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Show TEN KILLED IN UL1J DUlLUUilu i Akron, Ohio, Disaster Caused by a Blast of Dynamite in An Excavation. Akron, 0.r May 15. At least ten i persons were killed and nearly a score injured early this evening when the old Beacon Journal building, occupied oc-cupied by the Crystal restaurant, col lapsed as a result of a blast of dynamite, dyna-mite, iu an adjoining excavation. Eight identified and two unidentified unidenti-fied bodies have been recovered, and two persons now missing are thought i to be in the ruins. Tho list of identified dead follows: WILLIAM C. LAWSON, 480 Woodland Wood-land avenue, Akron. ; H. W.- KAJNET, 357 Enst Buchtel avenue, Akron. REV. D. S. THOMAS, Cumberland, Md. BLANCHE KLINE, Mansfield, O. (t C. A. TOMPKINS, 1669 Jonathan y avenue, Cincinnati. t MARY LAWSON, 486 Woodland avenue, Akron. MRS. ED. GALLUP, Cambridge, O. V DOROTHY KENYON, 21 Akron. TWO GIRLS, unidentified, believed to be waitresses. Guards Restrain Crowds. j Battery B, Ohio national guard 1 field artillery, was called out "to aid i police in restraining a crowd of ytre than 10,000 persons, who pack-tho pack-tho streets at Main and Quarry, lere tho accident occurred, k tremendous roar, echoing the reams of dying people, brought ausands to the scene of the dls-ter, dls-ter, in the heart of Akron's business strict. Instantly the entire city, lining under tho hockj)lunged to tho work of rescue. . A great pile of ruins, broken timbers, tim-bers, twisted steel and tons of brick and mortar, buried and victims, who a moment before were dining In the restaurant. Eight bodies soon were taken out of the wreckage after firemen, police and volunteer rescuers had worked frantically digging and chopping through tho debris. Nineteen more, many of them fatally fatal-ly Injured, were extricated and sent to the City and People's hospitals. Only two or three of the others known to have been In the restaurant succeeded in escaping before the crash. Owners Escape. George Zerris, who, with his broth er, Augustus Zerns, owned the restaurant, res-taurant, escaped from the kitchen of tho collapsing restaurant, togelhei' with a cook and two dishwashers. But all were Injured by falling bricks. Blasts of dynamite, set off in an excavation for a new building directly direct-ly north of the restaurant, unsettled the foundation. The restaurant was a one-story structure, with a two-story two-story fnlse front, and the latter, top- pling backward added a weight of many tons to the falling roof. A dynamite charge sot off fifty feet away from tho restaurant a few minutes min-utes before the disaster, is believed to have been the direct cause. The crash came at 6:10 p. m. in the midst of dinner, when the restaurant restau-rant was crowded and when thousands thou-sands were on the streets during the evening rush. So suddenly did the ceiling cave in and tho walls crumble that those who were not Instantly killed were knocked knock-ed unconscious. At a late hour tonight the body of Dorothy Kenyou, 21, Western Union Un-ion telegraph operator, was identified, making a total of ten victims. Mis3 Kenyon had gone into the restaurant to Bpend ten minutes at lunch. She arrived just in time to be crushed to death. At 9:30 the search for "bodies "bod-ies was given up, and tho crowd I around the wrecked building had di minished, so the militia was released. Police and city building inspectors began an investigation of the wreck tonight. |