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Show WHO IS TO ULAMET An extra issue of The Times late yesterday evening gave the first news of the terrible accident on First East street of which a workman named Martin Eckert proves the melancholy victim. The circumstances attending his death by suffocation were painful in the extreme and his struggles beneath tho weight of sand can scarcely be pictured. pic-tured. Hundreds of people visited the spot during the time efforts were under way to rescue the unfortunate man and imprecations were loud and long against those who in any way might be to blame for the accident. But wbo is t- blame? It is a delicate matter to charge anyone with the cause of the death ot a fellow man, and yet somebody is responsible for it. There seems to bo no doubt but what the most ordinary precautions against a crumbling crumbl-ing in of the sand banks were omitted and the lives of all the workmen were hazarded through criminal carelessness. An investigation beyond tho mere formal for-mal inquest should be Insisted on by the relatives of Martin Eckert and the responsibility res-ponsibility placed where it justly belongs. be-longs. There is altogether too much recklessness practiced in constructions of that kind and tho list of victims is getting too long for comfort. |