Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-06
From Forty 10 Sixty Adioining Tenement
Houses smashed Fiat rs Pan
cakes.-Ruins Take Fire.
The Flames Spread with Amnzlug
Rapidity-None Can Say How
Many Victims There Are.
The Thousand Employees In tho Immense
finder Box Scramble for Life
rs Best They Can.
Tho Number OF Dead Not Placed at Leis
Than Thirty--The Hospitals
Filled with Wounded.
a MnrRoroIlrAN rlnn.rRAr.

| NEW YORK, May D, lO'2U A, NJ
early this morning two houses, Nos.
65 and 81 Atlantic street, Brooklyn,
fell In with crash Many persons
are reported to have been killed and
Others seriously hurt. The ruins Inn
mediately took fire.
The Albeit buildings ON State street,
which are let out with steam power
for various manuhcturing purposes,
together with a building Ia the
rear, were destroyed. The rear
building was undergoing repairs,
and one OF the props under
the girders gave way, when the whole
structure collapsed. buryiug the work.
men beneath the ruins. The fire was
communicated 10 the front buildings
and despite the efforts OF tho fremen
they were destroyed. The names OF
the victims have not yet been ascer-
tanned.
At l;a5 p. IN. fifteen workmon are
supposed To be In the ruins.
LATER--It Ia now believed that thirty
lives have been loet In the Brooklyn
disaster.
Three bodies have been taken from
the ruina. They are burned beyond
recognition.
4 IAktlltUiAfNf w iliF tAIASEhDIJE.
4 BROOKLYN, N. ", May 6.--Shortly
after O'Clock this morning there was
n crash at No. 80 Atlantic avenue,
Brooklyn, and the people, on looking
up from the street, saw that the roof
Of the building had fallen In and that
portion OF the walls had fallen.
They could hear the screams OF the
people injured, and IL seemed but "A
moment when a volume OF smoke
rolled up, showing that tho
BUILDING HAD TAKEN FIRE.
Hundreds OF people, men, women and
girls, were ut work In various
branches ofbusiness carried on In the
building, which covers considerable
ground, having three wings which ex-
tend through from the Atlantic ave.
nue. TO State street. IA aoon rs the
crash OF the falling roof was heard
hundreds Of those employed In the
building fled or endeavored TO make
their way out by every avenue OF es-
cape with which they were familiar,
and some who were last to reach the
street appeared with begrimed faces
aud with blood
STREAMING FROM THE WOUNDS
which they had received from the fall
Ing tilnbers. The excitement In tho
nclghborhood became very great aud
In u short time the wives Of the men
known TO be working In the building
and the parents OF the girls who were
employed there blocked the streets
and wruDg their hands aud went.
Three alarms OF fire were sent out and
! the services OF large number OF the
police force had 10 be called into requi-
silion 10 keep the crowd Of people out
Of the way OF danger. II was reported
at first that
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED Girls,
who were employed In Milo n
Hynes button works, which
the roof foil In, were killed, but there
were other reports that many OF these
girls made their escape by climbing on
the roofs of the adjoining houses.
The building was occupied by twenty
J small manufacturers, and there were
about Ave hundred men and women
employed therein. IL was five stories
high and was erected tWentyeeven
years aVo. The wood
BURNED LIKE1JNDER,
When the fircmen arrived they
found many young women at the win.
dows screaming wildly for help.
Their retreat had been cut OF and tho
nremen quickly ran up ladders, but
the girls were hemmed In and
many fell back into the flames before
help could reach them. The infiam.
mable character OF the building him
dered the efforts Of the firemen,
IL WAS found that the engineer OF
the factory, Daniel J. Lowry. was one
Of the victims. He was killed by the
falling Of the west wall Of the middle
wing on Atlantic avenue. The cause
OF the Are was
THE OvEnIURNISu or THE BOILERS
OF the soap factory on the second floor.
The west wall OF the middle wing on
Atlantic avenue had settled. Work
men were screwiDg II up with Jacks.
The middle Jack had been up too high
and u WAS lowered. when the whole
weight Of the wall came upon the two
Jacks at the end aud II FELL with a
crash. Policeman Mccormick OF the
Third eub.precinct heard that the
building had fallen. He ran thlther
Immediately and found that the boil
ers o. the soap factory had capalzed
and that the building was on FIRE from
the furnace beneath.
The hremen injured are Bernard
Stark and Mike GrogRn OF engine No.
:, who were carried 70 the Long Island
hospital, Patrick DOcherty Of hook
aud ladder No. . and Fireman Han
ICY Their wounds were all fcalp
wounds, caused by the falling Of
Among the employees known 70 be
Injured are
HENRY MAuRKR, fcalp wound and
fracture Of the leg.
MRS. HENRIETTA HAAS, wife of q
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