Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-08
seriously injured. The Abbott build

buFyl0S Inc WOfkBeM DenaIl the
ruins. The fire was communicated
W ith the front building and despite
the efforts of the firemen they were
destroyed. The names of the victims
are not yet ascertained. AT 1880
about Is workmen were supposed to
be in the ruins.
Martha kretchmer, aged IL, who
was seriously burned in the tenement
house fire Sunday morning, died this
morning. This makes the number of
victims ten.
DETAILS OF THE TERRIBLE DISASTER.
BROOKLYN, May 5 Shortly after 3
O'clock this morning there was a
crash al No. 55 Atlantic, avenue.
Brooklyn, and people on looking up
street saw that the roof of building
and portions of the wall had fallen
in. They could hear the screams of
the people injured, and it seemed but
a moment when volume of smoke
rolled up, showing that the building
had taken fire.
Hundreds of people, msn women
and girls, were at work in the various
branches of the business carried on
in tho building, which covers a con
siderable ground, having wings which
extend from Atlantic avenue to State
street. As soon as the accident oc-
Cured those employed in the build
ing endeavored to make an escape,
and some who were last to reach the
street appeared with faces begrimmed
and
STREAMING WITH BLOOD
from wounds received from the falling
tlmbers. 1t was reported at first that
100 girls employed on the top floor in
Milo Hynes' boltlng works, had been
killed by the falling roof, but it is now
ksown that the most of them made
their escape by climbing on to the
root.
The tenement houses adjoining the
building were occupied by twenty
small manufactures and there were
about 500 men and women employed
therein. 1t was five stories high and
was erected twenty-seven years ago.
The wood work burned like tinder.
When the fremen arrived they found
many young women at the windows
screaming wildly for help. Their re-
treat had been cut off and the firemen
quickly run up ladders but the girls
were hemmed in and many
FELL BACK INTO THE FLAMES
before help could reach them. The
character of the building hindered
the efforts of the fremen. D. ].
Lowry was one of the victims and
was killed by the falling OF the left
wall of the middle wing in Atlantic
avenue.
The cause of the fire was the over
turning of the boilers of a soap fac
tory on the ID floor. The weight of
the wall of the middle wing on Allan
tic avenue had settled it, and work
men were screwing it up with jacks.
The middle jack had been screwed up
too tight and was lowered, causing
the whole weight to come upon the
two jacks at the ends and they fell with
a crash, thus upsetting the soap boil.
ers and causing the building to catch
fire from the fuel beneath them. Ten
or twelve persons have been taken
from the runs more or less injured.
Chief Levison said that he thought
that there were at least 25 people IN
the ruins, and there may be more
The loss is estimated at $500, 600. The
building was owned by Nathan Cush-
ing of Boston.
LATER.
Three bodies have been taken from
the ruins and they were burned be-
yond recognition.
THE KILLED, INJURED AND MISSING.
The following is list of the killed,
injured and missing:
An unknown man. charred beyond recognition,
supposed to be Daniel j. Lowrey, engineer in
button factory.
An unknown man, horribly burned, and no pos
sibility of Identification.
The trunk of person, not known whether male
or female as the fiji had burned away all the
outer coatngs. leaving the vital organs exp sed.
while the limbs were gone and only the trunk and
heShles5 skeleton renamed.
The missing are:
Conrad Brealing. jr aged 90, of Dutchkill L. /
Edward Butter, aged p, of No. 81 Atlantic Ave.
VIM Clark, aged 40, residence un' nown
Henry Durse, eyed Sc, No 81 Marion street, n
Y
Fritz Egger, aged 81, residence unknown.
Henry Haffner, aged 40 of 1876 Graham avenue,
johnson residence unkn ,wB.
Daniel Lowery, Jr., aged So of No. IS Atlantic
avenue.
Adolph Maths aged 26 Of No 372 Hick avenue
John McGrath aged IS of No 2lI Bond street
Gus boy in tin shop, residence unknown.
7. Faff, jr., residence Unknown.
Mamie Tee.ey, of No. 139 Bergen street
Rosie Frinton, War en- street. near Hoyt
AuDe Higgins, residence unknown.
Benjamin Moore, aged 20.
Mary NJ Jr tth r-Std 4nco unknown.
Aggie Downs, residence unknown.
Mamie Riley, residence unknown.
Thos Darner, aged "a, No 2si Navy street
Gnstave Lang agrd 20, No. 2S w. Pacific street.
VIM Legge. aged 43, residenc- unknown.
Jas. Carpen er, age A. 2i1 Graham street.
Toe nJured are:
Patrick Dougherty, of the hook and ladder
truck No l. was burned about the face and head
aud received a bad cut on the head
James Fay, fireman engine company No. 5, is
probably fatally injured
Emma Haas, slightly injured about the head
Mrs. Henrietta Hads, aged s. received severe
contusions and had one OF her arms fractured.
Pat ick Hynes, fireman, received two iacerated
scalp wounds.
LINES Lynch, driver of furniture wagon, leg
broken.
Henry Mauer, metal spinner, several slight
scalp injuries.
James Murray, foreman No. engine, foot
crushed
Chas Ruddy, fireman, burned and bruised on
face, arms and body.
Bernard Storp fireman. scalp wound.
John Burns, hip injured.
Tnere were several others that sus.
tanned slight injuries such as flesh
wounds and burned faces and limbs.
but they we're not sufficiently disabled
to require medical attendance. The
scene at the police station where the
three dead bodies that were removed
from the ruins were conveyed, was
a p1tiful one. A bed quilt was thrown
over the bodies and many called to
see if they could not recognize the
undistinguishable mass.
ALI failed, however, and all state
ments were simply guess work. OF
one of the bodies the legs were burned
to the knee. The other bodies were
merely mass of black cinders. The
bodies are all those of men.
When the father of the missing
boy, John McGratk, went to the
police station he tainted twice, and
when he was able gave vent to Ahe
mos. piteous groans. "Oh, see Grant,"
be cried, do tell me my poor boy,
my only support, is not dead" "Oh,
sring him back to me-" Tae man was
getting delirious, and had to be re-
moved.
MILO HINES ACCOUNT.
Rpa0EryE Nav s-MiIo Hines