| Show A sickening horror in causing the bealli andin jury of fifty A LIST OF THE VICTIMS the cause anil cf iho fatality Fata lily OF A tan tf beirl and iron e saw and aith loss ef western abod pres to TUB STANDARD 1 ih tr a Harl fard hold canti arar ii riffy Iea conn feb 18 just before daylight this the city was by the sound af a monster explosion and immediately persons in that seel ion near alie antul etero further startled by alie sound of cra shii halls and talling timbers mingled with hie of eineo and alie of men corning corni nj alie which biad been the sito ot the garlt central hotel u ho hurried to abo found a huge pile oi done aad brick and plinie red from ahito clouda of aleain roue up streamed and blaiLe ned by wreaths of emoke bat rapidly more dense then tongues of fuma leaped out here and there gradually nEer uncil the mina were a roaring leeap cries and came from the pile which made the bystanders sick horror alie fire department ft as toon on alie scene and many streams of water were directed upon the bines As daylight came on the helpers at the ruins could gee beliinda it the annex to the in which nere the house servants of the hotel and which was spared A portion of the tiers of rooms at alie rear of the main baildon bail din bad remained but I 1 ho partitions acre torn away and lie rooms to the air the floors of many of them biad partly given way and tumbled the occupant a and furniture upon the confused ruin below the frightened employees were safely taken roin the annex ly ladders finally alie alamea were mastered by the and sank down from sislie within the ruins where the water vet and B caged ainone the liot and bricka As boon as the ruins were cooled hundreds of willing hands beet about the herculean task of removing the sin mease piles of masonry the enormous throng which biad by this time fathered Ka waited and watched with breathless auF pense theuret The perso n rescued was george gafnea a colored porter who died soon after being taken out helen leport jennie dei ker and jacob torpin were taken out and found to le only slightly in juk d machael branner lumped ane window brcak ine her led at nino llanis a traveller from philadelphia w ai rescued from beneath the mass of limbers with but slight injuries nar lalni was found tha dead body of dwindt II 11 buell who had eide aly been suffocated had increased to edidi proportions as to impede the work of the rescuers accordingly the militia v out to aid the police and rendered excellent service the day and keeping the crowd back in bounds hy noon telegrams of anxious inquiry were pouring in roin every part of alie country and friends of those supposed to be in alio ruins were arriving on every thain together ith an immense crowd of curious people from the surrounding towns the lower door of a large wol warehouse was made a temporary the bodies ero taken there as fast as re covered and an opportunity for the identification by friends not identified were taken in charge by the city the injured promptly pont to the hospital the recovery of the bodies was slow owing immense ai cum illation of de arla but at nearly regular intervals inter vAli one or two parties ere found daring the afternoon they ere recovered ia the order of the list ghen this catastrophe ft as devoid of the harrowing details and the hairbreadth and rescues attend log an uncontrolled contU gration one terrible crash emoke lumes quick rushing streams of water and all vai over for aliis reason the simply over wh felma the magnitude of the calamity cannot be replied rp lied in fact its extent la not yet known die register of the hot I 1 ia not et found and mr perry the night clerk is buried in the ruins aut from the best estimates aliat can be obtained ined from the landlords and others it is probable ultra were not ur from fitly people in tho hotel proper of these fave may leave escaped amid the contusion of the early morning lioi irs would leao forty live unaccounted for ten aro in alio aal up to this writing dead bodies have inen in en taken from ruina le aini still mif laing but there may be more than this the cause of the disaster waa undoubtedly the of a boiler the ait nil engineer was on duty at the lime tho being for alie CO ta bed he cloea not bleed bleep in alio hotel this engineer alexander was nr rested llila afternoon on an indictment or manslaughter it has been that the colored porter kiy h the throb inn rou atler into the over boiler and thus cauilan alie but this la only conjecture and guinea la dead the orro ot alio llio ei was terranc ter all tho in diat pirt of tha city were awake by tho shock allue atones ero and iron cipos pipos bent and avi in adjoining buildings and the were and banog of elaas smashed away it is believed to abat weefoo ol 01 skiing nelda aln the hotel her five children fand a bercant Ber vant abe hm not been seen it thin proves the aggregate lona of life would bo raised by tiie addition of cheso seven alio experienC tB 0 the survivors remarkable and alio miraculous ra walter M gay occupied a boim landlord ketchum when he he ouirl lie bed finking with him when it became i lie found himself down by alio ceiling and timbers in anih n manner that he wan saable to move I 1 la boon lie voires of sir and mrs and conversed with them concerning the chances of escape he fore they rescued the water