Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-06

various Misunderstanding purposes, together
with building in the rear and all were de-
stroyed. The rear building was undergo
ing repairs, and one of the props under the
girders gave way, when the entire structure
collapsed, burying the workmen beneath
the ruins. Fire broke out and communi-
Gated with the front buildings, and despite
the efforts of the firemen they were de-
stroyed. Hundreds of people-men, women
and glrls-Were at work at various branches
of business carried on in the building. As
soon as the crash was heard of the falling
roof, hundreds of those employed in the
building endeavored to make their way out
by every avenue of escape, and some who
were last to reach the street appeared with
begrimmed faces and blood streaming from
wounds which they had received from fall
ing timbers. The excitement in the neigh
borhood became very great, and in short
time wives of the men who were known to
be working in the building, and parents of
girls who were employed, blocked the
streets. Three alarms of fire were sent out.
and the services of large number of police
had to be called into requisition to keep the
people out of the way of danger, Ii was
reported at first that about 100 girls who
were employed in Mr. Hynes boiling
works, which was on the top floor where
the roof fell in, were killed, but it
appears that most of the girls made
their escape by climbing on the roof
of tenement houses The buildings
were occupied by twenty small
manufacturing concerns There were
about 500 men and women employed
therein. 1t was a iive-story structure,
erected y years ago, the woodwork burning
like finder. When the firemen arrived
they found many young women at the
windows, screaming loudly for help, their
retreat being cut off, and the firemen
quickly ran up ladders, but the girls were
hemmed i'll and many fell back into the
flames before help could reach them. The
character of the building hindered the
efforts of the iiremen. 1t was ascertained
that the engineer of the factory, Daniel j.
Lowry, was one of the victims He was
killed by falling of the left wall The
cause of the fire was the oycrturning CT the
boilers of soap factory on the second
floor. The west wall of the middle wing
on Atlantic avenue had settled and work
men We're screwing it up with jacks. The
middle jack had been screwed up too high
and it was lowered, when the whole weight
OF the wall came upon the two jacks at the
end, and it fell with crash. Ten or twelve
persons have been taken out severely in
jured. Chief Levenson said he thought
there were at least p people in the ruins,
maybe more. The loss is estimated al $500.
0O0 insurance unknown Three bodies
have been taken from the ruins, burned
beyond recognition.
SECOND DISPATCH.l
BROOKLYN, May 6th-A MA workman
named Marcus says there was nothing in
or about the place to check q fire. neither
hose eXtinguishers nor fire escapes. This
is the third time q fire has occurred on the
premises.
Milo Hines, who occupied the top floor
for the manufacture of buttons, states
At o'clock | was in my room, directing
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 a ladder
leading to the roof, and all the en-
ployes made rush for ii. There was q
panic among the women for time, and
two or three Of them tainted but a fore
man 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 root
OF the adjoining building, and reached the
street by descending the fire escapes.
The insurance on the property destroyed
is about $4,000, while the damage will ag-
grcgate at least S250,000
At 800 H. ~ fifty employees of the Board
of City W orks arrived on the scene, and
were Immediately set to work by Commits
sioner Paillon searching for the missing.
THE VICTIMS OF THE CATASTROPHE.
Following arc the names of the killed
injured and missing ones: Unknown man,
charred beyond recognition, supposed to
be Daniel J. Lowery, engineer IN the button
factory; unknown man, horribly burned,
and no possibility of Identification trunk
of person. not known whether male or
female-the fire had burned away all the
outer coating, leaving the vital organs eX-
posed, while the limbs were gone, only the
trunk and tieshtess skeleton remaining.
OF the missing ones, inquiries have been
made for the following, who are supposed
to been III the ruins Breathing Conrad Jr
aged 20. OF Dutchkil, L. l.; Edward Butler.
aged %, Of 81 Atlantic avenue; William
Clark, aged 10, residence unknown: Henry
Durse. aged So, of No. 81 Marion street,
New York; Fritz Egger, aged u, residence
unknown; Henry Hotiner, aged 40, of 1875
Graham avenue: - Johnson, residence
unknown Daniel J. Lowery, aged 30, of
30 Atlantic avenue; Adolphus Maths, aged
26, of No. 372 Hicks street John Nc
Grath aged Is, Of No. PA Bond street
Benjamin Moore aged 36, of 752 Madison
street Gus, boy in the tin shop, resi-
dcnce unknown; -Pfaff, Jr, residence
unknown: j. Peters, residence unknown
Mamie Freely, of No. 139 Bergen street
Rosie Clinton, Warren street, near Hoyt
Annie Higgins, residence unknown
Mamie Riley, residence unknown Katie
Mckcon, residence unknown Thomas
Dorner, aged II, No. 2S1 Navy street; Gus
tave Lunge, aged Is; William Legge, aged
Is, living at Columbia flights; James
Carpenter aged As, of No. 2l4 Graham
street. n
The injured are: Patrick Dougherty, of
hook and ladder truck, No. /, burned about
the face and head. and received a bad cut
on the head James Fay, fireman OF En-
CINE Company, No. 5, is probably fatally in
iured Emma Haas, slightly injured about
the head Mrs. Henrietta Haas aged IS
years, received severe Commissions Of the
scalp, and had one of her arms fractured
Pat. X Hynes, fireman of Engine Com
pany, No 10, received two lacerated scalp
wounds James Lynch, driver Of a furni-
ture wagon, leg broken; Henry Mauerer,
metal spinner, of II Park Place, several
slight scalp injuries; James Murray, fore
man OF No. engine, 1901 crushed Michael
F. Rogan, fireman Of Engine Company,
No. 4 confusion Of scalp; Charles
D. Rudy, fireman of Engine Com
pany No. 5, received several burns on
his face and arms and bruises on his body.
Bernard Stoop, fireman Of Engine Company
No. 1, received a 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 at
tendance.
The scene at the police station, where the
three dead bodies which were removed
from the ruins were conveyed, was pitt
full one. \ bedquilt 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 guesswork. One of the
bodies legs were burned to the knees, and
the two arms to the elbows. The other
bodies were merely mess of black Gin
ders 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 give
vent to the most piteous means. 'Oh
Sergeant, he cried, " do tell me my poor
how my only SIIpnort is NOT doa1 oh