A Terrible Disaster

Whinn.Mv. l.ake. Friday, Jan. Tth.- THE DEAD. Osoaï O'Ooniior, of Wfaitmore Lake. Alberl Morrey, of Wbltmore Lakè. THE INJURED. Joba McBride, Owosso, forernan, shoulder, arm and leg broken, jaw ! urne broken, internal injuries. George Martin, Whihnore Ixl'&% inuUy crushed. lmrt intenuiHy. Joseph Coiiii'i. Owoss, head dangerously cul. iirob.ilily nti'riially injured. Henry Stilson, Wlütniore Iake, arm badly crushed, injured alxrnt body. Williain POltz, Wliitmore I.aki'. leg turn almos t fcó licecs. injuries a.bout liead. John Baumgartner, Whltmore Lake, dangerously injttred about tody. Spiegelbetg, Whftmpre Lake, anide broken. Alanzo Asckley, Owos3o, leg broken, body much braisi d, Charles Thonie, Owosbo, arm bros.eu. Charles GeraTd, Owosso, leg bvoken. Jóhn T.iyl'ii'. Aun Acbor, arm broken nuil back injured. Thomaa Taylor, An,n AIhh. ar:n broken, he.-ul liadl.v c'iu. ( Stephen K.irl. Whitm.ire Lnke, b.idly spT.iiaed ankle. Will Lovvry. Wliümore Ltike. anklea sj.raiiLed and back lmrt. Ai about 4 o'ciock last evening the greal Awnoiir íce-house being constructed al Whiunoie Lake without a 9ign oí nrarning entirefly collapsed, iiufling iu the igronnd or burying in the detoris nearly one hundred workiiicn. The dull reporl ;is the heavy wulls strtick the grountí, tlie risiii-r i-línid of dnsr n mi tlie oonfnsed yclls 01' rhc i'irri'apiicil workmen seciiicil to come Btiuttltaneonsly and were the th'si aigB of the terrible accident. The uews flew in .111 insi.'int froii! one end of Iho long ramtting stiwt to tlie other wmX soon the whole neiglílxi;'hc od. mea, romen and children wre gatbered around the loag nm-ven pile of planks ana beamsof wood. The work f reseue heg.-ta at onee and contimued' nntnterruptedly until every man un nIl oí workinen liad been foiind or fflceotnrted for. Tedegrams were :ir ortce sent to Aun Arlior muf Hmtnrg for surglcal assisiiince. Irs. Derrling and Ilerilnian., l'nun Aun Arlwir. and otlier surgeons weve ,s()i) on Hie gronud. the Aun Ai'bor road taking Dr. Darling to the Lake by a apeeïal train and the dead and injiiiv,! wciv removed to liastily prepared quarters about the vlUage. Each oí' ilic hotels had its share and íilmosi cvery other house became a leinpiiiai-y hosiiral. Osear 0"Oonnor, one of tne most popular young men of i he neihhorhood. was taken froni i he ruina wilh the sharp point of a spHntered; timber driven tlirough hls ni ck. He was dead. having no doubt met instautarKHHis death. Albert Morcey, airoilicr yoang man, vvho liad been at ihc I.ake only a short time, was aüvc when reached but died before lie coiilU be taken to the near-by hotel. There were niany aironizinsr sic(np cïurlng thr progresa of the clearing oí the ruius. a great nunxber of men were cu1 and brulsed painfuHy, hardly :iu,v(ilk' eseapdng srot free. Byslandeïs say ihat as the building feil t resembled fpom a short distance nothing so invK-li as a flock of Waekbirds, snddenly frightemed. The workïiii'ii leaped for thtir lives in all directiona Yoimg tjjowry, for instaiieO, leaptit and feil thirty or forty f,. (. The only marvel iabout the alïair is ihat any of the workmen escaped. (VConnor's faihcr and a neigiilior or two carne lo Aun Arbor alter ündertaker Meterle and hls ambulance, and wliar they tottd was the first really deftnite report thai reached Hiis place. Whea bhey reaehed Wttritmore Lake the .srivat owvvd of eariy in the evemdng had almost dispersed, but proups of people were still gathered along the street and about the great, ia.aged pile of lumfoer that represented the big ice-house. The half dozen surgeons were still hard at work, and a half dozen lives still trembled in the balance. At midnight the sanie fierce strug'g'le was going on. The ice-house was being construoted by the Toledo Ice company, Phll D. Armour, of Chicago, being the chief stockholder. It