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Show PARTLY IN RUINS, j Full of it Portion of the Malls of Dr. Anderson's New litiihliiig. A TERRIBLE CRASH THIS MORNING, Frightaieil People Have Visions of n Earthquake and Rush for Outdoors. About 0 o'clock this morning tho people peo-ple residing in Iho vicinity of tho blocks bounded by Second and Third Kind and Second and Third South wore startled by tho noise of a tremendous crush, j which, uftor tho first sharp detonation, died out in prolonged reverberation, like the sound produced bv thunder. A scone of wild terror ensued among these poo pie, w ho immediately rushed for the outside out-side of their dwellings, thinking that .il.: 1 il.... .... I,..l, nl..., ...lll.l nothing less than an eaiuiiuai;e coiiiu possibly produi o such a noise and such a commotion, for tho ground and houses in every direction shook and trembled to such an extent as to closely resemble tho elTecta of one of those phenomena; and when their eyes behold ascending ascend-ing dust, rising lo the height of over a hundred feet, their fears seemed confirmed. An time paseed, however, and there was no more jarring nnd slinking, calmness resumed its sw ay, and investigation became the next pro feeding. It was found that the large concrete building, in process of erect inn by Dr. W. F. Anderson, had met with disaster, di-saster, and that the falling of the northwest north-west wall had caused all the noise and all the terrible anxiety. Fortunately there wero no persons at work on the building at tho time, and eotis,'itiently no injury to person had occurred. Two years ago this spring Dr. Anderson Ander-son began the erection of this building, designing it for a private residence. He was his own superintendent and contractor, con-tractor, and it was under his Immediate supervision that the work progressed. Tho foundatit n was sunk but three feet in the ground and is three fi et thick; and on top of this foundation the walls, which are of concrete nnd fifteen inches thick, are placed. The nlen was to work slowly and allow tho different layers of concrete to harden, and at the same time permit of settling, rather than jeopardize tho structure by undue lniHte in construction. In this manner the building had, in two vears, reached the elevation of four stories. Dr. Anderson attributes Hie disaster to the action of tho frost on the Mit.ii-rated Mit.ii-rated walls. The heavy rains of the past fall and winter bad penetrated the concrete to such an extent that freiiieiit freezing aud thawing had caused disintegration disin-tegration to ensue, which finally resulted in this morning's cash. The entire northwest corner of tho building, about one-eighth of the structure, is now in a mass of miiis, not a foot of the wall ro-luaing ro-luaing i b no tho fouinh.tioii. Dr. Anderson says ho lias spent about UKK) on the building, every dollar of which is a dead loss if the tumbling process pro-cess continues; blithe does not anticipate antici-pate any further disaster, lie thinks the south side is all right; and there in no indication, so far as can be perceived, of tho foundation having settled. Dr. Anderson An-derson blauios only himself for the accident, acci-dent, in not taking tho piecautiun to build on tho north side a masonry wall several feet above the foundation on which to lay the concrete. The house in which ho lives, close oy tho scene of tho wreck, ib also c concrete, and was erected twenty two years ago. Nut a crack uor a Haw has marred tho wniH, and tho doctor is of t he opinion yet Hint there is no better building material than concrete. Dr. Anderson had a eoinowhnt narrow escape. Just before 9 o'clock ho was in the new building inspecting the foundation founda-tion and testing it with a pick, lie had been troubled lately with un inlbimcd eye, and this morning it became painful while ho was at work in the new building, build-ing, whoroiiion ho quit and returned to his residence. He had scarcely onlcnd when tho crash came. |