The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-05-07
ANOTHER HORROR.
Collapse OF Large Factory Build
Ing in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Ruins Take Flre-severai Female
Employees Throw Themselves from the
Windows--Thirty Lives Thought
10 Have Boen Lost.
ROASTED LIKE RATS.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, May b,-Shotly after
nine O'Clock this morning there was crash
at b5 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, and people
on looking up from the street, saw that the
roof OF the building had fallen In and
portion Of the walls had fallen.
They could hear the screams OF people
Injured, and II seemed but mo-
ment when volume OF smoke
rolled up showing that the building
had taken fire. Hundreds OF people,
men, women and girls, were at work at the
various branches OF the business carried on
In tho building, which covers considerable
ground, having three wings, and which
extend through from Atlantic avenue 10
State street As soon as the crash was
heard Of the falling roof hundreds OF those
employed In the building fled, or endeayored
10 make their way out by every avenue OF
escape which they were familiar with,
and somo who were the last 10 reach the
street appeared with begrlmmed faces and
blood streaming from wounds which they
had received from falling tlmben,
The excitement In the nelghborhood be-
came very great, and In short tlma the
wives OF tho men who were known TO be
working In the building and the parents OF
tho girls who were employed there, blocked
tho streets and wrung their hands and
wept
Threo alarms OF fre we're sent out and
the services Of large number OF the police
force had 10 DO called Into reQuisltlon 10
keep the crowd Of people out OF tho way OF
danger. II was reported ut first that about
one hundred girls who were employed In
the Milo Hynes button works, which was
6n tho top floor where tho roof fell In, were
killed, but there are other reports that most
OF these girls made their escape by climb
Ing on the roofs OF the adjoining tene-
mont housea The building was occupied
by twenty small manufacturers, aud there
were about five hundred mcn aud women
employed therein. II was Ave stories high,
and erected twenty-Seven years ago. The
wood work burned like finder. When the
aremon arrived they found many OF the
young women al tho windows screaming
wildly for help. Their retreat had been
cut on, and the 6romon quickly ran up the
ladders, but the girls were hcmmed In
and many fell back Into the nam,s before
help could reach them. Tho inlammablo
character OF the building numbered tho Of
forts OF the lremen. II was ascertainod
that the engineer OF the factory, Daniel j..
Lowrey, was one OF the Victims, lle was
killed by tho falling OF the west wall OF the
middle wing on Atlantic avenue,
The cause OF the lire was OvGrturnIng OF
tho boilers OF q soap factory on the second
door, The west wall OF tho middle wing
on Atlantic avenue had settled. Workmen
were screwlng II up with Jacks The mid.
lla luAE had hann aaFakuaI hl0li
and II was lowered, when tho whole weight
OF the wall came upon the two Jacks Al
tho end and II fell with crash.
The nromen injured we're. Bernard
Stork aud Michael r. Grogan, OF Engine 4
who were carried 10 tho Long Island Hos
pltal Patrick Docharty, OF Hook and Lad
dor No, 3, and Fireman Hanley. Theli
wounds were all scalp wounds, caused By
the falling OF brlckA
Among tho employees known 10 DO In
jufod are Henry Mauror, scalp wound and
fracture OF leg Mrs. Henrietta Haas wife
OF shoemaker In an adjoining building
reported 10 have died on tho way 10 the
hospital; Miea Emma Haas, her daughter,
severely hurt Two unknown women werc
pulled from beneath burning tmbom by
tho Chief Of tho Fire Department. Mr., Nov
hint bhu puN NV" WV hhVNhVl0
When the wall that was lacked up fell, q
number Of men were NJ work at III thoy
have not been seen since. Rosa Partridge
an omployo OF Milo llynca 10 among the
missing Edwin butler was seen by hi
brother, Q. W. Butler " jump from IN,
sooond story Into tho ruins, He has moi
been seen since, Four Of the men en-
ployed by tho II. l., Judd Manufact
..sl..as uIaa l..5.
women were takon from the second
floor by iiremon who had raised
ladders 10 the State street building, ChloI
Ncvns said; al believe that there aro n
least twenty-five people In tho ruins thor,
may bo more" Tho loss ls estimated al
$500, 0oo Tho insurance Ia unknown Th,
building was owned by Nathan Gushing, o
Boston, Throo bodies have been takoI
from the ruins. They were burned boyont
recognition II n confidently stated that a
lonAt thirty lives have boon Lost