New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-10

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The Committee appointed 10 examine tie snnul
sccou1ts reported that they had aed the books
ard sooouLts, ard found item well arc correctly
seft. Thfy further reported th.l 10 thei, gnert
the superintendent Of tue Office, Mr.. K. Rafeier, is
emitted TO much credit 70: the business-like AMI
careful maIer which tie books both statistical and
financial, have been kept.
TIE following resolution v.s adopted:
Hhrea 1t apress tia. there macy unemployed p IN
Dis city who would gladly remove to ne Wa II hs ~, Of
hat sry benevolent citizen. Wocd gladly aid poor pes
them. snd N Whse welfare the, feel en- insrss,
they Informed that the American Industrial Association
could forward them 70 eligible places IN The West ~neFe
ployutnt al honor miShi be obtained; tnsreore, 80
Ie'ored Tia, be Appointed TO prepare pubics
cn In The newspapers, O,heTWe a. thsy u:y .te IL
Thi- Committee Is composed OF Theo. Dwight and
ID. r. Thomson.
BIAS1ING Accident j, WEsT THRTY-sFvEVTH
S1REET-Yeserday morning a terrible accident oc-
CURED IN West Thirty street The result OF al
legged carelessness in blasting, by which the walls OF
ssyerA houses were demolished and the lives Of
large number OF persons endangered Tue accident
occurred in West Thirty -seyent street between the
Seventh ard Eighth uues in vacant lot the prop
erty Of MI Cronk, which lot is in process Of excavs.
walton for the erection Of large house In the center
of the lot there is an immense bluestons or granite
rock, in order TO get rid OF which the builders
obliged TO resort to blasting Directly ives, Of AID al
joining tie Let is large tenement house occupied by
upward of Thirty families. Tti3 building Is called
model tepent house, and is arranged with main en-
trace ard winding stsr-cases, hom which separate
halls extend.
At an early hour yesterday morning, large drill
hole, which had been previously made in the rock.
was douby charged with powder and the blsst pre-.
pared for gbition. TIE laborers after applying light
to the sow match, hurried out Of the way and many
of them ran several hundred yards. Following the
xbio in ifantf NH nj
fragments of the rock weighing in all several tuns,
were hurled through the walls Of the tenement house
above mentioned crushing and demolishiDg everything
in their way. Stones and bricks Were thrown into the
apartments; in come rooms completely covering the
floors There was scarcely room in the house 10
which there were not one or more persons, and yet,
strange TO say, not one was seriously injured
There were many harbresdh ard miraculous
escepes the most wonderful Of which was that Of q
little child in the the the third story.
These rooms are occupied by Mrs. Mary Marsh, with
whom Mrs Dye and her child, a boy four year, of
age, are boarding The little fellow in bed at the
time, fast asleep. large jagged fragment of rock
came crashing through the wall e this story and fell
with violence upon the floor directly opposite the bed
dozen or more bricks, aud quantity of small pieces
Of stone and rubbith fell upon the bed nearly cover
ing it, Deep indentuIes were made in the opposite
wal. Tie boy received several sIgh scratches upon
tte face but no serious Jury The feather bed had
partially fallen o, leaving him upon the strar-tick,
and in this IN amer he was sufficiently sheltered 70
his life.
Ote Of MIS-. Marths daughte1s seven yeare Of age,
was struck by d piece Of brick and eighty injured.
The elder child, nine years Of age, missing for
some time, and it was supposed that she had been
killed and buried under the ruins, but subsequent
" discovered that she had left the few minutes
before the accident occurred and thus escaped unhurt
The fourth story was extensively damaged. stone
weighing nearly tun was projected through the west
wall into room on tie west side, occupied by Samuel
c. Roberts prirtnr Mrs. Robots MOS sitting by the
FIRE place at the time OF the ingress of the missile ard
for some moments completely stupefed by the
shock. The rock completely demolished bed near
where Mis-. X. was sitting, aud which she had lust
competed making up. la en- adjoining bedroom
another fragment Of rock thrown, filing the room
with rubbish and crashing through a partition With
great violence. bed IN this room, from which few
minutes before Of Mr. X. children hsd arisen was
also demolished. Ia another room child was still
sleeping but was III harmed.
room east ofhe partition through which the piece
of rock last mentioned was projected occupied by
Mr.. PIine and family Mr.. r. was abou; getting oct
of bed ard had ra ed himself upon his elbow, just as
the store burst through the partition. stone weigh
ing four or five pounds fell upon his pillow, and irag-
meuts Of brick an rubbish scattered about his
person. Nrs. Prime was standing GEAR tie mante.-
piece and narrowly escaped being struck by piece Of
stone which hurled against the wall.
The fan iy Of Mr. Thompson, 90 the frs ilccr mar
rowly escaped piece of stone and several bricks
fell few niche from little girl seated in rocking
chair.
small frame building and esbinet-shop, rear Of the
tenement house occupied by Mr. S.evenf, was consi1-
eratIy damsged but the occupants escaped dnhsrIed
4 scere of terror and confusion followed the accident
Parents whose children we're our at the time, were
rushing here AID there in search OF the little ones.
some of them crying sud tearing their hair. For
time il was supposed that life had been sacrificed, but
it fortunately happened that no one wac seriously
injured
ArrrAPrrp MrRpER Is The FIRST WARD.-ies.
| terdsy morning, msn named SImuel /B11banck
sttercrted 10 take the life Of Mis-. Gobuck, bis en-
rloycrs wife living at No. q Albany street, and came
very near succeeding IN his deagn. Il appears that
! Bsabanck had been some time in the employ oil Mr.
Goldbuck, who keeps meat chop at No. :. Albany
street but becoming very insoent of late, and refusing
to obey orders, Mr. q. discharged him. At this he be-
came outrageous making terrible threats, upon which
he was ordered to ,tave the preuise'. short time
after Mr.. G.. was passing irto another room, when
Baxbanck seized knife AID fprineng upon her
stabbed Ter in the back nlc.iog dangerous wound.
Hearing her scream. her husband and scn rushed to
her aid, when he turned upon them, inlicng several
savage wounds. Attracted b. the melee, Officers
Barker and Smith OF the En-. Pfecirc' came and ar
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