The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-06
Scenes Of Appalling Agony Enacted
Brooklyn.
PARTIAL LIST OF THE VICTIMS
Thirty People Believed to Have perished
Noble Efforts of Firemen in
quest ON the fremont Motel
Explosion asGalvestcn.
NO CAUSE COULD BE STATED.
Annther ronemnnt ornsh.

Another Tenement Crash,
NEW York, May $40 20 a. m. EARLY |
this morning the two houses Nos. 50 and
81 Atlantic street, Brooklyn, TO Ii III with
q crash. numoer of persons arc re-
ported to have been killed and others
seriously hurt.
HEAVY loss OF LIVE.
1t is now believed 80 lives we're lost n |
tho Brooklyn disaster. Three bodies
have been taken from the ruins. They
were burned beyond recognition.
The Abbett buildings, on State street /,
which arc let out, with steam power, for
various manufacturing purposes, to-
gether with a building in the rear, were
destroyed. The roar building was un-
dergoing repairs and one of the
PROPS GAVE WAY
under the girders, when the whole
structure collapsed, burying tho work
men beneath the rui ms. Fire commu-
nicated with tho front of the building
and despite the efforts of tho iiremen
were destroyed. The names of the VIC
, Tins have not been ascertained at l:4o
! y. IN. Fifteen workmon are supposed
10 be In the ruins.
THE TERRoRs OBJ THE DISASTER.
At O:2O this morning an alarm was
/, sent out TO fire headquarters
from the south ferry station, Brooklyn,
Within 30 minutes after there
=. were four alarms and two special calls,
I, which hurried Is fire companies TO the
= :, scene of the disaster, the extent OF
" which will probably not be known for
70 some days. Fronting 200 feet on State
10 known
!, = street Machine Shops" but Is
In fact only "A portion
of a series of irregular but connected
=, buildings which occupy most OF tint
~ interior of the block bounded by At
~ lantio avenue and State street and Picl
W Wso and Columbia streets. The principa
n entrance to these buildings Is OF
'a Atlantic avenue. When the hre
y men got 10 the Atlantic avenue on
~ trance, they found that all the interior
u of the buildings were in flames, an
that the westerly wall Of the fitth stor
~, of the building had fallen out and col
III ried with 1t the extension
=. the tonements fronting on A
IN IN lantic avenue and directly west
iP- the entrance. Tho utmost excitemeI
prevailed and the most
EXAaGERATED RuMoRs
OF were ailoat as to the damage done on
in the loss of lie. When the excitemef
pit. had subsidized tho conflicting rumol
finally shaped themselves into this
lat That some wOrkmen we're engage
ort In putting now girder sunde
ng the westerly wall of building No. o, 1
NY this end Jacks we're employed. ono ha
Inc been screwed so high that the otht
lacks bore no weight at all, and upo
The fact being discovered, the forema
:. ordered that the jack in question
IL" eased down. IL was while the me
ans were engaged in doing this thI
Tho tho westerly wall, unevenly proppe'
,ho gevo way and fell carrying with
'"o about one third of the westerly END
ON the building. Almost simultaneous
sol- flames burst forth in the building, II b
rye ing used for soap works. where iurnao
ere were freely used, and the wall ialiif
GUS upon the extensions OF the dwellli
ied house on Atlantic avenue,
ller CRUSHED THEN LIKE EuG SHELLS,
esi- the cooking stoves scattering the
nus burning GOALS among the debris, an
will started the flames among the ten
ger ments. The houses damaged by the II
ing In this manner run from No. 1O 10
the Atlantic street. No. 3 was occupied
follows:
Henry l.. Judd & Co., window shat
roller manufacturers; had the whole
the top on the fifth floor. They also q
soils oup,ed floors IN tue main buildir
10Th which frontod on State street. TIL
alone employed about 800 hands.
3-l0 The fourth fl0Or was occupied by
ure. w. Butler \ Co., tin dealers, VINO NJ
and one-halfand Benjamin Moore " Co.. n
one-half,
ong William burst, a metal spinner, h
half of the second floor. The other p'
are ton was not occupied. i,
George Young had half OF the II
OK floor as machine shop ana Milll'
IDLE Dawes, a machinist, tho other haI'
iiots These were all the occupants OF I
the place whore the calamity occurred,
IN largo numbenof fmanuiacturers Ogvupl
lden other buildings and parts OF buildln
y " and great number oil people were
GER George l.. Abbott, the agent stat
that these places were owned by
Nath Cushing, OF Boston. All were 4
70 IL nished with steam power, ana
kson Cushing's insurance on the buildt
max, aud machinery was about NO,OOO.
~. ~ TuH NUMBER or OCCUPANTS,
goral When MIR. Albeit was asked !
many men there we're In at the u
WHOM the buildings fell, no said;
don't RhOw; ABOUT 40, guess.
The suporintendent Of II. l.. Iud
Of Co. laughed at this. ooo -.
,o.io "Why,n he said, tive have 300 alo
- - and suppose thore were over loo
- / that huilulnk. ...-
. an, no In the different manmaetuI
The places In the buildings IN
ioped were 100 people. In tho :
York Tin oonpany's employ =,
were 30 or 10 girls, and whether All
caned IA question which cannot yo
solved, Some of them were soen Shr
vern- ing upon the iron hre escape OF
, ,,.,, on3rlh fleOr, where the
P"' tsc,orv WAS located
ianes seemed 70 leap 4
door TO nOor with celOritY that ba
Isscriptinn. Within ono hour
- res whole mass mass of structures wa
Bill flames, with the exception OF builS
goods No. Z, which fronts on Oolun
,,,,yt street, but which was thoroul
h'.1 eutted. The dre extended 10 the bu
npris- ngs that fronted ON state street.
buildings went TO pieces like hous'
reoep- cards. Whilo the exeltomont was
II. +. highoet
,nt In FouR ExrLosIoNe
lncon. were heard In quick succesSion.
Annio lOnr engine boilers under
street. we're heard 10 burst. Tho Y
an a.. fali rapidly, aud two hours alter TN
Nav. mad bfoken out, nothing but "A TOW
M the ments OF the walls showed that q {
great ing had formorly stood there. P,y
a. and the firo on the State street SIDE va
sesa of out. There Was nothing in or abol
place to check hre-no hose or Z
.vol IA ruishor and no hro-oscares. Th
/ nol. cltoment around the scene OF the q
grafton was intense aid thore