The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-06
DISASTROUS ACCIDENT.
Falling Of Post & Co.'s Building.
Five Dead Bodies Recovered List of
the Wounded and Missing.

Shortly before o'clock yesterday after
noon portion of the floors of the building
occupied by Post & Co., which was burned
out yesterday morning, fell with thun-
dering crash,' burying a large number of
employees in the ruins.
After an inspection had been made in the
morning of the sleepers supporting the
floors, they were pronounced sufficiently
strong to allow the employees to go into the
place and clear away the debris. At the
above named time portion of the roof
came down onto the fifth floor and caused
central section OF the same, about thirty
feet square, to break down with loud
noise. An instant later the whole of this
portion went crashing through the fourth
| and then the third, second and first floors.
Nearly all of the men went with the debris
An alarm was at once given, and as the
situation became to be understood the work
OF removing the bodies commenced. The
cries of those lying near the surface of the
mass were distinctly heard. The police
and tiremen who had been summoned went
to work with a will.
THE WOUNDED.
Jerome Helrigcl was at work on the
fourth floor, and states that he went down
feet foremost, but the rafters followed and
buried him. 1t took an hour to get him
out and he was found not to be seriously
hurt.
Edward f. Harmeyer nineteen years old,
living at 338 Vine street, fell through with
the remainder from the fourth story. He
is badly bruised about the head and side,
but no bones are broken.
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four years, married, having three children
and living at the corner of Orchard and
Tibbatts streets, Newport KY, was proba.
bly, the most severely injured of those
taken from the debris alive He had his
thigh broken, both eyes put out, and sus-
taned injuries all over his body. He was
first taken to DR.. Marcus office on Third
street, and afterwards to the Cincinnati
Hospital.
s. Hayes, the elevator boy, was seriously
hurt He was taken to his home in Gov
ington.
Sig Beyland, of No. 159 Putnam street,
Newport, received a cut on the forehead
and some slight bruises.
August Anderson, of 80 Byzantine street,
Newport, was but slightly bruised.
Edward Plummer, of 81 Cabot street. was
also slightly injured. He did not fall with
the rest, as he managed 10 get in one of the
windows.
Frank and Ulrich Wasmer, of Sixth and
Plum streets, escaped with slight wounds.
5. Sumerson, of Covington was slightly
hurt, and went home unassisted.
MISSING.
Amoug those reported missing, who might
have been in the building, are Michael
O'Dowd, aged twenty-seven, residing at 5
Genesee, employed in the transfer depart
ment of the house; Michael McGarry, a la |
borer, and man named Peter Shear, of
Covington. 1t is feared that they are still
buried beneath the debris.
MORE BURIED.
At half-past O'Clock this morning it was |
known that McGarry Brunsmade and Smith |
were still in the ruins. Out of the sixty |
i've employees this morning, but fifty-six |
had been accounted for; forty had reported |
in person. five had been carried out dead, |
and eight in wounded condition. There |
are still nine to be accounted for.
THE DEAD.
After the rescuers had got down to work |
The first dead body extricated from the |
'uns was that of Charles Langreth, a brass
inisher, and who was one of the best me-
,hanics in the employ of the firm. His
body was all blackened, and his skull had |
been crushed. He leaves a wife and six
who live at No. 1873 Robbins street,
Jovington, and are in poor circumstances.
The next body found was that of George
Burns, boy about sixteen years of age.
lie lived at the house of his widowed
mother, No. 212 Barr street, and was her
'nly support.
VIM. Schett. eighteen years of age, was
lext taken from the ruins dead. He, also
vas the only support of widowed mother
Who resides at No. 532 West Fifth street
About o'clock the terribly mangled /
'ody of Frank Irwin, aged eleven years,
vas found. He was the toolboy of the es-
ablishment, and lived at No. 262 West
liberty street.
Daniel Cronan, aged nineteen, and son OF
fireman Cronan, of the Fives, was dead
'hen taken from the mass of debris, about
midnight. He resided at No. IA Abigail
treet.
Hammer, who is at the Hospital, is get
ing along nicely, and is not hurt as badly
was at first supposed.
ADDITIONAL FACTS.
The tiremen who were at work all night
learing away the debris retired at day ;