New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-25
AsorHER MELANCHOLY AconKSr-FALL

CT BUILDING AND Two MEs KILLED Scarcely has
the City recovered from the excitement created By
the melancholy Catastrophe IN Gteen <ich-sv before
we have 90 record Sno.ber. which, though less IN
magnitude, might have resulted IN a great loss OF
human life had II taken place hail an hour LAYER
Yesterday aboU. II O'Clock the majority of the
vorkmeR IN Messrs Hoes foundry, corner of Brcone
AID Sheuf-s,s hsd gone t. oInner the gable end OF
the grsin lot of Harmon Co, brewers, adjoining.
bui ding four stories an hight. gave way and tum-
bled on the roof Of MesSrS Hoes blacksmith shop,
with the weg h, OF some ten thousand bushels Of
barley added to tie falling mass OF bTickwoIk and
hmber The roof Mas Immediately broken IN, ana
four named Enoch Brown Walter Mathews. Robert
Seers and VIM Conquest blurred lr the RUM, Every
effort to recover them instantly resOred to- bat
nearly an hour before the last body vered Brown
aud Mathews both married men, were taken dead while
the others wersteverely injured Dr. Merkls WAS quickly
Il a''snesnce and attended 10 Sesrs; whom he found
N safe OF convutsions and relieved " bleeding Inn.
Mr Conquest was net much injured. He had Just re-
TUNED hom the Office OF The Baltimore S1a where he
had been engaged IN putting up one q MessS Hoes print
pre- and the &C. ot Shssing hauds WITH his
fuehd and fellow workman. Mr. SeeSs. when the accident
took plsce when found. he lying the formers
boy Had the occurrence taken place about half hour
sfter when all the had returned from their dinner.
aid with lot Of strangers generally engaged IN warning
themselves at the furnace OF the bzcksm'hS shop and
passing The time away IN conversation, before the bell
Monsd them to resume work perhaps some 20 or 30 lives
would tsye been loot.
sftsr and fellow we suboln the testimony adduced sad
the verdict returned by tue Jury The person named the
sua William Conquest. beng The habit many
Of the woTkmen calling those Who are not IN the depart
ment BY that name though they may be well acquainted
WiHiar' l. COi5y.of No 800 Madson.s,. sworn Said
that he wok Ell the boundary Of the NessTs Hoe Coz
at tie time Of the accident. Office looking
the yard heard the crash and dust and smoke
Office to telegraph to Sir Hoe saw that tie gable cad
OF he brewer adjoining The blacksmiths shop had fallen
the roof Of the shop and crushed H. and tn there
vas arse quantity OF BRICK and barley IN the shop I'M
mecuiey called assistance, and went Go work until we
of Oh the bodies Robert Seers was the nrst
and we found he seye ely hurt net. found Viii
Ian, CorqUest lie also badly hurt we then found
Ea'oh Blown, and shortly after Waiter Mathews; both
dead from the time the accident happened until
Mathew, was got out about 50 minutes never heard
spprehended danger from the gable end Of tae
brewery falling out have worked On the foundry oh and
BiRom Bra,fa,raif. OF Ne % Columbia St. another
workman a. IKE Foundry. swoIn-Says that abost eo-
Robert seers and hands with hun Walter Mathews
stood On his right turned my head to look out IN the
yard. when the wall fell down on Us, Walter Mathews,
Robert seers the stranger and myself were all that saw
in the shop al the time was NOT injured though me oi
pot out the bodies The latter part Of this Wines tes
mony with regard to the state OF the bodies was the same
Dr. Griscom of No 22J East Broadway sworn-Says that
he examined the bodies OF Enoch Brown and Walter Ma
Ing sun. Gated BY the barley she could not find any
teral wounds about him. also examined the body Brown
and found several wounds his head all severe he
must have been struck by something very heavy as the
skull fractured in three places one on the right side
smaller bruises which were of no consc uence nthem-
Brnard Hqley, Of No. II Columbia st another workman
IN Hoes Forndry says that he Robert Seeis shaking
hands with the stranger and Matthews was warming his
Ing fell was IN the center of the shop when beam
Piip harmon, OF No. $40 Greenwich St. one of the
popreors of the buiding sworn-Says that he was not
The cable end fell out Of high the upper
part ie down to the third story next 90 Mr. Hoes black
smihshop, the fourth story occupied for barley
lot and has been for the last ten or twelve years az the
time Of the accident there the lOf from 1000 to
If Coz to 20 zoe bushels the Building was ereced about
twelve fifteen years the walls are twelve inches
thick.
