The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-04-14
TWO TERRIBLE TUMBl rs,
CRUSHING OUT A DOZEN LIVES.
Eight Buildings Collapse In New YORK.
City and Smoke stack Falls
Mt Osceola, michisan-Yester-
day Day of Horrors.
Buried Under Buildings.

NEW YORK, April l3.-Eight live
story houses in Slxty-Second street,
near Tenth avenue, fell this afternoon,
burying the men employed there. Many
Of the workmen are believed to Ice
killed, and the cries OF tho injured are
heard from beneath the debris, implor-
ing help.
PART OF THEN RELIEVED.
Up to4;30 p. IN. 10 persons have boen
taken from the ruins. They were sari-
ously hurt but not fatally, and were ~.
moved to the hospital, Gangs OF mes
arc working on the debris, as IL is feap q
that many other workmen arc stU|
buried in the ruins. The buildings wtro
erected asst winter, and we're rgpayt.u
hy the building department as unsri5
Workmen we're engaged repairing tho
defects at the time the accident &C
CURED. No mortar was used in the co
struction OF the buildings, the bricks
being hold in place by sand.
n CRIMINAL CONTRACTOR.
The wreck was complete. Not brick
remained standing; not q timber r.
NAMED whole in the entire row. Work
man were at work in and about the
building at the time. At least 10 we're
said 20 other persons were buried
in the ruins, but up to late
hour no more had been found.
The most supe'f fetal examination of
the debris showed the cause of disaster
TO be- wretched workmanship and poor
material. The mortar contained little
or no sand. The loan or mud used was
wholly unfit, This, and the tact thai
tue building had been erected during
the cold weather, OF wet and
frozen bricks, were directly tho causes
OF the collapse. The builder, Charles
a. Buddenseck, who was responsible
left the neighborhood in carriage i'm,
mediately after the disaster, and drove u
his residence on Seventy-soventh street
| Where he went from there, nobody
could learn. The police who arrested
Master Bricklayer, Charles Frank, cOulC
not fine the builder. BuddensecB
| has been for years in trouble with The
authorities on account of the "skin'
| buildings he has put W. In shor
| lime after the collapse the locality OF tn,
/ wreck was packed with excited people
whose threats Of vengeance on ths reck
! less builder filled the air. When thu
dust had cleared away, men with bro
zen limbs and bruised faces wero strug
| Cling ont from under tho wreck anc
dragging themselves painfully away.
sHRGEKs AND GROANs
We're heard from or 2places. To thost
spots the people rushed. Firemen ant
| all available amhulancos were sum
moned. The Roosevelt hospital ambu
lauces we're tho first on hand, aud car
( ried away nine OF the weuuded. FOu
nook and ladder companies set to wor
To- remove the debris. A large Gang {
Wurknen was pressed into service, an
ia 10 minutes the labor Of rescue wa
under way. Night had set in before th
efforts were RELAXED. Nearly two hour
later groans came from 4 man caught /
an upright position between man
crossing Umbars and hold fast. He W.
oNtrinated with difficulty. Thou Il
DIGGING was resumed under strong ca
cinm hghis.
At MIDNIGHT
II persons, several of them vei
seriously wounded, had been taken fro
the ruins ana six others are missing.