New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-06
INCIDENTS OF THE DISASTER.
TALKS WIN BYsTAYDERs AND SOME OF THOSE
WHO EsCAPRp.

WHO EstAfips
William burst, the metal spinner, who Oc-
cupied the second ioor OF the westerly wing OF the
wrecked building, said he believed that four
OF his employees were among tho debris.
lie had made every effort TO hnd them
and had other 70 hunt for them at their homes
and usual hauns but the missing had not been seen
at any OF the places since the time OF the accident
Henry burst, uncle OF the missing SIR.
burst had about ten men In his employ. lie had been
late Monday night TO party, aud when he returned
had asked his wife to allow him to sleepor an hour later
than usual. She let him sleep onger.iw made him
about half hour late lie hurried toward his shop.
aud as turned the he the building fall In
in lie said afterward "This about 0:l5 o'clock.
When saw the cloud OF dust
rise into the air hurried to
the scene The first I saw 10 talk to was Tommy
one OF the boys who worked for asked him where
the rest were. and he said they probably in the
cellar You see snoring up the walls they had raised
Ms about four inches had been watching the shafng
70 II 1t got Of order but detected nothing our
loft about seventy feet deep Ny uncle
the middle OF the and the other three missing
had stood In line near the rear windows. The heavy
pulley shaft was Just above and IL must have fallen
them. II would be satisfaction for to know II this
was true, as 1t would have saved them from worse
death"
"Did you notice that the house unsafe ="
mo II the landlord who trying TO mako
It stronger by putting In columns When he began
the work said 10 MIN: Wei, ts pretty near time
did that the floor is sagsing' But then Mr. Abbot
always watching the building and seeing what was
wanted. Yes, the buildings were old. / was talking
with the other day vino had been in there thirty
years ago. They may be fifty years old for ali / know
was In them two years last January"
Mr. burst said that he had SO 900 worth OF machinery
building aud that he had been unable 10 re.insure
II when the last policy ran out as the companies wsuid
Daniel Kane, who was employed in the engine room
when seen by reporter, exhibited an arm cut and
and eyebrows singed. az tokens of tho Darrew
escape that he had in leaving the building when
the women, knew that something wrong and
started to leave the engine-room, when remembered
left going at fun head OF steam. SO
and the engineer together on the steam and drew
the nres before leaving the engine-room don't know
what became OF him. but managed get TO one OF the
cellars the state-s side and was dragged ont of
man-hole by fireman. The bricks and hot embers
were falling all around us a. the time"
Charles schweiter manufacturer of gold watch cases.
on the hrd moor OF the rear extension running through
70 sal"st had seen the,nre when the flames reached
his own portion OF the building "There no difficulty
experienced he said securing the safety OF The one
good tme and tho sidewalk before that portion
OF the building occupied by them had caught fire at all
The dense and the stairs rckety but other
wise there was no Inconvenience. As TO the stock
which was valuable could not save any ofit. An at
tempt was made to secure some specially valuable ar
tices, particularly large furnishing arrangement but
got hot to be handed ana had 60 be left 10 ts fate
don't know, Of about the other portions OF the
building, but think can say that there little likel
Walter W. Marcus. workman In OF the factories
who was standing In cks-st at the time the fire started
said glanced at the upper windows and noticed
puff Of smoke coming from II, and In less than min
ute seemed as II the IRE and smoke eapiDg from
every door window. caught i'm that pure last
September, when part OF the building burned.
sleeping the third floor. was awakened by
shouts the street aud the stars lust In time
TO save roasting There Vas nothing In or about tie
place to check he-n0 hose or extinguisher and no
fire escape"
In telling his experience, William Gildersecvc Of No.
l3o AuaDtcavc. who working In shop OF q. A.
Young a Co.. on the ground nOor when the crash
CURED said was standing Ia the shop between aBd
10 O'Clock this morning when eight bricks fell
from the ceiling al point few feet from where
Then the tiBbers began TO spread. There with
In the shop at the time named William Sanford,