Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1893, Page 4

THE EVENING STAR BLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, ain AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Penzsylvania Avenue, corner 11th St., by The Evening Star owsps: Company, & H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’ Tere Evewrea S7an fs served to subacrthers In the Hey by carriers, on thelr own account, at 10 cents Der ‘week, or 44c. per month. Copies at the count 2 tseach. By mail an: ‘in the United Statesor ie onthe prepaid 20 conta por inonth. Satcmpat QvaDRUPLE SHEET STAR 61 UOperyear; ‘With foreien postaee added. $3.00. [Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mai] matter. | 2 All mail subscriptions must be aid in advance. Rates of advertising wade known on application. Che Zvening Star. Vor. 82, No. 20,594. WASHINGTON, D. C.. FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1893—TEN PAGES. TWO CENTS. SPECI AL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. — SPIRITUALISM. —MIS¥ MAGGIE GAULE ‘of Baltimore, the r 2 IVERSTIY OF VIRGINIA. JUNE 14 to ge WasENCTON LAs AnD TRUST COMPANY. PAID-UP CAPITAL, ONE MILLION DOLLARS. Organized under act of Congress and under the super- vision of the U. S. Government. Furnishes reliable 5 and 6 per cont investments, Loans money om approved real estate and collateral. Receives savings deposits and pays interest thereon. Conducts safe devosit department. Acts as executor, administrator, &e. AINARD H. WARNER, Presiden: JOHN GOL EDSON, Vice President Becond Vice a » Chartes B, Bailey, John A. Hamilton. pane ann SE Barbers yon B. Larne UNE Fi LICENSE U James L. Barbour, eodore W. Noyes, oct Ranier ee iar” a spetilty., ail | Willagy Barker, Jeudore “aks, work guaranteed. 724 15th stn. ‘ekor | Stig Bowne Finis Spear. osu enet Soka Tina teom john A. Swor —" s = forace 3:8) Seormeteas, 2,000 suits, worth $16.50, $18, $20 and $22.50. | Joba Joy BE warner, All to go this week at $14.85. Janse, Fr Tous B. Wie, “Lbey're sacks and cutaways—in regulars, leans and . Green, - Woodwi a ‘your form, no trouble to fit you | William B. Gurley, ALS. Worthington. It from these. 3S EISEMAN BROS., Cor. 7thand Em w. g>OTICE OF COPARTNER! iP. ‘Messrs. Luther L. Apple snd Henry D. Pochran take ‘pleasure and the public that they’ ‘Apple & Cochran. ‘LAPP! pial ‘ a name of : HENRY D. COCHRAN. Jes-Lw Office—Hood building, 602 F st. TED = = —l VE REMO’ Be ra dice building, S03 eet. aw 05-88 See ee Bae. = MODISTE PARLORS. JACKETS, RIDING HABITS AND ROBES, myv9-3n 1312 F ST_N.W. BAG” PRINTING. AMERICAN SECURITY AND TRUST CO., 1405 @ ST. N. W. A capital of @ million and o quarter. A liability of two miliions and a half. A surpius of one hundred and fyty thousand dollars, Pays its depositors interest on run- ming accounts, Sells REAL ESTATE FIRST MORT- GAGE NOTES netting the purchaser 6 Per cent interest per annum—at face Value plus accrued interest. Secured by first trusts upon real estate within the city limite. OFFICERS: President “ind Treas. you trust 10 9, cne-horse office to “iz Vn Pree, ana Sec. doatt tee wes ot? “cAity: and Teast Officer Folue to mvt. thaws grabcbeg™ piguing? ‘Ghisiraian Laccutive Committee point. Prices mote = the point. ir —- riedeemsomee Shot at. ww. WHY WE GIVE SATISFACTION. Because we are practical tailors—because we do all our own cutting and fitting—be- cause we personally superiatend all work— because we carefully examine each garment Defore it leaves the shop—because we have had twenty years and more of practftal ex- perience—because ice know how. SNYDER & WOOD, Fine Tailoring, Runotne shoes. Dieycle Bicycle suits, sweaters, hose, belts, el ts and white duck pants. EMETZ & SON, 1237 PA AVE. te? Fepeetag of ‘be howsen under is chance a c J rates to agents who will intrurt their entire work to me M; Fes'e are tho owes yet my" "work LNeREND, Carpenter and Butider Sik PA pan a0. se THE IMPORTER — ACCEPTED OUR CeFER FOR THOSE 10 PIECES OF BLUE AND BLACK SERGES—AS LONG AS THEY LAST—WE ‘WILL MAKE THEM TO YOUR ORDER ee —_——— su “FOR A SACK SUIT. OUT, FIT, WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED. MERTZ and MERTZ, Modern Price Tailors, 906 F st. se? YOU ARE NOT READY FOR THE Las you have supplied yourself Betae see WOODWARD & LOTHROP'S, 10TH. 11TH AND F STS. N.W. INTING! PRINTING! "ANYTHING IN My LINE PROMPTLY, CORKECTLY AND ECONO WICALLY EX: oo WEST PLICES FOR BEST Wor ADAMS. PRINTER. ‘512 Lith stow. ap15-3m Lei UST THE THING For this hot spell—those True Blue Serges; coloray blue and black ; price, $12 and $15. GEORGE SPRANSY, One- Price Clothier, ss 434.7th st ,THE TITLE COMPANIES WILL CLOSE ‘their offices on SATURDAYS at 1 p.m. with Jrne 10 and endinw with % MW ASHFORD, Free: eal Estate Title |. E. EDMONSTON. Pres. Columbia Title Co. ‘WM. R WOODWARD Ashington Title Co $3.5.7.9 EZ CARUSI, Pres. District Co. jOOL MEDALS to order at lowest possible cost of produc- tion in our own factory. ‘Estimates and designs furnished on request. RB HARRIS & CO., cd Cor, 7th and D a.w. ‘ee Seve. FAVORITE CREAM ROOT BEER. ‘Trade supplied in quart and half pint bottles by the manufacturer. SAMUEL ©. PALMER, Depots: | $1S.P.st. aw. = 5 1065 32a st.n.w. Ick — ICE AMERICAN Ice co, ‘Telephone.446., Mainofice F and 10th 13th 8 lath se wharves, PURE PENOBSCOT stare, delivarion. ice tickets for family trates” Hed ce or fata Seoon ‘rrades family coal—low prices. api — BASEL ARE SERED ® == ts, 1 second. 1 thicd— pce First is _I'mile, novien Gin. Zeteaighe, HAS C., 7 races. CHARLOTTE, N.C., 24—1 mile open. after falling. =< 2 received fresh supply. the third jendid book for real estate axents. McQUEED, FRINTER AND PUBLISHER. feiephone 76%." (my15i 10K-1116 Est. uw. u SYSTEM OF HEATING. PROMPT AND RELIABLE 250. BAGGAGE pe Bere eeepc sega aie Bees ™ ES. TAILOR, 1312 F STREET. myoSma MANTEL-, ANDIRONS, FENDERS. "Grates, Wroiwht-iron, Gas’ Fixtures, &c. re Si Gow, Mosaics, Marvies ‘3-H COUNLNG, Tide Sop, 20 13th st. "Phone G9. Mainoffice.Vi2Paave. _jed--2: | Grocer, 1005 M st. n.w. A SUMMER LUXURY. | Bait ca gear Hemmeck the moss Festfal “thing” mate? Tes. never amist sn the house dur- sng the faumiier ive Mexican Cord Hammocks. with ad witout pillows, aud with “and at r up. Saw Hats for Ladi and Men from Dunlap and others. WILLETT & KUOPF, 903 PA. AVE. S.W. 49 THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH ‘Is fast earning a world-wide reputation through the press for its wonderful power to repeat all he and pleasure of jearers. rincipal use is the quick lis] business, eorrespondence," and in emar i ueht out the “best-known x the market q ly acce] the y¥ of the “*Dens- more Typewriter” after being thoroughiy convinced of the fact that it was Un Sete Seek the beat. iu and see it COLUMUIA PHONOGRAPH CO. , 627 Fst. n.w. E,D.EASION, Pres. R. F. CROMELIN, Sec. —™ weather 18 likely to be fair tomorrow. hb . b is the key which opens the door to bargains in lumber. We deal entirely for cash— have no bad debts, and we are therefore able to give you clover margins on all kinds of Iumber than yards which give indiscriminate credit. Our speciaities — Gang-and- Ddand-sawed Boards, Joists and Scantlings. ely vou read it im our ad. ifs 20. LIBBEY, BITTINGER & MILLER, “‘Lumber, Mill-work and Builders’ Hardware,” Cor. 6th and N. ¥. ave. a. w. °T RISK HEALTH AND LIFE! ‘Why stifle in the hot, crowded city and rist sickness and possibly the “‘chol- era” when you can live more comfortably 19 and cheaper amid the cool, health-giving, \reezy surroundings at lovely Charlton Heights? Only a few of those lovely homes now unsoid $100 down. balance $20 per month. Only 20 minutes’ ride, 22 trains, Gee. fare. Don’t wait until the last one of these gems of cottazes is sold. JAS. E. WAUGH, Owner, 610 F st. nw. * c 10 CASH IS A GREAT LEVER, — ‘We have culled a lot ol . a1 i ant $11.50 Trouseriugs whica we ‘wil Inske to order for 98. ‘Aino a line of $49. $40 and $45. Suitings srRich wo wil ke toner tor #25 forkmanship and aa “per fect” an if You paid fall p Don't him. Sr GENUINE PHILA. PEA COAL AT $4.50 PEK TON. CORE IN ANY QUANTITY. THOS. R. MARTIN, &20 2UTH ST. N.W. "Phone, 1766. my63m HOT WEATHER TOPICS. THE MOSQUITO use. stable Window Screens, 2c. each; more money. Window S to order. Wire Screen Doors, all complete, ready" to put up, 90c. IsWT THE LawN sMOOTH —and. silk: Te wilt Only play. ly Guaranteed Lawn ach. ‘work—oF want ovens, ners, open-door . air resuating King" ts the best in the us only—in Washington. oven Fire ‘of | paRBER & ROSS, COR. 11TH AND @ STS. A SUBSTITUTE FOR TEA AND COFFEE. hot-weather _gubstitute rar cool, Fefresb- acer at We. ber physician will advise me coffee As as dolicious for aud coff of To-Katos 614 Vath st aw | } compl | Sets eaarb ie | desler, iF sek ‘fall fro Bight about "8:30 "ou" 2 | arked him to appoint man to office simply R. 1. O.