Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence Part 28

source was fortunately averted.

As it was dozens of windows at the

planing mill on the opposite side of the

street were all left intact. In fact no dam-

age whatsoever outside of the holder re-

sulted from the unfortunate accident.

Two workmen, Jacob Casey and Nelson

Jones, were unfortunately caught beneath

the wreckage and their bodies were

removed later in the morning by the fire

department. The tank was full when it

collapsed and that it did not scatter de-

struction and take more innocent lives

was one of the fortunate features of the

accident and a great cause for congratula-

tion among the officials of the company

today.

(This story ill.u.s.trates, among other things, excessive wordiness.)

V

After being chased by a young woman

for several blocks, a man who gave his

name as John Weber, was pursued through

a saloon at 11-97th street by Policeman

Arthur Brown and captured on the roof of

a building adjoining the saloon, where the

man had hidden behind a chimney. Weber

was arrested by the policeman and is held

on a charge preferred by Charles Young, a

grocer at 2145 Sixth avenue, of attempt-

ing to rob Young's grocery store.

According to Young, just before he

closed his store for the night last evening,

a young man entered the store and asked

for a pound of b.u.t.ter. "I thought," said

Young, "that the man was just married

and might be a possible new customer. I

started for the back of the store to open a

new tub but just as I turned to go, he hit

me over the head with his cane. The

blow dazed me but I still had sense enough

to grab him by the collar. In the fight we

both fell through the gla.s.s door at the

front of the store and the d--n rascal got

away." A young woman, who was pa.s.s-

ing the store, seeing the fracas, screamed

and started to run after the young man.

She followed him until he ran into a sa-