The New York herald., 1873-08-23
n DEAUkI OhASns
The Gable Wall of an Ancient
House ih Course Of Repair
Falls and Buries Six.
teen W0rkmen.
A FE Full FATE.
Death without Warning to Eight
Pitiable Victims.
CRUSHED AND SMOTHERED IN THE RUINS.
Terrible Scenes at Bellevue
Hospital and the Morgue.
Mashed Bones, Dreadful Wounds and COrpSes
Siekening to Behold.
WHO is TO BLAME =?
Death without Warning to Eight
Pitiable Victims.
CRUSHED AND SMoTHERED IN THE RUINS.
Terrible Scenes at Bellevue
Hospital and the Morgue.
Mashed Bones, Dreadful Wounds and CorpSeS
Sickening to Behold.
WHO is TO BLAME 2

| WHO Is 10 BLAME :!
| An accident, as 1t is called occurred yesterday
| forenoon, At No. 32l West Eleventh street, which
resulted In the death OF several persons and the
injuring OF several others. The building In which
the death and suffering occurred had been private
residence, and was being fitted up for the purposes
OF q tenement house, and to that end extension
was being put up, on which several wOrkmen were
| engaged. The interior OF the house had been
completely gutted, nothing remaining but the
| beams.
| At about eleven O'Clock the first alarm OF the
accident was gwen and OF course the news was at
conveyed to the precinct station house in the
| neghb0rhood. and officers were despatched to
the place. the police describe the scene on
| entering as frightMl. The unfortunates were
| mostly laboring men, who had been at
| work in the cellar or carrying mortar from
the cellar to the mechanics in the upper part Of
the building. AS seen by the police the dead and
wounded were in positions indicating that their
| fate had seized them at moment not expected
and showing that their end OF life their terrible
bruises. as the case might be, had come upon
them in
| MOST sHocKMGLY VIOLENT MANNER.
One poor fellow had a beam piercing through
his stomach, another had his head literally nat-
| tened, third man was bruised almost beyond
| Identification. catastrophe like this, occurring
in the short space OF timeIt took for the walls
building to fall, can scarcely be described other
wise than to state the consequences as they were
| gradually developed. The following are the names
| Of the killed and wounded
NAMES OF THE KILLED.
John Foster, aged seventeen, residence No. 453
West thirteenth street. Deceased was taken home.
Jeremiah Driscoll, aged thrty-tve, residence No.
| l25 GfeenWlCn avenue. Iaken nome.
Martin Fahays, aged twenty-five, residence No. 4
| Horatio street. Taken home.
| Jacob Ryder, aged iorty, residence Sixty-fo
street and Eleventh avenue. Taken to the Morgue
Michael .1 @cTwsed th,ryeigat years & Of age, resi-
| Two others not identified. send to the MOrgue.
INJURED AND SENT TO BELLEVUE.
John Riley age orty-three, residence No. $50
James Burns, aged nfty-two, residence No. 4Se
John Fingar, aged twenty-nine, residence No.
z66 West Twenty-fith street.
French Reth, aged forty residence No. 242 West
Martin GeratOy, aged twenty-five, residence No.
5s7 Washington street.
| 1877 Mulberry street.
Frank Reilly, aged thirty.nue residence No. 24s
| INJURED AND TAKEN HOME.
Richard Ramsey, aged twentyseven. residence
| No. 45O West Tnirty-sec0nd street.
Thomas Train0r, aged Ltwenty-four, residence
| Filty-lourth street and Second avenue.
Timothy Driscoll, aged twenty-seven. residence
THE ASSISTANCE RENDERED..
The dead and wounded were extrIcated from the
debris BY Hook and Ladder Company No. 5, com.
! manded by Captain vanordan, with the aid Of the
police.
OF the station house desk, sent all the reserves 70
the scene. section OF police was sent by the
sixteenth precinct station house. Sergeants
Smith, Bird and wilson were soon also at the place
or disaster removing the dead and the wounded.
THE BOSSES.
The owner Of the building is Mr. Holfyderba, who
reaideS 25 Green Wich street,
The .'boss" mason is E. Crawford, who resides at
| as Bank street.
The boss carpenter is Jesse Newman, who re-
! sides at 1853 Christopher street.
THE SCENE AFTER THE ACCIDENT.
Shortly after the sad occurrence Warden Bren-
! nan arrived At the fallen house and rendered val
uabe assistance in securing the transfer OF the
the news spread in the vicinity crowds of men and
women-tne latter especiary-nocked TO the place.
| and were loud In expressions Of sympathy for the
unknown unf0rtunates, and were eager to ascertain
| whether any friends or relatives were among the
number OF the killed or wounded. When the dead
we're being removed the crowd became hushed in
It's noisy uprOar; but few moments suf1iced to set
| the tongues OF all sightseers agoing. and In very
| there had been in that particular block such q
| scene OF death aud suffering as had occurred
| NIGHT SCENES At THE M0RGUE.
| Between the hours Of eight P. NJ and midnight
HERALD reporter was specially detailed to
sunerers and morbund patients in the adjacent
| hospital.
At the iron gate OF the weird M0rgue. over whose
threshold so many anxious and miserable persons
I have passed. Warden Brennan stationed himself
| stood there as the ameliorator OF sorrow and
custodian Of the asssi sf41AnlS i Taa sicur
to view the terrible anxiety depicted on the faces
Of those who came to view the bodies, with a
were 'in the trade" and who were in ignorance
| Of the exact place at which they were pur.
| women, clad in silks and lace, as they passed
! up from the Twenty-sixth street ferry, paused
or ws to the pale
| marble Slabs over whom the falling water
murmured as It fell upon the asphalte floor sad
thther BY sympathetic feelings satisfied their NOR.
bid curiosity by viewing the visages Of tae
who had fallen victims to this fearful accident and
whose mangled forms yet remained unidentified.
Children, too unsteesPed nsaes in the mysteries
toy or the ailment caused by tumble
down stairs came upon the scene; but these latter
satellite. Warden Brennan gave TO ali friends Of
1 sufferers who had been conveyed to the
s.Su s1s TsS house called sa s the Charles S
and, II they chose, remain with their injured rela
tives all night, and did all in his power-which was
rreat-to ameliorate the suerings OF the afflicted
and assuage the grief OF the bereaved. Calm COOL
collected and prepared In every emergency, Mr.
| Jacob Reuter-, aged forty years native OF Ger
many and a married man, resident In Sixty-sixth
street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues was
| recognized by his wife about eight O'Clock. The
poor woman was stoical and resigned, though des-
| titute.
| Jeremiah Cronin died within Ave minutes after
his admission to the Hospital his leg was broken
| and he was, like the other poor fellows, literally
| CRUSHED TO DEATH.
| Later on there came into the chill charnel house
| anumper OF men and women of respectable appear.
| ance who on viewing the dead, fancied they re-
copnized In one the body OF a certain Francis DON
| nelly His wife was sent for, and 1t was found by
| the messenger that the mourned-for man was well
! and at home. -
The poor little apprentice, John Foster, who was
| killed lived at No. AIS West Thirteenth street. He
| was only fifteen years OF age; only three OF the