The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-27
BARN COLI ! 'SES-
NO one KILLED
COrtrisht'S New Cement
Structure CrumbIeS We'd
neSday Evening.
LOSS PLACED AT $4,000; FAMILY
PLAYING IN HARD LUCK.


startled the residents in the vicinity
of Cortright's, Main street, Wednes-
day evening. Men jumped up from
their supper tables and ran to the
windows just in time to see portions
of the new 3-story concrete block liv-
cry stable of Cortright G. Son crash
TO the ground. The noise was deaf
ening and some thought the electric
light station had blown up.
c. A. Cortright and Edward Skin
ner were seated in the Office of the
Cortright livery, a wooden building
adjacent to the large barn, when the
structure fell. To a Citizen repre-
sentative Mr.. Cortright made the
following statement Thursday morn
ing:
Edward Skinner and l were seat
ed in the office. | was waiting for q
telephone call and was near the desk.
Skinner was sitting in a chair. The
hrst noise | heard sounded as though
wagon had come into the yard.
l thought nothing of that and then
sort of cracking noise followed. At
the same instant the electric light
went out. | then became frightened
and knew something was wrong. The
big crash followed simultaneously.
Skinner kicked out a pane of glass
in one of the office windows and
jumped through without a scratch.
l went to the door and the tempor-
ary light we had outside over the en-
trance to the building looked as if it
were on the ground. | did not no.
tice what happened thereafter, but
nF Fn1I
carried me from the office door up
stairs to my home.
There were two horses in the
shed and two in the basement. One
morse was injured that was standing
IN the shed. The roof boards had
been laid and the men were waiting
for trusses before they could finish
the building. The masons were COM
ing this morning to complete the
laying of the bricks"
The roof of the Office building is
cayed in by the falling blocks.
samuel Wadge, an employe, when
seen by a reporter, stated that he
was standing right in front of the
| building just before it fell. When
asked whether or not the front fell
first he said he did not think so. He
stated that it was his opinion that
the north wall gave way first which
weakened the rest of the building
and then the front fell out
The roof of the horse shed is de-
molished. A few buggies standing
in the barn were also wrecked.
The entire front Of the building
fell, leaving a V-shaped opening,
Uhe blocks breaking as they came
crashing down to the ground. They
covered an area of about 80 feet
and ranged from two to five feet
| deep in places.
The building is badly wrecked.
The floors and roof completely cover
the first floor and the lumber is
broken and thrown in almost every
direction Mr.. Cortright states that
he would rather take the remainder
of the building down and build from
the foundation than to repair the
structure.
The north wall, adjoining the
Lyric theatre, has several bricks
missing
The structure was built during
the summer by Edward Pierce,
contractor and builder of Carbon
! dale. The blocks numbered about
1000 and were furnished by the Con-
crete Supply and Construction com
| pany of this place. The barn was one
of the largest in this section of the
! State.
That the accident did not occur in
! the day time, when several men
! would have been employed upon the
structure, is considered fortunate in
| deed. Had it collapsed during the
day the loss of life undoubtedly
would have been heavy.
Mr. Cortright places his loss at
about $4,000.
Fate seems to follow Cortright &
Son. Their livery burned during the
early spring, and now follows the
collapse of the new barn, and this
last blow is pretty hard to bear.
Surely Cortrigiht e Son have the SYM
pathy of the town in their misfort-
une.
Three sons of Charles Campfield
were in the yard when the building
collapsed and had a narrow escape
from being pinned under the falling
debris. c. j. Brown, an employ of
! Cortright & Son, was in the alleyway
leading to the barn, a short distance
from the building, but he was out
of dangers path.