Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-04-17
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A BLOCK OF EIGHT TENEMENT HOUSES TUMDL


BLOCK OF EIGHT TENEMENT HOUSES TuMDLEs
DOWN IN NEW YORK.
Eight five-story tenement houses on West
Sixty-second street in New York, built on
oriminaly cheap principles, collapsed Mon
day afternoon and tumbled down, the wreck
being complete. Some 80 workmen were
busy about the structures and part Of them
we're buried In the ruins. Al least 1S were
injured, but none fatally. The houses had
been put up during the cold weather by
builder Of bad reputation. He used mortar
mixed with loan instead OF sand and when
thawing weather aud rain came the walls
gave way a. though built Of mud. Not
brick or q stick Of timber was left in place
In place Of the houses there was simply
low pile Of rubbish. The fourth. story wall
showed weakness in a sudden thaw before
the fifth story was reached, and had to be
taken down. When the crash came work
men were engaged in propping up bullying
walls trying TO make them hold together I'M
til the roof could be completed and the in
side work done. About $40 p NJ a shout Of
warning went up and the end building toward
Eleventh avenue was seen 10 totter and then
fall with noise Of thunder. Both founda-
ton side walls had fallen out, and the body
Of the house, deprived of its support, col
lapsed. The building adjoining fell next.
card houses. There was a continuous roar
that seemed to last many minutes, az one af-
ter the other the tall buildings went down.
In very short time an excited crowd had
gathered whose threats Of vengeance on the
reckless builder filled the air. The builder,
whose name is Buddensick, ran away as soon
as the crash came and hid himself but was
arrested next day and held in $50, 600 bail
for trial. He is rich and boasts that he has
.,,,N L.. H.,
other three contractors. Coroner Martin
spent hours watching the throwing out of
the bricks from the ruins and offered 800
to anybody who could find two bricks stuck
together, so worthless was the mortar. Many
of the bricks orumbled into Fragments in the
hand like dried mud. In the same neighbor-
hood are 10 other tenemenis, built also by
Buddensck whose walls we're cracking and
bulgy, and one could push a cane into the
joints in the mortar.
The English admiralty office has been in
formed that Her Majesty's ship Alert, which
was sent by the British government to the
United States for the Greedy relief e1pedi-
ton, will proceed to Halifax, n $ under
command Of United States naval officers to
be returned to Great Britain. The vessel
will be oeremoniously handed over to the
British officers detailed to receive her, on
Saturday, the 25.h inst, with the thanks OF
the United States and the usual courtesies
and compliments.
A sensation was caused at the Southern
hotel in st. Louis. NO., Tuesday, by the dis
covery Of the horribly decomposed body OF a
man packed in trunk whose stencil on be-
ing taken out Of room caused it to be open
ed. The face and breast were up and the
body was so doubled about the hips and
knees that it filed the receptacle. % the
side of the trunk over the head of the corpse
vas printed 10 large letters the words $50
perish all traitors TO the great cause" The
hotel register shows that on March 80 q man
registering as Walter II. Lsnnox Maxwell was
assigned TO that room. Mr.. Maxwell ia de.
scnbed as very girlish-looking blonde
young man, with face clean shaver and hair
banged. He was seen in company frequent
ly with dark looking man, about . feet 10
inches in height, who registered as G. Arthur
Preller, London, England. Both men occu-
| pied one room in common q considerable part
of the time. 1t is learned that Maxwell ar
rived in Boston by steamer last January, and
! lived in that city for some time. He was in
tensely English in dress and conversation,
and showed great contempt for the Irish ag-
/ itators There was a stab or cut in the breast
of the corpse found in St. Louis and the cor
oner's autopsy showed poison In the stomach.
| -Au insane German named Humpf, living
/ in Herkimer county, n Y, cut his wife's
throat while she was in bed with her four
| days old baby, Monday night, soaked the
/ bed with kerosene and set il on fire. Neigh
bors saw the flames and extinguished them,
rescuing the wife in q critical condition.
Humpf was found in the garrett with his
throat cut, but alive. He attacked the party
savagely with an AZ. but before he could in
| jure any Of them, he fell dead. He WAS to
have been carried to the Utica asylum next
day.
There has been no news OF special inter
est from the Isthmus CT Panama the past
week. Admiral Jouett telegraphs Secretary
Whitney that trains are now running regular
| ly across, q guard of 30 men with rifles and
howitzsrs in steel-clad cars accompanying
each one.
-Hostilities have ceased between GAute-
mala and the other Central American repub-
lies, a general amnesty has been proclaim ed
and basis OF peace agreed upon.
Six men who were clearing the brick out
Of a tall smoke-stack at Oscoda, Mich, Mon
day, when the bottom gave way and the men
we're buried under 20, 600 brick. Five we're
killed outright and the sixth was severely
but not fatally wounded. Nearly all of those
killed were msngled beyond recognition.
Blind Tom, the famous pianist, has been
placed under guardianship as an idiot at Co
lumbus, Ga.
The end of one Long Island murder
sensation comes in the Anal sentence of
Charles II. Rugg to be hanged May 10. Rugg
killed Mrs. and Miss Mayb and assaulted an
aged farmer with intent to kill him.
Starr Stanley died at Ithaca, N Y, Mon
day, aged 100 years and months. For four
days previous to his death he refused food,
saying he had lived as long as he wanted to.
He had never been sick before during his
life.
AT a recent six DAYS roller skating con
test in New York city Joseph Cohen, Brook
Ign newsboy, carried of the prize over nu-
merous older contestants. After the conclu-
sion Of the match his father, q bar.room
keeper, persisted in taking him on a starring
tour and in q few days he sickened with
pneumonia and died. A ooroners jury have
decided that the excitement of the match,
with the exposure attending it, aggravated,
IL 1t did not induce his illness. They recon-
mended that the legislature pass q law PRO
hibiting owners and managers of Kinks from
allowing any match or exhibition which will
keep the contestants on the floor of the rink
any time exceeding four hours in duration. "
-RiePs half-breed revoiutionists are raid
ing the Dominion northwest in all direc.
tions, burning farm buildings and running
of horses and cattle.