—ALL Mv MBERS OF PLASTER ers, L. A.,1644, K.of L. .are hereby notified the ‘next to att uler bl go MONDAY EVENING. Sune 12, Sia: "Bostueee of fa portance to alle eo-se By order of the Assembly. _ » WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. Owing to the sad calamity which bas visited our ind out of respect to the fuuntites of the dead this yurned until Monday next. It WOULD THE GENTLEMEN WHO SAW Belt Line car Saturd: 230 on the corner of 3d and Gn. Rleace send thelr names and addresses to MitS. 1d jORCOM, cor. 3a and (i sts... Harrison fats. je0-7t* ME. JOAN BATER AND FAMILY WISH ‘to express their thanks to their iuany frisnds for tiieir Kindnes= and sympathy, and aiso for the a1 ful floral offerings in their sid bereavement in jeir dear son and brothe: it, until e they will ask to ofpay. “Tie following master plamnbers are now giving sight Pearce” "Wa ernie “op ie HUTCHINS and’ D. MURPHY. 30-20" =e REASON WHY SOME PEOPLE fave there Clothes made to measure is because they think they can’t be fitted in ready-made clothes. We fit anybody, any shape, especially in those 815 to 820 suits. People that know this save lots of money. GEO. SPRANSY, One-price Clothier, 437 7th st. Jo De At “The Elsmere" you get all the com- forts of home without the unpleasantness and an- noyance, especially in bot weather, of keeping house. Private bath, cool, pleasant rooms and elegant meals. Centrally !ocated, convenient to two lines of cars, ‘Summer prices 1406-1412 H STREET N. W. ARNOLD'S FAMOUS WRITING FLUIDS. Arnold's Inks are wae free from adit Fon buy here we gustan Fenuine article. Dovyounced a Want Stationery Case, any ki ind ‘ice Paper of Kind? We hi Sid more, at lowest prices, ~* Book, ‘al these EASTON & RUPP, Popular Stationers, 421 LITH ST. (Just above the avenue.) PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. Among Them Are Several in the District National Guard. The President today made the following ap- pointments: ‘Wm. G. Crawford of Louisiana, to be deputy auditor of the treasury for the Post Office De- partment, Rodolphus 0. Randall of Alabama, to be col- lector of internal revenue for the district of Alabama. Charles E. Gorman of Rhode Island, to be attorney of the United States for the district of Rhode Island. Norborne T. N. Robinson of Louisiana, to be assistant solicitor of the treasury. Militia of the District of Columbis—Otto L. Suess, to be major of the third battalion of in- fantry; Samuel A. H. McKim, to be surgeon, first regiment infantry, rank of captain: James A. Wateon, to be first lieutenant, ambulance corps. coxstrs. Warner 8. Kinkhead of Kentucky at South- ampton, England. Forfleet Harris of Alabama at Leeds, Eng- land. Lucien Walker of Alabama at Cork, Ire- land. Marsellus L. Davis of Arkansas at Trinidad, West Indies. Lars S. Regne of Ireland at Rotterdam, the Netherlands. , Edward Downes of Connecticut at Amster- dam, the N nds, SG es eae NO ANTE-ELECTION PROMISES. Ex-Secretary Whitney Denies a Current Report and Believes in the President. The New York Sun says Mr. William ©. Whitney was asked last evening about a dis- patch which quoted the gossip of Washington to the effect that while in charge of the demo- cratic campaign Inst fall he promised the place of minister to Rome to Mr. J. 5. Van Allen of New York in return for campaign contributions made by Mr. Van Allen amounting to $50,000. The dispatch further said that Mr. Van Al- en's first contribution was $30,000, and that later, upon being encouraged to believe that his ambition to be sent to Rome would be grati- fied, he increased his campaign contribution by $20,000, and then had no doubt whatever that his name would be one of the first diplomatic nominations to be sent to the Senate. The dispatch wont on to say that the weeks went by without any indication that Mr. Van Allen was to realize upon his campaign invest- ment, and then came the reports of the falling out between the President and Mr. Whitney, followed by the alleged