The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
Il KNOWN DEAD
FROM STORE RUINS
Minnesota Woman Is Among the
Persons Seriously Injured
in Albany Crash.

Albany, N: Y, Aug. "a thoro
search carried. on since early morning
has revealed the fact that all the men
and all but one of the women employed
IN the department. store of the John G..
Myers company, which collapsed yes
terday, are accounted for. About thirty
cash boys out of seventy-fve have not
yet reported, but it is thought scarcely
possible that many of them are in the
ruins, for the proportion of boys thus
far known to be killed and injured is
small. -
These facts lead to the belief that
the number Of deaths will prove con-
siderably less than was feared. The
dead found thus far number thirteen,
and there IS hope that not more than
half dozen bodies are still in the
wreck. ++4 2
Debris Battles Rescuers.
A days work by skilled hands from
the Wrecki'ng crews Of the New York
Central and Delaware & Hudson rail-
roads has resulted in removing barely
half the debris.
Shortly after daybreak the searchers
found the twelfth body. It was that
of Miss Helen Malone, asyoung girl,
who shared the cashiers gallery on the
main floor with Anna Whitbeck, Min
ME Bullman and Alice Sharp, and was
crushed beneath the same iron girders
that killed her three companions. 9th
ers in the foregoing list were carried
out of the. ruins between the hours Of
2. and 5 o CLOCK this morning. The in
jured in the hospitals were doing well
with two exceptions. Miss Ella j.
Donahue, who was one Of the first sur
vivors to be. taken out of the wreck
has several of her vertebrae fractured,
and it is said cannot live.
Minnesota Woman at Crisis.
Mrs. William Borst of Window, Mimi,
who was one of the few shoppers in
jured, is also reported to be in a crit
ical condition. She has been visiting
Mrs. Richard w. Brass, wife of we'll
known attorney, and the two ladies
were out on an early shopping tour.
Mrs. Brass also was injured, but after
being in the wreckage several hours was
removed without serious wounds.
The only addition to the list of in
jured is Thomas Rogers, a fireman, who
was painfully, tho not seriously, bruised
and cut while at the work Of rescue.
It is thought scarcely possible that
any of those now imprisoned in the
debris can be alive. Since midnight
SSn nty. 'ish fig e''psss have been taken
Shortly after 10 clock the thir-
teenth body was found and identified
as that of Miss Winifred Kelly, by her
father, who had watched by the wreck
age ali night.
The number Of men unaccounted for
is about the same, but the loss of the
firms books makes anything like a
complete record of the male employees
inaccessible. It is thought that nine
tenths of the bodies remaining in the
r,,ine ara +hoca IF women
Who Is Responsible?
D.: Now that the first shock Of the hor-
ror is past, the people of Albany have
begun to ask who is response BILE. Mayor
Gaus, Chief Higgins of the fire depart
ment and Commissioner Cantine Of the
department. of public safety believe the
accident was caused directly by work
men excavating beneath the basement
floor, who undernk1 one of the key
brick piers intTtha' center Of the build
ing, and their belief is generally shared.
Mayor Gsus> saids today: T..
IF any person has been guilty OF
negligence, to which this accident is
DUE he will be punished. Every gull
ty person will be prosecuted as soon
as we have placed the responsibility
for this disaster, which is the worst Of
it's kind that has ever befallen the
city,
An investigation will be begun as
soon as the work Of rescue is over.