The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-04-15
HURT AT A FIRE.
A Piano Factory Barned-se,srai fireme
Seriously Hurt.

NEw YoRK, April 1.-THE four-story
brick building occupied by John F. Hunsr
as q piano factory in the rear Of lots Nos.
5ll and 5lS West Forty-sccond street, was
Eutted by fro carly this morning. The
building was situated in a tenement house
district and there was great excitement
among the tenants. The loss Is estimated
ct 10000; insurance. $l7, 900.
At2:45 o'clock, when the fire was prac-
tically out, numberof tiremen were on
the second and third floors washing down
the walls. Tie third floor was burdened
with q number OF heavy pianos, aud sud-
denly the charred beams supporting 1t
gave way with snap. The men on the
door went through to the second, and with
the broken tiinbers fell upon their
comrades. Cries and groans rose up
from tho interior OF the building,
and the firemen who were in the
street made rush into the court
yardiin front Of the factory. Ambulances
soon ratified through the streets and drew
up In front OF the piano factory, where 100
mentwere atwork bringing out the fire.
men. 1t was believed that some were
dead, and the excitement was intense.
Man after man was brought ont alive,
until nine bruised and wounded fellows
had been placed in the ambulance and
driven away TO Roosevelt Hospital Their
names are Lieutenant Samuel Reed, and
fireman Henry 7. Mcbride, john S. Price
and Michael Campbell, Of engine 81; I; fire.
man Geo. W. Greer, OF engine No. %;
No ~ ain. Taba ra1lk1 a "a 1 tat, lttU
0'souk, OF Hook and Ladder No. 4; and
fireman Thomas DutIyand Richard Cor.
man. German and Greer, 1t is believed
are fatally injured. The wounds Of the
other men are considered very serious.
TIE coLLAspED BUILDINGS
Ia New York City-rhe star the Houses
Were Made OF.
Ngw YoRK, April 14.-With daylight
this morning it was easy enough TO see
the cause Of the terrible accident In Sixty
second street yesterday afternoon. The
buildings fell because there was simply
nothing to hold them together. Bud.
dnseik, the builder 1.-THE tenements that
fell, has constructed block after hleek in
the neighberAeea Of yesterdays accident.
Philip Hausman, a builder, said "The
houses fell because they were rotten. They |
were built Of refuse. Look at the bricks !
that were being used. They are not
bricks, but halves and quarters, and
chunks OF bricks, poorly burnt-the n,iser=
able otIal ola brick yard. This stud ia |
what the walls were being constructed Of.
But, though that Is enough TO condemn
any building, II the public safety Is con-
sidered at all, tits by no means the worst
feature Of the case. fYousee these brick.
bats are almost clean. There Ia no !
laying the bricks In the wall was simply
vet dirt. Il Is called loan, and ia fhe
clayey stuff excapated from the cellars
after the rooss were blasted for the foun.
dations. This loan is fine. dirt. Sand aud
II re make mortar. A fourth part Of lime
is required to make good mortar with, and
will mix this loan, and while wet II 10 !,
somewhat sticky. AS soon 40 It gets dry |
II does nat hold at al. That is what allied
these buildings. The walls were made OF
brickbats, stuck together with dry dirt
all the builders aud masons present cor
roborated these statements. said one;
This .. !, loan when wet is gga yAsR asY
houses il % and aEtSf III ts p1or II people aEe
being PITT pp ID this city with last such
staGs All these houses that you see about
here are built Of rotten bricks and mud"
The work Of digging out the unfortunate
men supposed to have been buried in the
ruins Of the fallen buildings was ean;ias |
red all night and THU rnYfning scores ot
Wiling hands are still digging away in the |
Hope Of feGoyeting the bodies Of the men
Said to be in the efGtns. large cfoWd Of
laboyerR have Satbprad around the ruins
III the hope Of being set to work on the
ruins, but their services were not needed.
Many Of them insisted on helping at the
work ofrescue, and at times became AL
demonstratiye that Il 3Ss Ssseea thefe
Zoe, which was on guard, however, kept
the more turbulent spirits under control.
Up to u o'clock no more bodies had besn
recovered ~ : y y