Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-25

with the exception III 1HcSleT -Nltll-
olson, whose back was broken. all the
injured were reported as comfortable
tonight. Nicholson's condition Conti1-
lIes very serious.
Late this afternoon the selectmen
extended an invitation to the state po-
lice to investigate the cause of the col
lapse of the building and the inquiry
began tonight.
South birmingham. July 2+.-.Aidcd
by Il battery OF electric lights the work
of eXhuming the bodies of the victims
OF the collapsed AmSdcn building went
on increasingly through the night but
the morning brought no increase to the
list of the known dead.
At dawn there were still nine bodies
at the morgue. one other victim couii
be seen in the ruins, eight OF the injur-
ed were in the hospital. two others were
ut their homes while the list of miss
ing remained at four, making total
Of "a who 50 far as could be learned
carly Tuesday We're about the building
when the supports gave way and sent
the tons of cement. iron columns and
steel beams crashing into q tangled
mass into the basement.
That anyone should have escaped
with his life is what puzzled the crowd
which. held back by the soldiers, gael
all night at the grim work of overhaul
ing the ruins and was still pressing
about them when morning dawned.
A revised list of the dead, wounded
ana missing early Tuesday is as fol-
lows:
ID
inSham, superintendent Of construction:
&. +. Hardy. head plasterer; Patrick
prendcrgast, Newton Upper Falls. plas-
tcrer; Frank Driscoll. Newton High
lands. plastercr: James w. Welsh,
Wcstboro, plastcrcr; Lumbrino Angus
tino, Italian laborcr, residence I'M
known: Romeo March,. Italian lahorcT;
Neal O'Brion. South birmingham, Ia
borcr; Henry l.. Sawyer. South Franz
ingham. hardware dealer.
Injured at the birmingham hospital;
{. w. Hutchinson. Holliston, Mass. &;
arms and head injured; Chester NichOl-
son. back injured and bruised head and
arms; Fred Howe, scalp wounds and
injured shoulders; John Hackett, arm
broken and head cut; James Malcany,
DIT illS dlll lfss bttbly Va uIo'N' =
Louis Pclgrinni. scalp wounds and
right arm injured; Thomas Prcndcr-
CAST. bruised left arm and right hip.
At homc-G. NJ. Amsden, South
birmingham. owner. fractured leg: An
drew Jensen. Natick, contractor. cuts.
Missing-Fred Cunningham, T. Say,
Will Onest.
The tottcring walls and pillars and
the hanging beams and girdcrs made
the work of extricating the bodies not
only difficult but extremely dangerous
and early Tuesday Gen. Whitney In
charge Of the state troops, Issued an Or
der that no more soldiers should go
into the ruins until they were in safe
condition.
Four bodies were taken out within
short time after the accident. all be-
ing quite close to the street. Two 9TH
crs were removed later in the evening
and two early Tuesday morning and at
o'clclI Il ninth was dragged out from
beneath the heap of rubbish.
Three hours later the 10th body. which
for some time previous had boon seen
beneath two hanging beams. was
reached and brought out.
The local authorities authorizing the
magnitude Of the work sent out n hur-
~ call Tuesday morning for assistance
in the work of overhauling the ruins
and 4 large number of men We're or
dered here from Boston.
The military authorities also sent
down another company of the Ninth
Regiment to relieve the company
which had been on duty at the ruins
oil -
the town at the time of the disaster
was regarded by the inhabitants as
almost providential and the local police
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