The jury after being out for upward Of an hour came
That the dece Waiter Matthews came to his death
By sufocaton. and the deceased Eucch S. Brown BY
fracture ofhe skull caused IN both cases by the falling q
the gable end Of the building used malt house, and
the large quantity Of barley that fell with it, IN the rear Of
No IL Sheriff st. ofsqPsa Sy Co tn.
We dict but desired that il might be published, VIZ
~on % II % se mol
ing properly secured he bricks TO the sm6er with an
The deceased Water Matthews was native Of EGG
land 80 years Of age The dsosased Enoch Brown
aas and nd .t c n rssidns wamsbursS
sen !Sss T%RsGa that The brother Of MI.
buried the ruins at the Hague st. explosion hrst
when the explosion occurred, and second time when s-
ter his escape he was engaged IN rescuing some OF MS
friends.
PROGRESS OF INVENTION. The great
progress being made in natural and mechanical
science, especially in this country, at the present
time is a marked feature in the worlds history
There are not less than three different plans, more
or less matured, now before the public in this city
alone, purportng entirely to supersede the use OF
steam as a Motive Power.
The one most prominently before the public is the
Electro Magnetic Engine of Professor Page, lately
on exhibition at the Society Library Rooms in this
City, where model engines of six horse power have
been explained and examined by capitalists and
others. By the introduction Of electro. magnetism
II is claimed that a cheaper motive power, OF equal
efficiency with steam, is secured. vi the trMh OF
this assertion time and experiment will have to de-
eide.
The second plan is that OF Erricksons CalorIc En-.
CINE which is propelled by the rapid expansion and
exhaustion of atmospheric air by means OF heat APP
piled directly under the working cylinder The
construction OF this engine simple and substantial.
ard the of running II IS said to De only ABOUT
one third that Of the common steam engine. The
air is rapidly expanded by means OF radiators OF
wire. and exhausted under immense valves weighing
near twelve tuns In the machine OF 90 horse power
now working at the foot of Thlrteenth-st y. H.
Ii is stated BY the inventor that air is readily con-
dtnsed from 63l degrees Fahrenheit 10 1871 IN the
foreth part Of one second, and the caloric or neat
lie retained TO aid In expanding the next charge, thus
causing vast saving of fuel There are two engines
on this plan of 10 horse power, low.presscre, ana
one of 90 horse power high pressure, beside smal
model sent to England for exhibition al the WORLDS
Fair
These machines have been VISITED by many capt
talIsts and others during the past week, and the
opinion is very general that the days OF steam are
numbered The inventor Is making arrangements 10
place his engine IN large snip TOT UiaI vi IT. MA
nne qualities.
The third plan is that of the Static Pressure Eh-
gine Of Messrs. Sawyer and Gwynne in which the
cCmpTe ssIon Of atmospheric air Is proposed 10 De
be made effective by the Introduction OF centrifugal
force ss an auxiliary agent or power, the initial
moving .orce or atmospheric pressure, and the aux
iary force both acting elastic huid or wafer
which is used as the medium Of motion. In the TWO
first arrangements, II is claimed that power can De
maintained At a much cheaper rate than hereto
FORE and In the lastnsmed plan, it is asserted thst
power 10 any extent may be maintained free oil all
cost beyond mechanical construction, which very
simple and lucubraiIon. The two first are IN ope'
ration the iastnsmed Is yet to be made 70 GONE
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