The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-18
West Wall of Ruins Col lapses Under High Wind and Crashes Through
 Adjoining Structure
SECOND DISASTER
 FOLLOWS BURNING
 OF ST. LOUIS CLUB
Hours After Collapse Real Extent of Injury Is Undetermined--Res cuers Extract Injured From
 the Debris-Many Make
 Good Their Escape

St. Louis. March I5.--At Ienst three persons were killed, f5 buried under debris and 10 injured when the west wall of the Missouri Athletic club
 building, which was destroyed lay fire In which 70 persons lost their lives a
 week ago. collapsed under n high wind
 here late today and crashed through
 four-story building occupied by the st. Louis Seed company.
 The wall of the Missouri Athletic club building. which stood seven stories high,
 crumbled when a 35-mile wind veered to the northwest. A few minutes before the collapse, Building Commissioner Me Kelvey, who was directing 17O men in
 the work of exploring the ruins of the
 Missouri Athletic club. feared the wal
 would fall and ordered his men out of
 the debris. This action probably prevent- cd heavy loss of life.
 The four-story building occupied by the St. Louis Seed company had weakened. apparently, during the burning of the Missouri Athletic club building. which , adjoined it on the eas., and when the brick wall crashed on the roof of the four-story building, ths walls of the lat- ter gave way and all above the second floor erembled.
 Ten Unaccounted For Hours after the accident 1t was i'm possible to determine how many had been buried in the ruins. Many doubt less escaped and went away without giv- ing their names. but 10 persons are un-
 accounted for. Six injured, three of them women, had been taken from the ruins, ! tp ba nd l still were in the debris.
 James Cobb. cashier of the seed com pany apparently WIS dangerously hurt
 but he directed the work Of the res l ouers who tried to extricate him from the ruins Electric lights were strung | about the debris that pinioned him, and l while the worl<men tugsed at the heavy 1 timbers, Father Kennedy, Catholic priest administered to him the last rites
 of the church. Father Kennedy also ad-
 ministered the last rites to another man 1 buried in the debris. Two other priests
 worked in the ruins giving last rites to l the injured
 | The body of a man lay across the I body of MT. Cobb when the rescuers ] reached him. This man had been trans
 fixed by a piece of scantling. Amputation Avoided An aged man was found pinionod in l the basement of the seed companys | building. He was seriously injured and
 to take him out alive it seemed neees-
 sary to amputate his leg. Physicians 1 had injected morphine into the pinoned | leg and were about to apply the knife when worlSmen succeeded in moving the debris slightly. thereby releasing the in l jured man. The amputation was avert l ed and the man was taken to the city dspensary
 l In the seed company building at the l time of the accident were 10 or 12 GUS ! toners, three women and five or six men | office employees and a large number of workmen engaged in repair work. l The customers in the building are be- lieved to have escaped with slight or nc injuries. The injured. were, for the most part office employees of the seed
 company or wor1men.
 The bodies of three workmen had been | taken from the ruins tonight. The groans i of q woman buried beneath the debris, l which had been heard for sometime. | ceased by the time the building commis- | sioner had obtained a large force to ex- plore the wreckage. It is believed the I woman is dead.