Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1893 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MOHNE V7. JUNE 11, 1393-TWEVLE PAGES.

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DISASTER AND DEATH IN THE CAPITAL OF THE NATION.

Collapse of the Army Museum Building at Washington in Which Hundreds of Government Employes Are at Work At Least Twenty-One Lose Their Lives and Twice as Many Receive Frightful Injuries Others of the Victims Will Doubtless Die of Their Wounds The Accident Due to the Miserly Economy of the Government, as Attention Has been Repeatedly Called to the Insecure Condition of the Ancient Structure.

Washington, June 9. Hundreds of men carried down by the falling walls of a building which was notoriously insecure. Human lives crushed out by tons of brick and iron and eent unheralded to the throne of their Maker. Men by the score maimed and disputed for life Happy families hurled into the depths of despair ; women calling for iheir husbands ; children calling fur their fathers; mothers calling for their eons ; not an answer to a cry. This id but a shadow of the awful calamity that beiell this citv this morning. Words cannot picture the awfulness of the accident. The imagination stands back and fails to giro any idea of the scene. Its horrors will never be fully told. Its Euddenneas was almost the chief terror. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, was a change, and the men w ho came to the scene of daily toil thid morning will never return alive. Women who kissed their loved ones this morning as they separated will have but the cold, bruised faces to kiss tonight Other cities have felt the visitations of awful calamities. Ihey hars been swept by firs and deluged by Hood and plague have decimated their communities. In the national capital, of the proudest nation of the eartn, there has been a catastrophe unparalleled in the annals of its history, and in every mind there is the horrible conviction that its genesis is to be found in the criminal negligence of a government too parsimonious to provide for the safety of its loyal servants by protecting: its property for their accommodation. t'ollapte Which L"au eil Death. It was between 9:1X) and 10 o'clock this mcrniog, that the lloors of the old Ford theater building un Tenth-st., occupied by the records and pension division of the surgeon-general's ollice, fell in as though they had been the carlo of a card house. Un each floor there were ecorea of men at work. Without warning they were carried down as by an awful cataract. The flood was made up of iron girder hardly strong enough to support the walls, but heavy enough, heaven knows, to stamp out human lives ; of bricks that were held together by plaster long aince, dried out; of wooden beams that bad been in place too long. There wad no escape from such a Hood. The government of a great nation could not ati'ord to provide a safe building for its faithful employes, but herded them together in a building whose unsound condition was notorious. Again and again have the columns of the prees beea filled with the story of tho rotten walls. There in shame and remorse on the souls of some men who were responsible for the state of things that confined men who were working for their daily bread in a building that everyone in the city of Washington knew was unsafe. Twenty-eight years ago there was another tragedy within the walls of this building. The news cf it vai flaahed to the four quarter of the earth end brought consternation wherever it went. The man who was killed was the president of the L'nited States. As thoueh the building had borne a curse upon it from that time it ended its career in a fitting wav. IJut how much better it would have been if the government would have moved the structure years ago. A tnii!c CoifM'itl tiff. Thoie in the multitude who could think of something beside the catastrophe alone remarked upon the f-lr&r.jo coincidence that the building in which John W ilk en liooth slew President Lincoln should fall and kill scores of people on the very day that the body of the P iria-'sia's brother was being laid to its final rr et. There wa3 do connection between the events, but the iupsriititiou. ehn 1 lered and tho strong minded commented. Iba evidence as found inotT.cial records appears cnnclu-iv that as long ago as 1" this building which tho government purchased after the a.attination ani ueed as an aruiy museum, was ofi,cially rrodaiiried by congress an eo unsafe deDonitory for even the mammal- skeleton, muiutfiiea and books of the amy medic.il museum, for which a safer plac i of f-torage was proTided by tho act of conre-3 Hut notwithstanding the fact tii&t in the puLlic press and in corgrec? slo continued attention was called to the bulging walla of the building and darkness and its general unsaitabüity and unifety, it continued to be used for the daily employment of nearly rive hundred government clerks of the pension record division cf the war ollice. A Mitr.il to tho ItiMixtr. The building collapsed in the midst of an ill-judged ellort to remedy some of ita DYSPEPS3A. THE SYMPTOMS: Losi of Appetite, Ris ing of Food, Heartburn, Distention of the Stomach. Headache, Had Jireath, sleeplessness, Low Spirits an 1 general prostration. Dyspepsia is frequently attended with Constipation, but sometimes with Diarrhaa. "IsoflTered int-rwlr wi:h Full Stomach. Headache, ata A neighbor who had taken Hmmon I4vr rUultor told me it wa a sura this tor my troubi. Jt it ta bet mdiiD J rar took for AfBpsia. U. CULMiHAW. Elehmond, Va.

