Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-24

1 RlRLE SCENES AT BURNING BUILDING--LIS1
OF THE DEAD AS FAR AS RECOGNIZED.
1t has been impossible yet to reach any
! reliable estimate of the number Of persons
| killed by the falling of the building Nos. 70, AZ
| and "A Park place, New York, Saturday, an
| account Of which appeared in the Geographic
dispatches of The STAR Saturday. At an early
hour SCnday morning seventeen bodies had
been recovered. and it was believed that the
| number of killed would exceed fifty. Eleven
| injured were removed to the hospital. The
names of eighty-seven persons missing and
supposed to have been in the building when it
fell have been furnished the police Many of
| the bodies recovered are charred beyond
| recognition. The list of dead. as far as identi-
fed this morning, WAS az follows:
Leonard L. Cole, forty years. Of Madison
street. Brooklyn; John Gibbs, four years. 237
Greenwich street: Sarah Haeguey, six years,
IS Park place; Hhas. Haegney, ten years,
% Park place; Michael Slattery, tfty-tive years,
| S9th street and Park avenue; Philip Eberle,
sixteen years, $40 South 4th street, Brooklyn;
John Larry, thirty-iiSe years, Grand street;
A. Ii. Peterson, twenty-one years. So3 3D.
avenue; George Law. fifteen years. 1872 Wall
| about street. Brooklyn: Gustaye Zichler. 80
Washington street. Grookiyn; Abraham Der
/ schOpski, seventeen years i81 Delaney street,
! Gustav Steiner, twenty-six years, I'll East
/ 10Th street; Jacob Heideriek. 125 East l0Sth
| street; Otto Nalser. tweuty-iour years. los
East Sth street. Charles Breitner, fifteen years,
| 133 Essex street; Frank Hnch, thirty-thrce
| years. l2l LIST street. One more body remains
| at the morgue unidentified.
THE CAUSE OF THE CATASTROPHE.
| There are many theories as 10 the cause of
! the catastrophe. 1t is thought that there was
III explosion of some sort, but whe ther or not
there was all explosion it is believed that the
cause of the collapse was the shaky and unsafe
condition of the building. and the vibration of
the heavy printing presses which were i'll use
| on the upper floors may have been sufficient to
| shake II down. The catastrophe occurred
| about 1910 oclock Saturday afternoon before
employees had left off work for the usual Sat
urday hall holiday and while u large number
OF persons were i'll the restaurant in the lower
/ story
The wrecked building covered the city lots
Nos. 20. y and "a Park Place and was i've
stories high. Brick walls divided into three
parts up TO the second story. Leo kosenfed
OF No. lO3 East Slst street occupied the first
| floor and basement Of No. 20. He was dealer
In gold and paint bronze. Eight Young women
We're employed in the basement Frederick W
Irippe Of No. 12S West list street a dealer in
drugs, had his store on the ground door of No.
Y, and occupied the basement for the storage
OF his stock Andrew Peterson restaurant was
on the ground floor of No. IL and his kitchen
WAS IN the basement. The entrance to the
upper part Of the building at No. 76. and
the entire second fOOr was occupied by Ellis x
Macdonald, printers. whose Office extended
from No. 40 to d6. iebler 4 Mass lithographers
occupied the upper part of tie building. Ia, ing
thelr Offices on the tnrd floor. their photographic
stones on the fourth floor and their printing
presses in the top story.
AT THE MOMENT OF COLLAPSE
At the moment of the collapse there were
good many vehicles on the street in the vicinity
h,tN1,f L
capped being buried i'll the ruins and it is be-
heyed that IA number of persons passing Oh the
! pavement at the time were killed. Those who
| witnessed the scene say that there WIS a loud
| rambling liz the building II cloud of dust was
seen to rise about the windows. the front bulgcd
! out In Il curve from the roof to the ground
| and a little more than Il second later the whole
| mass of bricks and mortar came tGabling
down. the ruins Amos. blocking the streets.
! Many persons were at the windows Just as the
| building fell, and they were seen falling with
| the rains In which they were buried.
In the meantime fire had broken out and was
! licking the lower part OF No. IS. At least fifty
men had c.anbercd up OH the pie of ruins.
! hoping TO rescue some of the unfortunate peo-
pie who were known to be buried in the ruins.
| hey were driven from their posts by the fire.
| which was spreading rapidly. 1t had burst out
on The other side OF the ruins and ran rapidly
up the elevator shaft at the main entrance o.
| the block OF bindings Of which Nos. TO- ~ and
"A were part. For a time the Kissing steam
fought the fire, but that died out the element
made more Roadway.
EFFORTS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The streets we're SO blocked that the fire de-
partment found difficulty in getting to work,
but gallant efforts we're made to rescue any
who might have escaped death and to recover
| the bodies of those killed. The fire spread
| rapidly and burned with great fury in an in
eredibiy short time after the building fell. and
| though the fremen soon got it under control
| II was not entirely extiugui~hod for MANY
hours During Sunday the red glare was seen
now and then in spots III the ruins.
As soon As the names were under control the
! work of recovering the bodies of the unfor-
tunate persons who were buried beneath the
| ruins was begun. About forty firemen climbed
upon the great heap of bricks that filled the
street and began the search for bodies
They worked with terrible carnestness every
| man silently putting forth all his strength and
courage to gain the few seconds OF time that
might be necessary To save some living creature
After twenty minutes they saw the dead BODY
of a man down III the heap of brick. The fire.
T, men loosened their clothing and cleared away
the mass IN an astonishngiy short space of
time.
At go O'Clock the body of man was found
II was burned and charred SO that the features
were unrecOguiZabie. The Chambers Street
Hospital sent Il corps Of physicians and sur
geons. who assisted the fsemen i'll the search
| Tor bodies ABOUT utteGu lGlnNtcS after the
first body WAS taken out the french came
across another body of man living under a
piece OF the roofing near the side entrance. He
was apparently thirty years old. Ills legs.
! hands and face were badly burned
4 low moan was heard coming from the ruins
II was feeble and sounded like that of q child
The iiremen redoublcd their efforts in clearing
away the mass OF bricks and timbcrs from the
spot whence the sound came. After working
heroically for nearly twenty minutes Edward
s. Mulhgan, driver of hook and ladder com
pany No. T. raiseda little girl in his arms Tina.
she alive and conscious after being buried
under the mass of brick. seven feet decp was
almost miracle. The little girls face and
arms were bleeding from cuts and burns, but
she was able to talk
FRANTIC MOTHER.
As soon as AIulligan raised her ND she lifted
her eyes to a window on the upper floor of a
building across the street. and called in piteous
tones There's my mamma The mother. upon
seeing her child, became frantic with ioy
that had it not been for the combined efforts
OF four men standing near by she would have
Jumped from the window. When the little plrI
was rescued the crowd yelled and clapped their
hands in joy.
The little girl was carefully placed in an am.
bulance and taken to the Chambers Street
Hospital. The mother. whose name is Mrs
Mary Heagney, rushed through the streets
CRYING piteousy: ''Oh, my darling. my darling
child: rescued. rescued" The little thing told
the men as they were placing her in the ambu-
l.. 49, hnr hr.,% 80 l. ~.