Show FORDS THE THEATER FALLS IN the historic old Buffi building ling collapses collapse burying an government clerks washington B D C june 9 hundreds of men were carried down this morning by the fallin falling of the walls of fords theater which was notoriously insecure human lives ni ere crushed out by tons of brick and iron and sent unheralded to the throne of their maker men by the score were maimed and disfigured for life and ha happy appy families were hauled ino info the depths of despair women are calling for their husbands children aro calling for their fathers mothers are calling for their sons and not an answer to their c cries cies ies this is but a shadow of the awful calamity that befell this city this morning words cannot picture the awfulness full lass of tho the accident the imagination stands back and fails to give any idea of tho the scene of their daily toil will never return alive in the national capital of tho the proud est nation of the earth there has boell been a catastrophe unparalleled in ill the annals nals its history tind imd in every mind thoro thero is tho horrible conviction that its genesis is to bo be of a government too parsimonious to provide for tho safety of its loyal sor servants by erecting buildings s proper for their accommodation it between and 10 gy c clock this morning that tho the floors of tho old 01 ford F orda theater building in ill tenth atre occupied bythe records und and conion divird division i on of tho surgeon generals Gener ars office foil fell in iii as if they had been I 1 parts arts of a card abard house on oil each floor were scores of nion men at work without warning they wore were carried down as by an all awful cataract tho the floors wore made up ill of iron gir girders dorf hardly strong enough to support the tho the walls but heavy enough to stamp out human lives the walls of bricks were hold to together 0 othor bv plaster long binco dried out and of wooden beams th that it had been in place to long there was wn s no escape from such a flood alood the government of this groat great nation could not afford to provide a safo safe building for its faithful employees but headed them thein tonet together 0 ber in a building whoso choso unsound condition was notorious again t and again have the columns of the press beon been filled with the story of the rotten walls salt lake tribune |