Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-05-14
A Story Brooklyn Factory
Falls with Five Hundred
Employees in it.
The Ruins Burn, Roasting (
Number of Unfortunate
Victims.
List of the Dead and Wounded
So far as Known.
Another Fa.al COLLAPSE.

Another Fatal Collapse.
NEW York, May EARLY this
morning two houses, 55 and 81
Atlantic street, Brooklyn, fell in with
a terrible crash and number are re
ported to have been killed and others
seriously injured. The Abbott build
ings on state street which are let cut
for manufacturing purposes together
with the building in the rear were de-
stroyed. The rear building was
undergoing repairs when one of the
props under the girders gave way
and the entire structure collapsed,
burying the worRmen benath the
ruins. The fire was communicated
W It'll the front building and despite
the efforts of the fremen they were
destroyed. The names of the victims
are not yet ascertained. At 1890
about 10 Workmen were supposed TO
be in the ruins.
Martha Kretchmer, aged IL. who
was seriously burned in the tenement
house fire Sunday morning, died this
morning. This makes the number of
victims ten.
DETAILS OF THE TERRIBLE DISASTER.
BROOKLYN, May 5 Shortly after Q
o'clock this morning there was a
crash al No. So Atlantic avenue,
Brooklyn, and people on looking up
street saw that the Roof of building
and portions of the wall had fallen
in. They could hear the screams OF
the people injured, and it seemed but
moment when volume of smoke
rolled uD. showing that the building
had taken fire.
Hundreds of people, men women
and girls, were at work in toe various
branches of the business carried on
in the building, which covers a con
siderable ground, having wings which
extend from Atlantic avenue to State
street. As soon as the accident oc
CURED those employed in the build
ing endeavored TO make an escape,
and some who were last TO reach the
street appeared with faces begIimmed
and
STREAMING WITH BLOOD
from wounds received from the falling
tlmbers. 1t was reported at first that
100 girls employed on the top floor in
Milo Hynes' boiling works, had been
killed by the falling roof, but it is now
kaown that the most Of them made
their escape by climbing on to the
root.
The tenement houses adjoining the
building were occupied by twenty
small manufactures and there were
about 500 men and women employed
therein. Il was five stories high and
was erected twenty-seven years ago.
The WOOD work burned like finder.
When the fremen arrived they found
many young women at the windows
screaming wildly for help. Their re-
treat had been cut off and the fre men
quickly run up ladders hut the girls
we're hemmed in and many
FELL RACK INTO THE FLAMES
before help could reach them. The
character of the building hindered
the efforts of the firemen. d. j..
Lowry was one of the victims and
was killed by the falling of the lett
wall of the middle wing in Atlantic
avenue.
| The cause OF the hre was the over
/ turning of the boilers of a soap fac
| tory on the 21 floor. The weight Of
/ the wall OF the middle wing ON ATTAIN
( tic avenue had settled it, and work
men were screwing it up with jacks.
The middle jack had been screwed up
4 too tight and was lowered, causing
the whole weight TO come upon the
! two Jacks atthe ends and they fell with
a crash, thus upsetting the soap boil
ers and causing the building TO catch
fire from the fuel beneath them. Ten
or twelve persons have been taken
I from the RUNS more or less injured.
/ Chief Levison said that he thought
/ that there were at least % people IN
! the ruins, and there may be more.
( The loss is estimated at $500, 600. The
building was owned by Nathan Cush-
ing of Boston.
LATER.
Three bodies have been taken from
the ruins and they were burned be-
yond recognition.
THE KILLED, INJURED AND MISSING.
The following is list Of the killed,
injured ana missing;
Au unknown man, charred beyond recognition,