statement of Mr. Cleve- land that he *‘has learned to distrust Mr. Whit- ney and his tricks.” ‘Mr. Whitney read the dispatch carefully and ashe returned it to the reporter he said with more than usual emphasis: ‘Nonsense, non- sense.” Mr. Whitney usually speaks in rather softly modulated tones. He is not an excitable citi- zen. But this time he spoke in emphatic tones. A He continued: “Mr. Van Allen contributed to the enmpaign fand, but of course Iam not at liberty to state the amount, any more than I would be at liberty to tell what other gentlemen gave. Lean say, though, that Mr. Van Allen did not contribute either of the amounts named. At the time he contributed there was no con- @_|versation whatever between Mr. Van Allon and myself to tho effect that he was to have the place of minister to Rome or any other office. The subject was never mentioned by Mr. Van Allen or myself. I will go further and make it as strong as pos- sible when Tsay that I made no contracts for office, ex or implied, during the cam- ign either in Mr. Cleveland's name or.any- ody else's name. “I made no contracts with anybody. Can I make it plainer than that? Isaid during the campaign to all, ‘Gentlemen, when this is over I’ am through.’ I have not called upon Mr. Cleveland to fnifill any campaign contract for the — simple reason that none was made by me. I have not because { had said that when the cam- paign was over I was through. I say again that I made no contracts either with Mr. Van Allen or anybody else. There were no promisex made even by inference. Con- cerning the alieged remark of Mr. Cleveland that he had ‘learned to distrust Mr. Whitney and his tricks,” T can only say that I do not be- lieve shat Mr. Cleveland ever made the remark.” WHEELME: —— WILL REBEL, ‘They Will Resist the Exactions of the Rac- ing Board. Srrtxorteiy, Mass.. June 9.—Since the rac- ing board of the League of American Wheel- men has started in to hunt out riders who re- ceive pay from bicycle manufaciurers counter movement has begun to organ- ize a league of star riders, These men propose to drop out of the league of | wheelmen entirely if the racing board is too exacting. They argue that few wheelmen of note do not violate in some form the amateur rules. They do_not intend to become professionals, but if the board is too arbitrary will draw out of all races managed under the present league. The strike will affect at least twenty-five lead | ing wheelmen, and if they boycott the races few star riders will be left to compete. Already a paper is being circulated for a league of riders prepared to resist the action of the racing board. : —__ Red River Valley Elevators Attached. Devit's Lax, N. D., June 9,—Sheriff Bar- ton® has attached three elevators of the Red River Valley Company for $100,000 each in the Bank of Toronto and Canadian Bank of Com- merce. THE SCENE OF THE DISASTER. FRIGHTFULDISASTER Hundreds of Clerks Buried in & Ruined Building, OLD FORD'S THEATER. The Floors Give Way This Morning. © BRINGING OUT MANGLED MEN The Progress of the Work in the Ruins. MANY LEFT HELPLESS. ee Hundreds of men carried down by the fall- ing walls of @ building which was notoriously insecure! Human lives crushed out by tons of brick and iron and sent unheralded to the throne of their Maker! Men by the score maimed and disfigured for life! Happy families hurled into the depths of de- spair; women calling for their husbands; ebil- dren calling for their fathers; mothers calling for their sons; not an answer to a cry! " This is but shadow of the awful calamity that befell this city this morning. Words can- not picture the awfalness of the accident. The imagination stands back and fails to give any idea of the scene. Its horrors will never be told. Its sudden- ness was almost the chief horror. Ine moment, in the twinkling of an eye, there was a change, and men who came to the scone of their daily toil this morning will never return alive. ‘Women who kissed their loved ones this morn- ing as they separated will have but the cold bruised faces to kiss this afternoon. Oh, the awful horror of it! Tt was between 9:30 and 10 o'elock this morn- ing that the floors of the old Ford's Theater building, on 10thstreet, occupied by the records MANY ARE LIFELESS, and pension