The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-01
Fall OF q Building Ia EhlladcIphia-Four
Persons Killed.

from the Philadolphta Ledger, Feb. 29
Yesterday morning the portion OF the warehouse
ofMessrs. Buzby Co., 365 Market street, below Tenth
ell in with tremendous cash. At tue time there
The e1ss length Of the wneh was erected
in 1854 $50 On Market street the from. SO feet
lance of 10 feet Mere than half Of the warehouse
FELL carrying to the ground floor upwards Of 900 bushels
Of and 1000 bushels Of oats whi,h wete the,
second and third oors and about 800 barrels Of -four
fTcm the fourth story There were seven persons 1t
Iof On the sr0una door removing HG1r ana from
ceeded in getting out Of the building before the crash
but the Other two Mark Donohue the msasurer Of the
house, aged 70 years, and Joseph Mer agent for the
MechancsbuIg line Of cars and Joseph CawIey aborer
is supposed were crushed be meath the wreck In addi
ton to the destruction caused to this building the Penn
sylvania Farmer, adjoining east damaged to
the extent Of several hundred dollars by the third story
TsIguy building a69 Market street was also damaged
The second story uninured but the eastern wall %
the lower story was broken in by large mass Of the
wreck Of the ware aouse falling against M In this place
female named Margaret Witcher &c ring She was
Injured but not seriously.
Ayonpg mar, named Timothy Murphy, engaged ss
porter in the Pennsylvania Farmer also Riled and
another person attached to the house narrowly
capped instant death He passed through thAt part ofths
house where greater part OF the occurred
only few mir utes before the accident. Young Murphy
was sitting in his room in the third story of the back
building writing letter, and it Is supposed, no
hieo by the rafrers falling bis back and neck as he
FOUND lying his face, with pen in his hand some
he writing bis letter, found among the rubbish
The letter contains the f,llowing:-
MYpnm EIs-wth pleasure take my PEN in hand. hoping
70 find in as good OF heath as ihs leaves me and
for not or nSs
Ing So hope you win excuse me- for am not forgetting you
As before stated the warehouse ,ted in 1854.
The basement walls 30 inches thiek and the
walls OF the upper stories adjoining the buildings east
end west inches thick, making with the walls OF the
botel store inches esen thickness Of ls inches
peres, north, Is inches thick. The oists Of the
first ,oy wore OAK inches apart from centre TO centre
and hoec Of the second and third spruce L. inches
from to CENTRE The joists each eoor we're all
connected with 8hs iron Gambler rods brdged
with oak WOOD : by inches. The beams extending
oak, II by IL inchss thick supported the rst and
second oors by iron columns and inches in diameter
and on the third supported by cak columns o inches
square Every portion OF the establishment built in
substantial manner, and before commencing active
operations in it, Messrs Buzoy Co. had It's strength
tested In various ways and by different persons All sap
posed amply strong to contain the greatest weight hAt
| would be put on 1t.
The most Of the -four grain and salt In the warehouse
was put there two or r weeks and about O'Clock
in the morning, Mr. George l. Buzcy, OF the firm,
passed through ell the foors and at that time he had
| idea that 1t would 20 soon be a mass of ruins.
The immec OF the disaster 10 unknown Some
SO feet OF the Market street end Of the building Is still
standing and apparently in good conci before
the accident On the fourth floor OF this part were 200
were 300 bushels brsn 100 barrels Of -four and 30 ss:s
OF sa and ON the second the office and 30 barrels
! -four.
Mayor Conrad and Marshal Murphy were at the scene
Of disaster after 1t occurred and gave directions
the police 70 render every assis their power Mr.
William Struthers sent numper OF from his marble
yard nearly opposite, who materially assisted remov
ing the -four and grain from part OF the building left
standing Dir. Charles A. Rubicain also took number
Of his employees to the wreck who did good service In
| removing the broken timberp.
The from the -four and rubbish was NO great as to
create alarm Of fire. Hundreds OF people wore at
taced to the spot and 1t with the greatest Difficult,
~ the thropg could be kept out Of the warehouse.
Up to late hour last EVENT. nothing the
three ssitg Notwithstanding the efforts made to-
get them out. II is supposed the in which they
were working fell through into the basement About
ffty men engaged removing the rubbish up 10
seven O'Clock and several employed TO continue
their search during the night for the missing men,
, The lcsa CT Meesrs Buoy Co. is es3msted ut from
TO two thousand dollars In -four grain and from,
| seven 70 eight Thousand dollars in the build ne
| POPULATION or ALABAMA.-Th census Of Ala
bana for the year 1885, taken under SPECIAL law OF
state, Classics it's present population roloss:-
White N alea under Il years. I2S,34
Mhile Hsies over II NJ, $50
Mhite ienaies under - Year,. l3i ssS
White females over Y Observation-Disclosures. 90,76s
| Total whites $50 o7V
| Insane persops a1A
uou' VI saNoh
liea persons q coiur., OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES -,fV
4
| Total Inhabitants sB5, 1o2
Nnmbcr ~ coliegna ~
" 4n1
Number Of academies. 49,. ~
n gal.a a III