Collin Co., TX - McKinney's Catastrophe Claimed 8 Victims
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McKinney's Catastrophe Claimed 8 Victims McKinney, Jan. 24 - McKinney is a
city of sorrow. Our people are broken in sorrow because of the fatal collapse
of the I.O.O.F. 3-story building and a 2-story building adjoining at 3:40 p.m.
yesterday.

The Dead:
Miss Mary Stiff, clerk
Miss Eva Scarey, clerk
Miss Kate Milligan, McKinney, customer
Miss Rosa Welch, McKinney, customer
Miss Bessie Wade, telephone operator
Russell Height, age 4
R.M. Pressley, age 35, clerk
Leslie W. Bush, age 65, of Allen

The Injured:
John Thomas, clerk
Mrs. Hugh A Kistler, customer
Annie Graves Kistler, aged 4
Mrs. Wick Graves
Mrs. Belle McWilliams, clerk
Mrs. W.M. Shirley, wife of County Treasurer
Mrs. Jessie Barnett
Miss Lyda Moorland
Miss Stella Russell, Farmersville, badly hurt
Miss  Sissie Seay, McKinney, slightly hurt

~~ The Rains County Leader, January 31, 1913 ~~