Dodge City times., 1885-05-14
ATERRIBLE CALAMITY.

The Collapse of . Building in NewYork Cit.
Causes the Loss of Thirty Lives.
New York, May 5.-Early this mornin,
the two houses. numbered IS and 81 Allan
tic street, Brooklyn, were discovered to b,
on fire. The fire was discovered in the en-
CINE room of the building which was sort O
general factory fronting on Columbis
Street, Brooklyn, and occupying more thar
two-thirds of block. A dozen manufac
turing firms had portions of the building
and employed altogether 600 hands, chiefly
young women all of whom were at work
in some of the five stories of the building
Before the alarm could be sounded, the
inhsmsble tinder like the wood work of the
exterior structure was all ablaze and the
first firemen who arrived found many ofthe
panic stricken female operatives crowd.
ing and shrieking wildly at the windows
which opened upon the interior area of the
works. The two wings of the factory run.
ming towards Atlantic Street were the only
portions not fiercely ablaze and the women
might have been saved without trouble il
they had kept cool. Ladders were run an
to them promptly but the imperiled girls
had already begun the dangerous expert.
ment of throwing themselves out of the
second, third and even fourth story win
dows. The fremen and volunteer life
savers did their best to catch those who
jumped, and none were very badly hurt
considering the risk they ran, although
two of them suffered such bruises as made
it necessary to send them to the hospital.
In the excitement of the accident it was
found almost impossible to get q correct
list of the occupants of the factory 30 a. to
get at the loss. 1t is known, however, that
the foreman of the factory, who was also
engineer, was burned. He was overcome
almost as soon - he reached the death
trap.
The scene around the place was soul-har-
police who formed fire limits almost a soon
81 the firemen got to work, dozens of peo-
pie assailed the officers with fearful in
quiries for their relatives who had not
answered to their names since the accident.
If is now believed thirty lives were lost in
the disaster, the building being occupied by
by about twentv snau manufactures.
1t was erected tWenty.three years
ago. The cause of the fire Wss
the overtQrning Of . boiler in soap factory
on the second feor. The west vail of the
middle wing on Atlantic avenue had settled,
and workmen were screwing it up with
jacks. The middle jack had been screwed
up too high, and it was lowered, when
the whole weight OF the wall came
upon the two jacks st the ends,
and it fell with crash. The
firemen injured were Bernard Stark
and Michael F. Grogan, of Engine No. 4,
Patrick Docherty, Of Hook and Ladder No.
8, and fireman Hanley. The wounds are
all scalp woundsI caused BY falling bricks.
Among the employees known to be injured
are Henry 1auer, scalp wound and tract
ure of the leg; Mn. Hennetta Haas, 10
ported to have died on the way to the
hospital; Miss Mamie Hass, her daughter,
severely hurt; two unknown women were
pulled from beneath the burning timbers
by the chief Of the fire department, Mr..
Nevins: Ross Partridge, IN emplove of
Milo Haynes, il among the missing; Edwin
Butler was seen to jump from the second
story into the Yuin1 and he has not BEEN
seen since. Dour Of the men employed By
the Judd Manufacturing Company are also