| Show 7 ii iii Z i I 2 Tb t tI I 4 L I i 1 t we U o AFTER THE TH E COLLAPSE CO View of Sixteenth Ward Wardi Amusement Hall Ha II Showing How H ow Rafters Ra Pushed d O Out t Wall Wail i Photo bv b Hurl Harry Shipir FALLING WALLS BURY WORKMEN New Sixteenth Ward Amusement Hall RaU Collapses BLIND CHANCE SAVES MEN DEATH COMES COM ES CLOSE TO VIC VICTIMS VICTIMS VICTIMS TIMS BUT PASSES PASSES THEM Blind chance alone saved thirteen men tom from death when the Sixteenth ward amusement hall hail North Temple and Fifth West est streets collapsed yesterday more mom morIng Ing lug The partly completed building fell feU at 1015 Building Inspector F r iv V Yo Lewis antI and an anmer men mer on the work blame the carpenters for Co the accident in which were injured Theodore W Yo W Reed who were working on the i rafters at the time Lack of or bracing says sas s Mr Ir Lewis LewI caused the rafters of their own weight to sway swa to the west we t sweep along the buildings length spread and force the brick walls wails apart With a crash the whole structure structure structure ture became a ruin ruhl Beneath this debris lay the two injured men Elevon EI von others on the work at the time had leaped heaped for fOI their lives Flying timbers struck sev several eral from the tho top of the side walls but none of ot those these were hurt Rescue work began at once The Tue un injured men and persons who had bad run to tho the scene of ot the accident tolled with axes and levers prying away timbers and lifting brick that buried both victims from sight It seemed as itS though nothing could have saved sav d these men from death But when they were finally final i taken out Newman was found to have bave sustained a 1 fractured arm and internal Injuries Reed Raed a badly broken ankle Telephone told the fire ire and police departments mt nt fourteen persons had been buried burled In tte thu meeting house which is in the same lot as the new ball hall Chief Chip of ot police ohIe William WilliamJ J Lynch half a dozen patrolmen Fire Ir Chief W H II Bywater Captain W tV G and apparatus Horn Hom No J sta station station tion Uon hurried to the place Members of both bali departments kept the crowd back and assisted in rescue work That Fateful Thirteen Thirteen men bricklayers brickl ers and six sK carpenters wore at work worl on the tile building bull when the collapse came were on the tile walls wails the tue car carpenters co penters on the rafters rater Th There pe began to sway then to sweep toward the west wast end and endot nd of ot the building ln The frh masons m sons f saw aw it first They The shouted warning As the splintering and rend lug fn of timbers sounded soun ed louder they leaped loOped from their places or ran to safety ilu h carpenters did the tho same Newman and und Reed were unable to safe aate places plates They were wele carried forward with the rush lUsh of hear UmbelS timbers The Tue rafters seemed to pread spread Reed Plunged headlong he through en in Newman Nowman was vas borne on with the beams and fell with them th m the two walls spread letting the whole muss musa of at wood woodwork woodwork work worl Into It to the pacu pac beneath Rumors Cause Excitement The rho 1 he crash of falling fulling timbers Um rs and RUd brink was waa heard for some ome distance Men Mim and anti boy bov boys came caine running from blocks block away aw y Like wildfire the tho rumor spread that lint many m had hd been killed billed Into luto tho thu confusion caine i tho the sound of clanging gongs and nd engine bells With the arrival of ot fire fre and po Do police Dolice w I lice Uee departments some annie semblance of or order odor was restored in the crowd Meantime ambulances am S were coming from rain the hospitals Newman refused to go Jo to a 1 hospital He was taken to his home West North Temple His head he tJ was bleed bleedIng bleeding ing from small cuts His body hail had suffered suffer d severe bruises and anti he hc was tas tasI I internally Injured His Ills arm was broken Reed Insisted that he be was not hurt but buthis buthis his ankle was found to be broken In I some manner the Umbels timbers that down both men had sheltered them from tailing falling bricks and mortar Moreover the 1 I wails walls had fallen outward and ond away from them Opinion x of Inspector I Building Inspector Lewis talked with workingmen and made an examination of Or Orthe the ruins during du ln tile the dar lie Ho said last Jast evening The rafters were not braced as should have been done They The gave way and antI swept endways with the building then Ien spread out as ns they the came down forcing the tho ho walls The carpenters on the work j jI were to blame for not putting in i proper 1 1 I braces I The building was w s In process pro es ot of erection I in the tue rear of ot the Sixteenth ward meet meetIng lug Ing house and Is to cost 1500 Steven Newman had charge of the carpenter work and Benjamin of the masonn |
