Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-24
TAKING OUT THE DEAD.
Workers Were at the South Framing
 ham Ruins All Night.

SOulH IulllIuSndlis uhss, Juiy -i. Under the light of a battery of electric lamps the work of exhuming the bodies of the victims of the col lapsed Armden building went on un- ceasingly through the night but the morning brought no increase to the list of known dead.
 At dawn there were still ten bodies at the morgue, eight of the injured were at the hospital, two others were at their homes while the list of missing still remained at four, mak- ing a total of twenty-four, who, so far as could be learned early today were about the building when the supports gave away and sent the tons of cement, iron columns and steel beams crashing in tangled mass into the basement.
 That any one should have escaped with his life was what puzzled the crowd which held back by the Ninth regiment soldiers, gazed all night at the grim work of overhauling the ruins and was still pressing about them when morning dawned.
 A revised list of the dead, wound ed and missing early today is as fol- lows:
 Dead:
 Charles Blythe. South Framing ham, superintendent of construction.
 c. F. Hardy, Natick, head plaster CT.
 Patrick Prendergast, Newton High lands, plasterer.
 James w. Welch, westboro, plas- terer.
 Lumbrino. Augustine, Italian la- borer, residence unknown.
 Romeo Marchie. Italian laborer.
 Joseph Drout, Italian laborer.
 Neal O'Brien, oSuth Birmingham.
 William Scanlon, Holliston,
 Injured at the Birmingham hos pital:
 c. w. Hutchinson. Holliston. Mass. arms and head injured.
 Chester Nicholson. back injured and bruised head and arms.
 Fred Howe, scalp wounds and in- jured shoulders.
 John Hackett. arm broken and head cut.
 James Mulcahy, fractured arms and leg badly bruised.
 Louis Pelgrinni. injured head and chest.
 Edgar Bower, scalp wounds and right arm injured.
 Thomas Prendergast, bruised left arm and right hip.
 Injured at home:
 c. M. Amsden. South Birmingham, owner of building. fractured leg.
 Andrew Jensen, Natick, contractor, cuts.
 Missing:
 Henry L. Sawyer. South Framing ham. merchant.
 Fred Cunningham.
 T. Say.
 Villi Onest.
 The tottering walls and pillars and the hanging beams and girders made the work of extricating the bodies not only difficult. but extremely dan gerous and early to-day. General Whitney in charge of the state troops issued an order that no more soldiers should go into the ruins until the damaged building was in a more safe condition.
 The local authorities sent out a call this morning for assistance fin the work of overhauling the ruins and a large number of men were 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 all night. The presence of the militia in the town at the time of the disas- ter was regarded by the inhabitants as almos; providential. and the local police force was too small to handle the great crowd that quickly assem- biei about the ruins
 Every effort to gain the confidence Of Andrew Jensen. the contractor of the building. at his home at Natick where he vent immediately after the failed this morning as 1t did last night. and in the absence of any by the state authorities. the cause of the accident could not be definitely learned to-day.
 It appeared to-day that the town has no building laws. and any pro ceeiinEs against a contractor or oth- CT person fr connection with faulty viil have to be upon an other charge and sny action vf1l have to be brought bv state officials.