division of the surgeon general's office, fell in as though they had been the cards ofa card house. On each floor there were scores of men at work. Without ing they were carried down warn- as by an awful cataract. The flood was mado up of iron girders, 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 since dried out; of wooden beams that had been in place too long. There was no esccape from such a flood. Oh, the shame of it to the government of a fair nation! It could not afford 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 theoolumns of the press been filled with the story of the rotten walls. ‘The reporter who writes this has on several occasions told the story of smaller accidents in that death trap which showed clearly that it was no place for men to stay. MAPPED OUT HIS PLAX OF xscape. ‘A man escaped from that building this morn- ing because two years ago he realized that sooner or later the building would fall. He mapped out a plan of escape that he would follow when the looked-for catastrophe occurred. While at his desk this morning he suw the ceiling above him crack and give, and he rushed for the door by which he had reasoned out that escape would be the most feasible when the fall came. He made his way to an adjoining building and lives to tell the story. Dozens of others were not so fortu- nate. Within two hours wounded and broken men had been carried out by the score, For some time not a dead body was found. It was thought that possibly more might have escaped. The hope was groundless. Buried beneath tons and tons of brick and mortar were other bodies, and as the debris began to be cleared away it was realized that the deeper the searchers got the more awful the catastrophe would prove to be. LIVE CRUSHED OUT. ‘They were right in this surmise. Men were found in whom life had been crushed out and in wiom much of the resemblance to bu- CARRYING THE INJURED TO THE HOSPITALS. manity had been destroyed. Faces were driven in. Faces were pounded into « jelly. Arms and legs were broken as one would ‘Dresk a match stom. ‘There is gruesome work for the coroner of the District, There is 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 ina building that every one in the city of Washington knew was unsafe, Tho building that fell wae commonly known as the old Ford's Theater. Twenty-clght years ago there was another tragedy within the walls of that same building. The news of it was fiashed to the four quarters of the earth and it brought consternation wherever it went, The man who was killed was tho President of the United States. Asthough the building had borne acurse upon it from that time it énded ite career in a fit ting manner. Bat how much better it would have been if the government had removed that structure years ago. Today the nows of another horrible catas- trophe has gone across the wires, and this his- toric building, baptized in the blood of the chief magistrate of the land, was a noble scene, fit theater in which to play this horrid trag- edy.! SEVENTEEN DEAD BODIES AT NooN. By noon, two hours after the falling of the walls, the bodies of seventeen dend men had been removed from the ruins, In the basement of the building there is still piled up debris by the hundreds of tons. No man can say how many bodies still lie beneath that ugly mass, Others who were taken out alive are certain to die from their injuries. It will be days before the extent of the casualty is known. Itwas an accident the like of which hes never been known in this fair capital before. Some years ago the tower of a church fell to the earth, It was in the early morn- ing and no one was hurt. The ficors of « hotel fell in, but the result of that were not serious. The walls of anew music hall were blown over by a terrible wind, but the dead were few as compared to the dead of to- day. An accident that numbers its dead by the dozen and its injured by the score is one that goes down to history. Will it go as a blot on the fair name of the capital or’ will it be shown that the sin lies at the door of the fed- eral government? SEARCHING THE RUIXS. All day long the firemen, the policemen, the letter carriers and soldiers did noble duty in their work of searching the ruins for the dead. To THE RESCrE. Never before have the