The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-03-10
ID PEOPLE CRUSHED.
Collapse Of Steel Skekiea Of nstei
eaIiaglea
OTHERS NAY be IN NkfcAA6
The euiidiag Department eaiesss
Repeated Charges OF Nleisties
Against the Building. whssh wess
Disreg ardst.

New York. spec.Al.-FouFteen PEI
sons are believed to have been ALLIED.
O. when tho bodies of only Gre have
eeen recovered. aSon; a score latare<i
and several arc missing through the
collapse az the steel skei.toa O. the
Hote! Darlington. thkftern-stofY
apa RI ncnt houae ia course Of ercctlon
at SIS West Forty-seycnth street TIE
steel frame had beer erected a. far a.
the eleventh aooT. Aai the struesaf~
was sSaTmlng with Iron workers. ma
sous and lahoreFs. when. without al
lnstsnt's warning. the upper floor sss-
sed and collapsed and the whole strns-
| tgre fell with a crash that Vas heard
| for blocks aud shook all the building
In the vicinity. 4 portion of ihc steel
frame fell upon the rear OF tic ho'.l
Patterson. on West FoTty-seyenth
street. crushing I'm the wRii 81 the din
Ing room and killing Mrs. Ella Lacey
Storrs. the wife OF Frank S;orrs,
wealthy resident o. Rye. wes,chestcr
county. as she vas sitting st luncheon
| with the wife of Rev. hr. Ainot SAY
age. who escaped unhuTt.
The other dead. so far as known. are
Frederick Morri!is. foreman of the
Rocblins Construction Company
derrick man and two unidentified men.
apparently laborers.
Among those missing Is Frank ]. Al
lison. of the Allison Realty Company
the builders Of the hotel who is known
to have been IN the building When II
fell Efforts 10 recover the bodies or the
dead and rescue those imprisoned In
the wreck were begun by the hremsn
Immediately after the crash. AMI The
work OF searching the ruins Viii bo
continued all night. Owing 10 the enor-
meas mass OF metal wreckage, daya
nav clapse before eH he bodies ar"
recovered.
The cause OF the disaster generally
accepted Ia the overlooking of tho
floors. Foreman Games Halpin. In
charge of the iron workers. stated that
there WAS n large quantity of cemeni
nnd other building material on thf
fifth floor. and that on the ninth moo
! were cighty-thrce iron beams which
were to have been used in constructing
the remaining floors Of the building.
That criminal carciessuess Is charge
able 70 somebody is shown hy tho iac'
that the building department has
placed repeated charges OF Violations
against the building. the last one :"
INSPECTOR Charles French. because "th'
| side walls were moro than two storle
! in advance of the front walls. and b'
/ floor beams were not properly boite'
and tied"
a. ,..I rrnVinfz
, ings. those responsible for the con
stguction OF the building went aheao
regardless OF consequences.
Adjoining the collapsed building o'
tho vest Is the fonr-story hrown-ston
| residence Of Harold Brown. some o
) the huge iron beams struck the side
the house and stove holes In the wal
and roof. and dislodged part OF th
; hrown-stone front. which was throw
ia the street The occupants escape
a rniniured. On the east side ~ hous
4 | occupied by A. Walpole Cragc as
+ school for boys. This had been dis
X missed a few minutes before The eTasf
d A few beams struck the house. tearin
II on a portion of the roof and smashin
q holes in the side walls.
e Mrs. Storrs. whose husband is
.. London. was sitting at luncheon VII
Mrs. Savage when the crash cane. an
she and Ernest Meier. walter, wer
instantly buried under the debris OF IN
ie roof and walls. Mrs. Savage barely e'
cGped being strnck. but her sklrt va
lr pinned TO the floor by mass OF falie
bricks. Mrs. Stofrs was breathing she
"a | extracted. but died within few MIL
20 utes. The waiter r. believed TO be II
talIy injured. The other occupants
tho diniug-room escaped unnurt.