poured into the ruina hy tle firemen had covered bia face the complete list ot bodies taken out to is aa follows dwight II 11 luell george gaines the colored porter engler ol 01 john W houston a commercial traveller of boston J C hill a commercial traveler 0 buffalo louia U IS ronson secretary of the hartford stole co hla wife and child ceorge Ketch uni brother of the landlord eddie Kotc lium aged II 11 a son of the landlord geo W aloot a commercial traveler from boston A S commercial traveler from cincinnati maximilian galady proprietor of U e bartford Uart ford und his v ie MIF andrew P whiting and two unknown men the victims at the hospital are nil doing well most of the injuries being although all are finx from the chill and exposure borne of the bodies of the dead are disfigured and burned but the faces of most of them are not injured and near a lifelike life like expression the electric light has been put in around the ruins and the search will be vigorously pushed all night at 2 a m the list of dead lias been increased to five eighteen injured are in alie hospital hos and ten persons are known to be still la the euins A folsa f stone ira abi feb 17 one of the tallest buildings in america collapsed this morning and a number of work men rushed out just in time to escape being crushed under the mountain cf wreckage the ruined building was the owings block a beautiful gothic structure fourteen tories high situated at the corner of dearborn and adams tf just opposite the postoffice post office in the tenter of the business district the tt loner stories fell in one alter another leaving the walls for the upper floors and the roof standing ic a decidedly shaky condition in the tenth 11 ry tl a tile flooring was defective or was damaged by the beltzin Belt lin of the building about half past this morning a dozen or BO of v ho were in the basement heard an ominous cracking and crash fortunately tuna tely for them aliey did not stop to inquire the cause but rushed frantically into the street A succession of thunderous reports followed the then one din and alie atmosphere waa filled with a great uprising loud of dust when the air cleared where before alio stories above rose with every appearance of colossal and durability now appeared a fantastic fantas tiu heap of debris while the space of a hundred aud thirty feet aboin was empty save for the bent and distorted iron beams that here and there extended from the wall the superintendent and but did not seem to have any djoa of the cause of the greik wr eik or if did kept it carefully to the building build was rapidly approach ing completion was considered one of he wi the city from the standpoint oi convenience strength and architecture the stories were of atone and the olbers aboe of pressed brick the was entirely of tile supported by maa sive iron girders ane ties of which the flooring was made were fitted together like keystones and any exter ein of alio confining them would benl to allow the entire maps to drop out it that ha dettling dett line 0 building caused the first break and that the weight of the mass precipitated from the tenth floor carried don n the remainder of thu inner structure tha matter creates comment amock business men the very fact that the accident was entirely unforeseen seems to be generally considered the leoet serious phase of it alien taken in con with the idea that it might have occurred when the building was completed and filled with occupants notwithstanding the treat height of alie building the land on which it stands is not more than 50 feet square tho coaina was to utilize every iucci to the utmost the exterior chons no sistna of the wreck inside no information as to the probable coxs or what is to be done obtained from any one about the building the engar crew Arr arraj tJ ANN ARBOR scicli cli feb 19 all alio cartius iuie rested in the electric sugar refining company frauds were arrested at milan last night alie to this city about midnight with Mr E howard amily howard una hal stead and howard and placing bliem in abo jail where aliey are confined toey were arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses pretences tareo indictments have beba found against them by the new york one issued for fraud against alie comply and two ou complaint of buller of new york on cheso indictment requisitions were made on the governor of michigan alio issued for their arrest february fant trouble lias been to net all alie within the of the earno time mrs friend waa in concealment howard wae at windsor Yeste morning they returned to milan teel ID sure that no criminal action to be brought but aliey were as above stated As it was late bail could iw obtained and they remained in jil howard hen they got to new york greater than stirred elal city arole 0 la a raff NEW YORK feb 17 the central labor union toly soon after tho ewt ot a row many ItOi iila alio faction retired froin alie liall in to tha call that all leave alio to fi tho anlou A in lle rear of the hall ot into a flicht and ro celver a twe lie aa forward to alio covered mood the elgba of the blood enraged abo meon bers of the faction and the socialist bared their arms to the expected baittle bj ittle kome blown were and abon chairman sprang from the and declared tho meeting minister phelba arrived in wi a ilogon this afternoon |
