The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-06
BROOKLYN's HORROR.
twenty-five People Buried in
the Ruins.
FIRE ADDS TO THE TRAGEDY
A Murderous MOther-At the 1sth-
mus-Anti- Chinese-Slaughter OF
Jamacians
More snide Houses.

New YORK, May 5.-Early this morn
ing two houses, numbers 80 and 81
Atlantic street, Brooklyn, fell in with
crash. A number of persons are re-
ported killed and others seriously in
jured.
The Abbot buildings on State street,
which are let out with steam power for
various manufacturing purposes, to-
gether with building in the rear, were
DESTROYED The rear building was I'M
der repairs when one of the props under
the Orders gave way when the entire
structure collapsed, burying the work
men beneath the ruins. Fire then COM
municated with the front buildings, and
despite the efforts of firemen they were
destroyed About fifteen workmen are
supposed to be in the ruins.
BROOKLYN, May 5.-Shortly after 9
O'Clock this morning, there was crash
at 55 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, and
the people on looking up from the street
saw that the roof of the building had
fallen and that a portion of the walls
had fallen They could hear the screams
of the people injured, and it seemed but
moment when a volume of smoke rolled
up, showing that the building had taken
fire.
Hundreds of people, men, women and
Girls, were at work at various branches
of business carried ON in the building,
which covered considerable ground,
having wings and which extend through
from Atlantic to State street. AS soon
as the crash was heard hundreds of
those employed in the building en-
deavored to make their way out by
every avenue of escape and some who
were the last to reach the street APP
peared with begrimed faces and
blood streaming from wounds which
they had received from falling timber.
The excitement in the neighborhood
became very great and in a short time
the wives of men who were known to
be working in the building and the
parents of girls who were employed
blocked the streets. Three alarms of
fire were sent out and the service of a
large number of police had to be called
in to keep the people out of the way of
danger. 1t was reported at first
that about 100 girls who were
employed in Milo Hynes' boiling works
which was on the top of the floor where
the roof fell in, were killed, but it ap-
pears that most of the girls made their
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ement houses. The buildings were oc-
eupied by twenty small manufao turers |
and there were about five hundred men
and women employed therein. 1t was
a five story, erected twenty-seven years
ago, the woodwork burning like finder. |
When the firemen arrived, they found |
many young women at the windows |
wildly for help, their retreat
being cut off, and the fremen 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 him
dered the efforts of the firemen. 1t was
ascertained that the engineer of the fac
tory, 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 overturn-
ing of the boilers of the soap factory,
on the second floor. The west wall OF
the middle wing on Atlantic Avenue
had settled, and workmen were screw
ing 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 at the
end, and it fell with crash.
Ten or twelve have been taken out
severely injured. Chief Levenson said
he thought there were at least twenty
five people in the ruins, maybe more.
The loss is estimated at $500, 900; insur-
ance unknown.
Three bodies have been taken from
the ruins, burned beyond recognition.