The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-05-09
RRooKLYN,S LATEST.

Burned-Careless Work in Making Re-
pairs the Cause.
NEW YORK, May 5.-While workmen
were engaged shoreing up a glrder in
the basement of a building in the rear
| of No. Is Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, this
| morning, one of the needles used in
packing up the beams gave way, caus-
Ing the entire building to collapse. On
the second floor was soap manufac-
| tory, in which were the furnaces for
| heating the coudrons. The building
took fire Immediately, and terrible
panic ensued among the inmates. There
were at the time $50 persons in the
building, including, many girls employed
on the upper floors. The west wing Of
the building, fronting on Atlantic avenue,
went down entirely, and it is supposed
that many persons were carried down in
| the ruins The flames communicated to
the remainder of the structure, which
was standing, and soon the whole build
ing was in flames.
A fire alarm was sounded after much
delay This brought the first contingent
of fremen, but they were unable to cope
with flames which were now mounting
high above the building and pouring forth
from different windows. A second and
third alarm and finally general one was
sounded, and soon the streets in the
vicinity actually swarmed with fire APP
paratus of all kinds. The fremen soon
had scores of streams playing on the
burning structure.
When the wing of the collapsed build
ing fell it crushed into the tenement
houses SO and SO Atlantic avenue. Mrs.
Henrietta Hans, tlfty-eght years of age,
and her daughter Emma, aged thirty
years, were in the rear room of the sec
ond floor of the house number 90. They
were buried under the ruins. Fireman
Duff, of engine No. 4, and his men soon
succeeded in digging them out They
were both badly injured, Mrs. Hans
died while being removed to the hospital,
and but little hope is entertained for the
recovery of her daughter.
Subsequently, while the men of this en-
CINE were engaged in throwing streams
on the flames, the wall gave way, and
buried Firemen Bernard Stark and Mi
chael L. Regan. They were quickly ex-
tricated by their companions. They were
both badly injured around the body, and
suffered severe scalp wounds. Both men
were taken to the hospital.
Fireman Dougherty, of the Star Com
pany, was struck on the head by falling
brick and seriously injured.
total nf DHO in tha
building at the time, and when it settled
after breaking the jack pin, terrible
panic ensued, which increased when the
flames broke out In the employ of Milo
Hines were some fifty girls. These rush
ed to the windows and shouted for help,
and it was with the utmost difficulty that
they were persuaded from throwing
themselves headlong into the street. Sew
eral threw themselves into the street be-
fore they could be reached. and were bad
ly hurt.
The buildings are four stories high.
and were erected twenty-seven years ago.
The wood work burned like finder, and
owing to the generally intlammable char
acter of the structure, there was hardly
any chance for escape. The fire is now
believed to have been caused by the over
| lutulLS VI llS OOllClo VI VIC bOdp ldC-
tory on the second floor, which were up
set by the settling OF the building when
one of the Jacks supporting The rest broke.
At the scene of the disaster all is confu-
sion, the ruins are still smouldering and
the work of searching for the bodies is
carried on with much difficulty. Crowds
of people have gathered in the vicinity of
the burned buildings watching the prog
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last police returns it is now believed the
number of lives lost will not amount to
more than dozen, and this COMPARE
lively small loss of life, considering the
number of persons in the building at the
time, is truly surprising.
The following is list of the missing
as far as could be asce,tained up TO eight
O'Clock tonight. Edward Butler, aged
twenty-five; Edward Langley, twenty
two; John Muntz, tweny-siX; Henry
burst, filty-tive; Adolph Martin, twenty
five; Fred Eggler, twen;y.two; John
McGrath, fifteen; Daniel Donghery,
forty-two.
: The engineer employed in the building
, was buried in the debris, but his body
has been recovered.
Am ng the injured are the following:
Michael f. Crogan, fireman; burned
!, about the face and body; Bernard Stork,
fireman; severely injured by falling
bricks; Patrick Dougherty, fireman; in
ternally injured; Henrietta Hass IRE
D ported dead), aged sixty-eight; severely
. bruised about the body; Emma Hass
: daughter of Henrietta, left arm injured /;
5 Mary Moore; slightly injured; Samuel
5 Duff, fireman; bruised about the body
I Chas. Ruddy, fireman; Injured by falling
/ bricks; Jas. Fay, fireman; severely
}, burned; Mary Watts, leg badly burned F.;
9 JAS Paff, slightly injured; Rose Rut
!. ledge, badly burned,
II All the injured were cared for al the
S Long Island Hospital, where they were
|, speedily removed. The three bodies
y found in me ruins yesterday afternoon
are still at the stauon-house awaiting
y identification. When they are identified
/ it is possible that the number of missing