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defects. The moral of the disaster is emphasized by the f-ict that there are known to be at least two great government buildings the printing ollice and the Winder building annex of the war department, each containing many more employes than were engaged in Ford's death trap which are in an equally dangerous condition. While the work of rescue wa9 going on men who had been strangers to emotion wept like children and turned away their faces as the limp and lifeless bodies of those who had been crushed beneath the ruins were brought forth to the sunshine they would never eee more upon this earth forever. Women were helped away in a fainting condition, and in every heart there was a sorrow and in every eye stood the moisture of grief, STORY OF THE DISASTER Which Cost Over Twenty Lives and Mnny Injured. Ford's old opera house, the building in which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, andueedby the government for many years as part of the office of the surgeongeneral of the army, collapsed this morning shortly after 9:30 o'clock, with a terrible result in loss of life and injury. The building stood on Tenth street wet-t between E and F streets, and not far from Pennsylvania avenue. It bad been condemned years ago, some claim as many as fifteen or tweuty, and had been repaired, propped up and all renovated from year to year. There were 475 persons, mostly government clerks, employed in the building and nearly all of these were at work when the building fell. An excavation for an electric light plant was being made in the cellar of the structure a three-story-affair, and, according to the best information obtainable, the workmen this morning had dag beneath the foundation supports in the front of the building, weakening them to such an extent that the walls gave way before they could be "jacked." This explanation of the cause of the accident is the only one advanced, but it seemed somewhat tdrange, in view of the fact that the top iioor gave way first. Men who were in the building say the crash came without warning. Those on the top floor were suddenly precipitated to the lloor below by the weight of falling timber and furniture, which carried the second and first floors with it. Fortunately, only tho forward half of the floors gave wav. The outer ends oi the lloors and the rear part of the structure remained intact. The walls did not fall. The New Spread Hnpiilly. The news that the building hid fallen bad spread with lightning-like rapidity, and soon Tenth-st. and adjacent thoroughfares were crowded with people. Within an hour the news was known all over Washington and hundreds of anxious relatives and friends swarmed to the vicinity of the old theater. Women appealed anxiously to every bystander for information about some particular person, while men came with tears in their eyes and imploringly besought the policemen to let them through the lines that they might obtain t-ome knowledge of their friend and relatives. A general lire alarm was turned iu in a few minutes after the crash aod then all the ambulances in the city were summoned. As quickly as possible the police and firemen formed a reserve brigade and rai iy Lands agisted them to take out the kitled and wounded. In less thiin an hour about twenty-five people had been taken out, and every few minutes thereafter eome tstill form would be borne on a stretcher from the building. 1'olice and ar- y ambulances, cal a. carriages and t icies oi every ueecription were pressed hto nervico to carry the dead and injured. All the hospitals in the city were utilized in cariog for tho injured, and scores of phy?iciar.3 volunteered their services for this work. The commissioners of the i istrict of Columbia took possession of the building and vicinity in preon, and helped direct the police and the rescuers. Troop Arrive. Cel. Corbin, assistant adjutant-general of the army, was sent by Major-Gen. Scholield to represent the war department and to decide if it wero necessary to call outtioops. Owing to the police regulations the corps was not hindered in ita work by the anxious crowds, and it was not long before the debris had been cleared away to such an extent that the work of reficuo could be carried on without hindrance. Doth the military and naval authorities took prompt action. Gen. SchofMd ordered two troops of cavalry from Ft. Meyer, just across the river, and two companies of infantry from the arsenal W the scene of the disaster. The secretary of the navy ordered out all the Daval medical ollicers stationed here, and also opened the naval hospital to receive the injured. The commandant at the navy yard was ordered to render all the assistance in bis power. Every hospital in the city wu called into requisition and ambulances, carriages and other vehicles fo lowed with the wounded and were (luicaiy traversing me city in every direction. Tbono who were early on the scene found the body of a colored man in the alley, in the rear of the building, where John likes liootn had his horse toth ered the night he killed Lincoln. He had been seen at a third-story window. He was warned not to jump, but despite the protestation of numbers of people he -1 : v. .. .. . ,1 1 i i.: ii i tinuueu uut buu inwcrioi uiniaeu iron the sill, let go. He fell upon a covering at a lower door and süd oiT into the cobble stoned alley, striking on his head, in tantlr killing him. His head was

