St. Louis Post Dispatch, published in: St. Louis, Mo. New York, July 26.1888 Description: A Building Collapses. The old Armory on Elm and White streets, which had been converted recently into a business and manufacturing establishment, was the scene of a fatal accident yesterday. A gallery on one side of the building on which were about fifty women and girls, employed by the Lovell and McWilliams Publishing Companies, suddenly gave way, carrying the women with it. There were over 200 women and girls at work in the building when the crash came, who all fled panic striken for the doors and windows. When the women had been quieted to a certain extent, a search of the ruins proved that only one woman, Mary BAGNELL, was fatally hurt, although some dozen others were injured. http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=89729 ========================= GOOGLE BOOKS: http://tinyurl.com/preview.php?num=73vb28z ========================== Date: 1888-07-26; Paper: New York Herald Page 6 DOWN TO HER DEATH -------------------------------- A Working Girl Is Killed by the Fall of a Printing Office Gallery ------------------------------- MANY LIVES IMPERILED ------------------------------ Beams Give Way And Cause a Scene of Terror Paraphrase: *Accident 4pm in "Old City Arsenal." *Maria BANGELL resident of 127 King Street, Brooklyn; lhas a sister. *"Her very name was new to her employer [Lovell], as he knowns his help only by numbers." *Annie SUTER foreman. *"Mrs.Mary McDONALD is found under a machine on McWilliams' floor." * Ground floor, John SIMMONS, iron pipemaker 2nd Floor: McWilliams Printing Company & Lovell Manufacturing Comapny