was 321 f eet long, 132 feet wide with doublé walls over 50 feet high. It was to cost $25,000 and hold over 50,000 tons of ice. Prain 75 to 150 men were engaged in the work of consrruction and it was expeeted that all would be ready jnside of ten days to "begin storing ice. James Turnbul!, superintendent of bridges for the 'Ann Arljor raliroad, (vas also superintendent of the eoustruotioD of tho li o use, and on liim rast of necessity fa 1 1 considerable blame for the accident. He left for Taledó at 8 o'clock last nigiit. It is said rhat he ordered the remoTaJ of the props to the walls yesterday afternoon. WJieiher tiiis eaused thera ti fall or not it is difficult to teil. l'wo hours after the accident Jusiire Moss empanelled a jury, viewed the remalns of the several viciiins and adjourned till today. W'hitmore Lake, Saturday, .Tan. Sth. - .irtstic-." of the Peaee Thomas i. Moss, wli has charge of the Inquest, Irapaneled the follawing jury: .i.iy E. Pray, Kmery Anell, James Mc Hugh, V. B. Liane. .lauu's Kurkc and Oharles Itaiue. ïhe inquest was sel for 9 o'clock yestefday morning, luir v as .idjourned until at'ionioon. Ai nooit Justice MOSS aniiounccil liial ii had been decided to postpone the investigation unril .Monday., l)in at the lasi miníate he convened rourt. Attorney Huntstoerger represeniting the ii fee Co., deciding that the company had better go anead. He questioned the jurors very'closely as to the relatfonship wlth any oí the inJuïed men and also wanted to know w"hether they belonged to the same seéTfit societies. ït devwloped that William and Öhajfles Rane we re half píleles of Jlenry Stilsou. who had been ínjured but bot h declared thai that Eact would nut bias thelr judgineni and ihcy were allowed tb reinain. E'Toeeeutíng Attorney Kirk and Sheriff .lu.lson were presen! in the interests of the proseeution. One juror insistéd on mu adjouramen because che Jurors liad not had time lo work up the evldeuce and they were eaufionetí th.it i i was not their duty to do so, but simply to weigh the evidence that raight be brought before tlieni. Attorney Huntsberger suggeated taal as Mr. McBride would be removed to a hospital it. would save time and expense liy taking bis testimony. Permission bs secured to see íim fion che doetor, but after getting ta the hotel some O'f the jurors thonght that the eompany was trying to get thon into i snare, and they refused to listen to bis testimony. .Tustioe r)s M'imi aflJOTtrned tbe inqurí until Wednesday morning. General Passenger Agent V. H. Bennect, of the Ann Arbor railroad, is on tlie gTÓund and aiinounce.s that a full and seafching investi.jation is denianded by the compaay, wfhích (iwns most of the stock ín the Toledo Ice eompany. Supt. Turnbull is aJso there and che ruine are being rapidly cleared away. pri)aTatory to fobuildin.cr the ice house. ílr. Bennett in an interview says: "The buildin.ír was copied l'roin two located about t'orty railes from Buffalo, on the Western New York & Pennsylvania railroad. This one was being built mucíi stronger, and at .no time was it deemed uusaíe. My orders were to spare no expense re make it safe, and only a few days ago the men lauglied at ine when I referred to the matter. I learned this morning that some of the braces had been taken out, but I do not thittk that this fact had anything to do witfh the accident. Several persoas wilh whom I talked, cay that they ncticed a small hurrlcane at the ti,ne the buildiníí '.vent down, and 1 attribute the accident to the wind. If the roof had only been on or the trusses nothing eould have blown it down. Mr. Turnbull is an experienced builder. and employed only flrst class men. Xone of thern ever suggested even that. the building was not safe, and it is 'hardïy possible that they woald have woi'ked on it without sayiug something." Inquest will be foiwul on Sta page.