New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-23
WALLS CAST DOWN BY WIND.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN ME NEW WELLS,
FARGO STABLE IN JERSEY CITY.
ONE MAN KILLED AND ABOUT TEN INJURED
FxcYTrMFST CAUSED BY THE OCCURRENCE.

ONE MAN KILLED AND ABOUT TEN INJURED
EXCITEMENT CAUSED BY THE OCCURRENCE
portion of the eastern wall of the blg DflcN
stable now in course of erection for the Wciis'
Fargo Express Company, fronting on Pavonla-
ave-, between Monmouth and Coles sts.. Jersey
City, fell yesterday morning at 9:30 O'Clock:
causing the death of one man and the injury OF
nine or ten others The man who was killed
was identified as George Barrett. an iron worker.
who is said 70 hare lived in Twenty y-seventh-st',
New.Yorlx His body was dug out of the runs
and removed to an undertaker's establishment
in the neighborhood. There were Thomas
Kerr of No. IS Montgomery-st- jersey
City, aged forty, bricklayer lacerated scaip
wound and leg injured; Vito Moro, Italian
bricllayer. aged thirty, OF No. 116 Coisa'e-s'''
Jersey City. both arms broken; Nicholo Peterano.
Italian. brickayer aged thirty, living in Fourth
ST.. Jersey City. leg and arm broken and skull
fractured: Arsenic Gentlio bricklayer, of No. 3o1
Fourth-st, Jersey City, slight injuries; Arsenic
Bendetti, aged forty, of No 432 Second-st., MP
and side injured, and scalp wound; Nlcoio
Gardano aged thirty-three, of No. 2o4 hester-
ST., New-York, brcklayer, collar-bone broken :
Nicolo Gendi bricklayer Of No. "a Colgate-st, Jer
sey City, scalp wound; Emil Hagen, aged twenty
six. carpenter, of No. 105 Cherry-st., New-lork.
arm broken and shoulder injured: Charles llgh'
mason, of No. 207 Wayne-st, Jersey City, injured
about the head and face. An unknown Italian
was badly injured about the head and was believed
TO be dying last -as1t. "A lsbcrer named mc1amnny
has not been seen since the accident The IN
urcd men were taken to the City, St Francis and
Christ's hospitals.
The news of the accident caused the widest
kind of excitement throughout Jersey City and
hundreds Of people rushed franticaly to the scene
At the time the wall fell there were probably
100 men at work on the building, which was
nearing completion 1t has a wide frontage on
PavOnia-ave., and runs south through to Eighth
ST. The building is in the middle of the block
and is between Monmouth-st., on the west side, and
Colcs-st, on the east side. The building had been
built M three stories on all four sides. and the
workmcn were fixing the iron girders to the
side walls for the support Of the roof At the east
wall the grders had not yet been secured, when
the wind, which was blowing at the rate Of
twenty-eight or thirty miles an hour, caused the
accident.
The contractor, Thomas Brennan, declared that
there were more solid walls in any city in the
country. The placing of the girders during the
high wind had caused the accident. No could
have foreseen il. When the wall began to fall
inward some of the workmen jumped for their
lives, and others succeeded in escaping to the
other side of the building. One part of the wall
fell in and another part fell outward into an
empty lot. Barrett, the only man killed. had his
head crushed under pile of the falling timber
, and brick The injured men received their in
juries by being struck with falling brick. The
wall fell with great crash and clouds Of smoke
and dust shot up.
Chief of Police Murphy was summoned and he
Immediately detailed policemen to surround the
block and prevent the immense crowd from getting
any nearer to the building. relief party was
at once organized and the injured men were car
ried out. When 1t was found that only one man
had been killed the excitement somewhat al
layed
The contractor not arrested up till noon
time, and il not thought likely that he would
be- Mr. Farrier. Chief Of the Fire Department.
Chief Of Police Murphy Police Captain Smith and
John Brown. fire commissioner said they did
not believe the wind solely responsible for the acc-
dent. They said that the accident might have
been caused by attempting to place the grders in
the walls before the plaster had set.
]. Knight. foreman for Post x McCord, who
have the contract to do tine iron-work on the
building, said last night. in the most positive
manner. that the cause of the collapse of the
building the quality Of the mortar used lie
said it did not adhere to the brick. He will have
three New-York experts examine it Tomorrow and
is positive they will decide that the amount of
cement in the mortar was entirely too little