| Show MAIN STREET BUILDING COLLAPSE T Buckle uc le Tailoring Establishment Damaged Damage by the Sudden Falling Of or the Hie One Man Alan eral Narrowly Escaped j x Tho f sh of adobes and still stifling lag Ins c ud of ol dust Mow drew n a largo large crowd on south southEast East Temple street this morn mornIng Ing at i 5 At U the same fame time time the em cia playes and members of ot the tho firm of Buckle kle Sons south Bouth East Tern rem plo pin street i coma came out on to the tho street on a arun run When the dust had subsided cd some somewhat what it was al seen scon s on that nearly half hult the tue th w wall 1 of tho ho establishment had hall fallen l Into hito the tho th excavation that is being made mado too for t ii the new storo building ad nd adjacent jacent The Ehe upper floor also so had C ved In and tho the wreckage at al tho the rear ot of the store etore was sAs 1111 complete Dolts Bolts of cloth plaster paster pl adobes paper furniture and eiB gu ta fixtures were mixed together in a hopeless fashion Fortunately how however however ever the te o big bl stove stave still stood upright as u the th beams heams that came como crashing down had hart missed it by b inches Had lI d the tho stove been be n u underneath the tho wreckage there 1 mc nv ben bemi Il a Ire to add odd to the thO ex cx nt and anil tam from the tho character of ot otie the ho ie building which u Ii builder who was wason on qa tIme the scene described as an old rook cry cr tho the blaze might have been boon a bad badone badone one Incredible as It may seem only one person wits hurt Haymond seventeen years yeara of age In his Itis anxiety to rescue several l valuable bolts of lit cloth was 08 struck behind tho tim ear by a fall full falling fallIng fulling ing and nd sustained a II bad scalp wound The accident was directly the result ot or the excavating operations which were cre under ny a at the north side of ot the tho store Contractor A L 14 Hamlin Hamila has had his lila eye oe on tho the wall for some days das past l st tl and acting upon hit advice Price who the tile braced the tho wall with of timber across time tho he alley tun commenced to put In ln underpinnIngs underpinning is II there is practically no foundation to the store tore Three pins ping hind hM been Icen put In and anda a 11 man sia workings the fourth when tho thu watt wall was IllS mm to totter loiter The occupants pants p of ot tho the atOrO we were ere warned and with the time idea of or removing the pressure from the time wall against which bleb were lean leanIng leanIng Ing lag a couple of ot tons of bolts bOI ot of cloth all allhands allhands hands started to work 0 lie to re ye remove reo move the fabrics ll Shortly at n a warning wn crack was IUS heard and the tho next minute a double story etory section of wall for far about thirty feet teet fell tell out bringing down donn the upper r floor and smashing the attn and Cut fur furniture to splinters r John Pollard of ot the tho White House fris u trying a coat on at this critical minute Pollard rd beat the senior pai palt er of cf the tailoring establishment to 0 thi tM sidewalk Jd by b four tour Inches a as It 11 L Darling g of Moons tick ticket et ot next away a per por portion tion of ot the screen s reen door In his ii earnest endeavor to vacate the premises premie Pol Pot Pollard lord lard la Is ISn a Welshman and according to the Jt Jt next ne t five minutes U t I he be It In III put pur i Cambrian of at the da dots j of ot The rho five tailors who vero working u upstairs also were som tuRe by liy the Ibe time litre they the arrived on the tho pavement nt Mr Mt Buckle lo stated after the rd ent that he had from SW to 10 J In tweeds and other fabrics in the build building ing lag and that he lie could give riTe no mate idea of ot tho that lied bad been ten done Aside from the ga that were but bur burled led beneath the debris In the basement nt there th re was Will a n heavy heny coat of penetrating dust over oer everything The rhe desks duke and furniture are arc smashed while the generally at the r rear of the store etore Is completely ly wrecked |