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distance of several yards, were bespattered with the blood. A Itoy'a llrav Act. One of the bravest and most daring in cidents connected with the calamity was performed by a colored boy, nineteen or twenty years of age, named Basil Lock wook. As soon as the floors collapsed, and the dust cleared away, realizing the danger of those at the rear windows who were wildly climbing out. and calling for aid, he climbed up a large telegraph pole as high as the third story, and lashed a ladder to the pole, putting tho other end in the window. By this means ten or fifteen were assisted down the ladder in safety. v oris or llficne. To the occupants there was but one cra.h heard, and instantly the whole building was filled with blinding lime dust. Running directly through all of the floors and the middle of the building was a wall ten feet or more long and three feet wide. The fatal area was in front of this, leaving a space of six or seven feet in width undisturbed on either side. The floor at the back part of the building, containing more than half of the floor's space. remained intact. There were many very narrow escapes from death. A number of clerks whoce deks rested directly upon the line where the floors broke away, saved themselves, while the desks at which they were, were precipitated down the awful chasm. Others, who were walking across the room, heard an ominous sound, and stopped just at the very threshold of death. When the craph came those who survived heard a mighty tcream of aoKuish from their comrades as they eank out of Bight, and then groping in the darkness they found their way out safely, trembling In every joint, with tho pallor of the dead in their faces. No women were employed in the building. but in a few minutes after tho erash came the wives, mothers and daughters of the victims began to arrive. Within a very few moments a hundred' or more men. stripped for hot work, jumped into the building and began throwing out the wreckage in front and under the floors which remained standing on the rear. Most of those first taken out of the ruins were carried to the Fmergency hospital. It will probably be two or three hours before the mass of debris can all be cleared away and the exact number ot those who went down in the crash known. Near the front wall of the building still remains a great mass of wrecksge which has not yet been explored, and its posi tion is such as to leave no doubt that several bodies will yet be found be neath it. When the crash came there were sup posed to be in the building 4'JD clerks, eighteen messengers and twenty laborers, a total of 534 persons. Up to this hour, 12:.".0 o'clock, sixteen dead bodies have reached the morgue. Scene at the Hospital. About 10:00 o'clock the dead and in jured began to arrive faster than the corps of surgeons could attend to their injuries. Carried in on stretchers, they were dumped at the most convenient places. Ihose who were moat seriously injured were attended to. while others, groaning and crying from the pain of broken limbs, lay beseeching the doctors to dress their wounds. Shortly after the arrival of the lirut unfortunates, acrowd began to assem ble in and out of the hospital, many of them being the wives, daughters and rel ative of the dead and injured. Their weeping and frantic cries for infortnatioa were heartrending. Thev greatly interferred with the work of the physicians, and Dr. Kerr, who is in charge of the hospital, determined to put them out. 1-oad after load of those wounded, blind from the debris, with limbs broken and maimed, were dumped at the door. They had to remain outside for some time, as the force and facilities of the hospital were unequal to the emergency. As quickly as the surgeons, who were shortly reinforced by the young graduates of the citv, could do so, they examined and dressed the wounds and the patients were then sent upstairs to more comfortable, quarters. It was with great dithcuity that the policemen could keep tho relatives of the injured out of the building, while outside their agonizing cries could be distinctly heard. I neftts and ministers were soon on the spot, and, being at once admitted, repaired to the cots of the injured, where they ad-mini-tered epiritual consolation. Three men reached the hospital in a dying con dition, so badly injured that they were taken from the dressing-room and sent to the morgue, where they shortly expired. Charles S. Miller and J. Brad. Jones were among them, while the other was a young man of about twenty-five years of age. The first two were horribly mutilated, but tho laut did not show even an abrasion. His vitals had been crushed. TnkitiK Out the Iil. Every few minutes during the first two hours after tho accident, dead and wounded men were taken out of the debris. To the on-lookers all the bruised. maimed and dust covered bodies seemed bereft of life. One man whose face was covered with blood and who was seem ingly dead, suddenly raised up in the arnhulanre in which be wm placed and swallowed a glass of whihkv. This brought a cheer from the crowd, and thereafter every rescue was accompanied by apttiaube. Ail the carts and workmen that cotld be secured were pressed into service to clear awav tho debris. The workosn Fhoveled plsbter, brick, documonta and broken furniture into the carts, and each load was taken away to a dumping groun 1 near by. There was much danger to the rescuing gan?e, for the edsea of the fallen tloora hung threateningly down ward over the heads of the workers. It Peeme.1 that little progress could be made in clearing awav the immense mass of fallen rubbish, but the work nevertheless progressed rapidly. Ihirr Iruhrif. Icape Five minutes later and J. Ii. Imbrie, the pension chief in charge of the second floor, would have gone down with the wreck. Hehadadeik in the shattered area and a so ono in the rear of the room. He had been at the former place and thou came back to the other desk and in about five minutes the cranh was heard. Then a silence followed and Mr. Imbrie said he heard no sound. He rushed toward the rear windows and found men lumping out. Several made the perilous leap but he supposes that they fell on the awning over the lower door, thus breaking their la I. Another narrow escape is found in the experience, of J. D. Xevins of Texas. whose desk was located in the fallen äs afcer-p arib. That , vV - ' 7 r ff t- 00 Ifc wer 14 Tm. MJIUilck.lH.WtMtXt, Star, fltx-hm-k & Co., (rj4 wt m 1 im4 at iMUwflu Moatioa Statin!.

