The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
BURIED In BRICK.
The Smoke-Stack of a Michigan
Mill Col1apses, Covering Seven
Men in the Ruins.
Five of the UnfOrtunates Taken Out
Dead, and One of the Others
Fatally Wounded.
A Row Of EiSht Five-story Buildings in
New York Falls Many Workmen In
jured but None Killed.
FIVE LIVES CRUSHED OFT.

OsCoDA, Mich, April IA terrible ac-
cident took place at John Grams mill here
about four o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Seven men were in the smoke-stack, which
was about one hundred feet high, repairing
the walls, when their scaffolding gave way
and the smoke-stack crumbled to the ground,
burying seven workmen under at least So
600 bricks. In short time large number
of men were at work endeavoring to extri-
cate the victims of the disaster, and after
some hours work five dead bodies were got
out.
The dead bodies were mangled in hor-
rible manner. George Fulton, another
workman was severely but not fatally in
jured, while George Gordon, the seventh,
marvelously escaped with only few slight
bruises.
1t is not certain that all the victims have
been got out of the ruins, and men are still
at work clearing away the debris.
EIGHT NEW HOUSES IN RUINS.
New YORK, April 14.--Eight five
story tenements on the south side of West
Sixty-second street, between Tenth and
Eleventh avenues, fell yesterday afternoon
while efforts were being made to brace
them up SO that the yielding foundations
might be made secure. The wreck was
complete. Not stick remained standing,
not a timber remained whole in the entire
row. Half hundred woIkmen were at
work i'll or about the buildings at the time.
About 3:15 p. m. a shout of warning went
up. The end building toward Eleventh
avenue was seen to tOtter and then fall with
thunderous noise. The building adjoin-
ing it, having nothing to lean upon, fell
next. Then the whole row followed like
line of card-houSeS. A continuous roar fol-
lowed that seemed to last many minutes as
one after the other of the tall buildings
went down.
AS soon as the dust cleared number of
men went to work at the debris to dig out
the workmen, many of whom were believed
to have been killed. The searchers were
speedily joined by several hook and ladder
companies and fire-engine crews. 1t was
found that seventeen men had been in
jured, but none, it is believed, will
die. There are four men yet missing.
The most superficial examination of the
debris showed the cause of the disaster to
be Wretched workmanship and poor ma
terial. The mortar contained little or no
sand, but loan or mud instead, and was
wholly unfit for use. This, and the fact
that the building had been erected during
the cold weather of wet and frozen bricks,
was directly the cause of the collapse.
The builder, Charles A. Buddensick,
left the neighborhood in car
riage Immediately after the disaster and
drove to his residence. Whittier he went
from there nobody could learn. The police
arrested the master bricklayer, Charles
Frank. Buddensick has been for years in
trouble with the authorizes on account of
the "skin" buildings he has put up.
The erection OF the building had been
going Oh since last December, dur
ing all the cold weather. The fourth
story walls showed weakness in a
sudden thaw before the fifth story was
reached, and had to be taken down. The
heavy, warm rain of Sunday morning COM
pleted the work begun by the thaw. Yes
terday morning it was seen that the three
houses at the west end were in imminent
danger of falling. The foundation had
bulged noticeably, and the walls were
shaky. Buddensick set men to work to
fix up the wall and foundation, and the
work was in progress when the crash came.