The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-03
.F'rame-yVork Of the arlington
i'll New York, Tuinbles Under
4 Heavy; Weight Upon It,. S
CRIMINAL CARELEsSNEsS
CAUSE OF CATASTR0P' HEf
Had Been Been Placardcd
/. Several Times III By the Inspc,c,--5#
tor Lady at at Luncheon LIN t:-l15 in. in
Nearby Hotel Killed at
n Table Five Bodies
Are Found. d ,5
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NEyVfs YO OIsEl, March fourteen per-
sons h arc 5. believed 10. have been
killed. Of whom tho bodies Of only five
have been recovered, L, about n score In
Jured and several ares missing through,
the collapse to-day OF the steel skeleton
OF tn 3 Hotel Darling ton n,sastblrtecn-story a
apar tment house in course of erect lion q at
NO. 81 ~ est Forty-sixt1 Street.
The steel frame work had been erected
as Tar as the eleventh floor and tho
structure was swarruing with iron-
workers. masons and laborcrs. when.
without an instant's warming. the upper
floor sagged and collapsed, and the whole
structure fell with d crash that was
heard for blocks, and shook all the build
ing in tl,c vicinity. "a portion OF the steel
fran q fell upon ttes rear oe the Hotel
Patterson on West Fort ty-sey yenth$ Street,
crushing in. the wall Of 4 llc diningTro
and killing Mrs. Il. Ell Lacy storrs, tho
wife, of 81 nnk Storrs, q wca thy. res lent oi
lilRye, WcstchcstE 81 county, ), us she was sit
ting@ats Il ncheonF vi tlL the Wife Of Il iio
Rcy. DIR. Minol Savage, who escaped un-
hurt. K
The other bodies so far recovered arc
those Of Frederick Morrils, foreman OF
tho Rocbllng Construction Company; Far
rcll s. 1agun, n derrick man, and two
unidentified men Il apparently 1aborers.
III One 8of the Builders Missing.
Among :hose missing is Frank J. Allison.
of tho Allison Realty Company, tie build
crs OF the hotel, who Is knoWnto have been
in the building when 1t fell. Efforts to re-
cover the bodies OF tho dead and rescue
those imprisoned In the wreck We're
begun by the fircmen Immediately after
the crash, and the work of searching tho
ruins will continue all night Owing to
the enormous mass OF metal wreckaSc,
days may clapse before ali the
bodies arc recovered, e b
# THE cause or tho disaster generally ac-a
ceptcd Is the overlooking Of the floors.
Foreman James 1ialpin,z In cha rye g OF me
iron workers, says there was = rep
quantity Of cement ard other building
ma terial on the fifth floor, and that ON
3 tho ninth floor were eighty-three iron
beams, which werc to have been used In
constructing the remaining floors OF tho.
building. 4t} sF sss "a
h THAT criminal carclessness is charge
able to somebody Is shown by lie fact
that the building department had placed
repeated viola tions'' against the build
ling, tile last one being filed to-day. st
tho instance OF Inspector Charles FRENCH
because ..tho sido walls were more thar
two stories In advance Of the front wa ~.
and tho floor beams wcro not properly
sboltcd and tied."p Is; lg.ss # q
8I5 In spite of this and previous warnings.
those responsible for the construction 9
( tho building vert ahead regardless :;
consequences. l3
Crashed Into Dwelling. s5
< Adjoining the collapsed building on the
&wcs s. Ia tho four-story brown stone resi-.
dcnce} OF Harold Brown. Some of the.
hugo iron beams struck tho side of ths,
house and stove holes In the wall ard
root. and dIslodged a partof the brown
e stone 'front.' which was thrown = Q the
street. Tho occupants escaped 8llnirl iuured.i