Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — CAUSED BY A WEIGHT. [ARTICLE]

CAUSED BY A WEIGHT.

Collapse of Chicago Coliseum Said to Be line to 1 his. Searching investigation made Wednesday probably establishes the cause of the collapse of the twelve giant steel arches for the Chicago Coliseum, killing ten laboring men and injuring a score of others. A bias weight upon two arches at the extreme north end of the structure where the trusses first gave way is regarded as the cause of the awful accident. A Chicago dispatch says that experts who searched the ruins discovered four large chains attached to these two arches. From them were suspended two-inch ropes, running through a pulley, and the former wound around a cross section of heavy iron timber. The jarring of the hoisting engine and the attempt either to

hoist or lower this beam is said to have brought down the two steel arches and they in turn caused the collapse of all the remaining steel framework. Several tobacco warehouses. Mount Sterling, Ky.. burned. Ix>ss $50,000. Naphtha tank in Lehmann's hat factory, New York, exploded. Rachel Verta, 34, jumped from third story; both legs broken. Edna Nichols and Nellie Healey also badly hurt. Fire loss small. Number of lives lost along the'Carolina coast during the recent hurricane is now estimated at 100. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian premier, says that he will attend the Chicago festival with the Earl of Minto, Gov. Gen. Sir Charles Tupper and other Canadians.