men With Aid
of Derricks Clearing Debris.
New York, March AFTER living
more than 80 hours under the mass of
steel beams and other debris of the
collapsed hotel Darlington, in West
Forty-Sixth street, Edwin Lask died
early today while being carried to
Flower hospital in an ambulance. This
increases the known dead to Is.
The finding of a live human being
amidst the mass Of iron work, brick,
mortar and refuse shortly after 2
O'Clock this morning was perhaps the
most sensational thing of the kind in
the history of similar disasters in this
city. From the hour of the collapse
hundreds of men have struggled
among the wreckage with derricks,
to get at the bottom of the pile where
more than half dozen dead fellow
workmen were known to lie.
Suddenly, when a heavy beam had
been hoisted a man half pinioned be-
low was $ to move. A great
shout went Lo and hurry calls were
made for an ambulance
Owing to the position of the impris-
oned man, great care had to be used
in extricating him, and nearly an hour
elapsed before this was accomplished
In the meanwhile the surgeons had
crawlad into the pile and reached his
side. He was given stimulants in
ternally and injections of whisky with
cocaine and hopes were strong of
saving the man, who had escaped
death in the crash and then fought
Off suffocation and starvation so long
He was carefully lifted into an ambu
lance, but died before the hospital
was reached.
one arm mad been bros8en and there
was a great hole in the mans head.
His vitality must have been tremen.
dous to survive SO long with these
injuries, not to mention his position in
the debris. At the hospital Lask's
identity was quickly established by
means of union card in one of his
pockets.
That several bodies, possibly nine
or ten, are still ouried in the ruins
of the wrecked Darlington apartment
building is the opinion of the coroner,
expressed today after a conference
with Foreman Halpin, of the Iron
workers on the building and Joseph
Yeaman, walking delegate of the AS
DhaIt and Cement Workers union.
Yeamans said the 18 men of his un
ion had been employed on the build
ing only three of whom had been ac
counted for, and Ha1pin told the coro-
ner nine or ten men had been working
as house smiths and lathers on some
OF the upper floors, for whom no ac-
count had yet been given.
The fact that Lasek was still aliv !,
when taken from the ruins this mo. o.
ing and that body of Alexander L..
Johnston, taken out late last night,
showed evidence of recent death, gave
hope that other victims might be res.
cued alive. The work OF removing
the wreckage was continued today
with utmost energy.
Shortly before noon today the body
of Louis Acerman, the 18th victim OF
the Darlington hotel catastrophe, The
last of those which had been visible
in the wreckage for some time, was
removed from the ruins of the build.
ing.
This ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS U1s3,
This afternoon a doubled force OF
men are bending every effort to pen.
citrate further into the heaps of debris
and iron work in which, it is almost
certain, other bodies remain to be
uncovered
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