The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-03-28
THlRTY-SEVENTH YEAR
A TERRIBLE EQUINOCTIAL.
1HE IWFUL DE1TH OF 4 FAMILY IN
WEST FORTY-sIyTH STREET.


man Dashed TO Death by the whiriwiud
In WilIiam-bureb-Rooi- Blown on and
Tr rs Uprooted in Brooklyn - Part OF
Newark Anont.
The verual equinoctial gale swept down upon
several days later than usual this year and wbo,h-
for that reason not, unusually severe. AT
O'Clock last evening we bad high water. In the
hasbor hall hundred vessels were lying at the up
per Quarantine which the Health ofhcer had in-
tended to board and examine lie was prevented,
however from doing 40 by the boisterous weather,
and the vessels remained out daring the day.
Spanish manofwar was lying ut anchor OF the
Battery, and did not venture ont.
small cottage shanty observed floating
- the battery in the afternoon 1t appeared to
have from Governors leland, and was at
nrst supposed to be a boat upset. From the barge
onice people seemed to b. struggling around 1t
In the water, and much excitement was created by
IT, A ,us was at desraiclcd TO the assistance
OF those who seemed in this perlous situation, but
nearing tue object and seeing what 1t really was,
the tug male Il c best Of it, way bick.
DROWNING RATS.
From Pier No. . TO Coentcs sp the rats were IN
terrible commoton. A. the water and
they crept higher and higher but at last forced
out IN the wharves. The people who lived in the
neisiborhood saw the rats, and brought out their
terrier ard bulldogs. who dashed right and left
amonr them. Between the food and the dogs small
armies OF rats N, to death
NAVIGATION SUSPENDED.
Tie Staten Island. jackson street, and Greenront
ferry boats rested all day yesterday perforce and not
because 1t was Sunday. There was trouble on all
the ferries; they wisest who not seen
near then, and happiest who had need Of crossing
them.
HORROR IN roRrr-sixrH STREET.
A calamity which has stricken hve human beings
TO instlnt death. and vrctchcdly MANNED to help
lessness another, resulted yesterday afternoon from
the fall OF an unfinished building in Forty-sixth
street, near Eleventh Avenue Adjoining this un.
finished building was little one.story brick build
ing, In which Patrick Donnelly with his wife an
four children, lived. Mr.. Donnelly born in Ire.
land and came TO this country about fifteen years
He had acquired little money by his daily toll, and
had bought lot in Forty-sixth street, and erected
thereon a neat dwelling and stable. Yesterday, amer
he had loaded his coke wagon In readiness for his
morrows work, he went into his house, and with his
wife and four children had eaten dinner. They had
moved from the table, and all seated around
tie are in the kitchen, except one little boy who
was riding his hobby horse, when thpndering
crash was heard and the family enjoying the com.
forts Of home shelter from a pitiless storm that
was without, crushed TO death by the fall OF the
house neIshboring 1t on the Enst. The house that
IN It's ruin brought death and destruction on Don.
nellys home was q five story brick with 12-inch
brick walls built on an is feet tage. II was so
BADLY CONSTRUCTED.
that only week before Donelly had complain ed to
The Inspector cf Buildings and the builder was or.
dered TO the work. The walls two feet
out Of plumb, and the structure not brnced nom
the outside in any way, that when the fierce east
wind swept over the city yesterday, the hve-story
house tcppled over and falling On the little home Of
Douelly, literally
NAMED " TO 4 POWDER.
Wien assist nee arrived, TIL houses were nothing
but Pile Of bricks and splintered wood. The little
boy who was on his hobby horse, seen with his
head out OF the d btis and a crying for help. When
the uei,hbors were extrcatnG him, he begged them
not to pun hard " as he was Lying on his legs"
Both his thighs were broken, with a simple and
the ohertwith Nc, mp und fracture; otherwise, he
escaped all injury. He is seven years old, land doe
know the result OF the casualty. He said that all
ne knew about it "the house fell and the horse
fell" TIE sal scenes and The painful consequences
oftt- catastrophe were uncovered when the people
who had gathered in crowds
DUG OUT TIE DEAD BODIES.
The man was lying with his skull smashed in,
the blood. which had mixed with the pulyerzed
mortar, ci citing his hair His nose had been hide.
ousl ,oru and lis body bruised in every part. His
wife vas iu sitting posture with her babe in her
arms end with the affection OF mother she had eyi
IDENTITY sought to shield the infant from the imrend-
lng rum tN covering lts hta0 Win her mana. BON
were nearly black with bruises. TIE mother had
gash over the eye, and the babes body dread
fully d'.l.ured. The eldest .lrl, nine YEAR, Of age
was foutd intertwisted with broken laths and the
spntcrcd woodwork, and her brains were oozinl
GU; from a ragged wound In the head, and she wal
otherv i,c torn about the body. The other boy wa;
manglel and his wounds presented spec,acl,
which would hardly bear description. They
oil were cntangled in the ruins and embedded sc
tltufV Vhs.a 10. mad flaVn and
diricult to do without bruislng the corpses
When ticy had been disinterred from their prema
ture burial, the bodies borne TO l0i West For
tysccond street, the house OF Mr.. Carsen Miller,
brother in-law OF Doney, and laid out the hoor
covered with white sheet, which, by contrast mad'
the bruised, bloody, and black bodies more fright nj
The little boy, who was
CRIPPLED LIFE.
by the disaster, was well cared for, Drs. Little
Campbell, and fairfield being in attendance. Last
night the Of the catastrophe was dreary In
deed, the rain was petng on the ruins that ha,
been tomb for those who had reared II for a home
Here and there seen through openings in the broker
walls were the fragments Of bureaus and pictures
the crockeTy from which they had eaten their las
meal was broken and lying about The horse an
two cows in tho stable were cared for by tn
friends. The coke wagon ready TO run out In th
morning stood in the yard, walled In by the ruin
aman IN change and he alone stood at ne desolat
scene stryker and Moulion were the owners OF tn
building which was unfinished, and Mr. West
the builder. 1t is said the 0ricks OF which n
house constructed wcrt frosted, and woul
CRUMDLE IN THE HAND
the mortar was OF very POOR quality, and the pla
OF the house was lily conceived. Though the house
had been condemned at the instance and report o
hT Donelly, who always Lad a presentiment that
would lal soue day, and hid frequently expresse
Il as his opinion yet, after a days cessation froI
labor the work was resumed, The bodies, at a lat
hour last evening, had not been seen BY the Coroner
OTHER DAMAGE IN rnE CITY.
A, r, VI, yesterday, the wall surrounding N
eoopcrige Of W. ?, Bensela 552 Washington street
was blown inward but one was hurt. At 5;3
o'clock last evening the chimney OF 497 Canal stree
was blown over and fell into the street, seriously
Frightening he onicer patrol, who happened to b
passing Tie show windoW Of johnson, Burns