New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-11

70 te Hiness OF Juror, Wa adj ourne1 and taken
up ill yesterday The following verdict was rendered
by the Jury:
That Patrick McIntaggart 10 his death By in
jur1es received on the 10Th OF November last caused by
the falling Of the cornice Of the store No IL Murray.st
then in process Of being laid The Jury are Of opinion
that the accident was the result Of cupabe careesness
the part Of the man mentioned in the TESTIMONY as
Jimmy and they furthermore consider that Messrs
Stuart Howell who had the contract for the stone.
work, were at fault for not seeing that the work
carried on IN proper manner. They, therefore,
omend the Coroner 10 hold the Messrs Stuart Howell
for examination by the Grand Jury"
On the rendition Of the verdict Deputy Coroner B.
L. Budd made out warrants for the apprehension of
the parties, and placed them in the hands of officer
for execution.
We cheerfully publish the following note of expa-
nation from Coroner ives:
1.-THE inquest was first commenced at 81 Mulberry
st. on the 22d of November The case was then ad-
journed to obtain testimony since which time has
been necessary 70 postpone II several times account
Of the absence and indposion of ofthe Jury The
testimony Of Mr. Thurston, of the contractors
taken at the first sitting and the remainder to-day.
(Signed) JOHN IVES, Coroner
The LATE FATAL CATAsTRoPHE IN THIRTY
Observation-Disclosures Before the Coroner An in.
vestgaton relative to the late catastrophe in Thirty
second-st., by which three men lost their ves was
SOAAHcHCcu 1ctttIuhl Og IOrOHrI fts,
the room Of the Supreme Court New City Hall. A
large number Of persons were in attendance The
following named gentlemen compose the Jury, viz
Edwin Pankey, J. G. Duncan B. vckey, d. B. Dash,
VIM. Brown, C. d. Ward, VIM C. Barnes, w Archer,
Z. X. Sutton. The following testimony sdduced
Eli,a6aA He5er, being sworn, says: reside at No.
ll9 Eighth-st; my husband, George Weber,
gagged on the building in process of erection in
Thirty IT., between Lexington and Thrdavs on
the day fell Tuesday, the 9TH inst; at 81. o'clock
the morning of the 18th inst he left home he intended
10 be at the building at dinner time the next that
Of him at the Bellevue Hospital Dead House;
then and there identified his body recognized him by
his features and his clothing.
James SLGrin being sworn, says: reside the second
door from Firstav., in Twentiet-st, East from the
avenue; am in the employ of Robert d. Fielder; am
his foreman; | was the foreman in the building on
Thirtysecond-st. between Third and Lexington-ays;
the building forty feet by fifty; there brick
partition walls ii four stories high and topped
out ready for the root tier of beams the girder beams
ran from wall to wall there were-only three girders
in the cellar, two girders in the first story OF brick
work. one in the second story, and only from that
up to the top; there joist uprghts supporting
these girders but how many do not know; the front
well was completed and the cornice on the wall
wns up; the brick work all completed, wfh the
exception OF the beam filing and the capeing: the
walls were twelve inches thick there were recesses
in them; the foundation wall OF stone was twenty
inches thick the stone was sound quarry stone
consider the mortar good do not know the proportion
Of lime TO the sand used; have worked at the ms
sons trade for ten years was laying stOne.wall In
the basement for the foorOf said basement looked
up and saw the gableend OF the west side coming in
every story braced; the rsfters all lying
the top girder, and the wall on Lexington-ay. SIDE
we had four braces 10 the gableends inside, and
five, If not more 10 the front and in my opinion
the weight oil the beams caused the grder 10 give
way, and draw the wall with IL | consider that
the girder at the top story not properly
secured by upghis and braces IL it had been know it
could have fallen have cautioned the carpenters
often TO spread the beams, but they would NOT do
and have often told Mr. Fielder the seme; believe the
girders oil spliced; the grer 40 feet long
when the wall coming, to the of the
building toward Thirty Third st.; the walls fell in as
sisted IN clearing away the beams, and found George
Weber near the middle OF the gableend wall on the
west side he was taken out of the ruins and the police
took him away also found George Doherty in the
ins he was apprentice to the bricklaying and plas
tering business; he, as well az Weber, taken out
dead there was five others wounded II i've or six
weeks since commenced the erection OF these build
ings Mr. John w Fielder had the contract for the car
penter- work, and Robert ID. Fielder for the mason
work.
Parick Cdrey being sworn, says-l reside at No l53
Avenue A am apprentice To Mr. Robert Fielder;
work in tie cellar of the building, the 7th
inst the brick wall IL inches thick from the first
tier of beams do not know the size of the beams
consider the mortar fair; the walls really
Tor the last tier of beams; every story was
well braced; | braced them myself with wall
strips and joist the beams for the upper
story had been hoised up the same morning the acct
dent happened they Ind not beenup minutes when
the building fell Iheard crash, Sayn told me 10
ran out of the buildnginiO the rear; il all fe in bury
ing up Geo. Weber. Geo. Dohertv, and five others /
believe the weight Of beams upon the grer and its not
being properly braced caused the walls fall the brick
wall was hrstrate do not know how many uprghts
placed under the grders there was but one up
right 10 support the top girder the mortar male
OF one barrel of lime to three of sand the front build
ing slsnted one story ehead OF the rear 80 that
when the ralters in the front building. the
luildng not carried ID by the last
OF beams was hosted up ready 10 pat on when the re
building fell.
D. c. Weeks sworn-Ssys reside at No. ~ Third-Ay;
was engaged in building directly opposite the building
that fell in 1hirtythrd,t saw the materials used in
the building while progressing and the materials alter u
fell think the mortar was good. THE witness here
went into description Of the proportions 10 be used
in the manufacture Of mortar | should think the
brick walls twelve inches tnick the grouli
upon which the building stood was soft | consider
that it was safe build upon such ground | dill
not notice the timbers. while the building was IN
progress saw them after il fell should think II was
good yard timber aid not any time notice the
ner in which the grders shored should think the
weight of the beams hoed up and placed top OF II
would have caused the building 10 fall it was the
framcrs business to have shored up the grders the
building progressed L makes no difference whist ma9-
rails used nor how thick the walls were the yht
placed top OF the grder without il being properly
braced would have caused Il % fall
Ezra lSnHA sworn-Seys reside at No. 2l7 Thomp
sonst am carpenter and builder have examin 81
inc
laid in ruins this morning the timber snv taere was
, by and by 10 the beams What we term Est
ern yard timbers. except the Orders which were OF
yellow pine the girders were by inches il there hal
been grders all the way up, and upright posts under
these gders at spaces 10 feet apart the beams would
then be sufficiently strong to have carried the building
up and then after the partitions mad been set am OF
opinion would have been strong enough for adweins
but no; for store house had the tn6er that was ~
ing on the Cirder been directly the npnghts,
think nigh have held it, but had il been placed end
way between the upright the wall woah hsye been
unsafe
James BeTTiaz sworn-Ssys reside a. Harlem and am
an architect have examined the ruins Of the bull.
ing: the materials and timbers 70 be good su-
GENTLY so for the character Of the building. which
Judged had occupied the ground O. e. II the building
was tc have been used dwelling factory for
light business from the testimony detailed by pre-
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