The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-02-20
Fearful Accident Ends Work
ingmen's Lives.
CRUSHED BY FALLING WALLS
Three are Killed While at Work i
Fire Ruins Of Odebolt Business
Block.

LdSJ SATURDAY dlG0IuUOu dUCuG GWC
O'Clock the east wall of the Mates &
Motto building. which was destroyed
by fire on Tuesday of last week. fell
in, killing three and injuring five.
The workmen were at work tearing
away part of the ruined walls and
getting ready to put up a one story
brick building. A scaffolding had
been erected by the workmen. and Gil
Mcfarland and John Soh,strom were
at the top of the ruins. tearing loose
the bricksS and sending them down a
shut to the ground where they were
being put in pile. The work was
being rushed and the cellar was full
of debris. which was being taken out
and hauled away.
Charles Krusenstjerna. Harry
johnson. Charles Hanson, Mat Meyer,
Lyle Titus. F. P. Motto and Will Oh
ney were working in the cellar and
Ernest Briggle was dumping rubbish
into wagon. He was standing on
the back porch and when the walls
fell he fell to the ground but does
not think that anything hit him. Will
Olney and F. P. Motto Rugged the
wall of the opera house block and es-
capped injury.
After the warning those who were
injured had no time to get to place
of safety and the wall buckeled"
and fell straight down. burying the
men beneath the bricks.
Help was at hand instantly and
many willing hands were taking the
dead and injured from the ruins.
The victims of the horrible acct
dent were carried into the rear of
Perkins drug store and medical aid
was soon working over them.
Charles Krusenstjerna and Harry
johnson We're beyond medical aid be-
fore they were taken from the cellar.
Charles Hanson was found to be the
worst off and he was tended to first.
He was taken to his home and died
about two hours after the accident.
Charles krusenstierna and Harry
johnson were taken over to the un-
dertaking establishment of E. Srarner
where they were fixed up and after
wards taken to their homes.
The injured were taken to their
homes as soon as the first aid had
been administered Their wounds were
more closely examined after they were
taken home.
The list of injuries are as follows:
Charles Krusenstjerna. right leg
broken above knee. back broken. skull
badly crushed and his chest bone
crushed. left foot broken.
Charles j. Hanson. both legs brok-
en- and chest crushed: lived about two
hours.
Harry johnson. both legs broken
above knees. scull and jaw crushed.
left eye out.
Gil Mcfarland. badly bruised up. but
not injured seriously.
John Solstrom, chest crushed.
Mat Meyer, leg broken in two
places. collar bone broken and pro-
badly internally injured.
Joe Konradi bruised by falling
bricks, was able to sit up last Satur-
day evening.
Lyle Titus. injured in the head.
has a cash about three inches long in
the scalp.
The walls that were standing after
the accident were torn down last Sat-
urday afternoon and Sunday morning
Mates & Motto were preparing tic
build one story brick in the place
where their old building stood. using
the same walls. and were pushing
the work. hoping to get the new
building under way in a few weeks.
They were tearing down the old walls
as far as the first story.
At the time of the fire the waite,
froze to the bricks and when they
were inspected by the contractors wht
were going to put up the new build
ing. they seemed to be in good condi
ton. but Saturday the sun came GU
hot and soon thawed the ice and con
sequently when the bricks had beer
burnt, and the ice all thawed GU
| they would fall. Along in the after
noon we were enjoying nice spring
day and everybody was standing il
front of the building watching thu
work as it progressed. The farmer
were in town and hundreds of peopl,
saw the accident, therefore it was no
necessary to call the coroner.
j. r. Mates had been working a
the building just few minutes be
fore the accident. but had gone iron
the building for something. and whil
they were out of the ruins the wall
fell in. Many people had gone dow
in the cellar prior to the time of tn
accident, but when it happened ther'
was nohodv in the COLLAR h1t th,