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BURIED BENEATH RUINS AT FORD'S OPERA HOUSE
Washington June 10 Ford's Opera House on Tenth street collapsed burying about 400 government clerks on duty. Twenty dead, fifty wounded, with 20 to 80 others feared dead. The building had been deemed unsafe since 1985, yet clerks were housed there while pension records remained safe. A relief meeting was held to organize aid for victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washineton
Ford
Opera House
Tenth Street
Lincoln
Congress
Army Medical Museum
Act of Congress
War Department
George Allen
Pennsylvania
George W. Allen
Virginia
L. W. Boody
New York
Samuel P. Barnes
John Bussius
District of Columbia
Arthur L. Dietrich
Kentucky
Jeremiah Dale
James R. Fagan
Kansas
Joseph B. Gage
Michigan
David Jordan
Missouri
M. M. Jarvis
J. Boyd Jones
Wisconsin
F. B
Loftus
F. W. Maeder
F. Miller
Howard
William Scriever
Maryland
Wood
Williams
Ames
Iowa
B. PR
Calvert
J. Dewry
Davis
B. Stenting
Fort Scott
Kan
Frey
Washington
J. A. Millier
C. M. Puntonnny
Indiana
R. HH
Gieltan
J.B. Down
Georax W. Roney