The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-06
TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER.
Buried in the Ruins of a
Fallen House.
HORRIBLE TALE OF SUFFERING
.'Do Tell Me, My Poor Roy, My Only
support. is Not Deadr'-The
Half Breeds.
The Brooklyn Horror.

BROOKLYN, May GA workman
named Marcus says there was nothing
in or about the place to check fire;
neither hose, extinguishers nor a fire
escape This is the third time fire has
occurred on the premises. Milo Hines,
who occupied the top floor for
the manufacture of buttons, states ::
I"At O'Clock. was in my room. di-
recting the work of my employees. of
whom there were forty, mostly women
The first we heard OF the accident was
when we heard a crash, and this was
! followed by part OF the flooring giving
way. In one corner of my room there
was ladder leading to the roof and all
the employees made rush
for it. There was panic among the
women for time, and two or three of
them tainted, but the foreman soon
succeeded in restoring order. Then, in
single file, the employees climbed the
ladder and gained the roof The girls
marched out in good order, gained the
roof of the adjoining building, and
reached the street by descending the
fire escapes"
The insurance on the property des-
| troyed is about $50 000 while the dam
age will aggregate at least $3.50, 600.
At 3 80 a. m. fifty employees OF the
board of the city works arrived on the
scene and were immediately set to
work by Commissioner Poillen search
ing for the missing.
The names of the killed, injured and
missing ones are unknown. A man.
! charred beyond recognition. is supposed
to be Daniel j. Lowery, engineer in the
button factory. There is one I'M
known man, horribly burned and there
is no possibility of his Identification.
The trunk of a person, not known
whether a male or female, was found.
The fire had burned, away all the
outer coating. leaving the vital organs
exposed. While the limbs were gone
only the trunk and feshless skeleton re-
manned. OF the missing ones, inquiries
have been made for thefoIlowIng who are
supposed to be in the ruins: Brealing
Conrad, Jr., aged 20, of Dutchkill, l..
l.; Edward Butler. aged %, of 81 At
lantic Avenue; VIM. Clark, aged 40,
residence unknown; Henry Durse,
aged Sc, of No. 81 Marion street, New
York; Fritz Egger, aged 81, residence
unknown; Henry Haffner, aged 40, of
1875 Graham Avenue; Johnson, residence
unknown; Daniel ]. Lowery, aged 80,
of No. 55 Atlantic Avenue; Adolph
Maths, aged 26, of No. 372 Hicks street;
John McGrath, aged Is, of No. 2l4 Bond
street; Benjamin Moore, aged 30, 752
Madison street; Gus, boy in the tin
shop, residence unknown; Pfaff, W.,
residence unknown; J Peters. residence
unknown; Mamie Freely, of No. 139 Ber-
gen street; Rosie Clinton, Warren street.
near Hoyt; Annie Higgins, residence
unknown; Mamie Riley, residence I'M
known; Katie McKeon, residence I'M
known; Thomas Dorner, aged IA, No.
2S1 Navy street; Gustave Lung. aged
20, No. 2S5 Pacific street; William
Legge, aged 40, living at Columbia
Heights; James Carpenter, aged 4S, No.
pa Graham street. The injured are:
Patrick Dougherty of the Hook and
Ladder Truck No. 1, was burned about
the face and head, and received bad
cut on the head; James Foy, fireman
of Engine Company No. 5, is. probably
fatally injured; Emma Haas, slightly
injured about the head; Mrs. Henrietta
Haas, aged 65 years, received severe
contusIons of the scalp, and had one of
her arms fractured; Patrick Hynes, fire.
man on engine company Is, received two
lacerated scalp wounds; James Lynch,
driver of furniture wagon, leg broken
Henry Mauerer. metal spinner, of No.
II Park Place, several slight scalp in
| juries; James Murray, fireman of No.
engine, foot crushed; Michael F. Ro-
gan, fireman in engine company No. 4,
confusion of the scalp; Charles d.
Rudy, fireman in engine company No.
5, received several burns on his face
and arms and bruises on his body;
Bernard Storp, fireman on engine COM
pany 4, received confused wound on
his scalp; John Burns, injured in the
hip. There were several others, who
sustained slight injuries, such as flesh
wounds, and bruised faces and limbs,
but they, were not sufficiently disabled
to require medical attendance. The
scene at the police station where the
three dead bodies which were
removed from the ruins were conveyed,
was pitiful one. A bedquilt was
thrown over the bodies. and many
called to see if they could not recognize
the undistinguishable mass. All failed,
however, and all the statements were
simply guess work One of the bodies
legs were burned to the knees and the
two arms to the elbows. The
OF black cinders. The bodies are
all those Of men,. When the father of
the missing boy, John McGrath, went
to the police station, he tainted twice,
and when he was able, he gave vent to
the most piteous means. ooh. Ser
geant," he cried, "do tell me, my poor
boy, my only support, is not dead Oh,
bring him back to me-" The man was
getting delirious and had to be re-
moved. His son persisted beyond
doubt. Numbers of women and girls
came during the day looking for lost
relatives.
Tonight, Detective DAILY arrested
Frank W. Miller, house mover, on
complaint of Coroner Manninger. for
criminal carelessness, for improperly
butting the Orders and posts in the
building at 55 Atlantic avenue, thereby
causing the walls to fall, thus causing
many deaths.
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