The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-08-04
BIC DEATH LIST
W|THMANY HURT
Collapse of a Big Department.
Store Walls Carries Death
and Destruction.
THE SCENE WAS PlTlABLE
Most of the Victims Were Women and
Cir, Clerks Who Were Caught
AopelessIy, When Three
Floors Gave Way.

Albany. N. Y. Aug. 10.-The middle
section of the big department store OF
the John G.. Myers company, In North
Pearl street, collapsed Tuesday morn-s
ing, carrying with 1t over 100 persons.
Caught in a chaos of brick, plaster
nnd wooden beams, between twenty
and thirty men, women and children
met death. Twelve frantic workmen on
the part of an army OF rescuers olsen
tangled fifty people, six OF them dead.a,
and many of the rest badly injured.
Three bodies We're in sight at a late
hour last night, but many hours work
will be requi-ed to get them out.
Anything like Il complete list of The
killed and injured will be unobtain-
able Until the workers have made their
way to the very bottom of the mass OF
Wreckage.
With few exceptions those caught in
the ruins were employees, a majority OF
them girls. The collapse occurred
shortly after The opening hour, when
barely a score OF shoppers We're in the
store. A clock found in the debris had
stopped twelve minutes before 9 o'clock,
showing when the crash came.
Six Known Dead.
The dead thus far removed from tho
ruins are.
MICHAEL FITZGERALD.
ERANh
MISS ANNA e. WHITBRECK.
MISS MINNIE BALLARD.
MISS ALICE l.. SHARP.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN. .
The fatally injured: 5a=# w..
Miss Helen Donahue.
Miss May McEvoy.
The list of injured as compiled last
night, shows that t~hirty-six employees
of the company were injured, three Sc
riously. Besides these five shoppers
We're injured.
How Accident Happened.
The Myers Estate had been making
extensive repairs on the building. This
morning a gang of Italians started to
remove an iron pillar that supported
the main floor. Evidently they failed
to brace the floor properly, for scarcely
mad they loosened the post when down
came three upper floors within a radius
Of fifty feet from the fatal pillar. The
wreck crashed through the cellar, bury
ing worknen and carrying down those
who happened to be working in that
portion of the building.
Awful Scene Follows.
The fire department, ambulances and,
physicians We're called and the work of
rescue began at once. The scene which
followed the collapse was indescribable.
MostFo of the injured We're young women.
Stores We're turned into emergency hos
pitfalls.
Water rushed into the ruins from
twisted pipes and 1t was necessary to,
cut off the supply in that vicinity. The
scenes about the building were as pitt
able as those within. Several hundred
relatives of employees were there, and
their supplications as to the welfare
of loved ones was heartrending.
1t was plain it would take several
hours to dig out the victims.
Many Girls Tainted.
1rlu-ar1 T IJNrop ~, Of +Lo ,I1,1,.
ut the mems furnishing counter, was
a1s1ong the fortunate ones to get out
without a scratch. He assisted in re-
moving about thirty girls to a neigh
boring store. When the crash came.
he said, many girls sank behind their
counters and had to be dragged out in
a fainting condition. In the rear of
the store on James street a score of
employees We're found imprisoned in
the cellar. where they had been thrown
from the floors above. Most of them
were conscious and several directed
tl1e work of reSc1ln