New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-08
MANY LIVES N DINGER.
" - cIrrs ~ Isl IN BOWERY.

aFIOCR GIVES WAY ~ TIE BOW Ehl'
sprp.y-rn.E MrN AND WOMEN THROWN poWN.
Brr Only FOUR I>JCRED-A WARNING THAT
WAS D.sgFGADro.
Shortly after ?. M or. THURSDAY pat Of The
-c9r To- floor Ot the middle building belonging 10
.e,res / CcorIp a Brother furniture dealers. ~
Ia lo3 Bcvery lel I'D with crash All the
.upcye> had gone from That part OF the building
EXCEPT julius Lu-z "a cle Is: H. received severe
lriprv upou The lp. which VIII disable him ioI
couple Of weeks Aloui D. III the sergeant al The
Ed1dge Strcet station beard o. me mlshap' ana
sent word of D. 20 Police Headquarters. An e1aT-
liner of buildings went 10 the place. eX-
smned me blldmr and reported AT Eldridge
Street Station tina be could take 10 action
owing TO the lateDess Of the hour. He said the
matter would Boz looked into the next morning. AT
lSli-pa>t : yesterday morning some twenty
sewing girls with clerks and por'ers altogether
numbering about tniriy-hve. had begun Their day
work when "a s,c1nd crash IN The building occurred.
One sewing girl two clerks ana porter were
injured about then heads and shoulder. ana, from
al accounts. al barely escaped with their hYes-
The place was visited 10y a tribune reporter
yesteICa. and various conflicting accounts cl the
mater w~re gwen. The factory Is composed OF
tnree bindings The OLD douDIe part
j. four stories high ard hundred
feet deep running back aCalns dep buildings that
face ON O.anc-st IL Was erected about UNITY
ye4rs ago The numbers are IL and lZ3. No.
10, vh..h forms me remaining portion, Is about
fifty feet deep J. I'VE stories h-h. and was erected
q year ago. The foundations for new building IN
GTdnl~f.. extending In the rear OF me new portion
o. the Co0-auS binding and reaching to the old
part aft being laid at PRESENT III u2LIhl
back toward the old portion OF iooEn Brother s
building the contractor some two weeks ago dis
covered that there was 10 foundation L. the olQ
structure. lie informed the Cooa"s that Ae cou4d
nally the builder WenI on win
lie Graud-st. building, ?. merely prop
ping MP Coocan Brothers walls.
n Satcll.au employed ri the place sad last night
that here was danger ali day that the wall would
fall. and tnat the contractor feared this. The eX-
cay,tI0ns were carried Oh. however with the It.
erI d f.r.I o. ID Il Dbl It IN
tIatth, toy floor OF the middle bIlloIus fell IN.
j. J.. Cougar. without referring 10 the warning Of
Ihur,day al-ht, SAID; came here at "a. N.
The era D. occurred at half past = IbeIe were III
The middle building o. tile four floors
about twenty sewing girls, and these with
the cicrAs and poriers made something
extension of Tie middle building about htty-hye
feet deep. and IL TINS thai fell. The first floor
was used ion carpets and furniture the second ana
thrd noors were used Tor carpets aud the -FOUR
moor Tor iumlture. Inc sewing girls were III the
carpet rooms sewing carpets They came
81 Z a. m. They were all al work
when suddenly the building began to sway
aud cTeak and almost lmned ately the walls
crashed IN. Girls. clerks ana pOrters ran for tnelr
nFes' with tH-Oer- aud plaster falling about their
Hea4s anu shoulders. Inc thId Moor ieII lusl al
me Junction o. the extension with the 'front.' and So
formed eide down which the girls were
pitched 10 the second floor III c0nfu-
SION Tor wonder, only four persons were
injured. lney were julius LutZ and David '. Soul
.IsIu' clerks John kchler porter, and Mrs. Mary
''OA"li' d Swing woman. lie whole rear OF the
pulidug collapsed, although the rear wall next the
F1cdVatiohs In GTand-st. Tell over IN that
direction lie dust from the fail filled our
who're place, IT being So thick for half
Al AouI that We could see nothing. The
sIIs MAJ Ieit then hats wraps and dinners III "a
ttdI room and they were tuInbled OUT under the
NiecA I'LL. Tell into the excavation / will show
You me sfd,c OF Affairs
al; Oo"sar leu the way throughout the wrecked
Dl-I4--. HE ceiling OF the hrst noOr and
~ second LOOT remained, save about TWEEN
Iee' al The rear, which had been torn
away. scarcely DIIck above those remained. MT.
toostA pointed Cut the rubbish under which the
hHA' shaw and dinners were Vet lying
Oui total loss Is about 5000 he said. We
1"'e 'aIitd away about twenty loads Of smashed
iyI-4tIfe Today. lie loss Oh stock Is proba-
by $1,000. We have been busy ali cav
u cie4rls away the rubbish III order to begin
he" Jiul.I ing Tomorrow
4uquiuc, at the EIludge street Station showed
ga sic police Anew nothing % the second falling
=. TIE t4ll ing None OF The Injuries to clerks or
o'lers Lau been reported an the station A police
IA o. ilc beat at GIand-st. ana the Bowerl de-
NO nlat there hao been accident III the morn
IE. Ilhlp Luz, a salesman aud the brother Of
S-4ius 4--il sad: There were tWO ialhugs OF the
"a "i.e ol thursday night when my brother was
-. tel, aud auOtucr this morning" Inquiries OF
V1neI employees showed extreme reucence Oh their
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