Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-15
SCENE OF THE DISASTER,


 ill the stores and offices, or walking over tho side flags Many employees were carried dow.l in the collapse. Three persons were killed outright, and as many horses and nearly score of human beings were injured, ard two were at he point of death last night. Yes el day the poiice.arrested the superintendent, principally on tho supposition that he was crinlinally neglis ent, and locked him in cell of the nearest police station. notwithstanding Lis declaration that nobody could be blamed. Tho coroner will probably fix the responsi- bility.
 In building the Broadway branch the work is being done on conventional lines EJcava- tions are first made at the curb line, about 60 feet apart. Concrete filing ard stone blocks are put in. Square angle iron uprights are planted 2a inches below the street level and securely anchored after being plumbed. The uprights tower according to grade, and at the point of the accident measured B feet; Four foot girders of riveted wrought iron plates are boited to the tops of corresponding uprights. They measure 45 feet across at this point, and are fitted with top and bottom seats to hold the longitudinal girders, which are con- structed in the same manner as the cross girders described. The longitudinal girders, however, are 60 feet long, and weigh between five and six tons each.
 
 CTS that met with misfortune John Schaffer, who has been with the Messrs. Cornell for many years, was in charge of it. Ha was down on the sidewalk experimenting the shifting of the construction rig of new sec- tion. The rig consists of a steam hoisting apparatus, which is on a mammoth platform car, having six broad wheels running on port able travellers" Two ponderous "grasshop- per" derricks had been placed on the adjacent section, and the rig was being propelled for ward to convenient point for the operation of the derricks, Four men with chop blocks were ahead of the rig, ready to stop it when ordered. Charles Schatfer. 8 son of the su- psrintendent, was in the engine room in charge of tho gypsy rope. Other men were working on the girders The steam escaped from the rig boiler with loud, hissing noise which frightened horses in the street. A team attached to a lumber wagon baked, and the driver got of to lead them A street car going to the ferry rolled by, and Reid avenue car No. IF came along, bound for east New York, It had few passengers aboard. It was the fifth trip. The regular driver, Michael McCurley, made four trips and went home. His place was taken by an extra man, Thomas Thompson. He was glad to get the job, his fellow workers say. Butcher Fink's cart boy drove mp before the shop and leaped to the sidewalk.
 It was at this moment that Policeman Mul- doom, whose attention had been attracted by the baking horses and the con1motion over head, saw the massive iron section sway back i ward and forward ill conjunction with the iron uprights, and he had barely uttered Cry of warning to those ill peril when down tum- bed the whole mass into the street. The con cussion was felt by persons blocks away, and ill less time than it takes to write it syery- body, it seemed, in the vicinity was as near to the wreck as possible
 i Dead and injured were in plain sight and human beings were pinned down by timbers and iron. The Reid avenue car was den,ol. ished beyond repair. so was the butchers cart, and the horses had been crushed, while sew eral men were hardly recognizable as such. ] The following is the list of killed and in. injured by the accident:
 Klled-Thomas Thompson, car driver, of No 409 Decatur street, Brooklyn; Patrick Clarke, aged A, laborer, Pearl street, New York; Charles KierchEer, Mo- 1890 Fulton street, Brooklyn Matthew Mindon, baker aged 27, of 239 Meserole street, Brooklyn, was on the front platform of the street car, and l sustained compound fracture of the left leg besides internal injuries. He was taken te tho St Catharine hospital unconscious, and i died there late ill the evening.
 Injlred-John Freei, aged 2S, fracture base of skull, fatal; John Mehan aged g, fracture of left arm; William c. Davidson, aged B scalp wound: Thomas Gatfney, New York Edward Pretiz, aged 3S; Jacob Bender, agec l 8l; John Duane, aged 27; William Nichols l Charles Schaffer.
 Thrown from a Window and Killed.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Three men were ar