hospitals of the city had sucha day. The young physicians from the Emergency and the other hoepitals about town did God's own work in caring for the bruised and the dying. ‘They did their duty like men. ‘The ambulances and patrol wagons were kept busy all day long, hurrying from the scene of the tragedy to the hospitals, With each was a young doctor doing yeoman’s work, with coat off, his hat used to shield the face of the injured man from the rays of the sun. For it happened on one of the fairest sum- mer days the capital has ever known, ‘Men were pursuing their usual duties of the day. The streets were alive with people pass ing hither and yon, as people do in the streets of agreat city. ‘The great stores in the neigh- borhood were filied with women shopping. ‘There was peace and content on all sides. WITHOUT 4 WARNING. On the three floors of the building used by the pension records division upward of half » thousand men were at work. Without « sign of warning the third floor of the building gave way and fell with a deafening crash. The men on the floor went through with it The second floor offered no resistance and the two went through to the basement, filling it up to the level of the ground with an inex- tricable mass, In that mass were men. Some of them came forth alive. No man came out uninijured. ‘ That any one should have escaped with his life seems the work of a miracle. As they were brought forth they presented a spectacle that no one seeing 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 red blood, filthy with dirt, dirt ground into them, blood on their faces, A RELEASING THE VICTIMS. child would not have known his own father. A wife could not have recognized her husband in that condition. With such tenderness as rough and excited men could summon forth atsuch a time they were laid out upon stretchers and carried out to the am- bulances that filled the street frna E toF streets. The doctors could do nothing for them there. All they could do was to clear away some of the dirt, the plaster and filth from the faces of the injured men. In many eases the dirt was ground into the eyes, noses and mouths, so that without such attention men might have suffocated. Many were unconscious and could not have helped themselves. With a clang of the bell the ambulances started off for the hospitals, These were soon overcrowded. Drug stores were turned into temporary hospi- tals, People in the neighborhood of the acci- dent opened their doors right giadly, and the dead and the wounded were burried in. JUMPED FROM THE WINDOWS, A man jumped from « second-story window. He struck upon his head on the sidewalk and was instantly killed. It was Col. Geo. M. Ar- nold, the well-known G. A. R. man. Another man was more fortunate. He jumped from a window and landed on the awn- ing of the store next door. He was unburt. There were many miraculous escapes. Escape at all may well be regarded as miraculous. There was large corps of volunteer physi- cians soon on the spot. They did such work that the city may well be proud of them. There was but one unpleasant incident. A physician stopped his work long enough to hunt up a Stam reporter to tell him his name and ask that it be used as one of those who was on the scene from the first and did noble work. The name was not recorded. THE aL.ne. The figst intimation of the accident that the city bad was when the fire bells rang. This brought out the engines from the house on C street, the chemical and the hook and ladder. A very few moment latter ® general alarm was rung and the engines LOOKED AFTER BY FRIENDS. from all parts of the city were soon on the spot, The ‘patrol wagons from the different police precincts brought squads of men in uniform tothe scene and they lost no time in getting the crowds back from the walls of the building and out of the way. A rope was stretched about to keep the crowd beck. Chief Parris was in charge of the fire- men, Maj. Moore was in command of the po- lice, Able-bodied men, who were willing and able to work, were allowed to pass through the lines, and they at once started throwing the debris out of the windows into the street. Carts were soon summoned to carry away the refuse to make more room. It was a ghastly work, but, considering everything, it