Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1907 — CAUSED BY CARELESSNESS [ARTICLE]

CAUSED BY CARELESSNESS

Four Lives, Perhaps Nine, Lost In a Building Collapse That Waa Easily Preventable. Philadelphia, July 11. —Three men are known to have been killed, one was fatally hurt and eighteen others ware injured in the collapse of a new concrete building at the plant of the Bridgman Bros, company, manufacturers of steam fitters' supplies. The building was just being put under roof when a section al»out thirty feet In width and extending the entire depth of the structure collapsed. About thirty men were at work on the side which gave way, and they were carried down in the debris. The body of Marshall Hopkins, aged 45, and the bodies of two unidentified colored men have been taken from the ruins. It Is believed that there are others burled under tlie heavy mass of concrete, as the police and contractors have not been able to locate two Italians and three colored laborers who were on the building when the accident occurred. Jacob Smith is the man fatally hurt. The building collapsed, according to the admissions of C. B.lMlller, boss carpenter, because the shorings were taken away from the concrete before It had properly set