The Big Hotel Collapsed

With a terriflic orasfa the immense new hotel in course of construction at Lindsay Park, at Charlevoix, collapsed into a hcip o' brokeu timbera and splintci-c(l boards. Forty men were at work on liie structurc at the time, and half this aumber were killed or injured, Iwo being instantly killed. The hotel was four stories high aud 440 fect long, being the largest structurc of the Uind in Korthwestern Michigan summer resort section. In order to finish it beforo winter, the tors were allowed to piaster the upper two stories before the lower floors wcro properly placed, and this, it is supposed, was the cause of the collapsn, the weight at tlie top weakening the whole building so that wlien a íharp (jale struck the side-wall of the structuro, it gave way with a craefa that v;is heard a mile. The dcad are: Pierce Eendall, of Charlevoix, and Guy llamiltou, of Grand Kapids. The injured are: R. C. Ilamüton, probably fatally; William l'helps, badly injured ioternally; F. A. Smith, badly injurod in one leg and one arm, and head seriously cut; S. Cain, head crushed and hurt internally, will probably die; Willis Silsby, ribis broken and body badly bruised; James Gillett, three ribs brokeD, int.ernally injured, John Curtís, side crushed and olherwise hurt: Wm. Wood, one eye torn out; Charles Heintzelman, A. M. Hall and Charles Gabriel. Several others were less seriou.sly injui-ed. The money loss from the accident is well up into the thousands, but the structure will in all probability be rebuilt.