was done well and with very considerable order. ‘THE EXTRA STAR. Among the first to reach the scene werea half dozen members of Tux Stan's reportorial staff. In a few moments an extra Stam was on the streets bringing the first brief news of the catastrophe. It was fol- lowed in afew minutes by another, giving further particulars, and later still by « third and fourth that contained many of the details of the accident. In many sections of the city the calling of au extra was the first intimation the people had received. They at once hurried to the scene of the accident, Ina few moments the whole city was astir. All the streets leading toward the scene were crowded with people. About the ropes were packed hundreds and thousands. In the crowd were many who had relatives, friends or ac- time it went to earth. “Mister, have you seen my papa?” A little shaver asked the question of a Stax reporter. There were tears in his eyes, He had crawled under the ropes. He knew that his father was a clerk in that building and be wanted to know if his father was one of those who are still alive. Poor little fellow! Maybe he isan orphan, Tue Stam man did not know tho boy; did not know who his father was. What could he say? “Yes, my little man, I saw your father just now. He wasn't burt a bit.” It was elie, but maybe the recording angel was not taking notes this morning. There were many scenes that were enough to turn s heart of stone. There were deeds of heroism and self-forgetful bravery performed in that awful bell this morning that will never be known on earth. Let us hope that the Re- cording Angel was taking notes of these, not of the ordinary evils of life on earth this morning. RESCUING THE INJURED. When the accident was over and before the rescuers could get inside to their relief tlere were injured men who were caring for their worse injured brothers. There were men who @id not rush for the street to save their own lives. Regardless of the fact that more walls might fall and bury them once more they 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 strug- |gle with beams and rafters that bore down upon their fellows. They spoke words of cheer when their struggles were in vain. So far as Tx. Star man saw there wos not single act of cowardice or poltroonry. Who says that the days of heroism and chivalry are over? It isa lie. To enter that building at first was not without great danger. There was every prob- ability that the unsupported roof and the walls would fall at any moment. As soon as the clouds of dust had cleared away so that one might see inside, men started to work and there were mrny willing hands to carry on the task. From the outside the appearance was not so startling. ‘The front wall stood firm. It was Stan reporter was one of the |enter the building. Going in the | door to the south it was noticed that the stair- case was still intact and that the wall between that portion and the center had not given away. Mounting rapidly to the third floor « full view of the state of affairs could be had. Upon the platform of the stairease one could stand and look directly ‘through the door that formerly led into the main building. One could stand on the threshold, but there was no floor to walk on. ‘There was absolutely nothing. THE SCENE INSIDE. ‘The two floors had been cut away from the wall as closely as if done with « knife. Look- ing down into the pit the scene that met one's eyes was an indescribable one. It was one that will never be forgotten by those who saw it Thirty or forty feet below was amass of building material, girders, beams and bricks. Inside that mass it was known that there were men and that the sooner the work of rescue was started the bet- ter. No man could have lived long under that debris. He would have been suffocated. No one knew how many people might be in that awful pile. It wes supposed that there were about 500 people at work in the building “t ‘the time of the accident. Few had a chance to runet all A man might leap from hisdesk only to find the floor giving away beneath him. ‘Wild statements were made by excited men as to the number of people who must have been killed. It did-not seem possible ‘that any one could ever come out alive. Fortunately, how fortunately only those who