The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-09
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
4 Great skyseraper Frame collapses
in New York.
SEVERAL PERSONS ARE KILLED.
Criminal Carelessness on .he Part
OF the Contractors, WHO Had
Disregarded Repeated
Warnings.

In the city Of New York fourteen
persons, are believed to have been
killed, about a score injured and se7-
eral are missing through the collapse
Wednesday Of the steel skelN . OF the
Hotel Darlington, a l3-stor' apart
nent house in course OF ere ;tlon at
81 Forty-si1th street. TIE steel
frame work had been erected as far as
the eleventh floor and tie structure
was Swarming with iron workers,
masons and laborers, when, without
an instant's warning, the upper floor
sagged and collapsed and the whole
structure fell with crash tlsat was
heard for blocks, and shook all the
! buildings in the vicinity. z portion
OF the steel frame fell upon the rear
of the Hotel Patterson, on West For
ty-seventh street, crushing in the
wall OF the dining room and killing
Mrs. Ella Lacey StoorS, the wife OF
Frank Storrs, a wealthy resident OF
Rye, Westchester county, as she was
/ sitting at luncheon With the wife of
the Rev. DR.. Minot Savage, who
escaped unhurt.
The cause Of the disaster generally
accepted is the overlooking OF the
! floors. Foreman James Halpin, in
charge OF the iron workers, stated
that there was large quantity OF
cement and other building material
on the fifth floor, and that on the
ninth floor were the three iron beams
which were to have been used in con-
structing the remaining floors OF the
/ buildings. That criminal careless
ness is chargeable to somebody is
shown by the fact that the building
department. had placed repeated
violations" against the building, the
last one being fled Wednesday at the
instance of Inspector Charles French,
because the side walls were more
than two stories in advance Of the
froat walls, and the floor beams were
not properly boltedand TIED.
In spite of this and previous warn
ings, those responsible for the con-
struction Of the building vert ahead
regardless of consequences. Adjoin-
ing the collapsed building on the west
is the four-story brownstone residence
of Harold Brown. Some OF toe huge
iron beams struck the side OF the
house and stove holes in tae wall
and roof and disloged part OF the
bro.nstone front which was thrown
to the street. The occupants escaped
uninjured. Ga the east side is a
house occupied by A. Walpole Cragie
as a school for boys The pupils had
gene home to luncheon few minutes
before the crash occurred. S)me OF
the beams struck the house tearing
ufr a portion of the roof and smashing
holes in the side walls.
Mrs. Storrs whose husband is in
London, England. was sitting in lun-
chson with Mrs. Savage when the
crash came, and she and Ernest
Meier, a waiter, were instantly buried
under the debris the. roof AMI walls.
Mrs. Savage barely escape1 being
struck but her skict was pinDod tc
the floor by mass Of fallen bricks.
Mrs. Storrs was breathing when e1-
tricated, but died within few ml1.
utes. The waiter is believed to be
injured. The other occupants OF the
dining room escaped unhurE. Iae
Hotel Patterson was shaker to It's
foundations and the rear fire escapes
on seven stories were torn frt N thell
fastenings and all the windows on
these floors were smashed. The oc
cuoants Of these apartments hastily
Quilted the~building. Rev. .'inot j
Savage was i'll in his apartn. ents II
the front of the hotel at the time O.
the collapse.
: At IL o'clock tonight the contractor
!. in charge Of the wrecking work salt
that his men had discovered sever
bodies and that two were Known Il
be pinned under the wreckage on the
east side of the building.
Splendid work was done by ";he nre
men, who at the risk Of their lives
crowded under the tangled wreckag
to rescue the imprisoned workmen
) They were accompanied by Chaplain
: Smith Of the FIRE department, who ad
, ministered the last rites OF the churcl
= to several Of the Injured. Haroli
> Clark, watchman, was rescued un
> hurt from the cellar after being i'm
: prisoned for four hours. He said tha
ha loft Frank Allison, one Of th
owners and builders, on the mint
:, floor a few minutes before the crash
= : Patrick Murphy, the engineer Of th
hosting engine, and six workme
we're arrested and held as witnesses
. . Representatives Of the distric3 attol
! ney's Office examined the wreck wee
y y nesday and began an invessigatlo
. to place the responsibility for th
- disaster.
d Deadly Brass Pin.
J. .~a,;,1 1;cpo+nb from Marion