The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1865-04-11
BDOOELYN.

THE tURMAS STREET DIsAsTEn.-The in.
vcatsstlon In regard to the furman street di,as'er
VA. continued before Coroner I nch yeste rday after.
noon
James : smith, residing in Portlsnd. near Dekab
avenue, tesIfed hat he Oh the roof OF The burn.
H. tall back b. Nj. george llAvilaLd resident On
the lieirhr. They Sent away, nut the foreman did
not 90 They la! their pipes plAi ~ on tho hre al
the time. Ind not he n any orders given b. any fore
man "a relation TO the Danger.
William NeseeD, OF llS York street Jersey City,
testified TO being tho root Of the burning building
Ia pany With several othere ~Alked about the
that was hardly any use 10 put water on there and
vHs told ~ mind my own busines. heard come one
caution Us TO come away ~ II wa dans.roIa ntef
the caution 'he citizens couintncei y iali baik ,
,Jme " nfemen fe'nniued tue Chief knNneef wss
tLorc, and wi,uess though; he ieli doSn with the
Eii.hs D. Huri6nt, u No 70 HEX. street, testified
that he heard the Clici Engineer give a. o'ter Tor
tue men 20 leave the root Ia conseqa,nce OF the
rvdns Of NAtcr lhey threw down Into ihc suoeia
| b"low
Robert Barr Assistant Engineer, tc@tided that he
wa ~ ut l. VI 10 oel nom tho burning building
| when the roof fell in DID not hear orders given
TO the The roof % ret OF. ArsiHt. N taxing
Tho uleL Vu' VI the runs Had no cOuve.sation with
Tie tAlet Engineer ut the i.r. Dag not nsA haA 70
ctr 4 10 . as On the men on t., roo because they
were Pc Tag On 'he men In the street brleE. llid
| men Oh die roof were doing no good ~ they could
! C,sorse CGlsAn, II No II Adam. street testified
that the from the roof iuteriercd -ith the
| Fl emen on the street and that the Chief Enginees
| ordered them W stop,
/ that be WIS present at the IRE wa on the ruoi
hoard some oue telling the Chief Engincer that there
we danger 81 the rot falling IN The thiei told him
T. inua his own business hOard ait, wards that the
man sho warned the Chiefvss ,ir. Mernu no one
| ordered thC ifeinen either 10 20 OIL the roOi
| the hiet u "a tn men to sdck to the pipe.
tr.d, rick : Phillips, Of 60 Bergen street and NJ
trctei To II Lndne, testified dat he on the root
aud hrAId a i .pea!, oil tho comhustIbiu nature Of
the contents OF u. hui dug. Witness wa down Ia
the -tte.t when the root tell In assisted IN helpu.
| soint Of the men out Ol the runs.
John J. Merritt OF 20 Columbia street, described
Tho contraction Of The buildings and stated that there
wH lctT cen and icet OF earth on the root Shich
IN ut'. ~ . faruen number u men we're on IN,
| roof; told the Chief Engineer thpy EcTe doing uo
GOOD 'hore and h-d better leave receive rcnly a,
that times saw the men piaylrg upon those IN furnan
rect alu again told the Chief lnnnr,r .sm they
doing no good, and he c2.4pd mat Inc knCs Lii
owu business and that | had better mind my Osu
| IliAk II not unlikely that ihB thict Thought as
tr, lng 20 save my shrub.ery a. the tIDe sp)so 10
him thought him Ukless did not think he TO-
wa IN danger OF falling then; the ruJ e IN siout
minutes alter spoke to the Chez. witness vii,
cried out 10 the foreman that II vas danre fOI
them 10 b. the root Amer the root tel witness
20 ret IA his 0lors 70 speak 10 tho Cher lu hs
huiustus u Torbe' OF 800 Cumberland .'pet tee
tilted 10 being on the rOOi NJ tie time IL fell In
ofsf. rs the Cher 10 ieinaiu the.e and play III,
NlnduSs, The man with the plIL OF Il tngiue Tel
with the Icoi and witness caught and saved himself
with others The men went on the root Oh their owl
account.
George A. Kerr, OF Hose ;, Elisha Brourhton. o.
| Engine II. Michael kenuedv Of Engine, John ~
AN OF Hose y AID Charles NJ Cooper, OF HOse 2 tee
shed substantially ~ the same state VI iAGts Whe
the Inquest adjourned,
TIE DEATHS in Brooklyn last week mum
bered l4s. The principal diseases were consumption
%; scarlet fever, Il smallpox, typhoid fever :
&c. nder one year Of ase, 49,