were there can understand, not all of the floors fell through. Only about the front third floor section gave way, the floors in the rear part staying in place. As one locked at it the sight was ® curious one. These ficors simply stuck out in the sir. They were supported to the north and south by the walls of the building and by iron poste that had ‘been used to prop them up when they sagged. ‘The partition walls between the front and the back portions had fallen in as well. The people who were in the back part of the building es- caped serious accident; those in the front went down with the crash. ORGANIZING THE WORK. As soon as the firemen and policemen got to the spot an organized search was commenced. Later in the morning s band of colored men, to work clearing away the ruins and digging down after the imprisoned clerks. At 11 o'clock they succeeded in clearing out (Continued on Third page.) ROBBERS’ BIG SPOILS. An Express Train Held Up and $10,000 Stolen. JAMES GORDON BENNETT HAS A FALL The Cunarder Campania Beats the Paris. quid im the dooimed building at the | “ANY DEATHS FROM CHOLERA Convamra, Tux, Jane 9—Six masked men held up the New Orleans express on the Mobile and Ohio railroad at Forest Lawn, eight miles north of here, at 9 o'clock last night and robbed the express car of €10,000 in cash and valua- bles worth « large amount. The robbers did not occupy over twenty minutes’ time. A large posse is now in pursuit of the bandits, night'two men jumped upon the engine and pointing revolvers at the heads of the engineer and fireman, told them not to af to start the train again. While this was piace four men appeared at the side of car. One of them placed » short against the car and then chopped a hole in the door. It took but x moment to do this and and Bilerenser Branford attempted resistance, | Dut was silenced by a blow with the hatchet in the hands of the robber who the hole in the door. ‘The bandits lost no time in the car. only partially stunned blow he received and his assailants revit and forced him to open they valual was then bound, gagged and cast into « corner of the car. When the bandits had com; ‘their task in t bim ; $8 Hs EF | was his as and eg i bleeding from injuries received in entering the car. He wore a fox-colored suit and weighed about 140 pounds. Another one of the robbers who extended his attention to the brakeman and made him obey orders was about five feet eight inches tall, smooth face, age about , weight 145 pounds. The two who waited on the engi- neer were about twenty-two or years of age, one measuring five feet six and the other about six feet No other positive could ‘be ob- tained, except that they wore masks and dark suite, —-__ ‘The Proprietor of the “Herald” Falls from = Coach. . Panis, June 9—James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, was dan- gerously injured on Wednosday. Mr. Bennett fell from a coach on which he wae riding, and “atonce required. His condition grew worse | and 19 minutes. tn regard | | gard to the cholera raging in Mecca is that sixty A Divorce for Mrs. Leslie Recommended. New Yor, June 9.—It is stated that Referee Grant B. Taylor, who bas been taken testimony at Newburg in the action of Mrs. Frank Leslie Wilde ber husband, Mr. for divorce, transferred the bis conclusions to Judge Brown jomncaner~teranare Terrific Wind Storm in Minnesota. Nonruriexy, Mrxx., Jane %—A terrific wind storm swept Rice county yesterday, doing fully €50,000 damage. The village of Dundas suffered the most severely. iencnenliaenee White, the Bookmaker, Released. Loxpox, June 9.—James White, bookmaker, who was arrested in this city on May 11 on the charge of having been concerned in the rob- Dery of jewels valued at 700,000 francs from the Countess of Flanders, pold, King of ns, on the night of February 1, this le the count and countess were at- the iT, Tending a court bull, was brought up again in street tion court y for ex- pny sont Se vrumptication for, his extndi- tion 40 Belgium. ‘Ibe evidence being insutti- cient to hold White he was di Visiting Daly, the Dynamiter. Loxpox, June 9.—Mr. John E. Redmond, the Parneliite leader and M. P. for Waterford City, is visiting Johu Daly, who was sentenced to im ment for life in 1884, and other convicted Home Secre.