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Fatal Disaster.• .Two Dead and Eleven Hurl : in Catastrophe.Frame Work of Building Collapses Fatally.The BeainB Fell Kapidly and FuriouslyAnd Many Lives Were Badly Threatened.A List of Those Killed and Injured.Birmingham. Ala., Aprl] 28.—By the collapse of the fra me work of t.he main building of the Dimmick Pipe • and Foundry Company, io the course of erection at North KlrmiDgbaru this morning, two men aro dead a ad ole yen are injured, at least two of whom will die. The building was ;oo feet Jong and 100 feet wide. While an immerse beam was being placed in position on tbe rool thirty feet above the ground It fell and strIking the uext beam knocked It down. Tbe second beam knocked down the third and so on until twenty-six beams had fallen, cau*-jog a general collapse of the structure. About thirty roen were at work on tbe building at the time and of this number thirteen were on the superstructure and went dowu In the vrreckagc, Tboseon tbe ground fllt;• ;r began to leap out of tho doors and windows as soon as the first beam feb and all escaped uninjured. The following ie a list of the dead and hi' jured:Dead—James McWhorter, crushed to di?ntli bcueath fall tug timbers.David White, tblgb broken also internally hurt, died on tbe way to the hospital.injured—WilJjam McWhorter. head crushed and internally Injured. »i!fdie.D. O. PatiJ-u, fractured .aw ano
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Biloxi Herald
Biloxi, Mississippi, US
Sun, Apr 29, 1900
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