| Show A Big Fall Washington 3fhe back port o the Unted States ho el building situated on Pennsylvania A eme a short distance west at the Capita fell in without warning this evening even-ing and burled iii the ruins num her of people variously estimated at from seven to thirty The building build-ing has a frontage of 720 feet on the avenue and a depth of 185 feet at the rear end of the wing upon the alley leading from Third to Four and a half street The small parti tlon of the rear wall was the first tc give way and the whole rear portion por-tion immediately fallowed sanding up a great cloud of dust A genera fire alarm was sounded which brought to the scene of the dfsast a number of fire slnesand the book and ladder companies and a force of police Cries and groans could be heard from the ruins showing that all who were there imprisoned were not dead A large force of men went to work at once ann in the course of an hour Ernest Sno ks n Annie boy 11 years of aRe and Dickson cjlored chainlermak Vera takeu out loh ul v but badly Jijured In the meantime it had been uscertaiutd inat the number of persons buried in the ruins did not probably exceed seven viz Mrs Belden wife of proprietor Earnest Snacks a boy 11 years of age con cf are I taurant keeper next door find five colored servants It is feared that those who have not yet been resouet are dead Part of the building whch fell contained chiefly rooms appropriated appro-priated the use of employees of the hotel and it is believed that none of the guests have been either killca or injured The United states hotel ia one ot the oldest structures In the city nnd it IB sato sa-to have been for a long time In an unsafe condition The barkeeper I Is reported to have IDadei mplaiaj to the Inspector of buildings some days ago with regard to its condition = con-dition r Mrs Belding wife of the proprietor t f pro-prietor of the hotel was rescued 1 alive at 7 30 after having been im t prisoned for four hours She was on > the first floor of the back building build-ing and was caught in a narrow i apace formed by part of the second 1 floor resting in a slanting position against the aide wall After the firemen and vounteers had worked two hours digging down into the debris from the surface a force of firemen under Captain Cronin entered tered from the front of the building against the back of which timbers and bricks had partly lodged and hearing groans worked their way tack by removing timbers and supporting porting others They finally got near enough to see Mrs fielding and got near enough to talk to her and eventually to hand her some water and wnisky She was not crushed but held down by her clothes and penned by fallen timbers Jacks were brough and the weight held up while saws and axes were used tout to-ut the way lo her At last her rescuers got close enough to cut her clothing loose when they were enabled abled to extricate her She was pparantly not seriously injured but very much exhausted and fainted as she was c riled out London 4 The British brigs Belle Star irom Nova Scotia for luetnstown and the Richard Owen from Cirdia for St Johns collided at sea The Owen sunk Four of her crew were drowned Ths rest of the crew are at Queenstown |