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wmmm KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. Tho many, who live better than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in tho remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect laxative; effectually cleansing the eystem, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels without weakening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for aie by all druggists in 50c and $1 lottles, but it is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if oüered. section on the second floor. lie had gone to the third floor on some errand and returned and had entered the door and was about to go to his de.sk when the crash came and he stepped back. One minute more ana he would have gone down with the refit. 8. 9. Baker escaped with a bad scalp wound. He was at his desk on the third floor front. The crash came, he said. without warning. Half stunned and dazed he found himself in the cellar, pinned down by debris and covered with planter, furniture and chairs. He extricated himself as best he could and crawled out one of the windows. It was fully half an hour before he recovered himself and even now he can hardly account for his escape. His coat was torn in tatters. Mr. Lincoln' Story. Mr. S. Dana Lincoln, who occupies a room of the Atlantic building, facing the rear of the theater building, gives this account of the scene. He was sitting at his deck at tha tirao of the giving way of the floors of the building. He eaid he heard a noise as tnougn oi aumping of brick in an alley. He looked out of his oflice win dow and saw coluds of du6t arising to the top of the building. Immediately at every window dozens of heads protruded. wildly calling for assistance. It seemed ten or fifteen minutes beiore the lire men appeared with ladders which were immediately run up to the windows. In reality the time was only a few moments. Cnptain Dowil or Inli:inn. The firemen rescued all those who had not escaped by jumping from the win dows. The last man taken out of the building alive was Captain Dowd of In diana. II was found near the southwest corner of the building, covered to a depth of two or three feet with brick and tuor tar. He bad lain there for three hours, but a falling beam hid lodged near bim in such a position as to break the fall of the brick and timbers and when lifted up he raised hia hand, showing that be was conscious, neu ne was iiuea into the Garfield hospital ambulance the crowd paw that he was alive and cheered again and again. The ambulances were kept busy carry ing away the dead and injured. The faces of many of the victims wore covered with pieces of cloth, an old coat, a newspaper, or whatever else could be had, but some of the mangled bodies were carried out with their faces exposed to the gaze of the great throng that surrounded the building. All during the long hours while the workmen were working with all their strength to rescue such ai were not past help, the mothers, Bisters and daughters ot those that had gone down hovered around in front of the building and with ptresming eyes inquired of all whom they met of some tidings of their dear ones. Some could hardly bo restrained from pushing their way into the building. A look into the interior told a sickening tale of how eome were taken and others left. Desks were seen half toppling over the brink of the broken floor, others Htood upright, but the chair which atood beside it and its occupant went down with the craeh. Records aod papers were scattered everr where. but as fast as possible thy were gathered up and saved. Many of them were spotted with blood. Marvtd That Any Should üsenpe. That any one should have escaped with bis life seems a miracle. As they were brought forth they presented a spectacle that no one Boeing it will ever forget. In many cases the semblance to humanity was gone. It seemed as though the helpers were carrying out mere bags of matter, smeared all over with blood, filihr with dirt, dirt ground into them. blood on their faces. A wife could not have recognized her husband in that con dition. With such tenderness as rough and excited men could summon at such a time they were leid out upon stretchers and carried to the ambulances thst tilled the streets from K. to F.-ets. All the doctors could do lor them was to clear away some of the dirt, the plaster and filth from the faces of the in jured men. In many cases tbe dirt was ground into the eves, noses and mouths, so that without such attention, men might have BUliocated. Manv were unconscious and could not have helped themselves. With a clang of the bells the ambulances started off for the hospitals. These wer soon overcrowded. Drug stores were turned into temporary hospitals. I eople in the neighborhood of the accident opened their doors right gladly and the dead and tbe wounded were nurried in. When the accident was over and before the rescuers could get inside to their relief there were injured men who were caring for their worse Injured brothers. Acta of True Heroism. There were men who did not rush for the street to save their own lives. Ke gardless of the fact that more walls might fall and bury them once more, thev stayed to succor men who could not get away by themselves. A man whose arm was crushed used his other arm to drag a man from that place of death. Men stayed to struggle with beams and rafters tbat bore down upon their fellows They epoke brave words o cheer when their struggles were in vain. When the first ot the relie corps entered thA building they were especialiv atruck by the eilence that pre vail sd. There wvre no criei to be beard

