New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-04
FURTHER OF THE STORM.
INQUEST ON THE DEAD.
PARTICULARS or THE DAMAGE IN VARIOUS CITIES.
The Csb mify in Forty -thirdsr the B0de
ard Verdict Of the Jury.

In addition 70 thoe already enumerated a. having been
kied End injured by Friday accident in Forty second
Christopher Fig German aged IS YEAR. received com
p,urd fracture Of the and it sup1osed wound 10
The artery He Wa admitted on Friday night into III City
Uosrtsl and consultation of the doctors was held
,s'urday on bis The following persons Ike
wise wounded: A NJ Eastwood who ras taken 20 his
residence No IL West Twenty ourhst John Craig one
Of The sufferer by The above accident died Friday night
between u and 70 clock st'be City Hospital He leaves
wife and family their residence is somewhere in the
vicinity Of the Ten-h aDd Elsven'hav
On Saturday Coroner Gamble bed nque5s on the ,hr4e
men rsm-d VIM MeCr.cken Ma'thew McGraan and
Jaues McCauey The following Is the substance Of the
evidence taken before The Coroner:
Wjckl4f W ParkhUr-t. sworn, says-l am a carpenter
ord frsm.r the dscsased James MoCauley. worked on
the building in question be ore % the p tsterer
worked The building Friday afternoon, aboGt
o ock when The storm came up Wa working win tne
ober men gave orders Tor the men 70 come down 0r thy
would gei they had lust tinefO come Gown when tn
? IL commenced took shelter IL this building and
some 10 oh-rs The majority Oi my men vent 70 building
thsf did not fell framed the building that fell and
~ h,t'er timber INTO any buidp have osen bud@r
r over years past had about 10 cross braces IN
the building that fell al the plates and o. pieces e-r@
pnneo posts fhe posts were moruced In the sides
considered the building perfectly safe the VINO be-
down brick wall sixteen inches thick aud twelve feet
high in the immediate neigbborhOod.
Wu Palmer builder, sworn, sgys-l saw the materials
of ssd huid tiev were as good a. eve, saw pu uo
buildings were exposed WAS not surprised at their falling
in CONSEQUENCE Of the violence Of the Wnd and rain
" ud not hesitate % work about the building 10 any
ordinary blow or storm
Ethan Brygg sworn says--I wss Of the workmen
The building il question the deceased parties also worked
~ the ZANE building 81 work both up and d. IN
STAIRS saw McCauey on The first tuor bat Fherr VI
Cracken cannot say; had come down stairs q get
y niece f timber ana in the at of ING UP agtin
oter ny attention directed 20 the soups a Tn1mD
sor w6rlug and flying around also to brick wall
de- of ne tower when cast eve 10 and law
~ buCirg was 10 falling sprang or Of the door upon
some timber and then into the street A; the same instant
~ building fell the groubd the decreased par'ie, and
others buried in the runs a. far as Judge the
building put up in wortmanlike manner bad no
81 being the building during the course Of erection
th- building WAS put mp by days work.
Samuel = Townsenc, sworn, says-l am the owner Of
the said building that FL during the storm the work
d ne by DAYS WORK intended the building for e1hib
ton room and Therefore intended shoud be bui stronger
tian usual the floor beams we're twelve inches put IN
more iron columns than the carpenter thought neoes
safy ordered some braces unknown 10 the carpenter
did them for fear the building would not stand
only wanted it ~ strong it could be made vest rlay
nofnIg the braces but they we're too short and
ordered them 10 be back 10 the shop again ihe
peter said be did think .ry 10 put them
DO not think If the braces had been put 10 hat would
have saved the building from destruction Judging from the
strength OF the storm other buildings aud walls the
neigh horho the wind was strong II took isrg- pOr
ton Of the roof from my building between two and three
hundred feet over the top Of house and now lies In For
ty third ST.
On the above evidence, and the testimony Of Dr. Uh,
showing the death the Jury rendered the following
VERDICT.
That the deceased persons To their death by in u
res recey ed by the failing of building ia Forty third st,
b,ween Filth and Sixth during the storm on no after
noon the LEI day OF July lrj3 IheJury exonsree the
builder from all blame"