Show BUILDING COLLAPSED MANY PEOPLE KILLED Big Department Store In Albany N YI Come Crashing Down and a Hundred People Are Caught In the Ruins Albany N YTho middle section of tho big department store of tho John G Myrs company In North Pearl street collapsed early Tuesday carrying down with It over 100 persons per-sons Caught In a chaos of brick plaster and wooden beams between twenty nnd thirty men women and children mot death Twelvo hours frantic work on tho part of an army of resCuers res-Cuers disentangled fifty people six of them dead nnd many of the rest badly Injured Tho collapse carne shortly after tho opening hour when barely a score of shoppers were In the storo A clock found In the debris had stopped at 12 minutes before 9 oclock showing when tho crash came Tho best accounts of tho event that probably caused tho ruin Is given by the bend of tho crockery glass nnd drug department which occupies tho basement Tho workmen were sawing at a wooden floor beam said he which rum under the northern end of the plllnrs In tho middle of tho store Ex cnvatlon for the cellar was going on about tho baso of this pillar and I be Novo that jarring of tho beam beneath It displaced the foundation of the pillar Tho plllnr which gave way supported support-ed tho ends of two giant girders and when it fell the main support of the central part of tho building was gone With a noise that could bo heard blocks away and which shook tho adjoining buildings nearly half tho great structure from cellar to roof and extending from one sidewalk to tho other camo grinding down When the lire department nrrrived they had plenty to do In rescuing those who wero pinned under tho top wreckage Jn a short time tho citys entire hospital hos-pital and ninbulanca force was on tho scone aided by half a hundred doctors I doc-tors from all parts of tho city |