New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-16
ANOTHER VICTIM WILL DIE.
BRooKLYN's OFFICIAL CARELEssNESs.

NO ONE TO SEE THAT The CONSTRUCTION OF THE
ELEVATED ROADS DOES Not ENDANGER LIFE.
The OF the fatal accident on the Union Elevated
Railroad In Broadway, Brooklyn. where four were
killed Tuesday another probably fatally injured and
a number ess hurt, visited by hundreds OF
persons yesterday 30 far as possible traces OF the
death and ruin which the falling structure caused
Dbteratcd BY employed by the contractors for tho
work. No new light thrown upon the cause of the
disaster.
j. h. Cornell the head OF the firm OF contractors Is 70
ported to have said Yesterday:
The accident inc p!icasle from point OF view
at which have been able 80 FAR to look az It, Four
thousand tons OF iron la been placed by the derrick
winch e an no evidence hai suggested to US the pos
sS OF suS1 h %n oSo a, as
There the derrick hgn affair, with long and
iron at the size OF the street when the lateral draft
ulled the structure sideway'. That Is my under
ing IT was riding tho Orders the Orders
gavews eau prove by several competent witnesses
the longitu na girie bolte at Dotn ends
Schaeer has been In our employ twenty five years and
has placed 10000 tons Of elevated railroad iron. He
"A careful in fact the most careful foreman we had
aGariiner. also. ia a man of long experience in the
work for which he employed. He himself assured
that sucn an accident occurred on Flatbushave
were SECURED by nanges side tue ORDERS AMI
there nign structure to toppe be Drawn or
produce lateral strain the grlors 1t will be sew
era days before complete investigations
learn the Tor the No Inspector
was employed by tho city to examine work do
think that except In placing the
posts The railroad had inspectors 10 that
performing contract, but for no other business"
Robert Van Buren, Chief Engineer OF the Department.
OF City Works said yesterday that the department had
only supervision OF the location OF columns AMI the
excavations TO- foundations. Inspectors saw that
house water. and connections wero not inter
ferei with and that the put In good order
and not obstructed unLuiy by material used in the
snperstructure Further than that tho city paid abso-
utey attention to the progress VI the work Coroner
Lindsay and Jury will inquire into the cause OF tue
accident night at No. GAO Broadway.
Although 1t expected that travel over the car lines
running under the structure a portion OF which fell
would decrease yesterday the contrary the case for
more passengers than usual were carried Those who
took other routes were more than OutDumbered By
curiosity seekers The injured persons all recover
ing save John fres who Is suffering from fractured
skull at ST Calharihes Hospital and whose recovery 10
deemed hopeless
Tho OF OF tho victims OF the disaster Patrick
Clark dscoses the act that he Is alleged O. have been
leading a double life His body iden, med at the
Morgue by his brother Michael. OF No 426 West Thirty
seventh-s, who sail he bachelor. and hal IL re-
mo- ed to his house. Yesterday women went to the
Brooklyn Morgue aud wanted to the body OF Clark
Each said she he was ner husband, alths ugh
he had deserted her years ago.