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Show Fatal Crash, Cincinnati, 3. During an excava lion of Longworth street, the founda tion of No. 74, a dwelling adjoining was undermined, and it fell about 4 o'clock this afternoon with a Ire mendous crash, burying a number ot people in the ruins, Four workman were buried in the wreck. Mrs Kean was killed and three were released uninjured. Four men were injured more or less severely, two thought to be fatally. It is stated that four persons are f til 1 in the ruins and a large force of workmen are busy eudyavorine to release them. The Bcene of to day's terrible dia aster was Nos. 74 and 76 Longworth street. At the latter place an exca vation was in progress lor a new building, and the digging had gone below the foundation oi No. 74. Cue . inmate of the latter stated that their landlord was notified last Friday that 1 the building wasunsafe, but had taken no precautionary measures. To-d-y 1 workmen had commenced to brace up tho building and were husy in the pit they had ' dug, when the wall (ell, completely : demoliBb.ii. g No. 74, and carrying i away the division between that and the house adjoining, rendering tiV latter unfit (or habitation. No. 74 : was a low boarding house for women, ' rented rooms from Mrs. Kean, and - at the time the accident occurred con-I con-I tained seven women and two or three men. The exact number of the latter 1 is unknown, as the uninjured failed to report. MrB. Sue Kean, landlady. was instantly killed. John VV. Dentin, Den-tin, a visitor at the same house is injured internally, and thought to be latally. John Finnegan, foreman ot the men at work in Uie excavation, is dead, buried in the debris; H. Quigley, laborer, was killed instantly; Louis Lowhng, injured iuterually; Lottie illiacus, back hurt; and other women more or less bruised; one, a colored servant, ib missing, but it is thought possible she escaped. Workmen Work-men were engaged up to a late hour to night searching for Finnegan'B body, but were unable to find it. |