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Add Kansas City Star, Jan. 15, 1899, page 11, to your list Pretty lengthy and particularly detailed. This one talks about the Wyatt angle. And it talks about Bill Anderson and Jim Wyatt in the sub-headline together as if the Star's readers were equally familiar, or should be equally familiar, with both. And it joined Anderson and Wyatt at the hip again in the very closing paragraph.

Reading that story in regard to Wyatt is strange because the writer assumes his readers know him as if he was a big deal, just like Anderson.

The story also includes a breathtaking amount of detail I have never seen anywhere else. The construction of the building, its use, why it was structurally unsound, the cause of the collapse, the unheeded warnings of impending collapse....

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