The Big Hotel Collapsed

With a terrific crash the immense new hotel in course of eonstruction at Lindsay Park, at Charlevoix, collapsed into a heap of broken tiinbers 'and spHntered boards. Forty men were at work on the structure at the time, and half this number were killed or injured, two being instantly killed. The hotel was four stories high and 440 feet long-, being the largest structure of the kind in Northwestern Michigan summer resort section. In order to finish it before winter, the contraetors were allo wed to piaster the upper two stories before the lower floor were properly placed, and this, it it i supposed, was the cause of the collapse, the weight at the top weakeninj the whole building so that when a sharp gale struck the side-wall of the scrnciure, it gave way witn a crash that was heard a mile. The dead are: Pierce Kendall, of Charlevoix, and Guy Hamilton, of Grand Rapids. The injured are: R. C. Hamilton, probably fatally; William Phelps, badly injured internally; F. A. Smith, badly injured in one leg and one arm, and liead seriously cut; S. Cain, head cruslied and hurt internally, will probably die; Willis Silsby, ribs broken and body badly bruised; James Gillett, three ribs broken, internally injured, John Curtís, side crushed and otherwise hurt; Wm. Wood, one eye torn out; Charles Ileintzelinan, A. M. Hall and Charles Gabriel. Several others were less seriously injured. The money loss from the accident is well up into the thousands, but the structure will in all probability be rebuilt.