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Death Roll Is Eleven

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
November
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

   Detroit, Nov. 7. - Eleven dead are now on the roll of casualties the result of the collapse of the roof of the Wonderland theatre Saturday. Following are the lists of dead and wounded:

   Dead- August Sallach, laborer; George W. White, tinner; Theodore Mertens, laborèr; Martin Shafer, painter; Cornelius M'Carron, lather; James Gegerschke, August Januschowski and John Creszelski, laborers; Fred Pfeifle, carpenter; Frank Wolf, tinner, and Max Pett, Wolf's helper.

    Injured - Charles Gross, arm badly cut and bruised internally; Oscar Robinson, severely bruised about the lungs and internally injured; Joseph McBride, ankle terribly crushed, two scalp wounds and bruises; John Duchinsky, ribs broken; Jacob Pollke, nose partly severed and bad scalp wounds: Joseph Ferguson, seriously injured about head and face; Edward Fisher, leg broken and badly hurt internally, will recover; William Crossfield, scalp wound and arm injured; Paul Skozkowski, spine injured and body bruised; J. W. Wilson, eye-lids torn, heel broken, two ribs broken, badly shocked; Louis Schmidt, foot crushed, badly bruised. Others who were less seriously injured are B. Shipkowski, W. H. Streeter, Fred Schrieber, Peter Pfeiffer, Louis Schmidt, Oscar Mier and ------ Grossñeld, Of the injured Edward Fisher is expected to die.

   Missing - Fred Miller, Charles Mielke and O. Mullin.

          Thirty-Five Men Went Down.

    The new five-story Wonderland theatre building is in a hopeless looking state of collapse. Shortly before 2 p. m. Saturday, while some thirty-five men were at work in various parts of the half-finished theatre portion of the structure, the roof fell in without a second's warning. Nearly every workman was carried down into the theatre pit. The work of rescuing the injured and taking out the dead was rushed and good progress made until 5:15, when the upper portion of the east wall fell and caused a stampede for the street. Fortunately none of those struck by the second downfall was seriously injured. The recovery of bodies was stopped until yesterday.