beneath the debria. If any cries were

made they were stilled by dirt and mortar that made almost a 6ulid iioor on which one might walk. Men did not walk upon it more than thev could helü, however, for no one kuew but what ha might be standing direciiy abore the bodies ot the dea 1, or above some man in whom life still existed. Nervously and excitedly thev tore away beams and ratters that made a tomb. It was a horrid task; it wa a dirty task. Men worked like demon", with sweat pouring down their faces. The dust and the dirt lay thick upon their faces, so that one couid scarce teil the color of the man. ' Ffforta of the Firemen. The trim uniforms of the firemen were ruined and battered, but never for a mo ment did they slop in their noblo work. Every moment the throwing abide of wreckage exposed the bloody, and often mutilated form of soxe one of the victims. Occasionally one of them revived Bufliciemly to need but little asnistanc to the outer air, but the majority of them dusty, bruised, with clothing torn al most in tatters were carried into the clear atmosphere and through the sorrowing crowd to the ambulances and patrol wagons that were in waiting. At first the endeavors to rescue were eoinewhat inefficient, but in a little whi.e system pre vailed and the work went ahead with the utmost rapidity. eary rescuers gave place at every few minutes to freehand willing successor. who worked with terrihe energy in tfaeir endeavor to' save some of the buried ones. As the bleeding and mangled bodies were brought out groatis aud outcries arose on all hands. The surroun ling houses, drug stores and business places were filled in a short time by bleeding and groaning men. As a manded body was brought out in nine cases out of ten it would be surrounded by weeping friend. The people who were evidedily dead were laid aside, while those who poseer&d life were brought out. One man was fouud sticking head first iuto the debris. His feet were ?een tirat. t-oon they had uncovered his legs, which moved feebly, showing that ho was still alive. Ah last as human hands couid work thoue rescuers did, and soon they had tho unfor tunate man out. He was alive when he was brought into the air, but he died before he reached the ambulance in the etreet. This was but one of the many shocking scenes attending the most horri ble and inexcusable accidents that ever occurred in the city of Washington. Cause of the t ollnjof. The general opinion is that the accident was caused directly by the weakening of the already shaky structure by reason of excavations made beneath it for an electric system. It was stated this afternoon that several days ago the clerks in tho building circulated a petition protesting aaintt this work being continued as they con sidered that it imperilled the lifo of every man who was working in the building. Thia afternoon the firemen turned a stream of water into the building. This was done to Jav the dust so that the work of clearing awav could be better accomplished. A dyed-in-the-wool government clerk objected to the procedure, because, he eaid, the place was btored with important government papers which wou'd be ruined by water. A man was etanding beside him who shouted back excitedly, "We don't care a d n for the papers of a government that lets lis clerk work in euch a trap. Its men we are trying to save; uot papers." At the Mcii'ciif. At the morgue the sight was one horri ble to behold. The little building, in which was one ice chest and a directing table, was not near largo enough to hold the dead bodies brought from the wrecked building. When the morguo was tilled the stable was turned into a reception room for the bodies. lilankets were spread rn the floor and the rt-aia.ns were laid out as rt-sptctably as po-t-ible under the circumstances. lJlocd from the boiliea formed a larpe pool on the lloor. and tho crushed skulls, broken arms and legs made the scene indescribable. Then there was some of tho victims who had not been crushed. They had been smothered and the discoloration of tiieir faces and necks gave visible evi.lence of the cause of death. Tne president was informed of the sad event juit as he reached the entrance to the white house by one of the clerks and he at once interested himself in relief measures, hearing with satisfaction what bad been done by Abbistant cecretary of War Grant. The I.lst of Deii.l. The fo'lowin: list of dead thug far reported with the names of r-tates from which thev were appointed contains twen ty-two names, including one unknown and one Drohahle duplication, only twenty-one bodies having been taken from the ruins. The list of dead : Unknown in.nt taken from the ruins at 5 o'clock thi evutne, evidently a clfrk. (iKOKOK ALLKK. lVnuivlvania. (iKOKOK W. ARNOLD. Virginia. J. W. HOODY, New York. KAJH'Kb 1". HANKS. IVbnsylvania. JOHN hlTSfeil'?. Iitrict of Colombia, AUTIU'KL. Ldl.TKIOH, Kentucky. J lllll.M 1 All DALKY, Pennsylvania. JAMK8 1L FA OAS', KanH. JUSKI'H li. OAOK, Michigan. DAYID C.JOKDAN. MUouri. II. M. JAKYIS, .Michigan. J. !