Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-04
MEN ARE STILL BURIED
ONE LIVED THIRTY HOURS UN-
DER MASS OF STEEL.
Hundreds of Workmen Struggling to
Remove Hotel Wreckage-Hopes
That Some Are Alive.

NEW YORK. March AFTER living more
than thirty hours under the mass of steel
beams and other debris of the collapsed
Hotel Darlington, in West F46th street
Charles Lasek, cement worker, died early
today while being carried to Flower Hos
pital in an ambulance. This increases the
known dead to fifteen.
The finding oil live human being amidst
the mass of ironwork. brick and mortar
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 amid the
wreckage with derricks to get to the bot
tom of the pile, where more than half a
dozen dead fellow-workmen were known to
lie. Suddenly, when a heavy beam had
peen holsted. man, half pinioned below
was seen to move.
A great shout went up and hurry calls
were made for an ambulance. Owing to
the position of the impr. Soned man great
care had to be exercised in freeing him
and nearly an hour elapsed before this was
accomplished.
Given Stimulants.
Meanwhile the surgeons had erawled into
the pile and reached his side He was
given stimulants internally and injections
of whiskey with cocaine and hopes were
strong of saving the man who had escaped
death in the crash and then fought off suf-
location and starvation so long
He was carefully lifted into an ambu-
lance, but died before the hospital was
reached. One arm had been broken and
there was great hole in the mans head
His vitality must have been tremendous to
survive SO long with these in juries, not to
mention his position in the debris.
At the hospital Lasek's identity was
quickly established by means of union
card in one of his pockets.
Number Yet in Ruins.s
Several bodies. possibly nine or ten, are
still buried in the ruins of the wrecKeo
Darlington Apartment building, is the opin,
ion of Coroner Scholer, expressed today
after conferences with Forsmdh HaIpin OF
the iron workers On the buiIdf4E, and JOS
Yeamans. walking delegate of the Asphali
and Cement Workers tInionA Yeamans
said that eighteen men of his union had
been employed on the building. only three
OF whom had been accounted for, and Hal
pin told the coroner that nine or ten men
had been working as housesmiths and
fathers on some of the upper floors. fol
whom no account had yet been given.
The fact that Lasek was still alive wheT
taken from the ruins this morning, and
that the body of Alexander L. Johnston
taken out late last night, showed evidences
OF recent death, gave hope that other vic
Tins might be rescued alive, and the worI
of removing the wreckage was continued
TO-DAY.
Fifteenth Victim Recovered.
Shortly before noon the body of Louis
Ackerman. the fifteenth victim of the Darl-
ington Hotel catastrophe, ths last Of those
which had been visible in theTWreckage FOL
some time. was removed from the ruins Of
the building.
This afternoon double forge of men are
bending every effort to penetrate further
into the heaps of debris and iron work in
which. it Is almost certain, other bodies
remain to be uncovered.
The body of VIM. r. Greene. the missing
foreman of the fireproofers, liz supposed to
BE- somewhere in the wreckage.. Twelve OF
the injured were still in the hqspitais today
Several of those are severely injured. but
OF these only one is in critical condition.
OF the six warrants issued by Corone,
Scholer for men supposed to he responsible
for the disaster, none has yet been served
Eugene A. Allison of the Allison Realty
Company, prOprtetors of the structure, ii
still i'll at home with nervous prostration
and has not surrendered himself.