Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-06
A CITY DEATH TRAP.


h reported to have died on the way 10
tile hospital.
Miss EMMA HAAS, her daughter,
severely hurt.
Two unknown women were pulled
| from beneath the burning timbers by
the chief OF the fire department, Mr..
| Nevlne, and put into shoe store.
| When the wall that was lacked up
| fell, number OF men were at work on
1t. They have not been seen since.
Rosa Partridge, an employee OF Milo
| a. Hynes, 10 among the missing.
| Edwin. Butler was seen by lis
brother, 9. w. Butler, to jump from
the second story into the ruins. He
/ has not been seen since.
-Four OF the men employed by the
Judd Manufacturing company are also
missing
Two women were taken from the
second floor by the flremen, who had
raised ladders to the building.
Chief Nevins said: II believe there
are at least twenty-five people in the
ruins. There may be more"
The loss IL estimated at 100000.
The insurance Is unknown. The
building was owned by Nathan Cush-
ing Of Boston.
Laury, the engineer of the build
ing, was on the third floor atithe time
OF the crash and ran to the roof to see
what was the matter. That
was the last seen OF him.
Fireman NJ. Ranger OF engine four
occupies cot In the hospital, with his
head bRndaged. His body Is much
bruised. He could not use his left
arm and II is believed that both of his
arms are broken.
Milo IL Hynes, who occupied the top
floor for the manufacturing OF buttons,
made this statement:
AT o'clock | was In my room d.
recting the work OF the employees, OF
whom there were forty, mostly
women. The first we heard OF the
accident was crash, and this was fol-
lowed by part OF the flooring giving
way. In one corner of my room was
n ladder leading to the roof, and all
the employees made rush for 1t.
There was panic among the women
for time and two or three tainted
but the men succeeded In restoring or
der, and then in single file the EN-
ployes clambered up the ladder and
got on the roof. The girls marched
out In good order, gained the roof of
au adjoining mouse, which was not in
jured, and reached the street by de-
scending the fire escape.n
The body of Engineer Laury has
been found. The work OF searching
the ruins begins tonight. 1t will take
some time to clear the wreck, and
there Is no chance OF there being any
one beneath the debris who Is
alive. Everything there Is be-
yond human suffering. The insurance
on the property destroyed is $780,
900, while the damage will be at least
S256,000
At half past o'clock fifty Of the
employees OF the Board OF City works
arrived on the scene and were imme.
diately set to work by commissioner
Poillan to look for the missing.
ON HORRORS HEAD HORRORS ACCU.
MULATE.
NEW YORK, May Sat twenty
minutes past 8 O'clock this morning
an alarm was sent out TO fire head
quarters from the South Ferry station
Brooklyn. Within half an hour after
Q there were four alarms and two specia
= calls which hurried eighteen fire com
panies To the scene of disaster
= tho extent Of which will not probably
a he known for some days. Fronting
!. 200 feet OH State street IN u building
a known as 1.-THE State street machine
II shop,h but which Is In fact only por
4 ton of series OF
n IRREGULAR But CONNECTED BUILD
INGs
Z which occupy most OF the space of tn,
interior of the block bounded by At
A lantic avenue and State street, ant
4 Pick and Columbia stree Is. The 7 rim
:. ntfNnl an ra. 10, h.tlIt,,u.. r.
/. Atlantic avenue When the firemel
4 arrived at the Atlantic avenue en-
trance they found that the in
a. terror buildings were in flames
n and that the westerly wall of the five
4 story building had fallen out and car
A ried with IL the extension of the tent
\. ments fronting on Atlantic avenu
" and directly west of the entrance. Tn
"a utmost excitement prevailed and tn
~ most exaggerated rumors were ailoa
IL as to the damage done and the loss G
~ life. When the excitement had sui
sided the conflicting
RuMoRs FINALLY SHAPED THEM
SELVES
in the following tale, Some work
men were engaged IN putting neN
girder under the westerly wall OF tn
g. building at No. SO. To this end lack
a. were employed, One had been sorewe
30 high that the othe
u jacks bore no weight at all an
N upon the fact being discovere
the foreman ordered the Jack il
N question to be eased down. Ii wa
10 while the men were doing this tina
the west wall, unevenly propped
he gave way and fell, carrying with
at about one.third ofthe westerly end Q
20 the building. Almost simultaneously
the flames burst forth in tina
40 building where the soap works wer,
10 The wall fell upon an extension {
~ dwelling houses on Atlantic avenu
In aud crushed them
LIKE so MANY EGG SHELLS,
the cooking stoves scattering the coal
"a among the tenements. The house
ne damaged by fire In this manner nun
Der from forty-nine to sixty.thre,
No, So Atlantic street was occupied 0
follows:
ct Henry Judd & Co., window .shad