Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-05-09

A numberof persons are reported killed snd others seriously injured. The Ao- bolt buildings, on State street, wnicn gre let out with steam power for various manufacturing purposes, together with a building in the rear, were destroyed. The rear building was undergoing re pairs, when one of the props under the cirders gave way, when the entire s:ruc- ture collapsed, burying the workmen beneath the ruins. A fire then commu- nicated with the front building and de eplte the efforts of the tremen, they were destroyed. About fifteen work men are supposed to be in the ruins.
 Further Particulars.
 BRooKLYS, May 5.-Shortly after nine this morning there was crash ht % AL lantic avenue, and the people Tn look iup up from the streets saw that the roof of the building and portion ot the walls had fallen. They could hear screams of the people injured and It seemed but a moment when volume ot smoke rolled up, showing that the build ing had taken are. Hundreds of people. men, women and girls, were at work at the various branches of business carried on in the building, winch covers cousld- erable ground, having wings and which extend through from Atlantic to State street. As soon a. tue crash was heard of the falling roof, hundred of those employed Tn the building endeavored to make their way out by every avenue of escape and some who were the last to reach the street appeared with begrlmed faces and blood streaming from wounds they had received from falling timbers. The excitement in the neigborhood be- came very great and ID short time the wives of men who who were known to be working in the building, and pa rents of girls who were employed bIockaded the streets. 1hreealarms of fire were sent out and the services ot a large number of police had to be called to keep people out of the way of dan ger. 1t was reported at first that about loo girls who were employed in the mill of Hyues' bolting works, which was on the top floor, where the roof fell ID. were killed, but 1t appears that most of the girls made their escape by climbing on the roof of tenement houses and buildings occupied by twenty small manufacturing companies, and there ver< about 500 men employed therein. IL WAS i've tlOIgf cICCNtu hNCHts -9S'Se years ago, and tue woodwork burned like finder. When the firemen arrived they found many young women at the windows screaming wildly for help, their retreat being cut off. The tiremen quickly ran up ladders, but the girls were hemmed in and many fell back into the flames before help could reach them. The character of the building hindered the firemen. 1t was ascer' tained that the engineer of the factory Daniel J. Lowry, was one of the victims He was killed by the falling of the left wall. The cause of the fire was the overturniug of the boilers of the soap factory on the second floor. The wall of the middle wing on Atlantic avenue had settled and She workmer were screwing it up with jacks. The middle jack had been screwed up too high and it was lowered, when tho whole weight Ot the wall came upOr the two jacks at the end and 1t fel with crash. Ten or twelve hay, been taken out severely injured. Chic Livingston thought there were at leas 9 people in the ruins-may be more The loss is estimated at S300,OOO; in surance unknown. Three bodies hay, been taken from the runs burned be ! yond recognition.