The New York herald., 1863-07-22
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.
Falling Of the Wall Of the Eighteenth Ward
Station House In Twenty-secsnd Street
Men, Women and Children Buried
Unds1 tho Ruins.
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ELEVEN BODIES RECOVERED
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Four - Them Alive and the
Rest Dead.
SEVERAL VICTIMS YET UNDISCOVERED.
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a Woman with an Infant Beneath
the Rubbish,
%, &e, 90.
Four - Them Alive and the
Rest Dead.
SEVERAL VICTIMS YET UNDISCOVERED.

&c. g., 20.
One Of the most frghtful accidents occurred
m this city for long period took place in East Twenty
second street about yesterday and resulted in tho
death Of great number OF children, and II s feared
about six or seven grown people.
twin be remembered that during the late distur Dances
in the city the Eighteenth ward station house, stu
ated IN street, between First and Second
avenues set fire 10 by the populace and completely
destroyed The house Of Engine Company No. 81.
situated next door to the station house. was likewise
sumed in the conAagraton and all that left Of tho
two buildings q heap Of bricks, mortar, iron and
pieces OF timber besides the two side walls and por
tion OF the front walls, which kept In upright
position by the slightest support imaginable.
Among the ruins the usual quantity Of smashed
WOOD suitable for fuel and this. 10 usual in all such
cases much sought after by the poor people OF the
seghborhood. is said that there also large
amount Of coal slowed away in The cellar which served
additional temptation the people. Notwithstanding
the very dangerous condition which the side walls
threatening moment 70 tumble against the house In
immediate proximity, steps, our reporter told
taken provide against the Of dread
ful accident like that which occurred yesterday.
II ID said that since the burning Of the buildings
hundreds Of men, and children have allowed
70 run st large about tho ruins every day. picking up
in the vicinity had cautioned the people repeatedly not
TO 60 among ruins lest tho should fall upon and
bury them alive. But these warnings, might have
been expected entirely UNDECIDED, and the conse
quence s o most frightful accident.
Yesterday the ruins were visited, usual by a crowd
OF women and children, who very busiy engaged in
picking up coal and loose pieces Of wood violent
Of wind-onc Of the strongest, whe It lasted that has
visited in some tme-was blowing from the southwest
at the time. Occasionally loose pieces OF brick were
blown down from the walls upon the Of rash people
assembled together below. But even this warning
passed unnoticed. BY and by tho fury Of the
storm made such an impression upon tho walls that
people standing aoof observed very unmsakabe signs
that the walls certainly about over Tho
ehisfen and grown persons called upon vacate
the ruins In all haste and at last seemed 70 realize tho
danger Of thor position they began to scamper away
fast po sible. But tho knowledge OF peril came TOO
late powerful gust Of wind Just then struck against
the party wall between tho station house and rc engine
building The wall rocked 70 and FRO like straw
before wind, and another instant down 1t came
with terrific force upon thoss OF tho wood gatherers
VINO had not succeeded in getting out in time. part
the wall fell upon another engine house door to
the house Of No 81 and the force great that
portion OF the roof and wall driven In
The which followed this awful catastrophe may
be easily imagined than described. Most OF
those buried In the ruins were little boys and girls,
from years of age up to seventeen eighteen.
Tho occurrence witnessed by n great number OF
people and cry OF horror broke from every in the
crowd almost at one moment. Several women and even
men tainted away crowd Of spectators was
soon the Mothers ,abers
Of their Children formed very largo portion the cx-
cited throng, and it impossible depict tie agonizlng
condition of prents The shr cry q mothers for
ther little ones, mingled with the hoarse inquiries OF
fathers and brothers, and the excited excamatons OF the
crowd rushing 70 lend their assistance made up
sf the heartrending interest.
The venture the ruins after the .a OF
the walls POOR old man. whose only said
have been crushed under the piles OF brick and
Tho whole OF the party wall had thus time tnmbed
The old man, doubtless not observing this fact
incautously rushed forward In agony Of excitement
when horrible to relate, the remaining portion Of the
wall fell upon his head crushing life instant
The next moment number Of the Eighteenth ward
police, aided by body OF laboring living in the
Deighborhood, work raking through the bricks
and RUBBISH n order 70 extrcate the bodies OF the killed
and wounded The police made the most super human
exertoas and enfitled the THANKS OF public
With psckaxcs, crowbars, shovels, &c-, they worked
away, casting be piles OF bricks mortar tim
Der, Iron, coal, &c. The erica and VI the unor
turate sufferers could b plainly OF all
make The work all the hardsr. People rho the
wall falling estimates number of persons buried as
between twenty 1--WE asA forty.
After working hour or more the pody
of beautiful little gri extrcsted roa the
Che was picked up with srcst euiorness ana conveyed
Bellevue Ecspitai nsenss,e condton On beiug
examined by the doctors found % bs sti
alive. and n asc.rtassed that her injuries were
fracture d the left and sy gash In ihe head.
Her Lizzie o'Brscn aud har age eleven years.
H.s rarents reside at 2iO Eas, Twenty nSst street
moab her wounds xcyere, hopss entertalned
"a 6 shs sL rs~yver.
ThS xs bsay recovered was that Of a lad tanned
Ch.rcs sca n y, twelve s~s-s Of age whose ros. onoe
at Va. 3Sl sesond The father was present At
tln tne hs san was ex1Natcd, and .hs fessogs may
easily be inagnsd. The boy woundsd IN The bead
ant leg. lie was taken to Bellevue Hospital By ats
fscr I'D attended by Dr. Peck one OF the aitcnd.ax
surgeons. HIS sku discovered to - fractured Ar
two places. IN the psreal and his rish
leg y broken I, " thought be cannot recovsr
boy parned Francis keleher. sixteen y<ats % age
rcsdirs ~ hsst scveseeuth street. doof flfst
avenue, vas taken Of the hscn nInutes
past O'Clock lie Likewise conveyed to Belevae
H~pltai, where ~. Rassae dfesssi hs wounds. Es
vas severely injured aboui the fsos. q he It's
was very badly cut. TIC up e.e-i t.cina, by nr
iaaaei, and last by getting ~ vey
DAeiy
has gy.t@ yents 81 ln.ns an.nossl. sB4,a
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nrs'' sahrra. AMER being sss or .fasarrd i6f -
res-s - rps aooos the ss,eis B.s.ls
boy named @shu ..sLas'y, - gfar,t sfri d.,
Eity nAglcd caeditlcu. ~ vas ilcr l'y Yesh., a.s
sIy. oGocrs scbs1cd iiitbard md kas. - ,e a lin
10 The dead sccle Rs'lcvue Ho.puAi. visre !. n,s
placed n a suitable coin
young man, naHod Terence noyle. eyed seventeen
aho taken oai about ne sams Lime dead Tirr
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