People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1893 — COLLAPSE OF A HOTEL. [ARTICLE]

COLLAPSE OF A HOTEL.

The Tremont House at Fort Scott, Kan., Falls in and Only Two Persons Are Injured. Fort Scott, Kan., June 27.—With a crash and roar that was felt and heard for blocks the east wall of the Tremont house in this city fell out at 9:30 o’clock Monday morning, letting the three upper floors lapse. Not a single person was killed and the escape of the hundred occupants of the hotel with their lives is little short of «, miracle. Essie Caldwell and Ida Morgan, chambermaid*?, were the only persons injured. They fell from the third floor and were badly bruised but no,fc seriously hurt. The building was a structure with i. mansard roof, the upper story and roof having only been recently added. It is supposed that the walls were not strong enough to stand this additional weight, and hence the collapse. The west wall remains standing, but in- momentary danger of falling. Many of those in the building were rescued by means of ladders from the second-story window on this side.