The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-12
BY FALL OF SAFE
TWO WERE HURT
DROPPED FOUR STORIES.
SAFE WEIGHING $500 POUNDS
TUMBLED WITHOUT WARNING.

Was Being Lifted to Offices of the
j. p. Williams Company on Fourth
Floor of Citizens Bank Building.
James White, Negro Carpenter,
Had Nose Broken and Was
Bruised-COntract Edward Kill
IOrin Wrenched His Leg-NOise
Heard Blocks Away.
Without warning an iron safe,
weighing $500 pounds, dropped from
the fourth-story window of the Citizens
Bank building yesterday afternoon
and landed on the cement sidewalk on
Bryan street with a crash that was
heard blocks away. The safe was being
lifted from the sidewalk on Bryan
street
James White, a negro carpenter, had
his nose broken and was badly bruised.
Mr.. Edward Killorin, under whose di-
rection the safe was being moved, had
his left leg badly wrenched, and was
slightly bruised. No one was on the
sidewalk, and Mr.. Killorin and the ne
gro were the only ones injured.
Mr.. Killorin said the accident was
caused by the threads on the eye bolt
of the derrick pulling out. The derrick
is maintained at the bank building.
The noise was heard several blocks
away and a large crowd gathered IN
a short while At the time the derrick
gave way no one was passing the
building and the two men who were
injured We're in the office of the ]. P.
Williams Company, on the fourth floor,
trying to steer the safe into the win
dow with several large pieces of tim
Der.
KiIIorin Thrown to Ceiling.
Mr.. Killorin, the foreman, was seat
ed on long piece of timber which
was run out the window, and by
which the safe was being guided. When
the derrick broke the safe oVerbalanc-
ed the contractor and threw him to
the top of the room, knocking a hole
in the plastering. He was bruised on
his shoulders and back, the portions
of his body which came in contact
with the ceiling of the room, and his
leg was sprained. The first thing he
did after regaining his feet was to
run to the window to see if the safe
had fallen on any one.
Another piece of timber truck White,
who was in the room assisting the
foreman in steering the safe through
the window. The timber struck him
a violent blow on the side of the head
and the wound bled freely. He was
badly hurt and it was necessary to
call thu police ambulance to send
him to his home at No. 304 Duffy lane,
east. 1t is not believed that the ne
gro's injuries are serious, however, and
he will probably be able to be out in
a week.
Pedestrians Were Frightened.
Hundreds of people had watched the
heavy safe as it was being pulled up,
and those who were in the immediate
vicinity were badly frightened when
it fell. Many pedestrians walked I'M
der the suspended safe during the aft
ernoon, although a majority of those
who passed the bank building on Bry-
an street took no chances and crossed
to the south side of the street.
AS the big safe shot downward it
created a draught sufficient to put pa
per and trash on the sidewalk in mo-
ton. Had there been a man on the
spot where it landed there would have
been little of him left to inter-
All of this. of course. occurred to
those who had passed safely under
the window. and the mere thought of
what might have been their fate made
more than one nervous. The cement
sidewalk, where the safe landed, was
badly broken, but Mr.. killorin stated
that the safe itself escaped injury. An
other attempt will be made to move
the safe into the building to-day.