(IYJ).I(IN.S, Wiioonaio. F. B. LO Fit's, New York. F. W. MALUKU, , II. F. MII.I.Mt. New York. HOW Alil a MILLldt. hio. J. If. M'FALL, Wisconsin. F, G. Sil I'LL. Kainat. WILLIAM sCIIIllLVliU, MarylanJ. II. S. WOOD. . F. Jl. VilLLlAMS, Wiironain. C. H. Miller is reported killed, but it is probable that the name in meant for C. If. Miller, who was supposed to bavo been k.lleJ, but will recover. The names of A Planters Experience. Ijr plantation i In u r.xtlarlal ll r!cl, where f ever and aft ue pre ailed. 1 employ I.0 n-.mdj; f I i:iH;i:lly lialT of U.ctu rrt-re Ick. I wei nearly 0.1 cjuruseduLieii I tCan the uao of E33 p, fl es ?i n !)l t M -i' " 1 3 r.i ii w nuns The result nai msnellons. 2Iy men brrame! roiijj unl l-rty. en'! I ar.ve Iiat n fnrtlwir trouble. M'lth tlic IUls. 1 Mould not fear to'.ltolnaJiy SvrainiV 11. KlVAL,tiayouKuta,I.a. Sold Everywhere. 02cp, 140 to lit Wa&iiingtoa SU, Jf. Y. jpoeitivcljr cure Sick-headache, OonsA pation, BiliousncB, Liver Complaint; Colds and General debility. 40 to the botllo. Supar coated. Eopj to take. Do not gripe nur nicken the stomach. Sold b7 druggists. Price 23c. Reliable and economical Bample done free. S. JT. Smith 6 Ca.. 2 CttcnurLk Si JJ. "L

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OR NO PAY. ' Nothing Fairer Than Tills. When we tay enre, we lo rot r.in limply to fclop it lor the time being, L: . a peblIähehi a?;o positive cunn For n.iieuT".llfinf nlsr!. 1ra;x tw!r., I??c!aciie, onsi ifatioii, l:i)iotiiie-. vomiih, ! -r jil-nv, Impure Hloori, and ail !.Feao: r.ri.in? f.-nni a d!cd r':.l I.Ivor Wrilo lo! Trf ! !ie Tti:r.Oiih::., i.u i Fret Sample Toit'eof OF. ROC G LIVCR, RHEUMATIC, and NEURALGIA CURE to GULLEN & NEWMAN, 201 GAY ST., Knoxvilie, Tcnn Jr.rdan and Paul have alao been attached to the unofficial death iUt as having bt-tu taken out dt-ad, but their bodies have not been located. Jor ian is probably a duplication of the nau of 1 nvid C. Jordan of Missouri, who w ia killed, and Paul may have been confused with McFall, aL-o killed. One nif.n taken from the ruina dead was identilied bv a bystander aa old man McCauley, who lives in Virginia, but this i Jentilkation waa not verii'u-d. aa the death list doea not contain Lia naaie. Tho injured: A. L A Mi:s, Iowa, akull fractured, leg broken aud injured internally. F. F. Calvekt. Maryland, rieht leg fraoture.l. . J. J)i:vky, New York. hoi is I)rAi'V. (iEou'.E W. Davis, Misnourl, calp woin l. 11. 1. LTEKK5NG, Fort fik'ott, Kas., aericuely injvi red. AMUNGTON Fry, bead Ladlr cut. V. S. Gl sTl.N, Ohio, left arm brokeD. Dr. .Jami s H. Hovaki, Maryland (colored scalp cut, internal injuries. '. F. Hathaway, Ohio. J. N. Ham.mki!, lenneanee, In.-ured ia eye. (Jko1;je 1IaniY (colored), iliut cu:a oa Lend. Thomas Hynks, MiMouri, skull fractured. J. Ci. Johns, leg badly cut. W. Kr;Li:u, New Jersey, icalp wouud. Cl IKIGN LnWK, Iowa, scalp wound. William W. Lu i i he, Jutnctof Columbia. F, Lrr.ER, MUnifsippi, Lead cut and injured luteruailf. Fkank M ETC Air, Massachusetts, dislocation of hip. tJ. M. MoL,av;iii.iv, Tennt-Mee. J. 1'. Mc CokmalK. WUeonsio, depressed fracture of ribs. M. Mcl.Awlil.AN. Sec broken. IL M. Pat it i CK. New York, cuta about bead aad fact. Fody, police officer, injured after accident. i. T. PitriTT, Teins scalp lacerated, i. K. Pun m.n or u.v, Alabama, skull fractured. C'HAT'.I.ES Itoii.Nsox, Colors lo, slight injuries in lit a 1 arid bok. J. -. bTKWAiiT, cut about head. F. F. J-1 ms. C. A. Sn AMioLT. Missouri, (colored), dan gerously injurtd. F. U. SMITH, Tennessee. IU A. Smith, Couueiiout, oompouud fracture of the t-ki-K. F. F. iSams, Illinois, cut about the heal Vit.i.iAM M. .SMir.i. P. U. fco.MEKs, Obio, ribs broken aud bead badly out. John II. Thomas Sedalia, Mo., arm 1-roLen. F. W. Test, lll:iiOis. coutuciou of BiiuD. C It. ELL I. ii, Ncalp wouuil and ouuiuiioa of back. N. 1. WoiiLF.Y, Tenncsjso, Lack aad lei injured. James A. White, (Jeorgia, cut od bead and loir. A. (1. Young, Pennsylvania, Lead cut and injured intern'Jiy. A. C. Ulack, ludiana, fractured cheek bone aud arm. ClIAKl.KS J. Moo P.E. d:strict of Columbia. rib broken and scalp wound. , B. F. DniScoi .1, New York, icalp wound, le' . injured and injure. i itit-rnally. j J. A. .M iLi.Eit, li(.tii:t f Columbia, both I leir broken between the knee aui ankle. j. The superintendent iu ch:-.r,-o of the j Fmergency hosi.ital t-&a that n-.-no of th ! men at tlu hospital would die. Tho u 1lowiiiir injured are at tho hospital, their condition at pret-eut beiu too bad to ptr- : mit of removal : I W. W. Te-t. crioiuly, about face and arms . aud fractured riba. Fkkd Mktcalk, serioiisij glioiked from fall. A. 1- AMES, seriously, uoik. face aud skies. JtuKKKT Smith, fractured ukall; O(erutiou necessary. An examination of official records' showa that tho insecurity of the buibtin was called to the attention of coni.Tri.ij iti a pointed manner uj far back as iss . Attention waa then directed Bimply ti the safety of the army medical library and the museum. The protection of hum an life was not Ppecialiv brought in qtieetion. Mr. S. M. Stoek-dajier of Indiana, who wan chairman of t!ie committee of public buildincB andcroundrt in thw Forty eighth congress, mndo a rej ort in favor cf the contrurtion of a new bull, ling for the mueeuui aa 1 library for which he aid of Ford'a theater, then used for that purpoe : The buildinp now used by the medical departtaci.t for a library an i mui-euiu is not only too nin'l to contain the record oi tba librisry uud uiuseuui, but is unsubauufal and disposed to destruction by tire. lvllOMll l lit I 11 -.H ft". Yhen tho bill waa before the house for its consideration, Feb. 10, ls-v), Mr. IstockfliiKor Eaid: There ia a meJIeal museum the ruobt complete in the world, tbe result of th erat war, which is now kept in tha obi Ford tneaUr buildiü, a building totally lujietiuiid to lit safe keepine, a mere lindtrbz, surrounded by woo icu buiidiuvs and liable to be destroyed by tire at auy time. I im ted ita short tun ao in cimrany with the hurt ejn-cciieral and lovnd ilia bull Jing in an absoiuteiy ilansrous conditiou. The building was originally put up un,'r a contract in nn.ety days an 1 was very badly constructed J't.e est: w&H is more than twelre inches out of plumb. Ihe soutliwast corner of the bu lain? ! gireu way UDtil there is a great cra'k in tl.e wnll, and the ofuccrs ia charge have been pre hibited from putting heavy articles in te upper ntory for fertr of tiTextiug out ihn weht wall, it is indeed iu a tumble Uowu con iuion. (.Jen. Slocum, who aleo visited the buildin?, in the cource of the aanie dehate said : My attention was directed to the importance of this prapoHpJ bnildin lj a v:i:t to the bndJini; where the inanuiri jits and bonks and speciaicns are now kept; ihat I do not believe there is a gentleman on this lloor who would hesitate ti vte for thia bill after goir j there and secinij for bimeeif Ihe value of the contents of tbat buildin? and the danger to which they are cov eipoed. Cod try ph acted upon theee statsmente to the extent of removing the inanimate content of the museum to a new and tafe bniuiine. Hut congress and th war department thought proper to expoce eovernment clerks to risks from which they thielded skeleton aud medical books. From a reapouwible gentleman who yeaterday took a look at the work of the men in tho doomed building thia t-tatement is obtaiued : As I passed the building Capt. if. IL Thorp, chief oi the bureau of supplies of the war department seemed to be directing roroewoik. and 1 stopped to see what it was. There was a brick wall running from tbe buck of tbe building to the middle of the lower lloor, which it supported. A number of workmen wert eicavatiog under this wall, for the purpose, as I was told, of putting in aa independent eleotno licht plant, nud they were preparing to support it by underpinning. It now seems very ev.deat to me that as ihey undermined thia brick wall the first lloor gave way; the second lloor beiug supported by columns which rested in tha li rut floor, oollapsed also, and tha third floor collapsed iu like manner. Ab Boon as secretary T.araont returns to WashlnRton etepa will probably be taken to thoroughly iaveniiate the cau?e of the disaster and to fix the responsibility if the coroner's jury does not anticipate tha department in that direction. The coUapae of thin building has directed earneHt attention to two other great public buildings believed to be almost equally in an unsafe condition one the government printing otBce, where 1.SQ0 people are employed, the other id

the rlcketv tdiell known a tbe winter building, alio belonging to tha war department, aud occupied by hundreds of clerk of that department und the second auditor's ollice. This place is notoriously dangerous, and the floors are overloaded, all of the facts bring known to conjjresa for years, hut receiving no attention. Utiihlin Inspector Tal1.. Huilding Inspector Fntwiede, with hie two apistants, vn.i cn hand ehortly after the cave-in occurred. 1 le taid that last week application wa made to him for a permit to undcipin the buddin?. but he declined to cue it. as it was a government building and came under the direct ruprri:don ot the federal oiiireis. In fact he had no jurisdiction of government buildings and was prohibited by law irrr.i interfering. Ttie cause of the whole aiinir, he taid. was undoubtedly due to tin underpinning. The workmen dug under the heavy upright columne which Funport the building and tha collapse followed. due of the workmen, a colored man, who whs employed in excavating the cellar and who -ecapd wiu onlv a.ihtcuti pays : "1 told t..eai yesterduy that tha archway would fall, for every time any one walked over the lloor it would bend." Mr. Widitm F. Kunx of the firm of Funk A: Funk, contractors and builders, was one of the iiret oa tl.e scene, lie said he thought the wreck was caused by the fauitv manner in wl.icl. the work of

underpinning sec mud to havu been conducted. He t-uid be had noticed it several times during the last fw days and no later thau this morning had looked at it. It Ii i not seem to h.m that the work was being carried oa ia ft Fife manner. Mr. iaicr aaid the buiblin'j 1 ad l eeu r.otorir.URiy unsafe for a lor.g tur.H and ho et;.tod thai it had heen tbr"e tiiii' con ieiano 1. lie auid the rear wall of the building" bad been bowed oat for a lout; time. It i$ thought that when, tbe L'Lr.fl in cleared away ad the i apers of va.ue will be recovered. IIn- I.t lv:ly. The last body to Le discovered v-s that of 1 r. Nelson, lie was buried beneath, the timbers in the extreme front of the building, and nm.s removed shortly after o'clock, 'i he laborers :i i not cease their ellorts until about 7 o'clock. By thia time they hnd reached the bottom of the exravatif.il in tho buneintnt, and further s-eurch teemed ti!-ele.sa as the debris in all parts of tbe buiidinc had been tutiieiy cleared away. Some held thai two lalioierd who Mere i.t vx r'; ia tht basement at tho tiuu? ot tbvj ucciucnt wera slid n.M-in, but in the HT.rtli Lad Luea po thor u:rh nothin.' to warrant ita contin u.inco cuiid b fhow n. i'atone body, tii at ol I r. NelM.n, n as fund iunrg the I as-1 ceven hou:e of the march unl thtti iu i Large of the work tliink it ii:;por-piM tbat more remaiu in iha ruins. Th w ork was therelore H'onped. the elreeU roped c!o-r to hu Lui ding and the po'.ics guard statior:e,l then lor the night. Tlio : ir n eaka edi.oriaily of tl.e dieafter as follow h ; There is innocent 1 loo 1 on the head of that bitingihlo power kronen us the g iveruuier.t of tlie I iiited Mle. lb- mnerly coiiri essiooal luikcers are rr l with the thud which uut a few hturH B'nce C'M:r..c j through the veins of activ mr.iihnod. t'llic ul gnruienis i.re e. weired with accudai; or.n s.iu mid !: nul f et stand paralyzed in pool ot coiuleumatwry gore. The widows : nd orpl .un weep for the hutbnds Bi.d ft!i-.TB racr.iicrd on tha altar ot legislative tcoiiou.y and !niiu:t.rj:.e d:srerd. For seV'ril yenr there bus practically been but mi oj-inioii to the Jlonn that cwllapned. and yet meti nud !tik mid h.e CibineU were cruwtled iu up.ui lln-iu uut.l erery available fot of (ijtace v, ( milled. Atain aad araia hits the tM'te of warnit g bet-u soundad. tiui a;il tiu.e attain has congr -es üeeu tuitt.til to lor the relief which a few wi-elv expended dollars would bring and tue petitions have never recHvc 1 i luoni'iit's auciicou from those to whuiiitiifv were addrea.ieJ. CoiideniLsd by erry ix-rou who knows auythiug an to eoneirueiiou the building was ue veriiieiess u-eJ to the extent of iti capacity, not becHUie the authorities deemed it safe, Pecaute there was oo otlirr place in which she ureal oitru-al inroe co jl 1 he aacrMi odated. It was a uotur cuiy uuirealthy aud rotten shell, utterly i.nlit :r I t.i.i;H! ion. and had it been en rfasoiiHl.ly stronkr, w i no jiloe in which tu coriliiie huuiuu ' e.n.'i whui ntotsdy COiapened to work for tueir dady bread. Hie ca.a:r.:ty o' toJay may la repeated toinorrow in the iriTeroiui-nt jr;nti:i oi.ie with friL'htful ruu!;iiiiC!itioii of hurr r. Ihe patt It iicki i.i: ir and i.earl-rnivj.iii', the future is leiten witü dark i r ü.ih.l: u.-. iluy inuooeat blood be shed wi ll immunity? Various I'laiis for the relief of the sufferers aro on foot. At a Meeting of citizens this afu-rnooii S'").ött) was eitmcribed. l'retuderitCieveland win ha l been uked to presideover tl.e uiettir e, but was unable to do bo tecaus.' of a preeiL,: oilicial buir.ciH naeiLent, sent hif cneck lor $KK), aud Secretary Thurb-r his for ; Tfia newM apers of th citv are actively enzaaed in the trood work and tho clerks in tbe (iepartmealj are contributing überall v. The total number dead is now known to bo twenty-four, and th injured to far a ascertained agreate liity-two. INDIANA fc-OPLE. II. C. Fiirniü Wa Not I n j tir"t I". X. Test Injiireu Int. iiKiiI v. H. C. Furness, a e n of Jr. Furnews of thia citv. was emploved asacopyiton the Fccond lloor of the builiiQ: aud was carried 5own in the crash. In reftponae to a telegram nent by his relatives he returned the answer that he had "escaped without a scratch." Ainot'jf th Indiana men mentioned in the dipstchee as havii.k been employed in th fated buiidinß waa "O. V. Springsteen" of thia city. It is A. Ii. Springsteen, a cousin of Deputy County Crk Harvey Springeteeii. It is known thai ho was uot in tho building for he ha-, fur six weeks, beea confined to hia Lotue in WueLiugton bj pevere illness. One of thoso reported as injured, and at the Ktutrtf moy hospital was F. N. TeeU lie ia a relative by marriage of Henry Coburn of this city. From teierrarus ro coived last niht, it waa learned that Mr. Test h nd been severely crufhed in hia lower limbs, and had also received internal injurie lour Were lrwnd. Lion's IIfap. Ont, Juns 7. At Pins Tree harbor lat nkht as twelve tnen were enraged loaJinz telt raph poles on a crib far tha Cleveland cedar conipny were ccmiub ashore, the boatFprnng a leak and went down. Ad its ooeupants but four succsedsl in getlinf aiuort. Tbe four drowned were: JOHN SMITH. Linn. M AIT NOKRIS. Stokes Dsy KOHKItT MOV AT. llepworth. JIENKV lillr li:id. Meaiord. The bodies have not yet baen found. I oniirr.y I.tvetl in Inilinnn. Valfto, Cal, .hine 9 Lieut William P. Ray., I'. S. N.. Commander of I'. S. eoast surveys steamar ilcArihur, conimined suioido at Mare island naval hoxpital this mornine by cultin? his throat. II was transferred to the naval hop.ll a short time ago auTerme from ntrvous prostration. '1 Lis morning Kay went into tho hospital bath-room, locking himss'.f in, and cnt bis throat from ear to ear. Kay was ind to tbe command of the eoasi survey McArthnr, Nov. 8, WM. lbs decease! was a native of Indiana and leaves a wifo and family. 1'rom rrlenil to I rierol Goes tho story of tho excellence of Ilood'a Sarnaparilla and what it ha accomplished, and this is the strongest adver: ising which is done on behalf of thi mediciuo. We endeavor to toll honestly what llood'i Sarnaparilla is and what it w ill do, but what it has done is far more important and far more potent, Ita unequalled record of cures is eure to convince those who have never tried Ilood'a bareaparilla that it it aa excellent medicine.