The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-08-24
NEW YORK'S HORROR
Sudden Collapse of a Big Build
ing in Park Place.
CRUSHED AND BURNED TO DEATH
Shaken by Heavy Machinery On the
Upper Floors the Structure Gives
Way Upon Inmates and Pedcs-
trians--Fire Blazed Through the
Fallen Mass.

New YORK, Aug. 24.-Nearly hun
debris from the burned buildings on
Park Place. which collapsed on Satur-
day afternoon. Two companies of fire.
men are kept at their 'dreary task search
ing for bodies. Thus far seventeen bodies
have been taken out of the ruins, of
which these have been identified
The Dead.
Gibbs, Charles, years old, of No. 227 Grecn-
Nioh street.
Heagney, Annie, years old, of No. 65 Park
Plaee.
Sattery, Michael. IS years old, OF Eighty
ninth street and Park aveaas-
A. D. Peterson. son of the p1,p-tetor OF the
restaurant in one of the buildings, agod Fl.
George Lowe, of Brooklyn. aged Is years.
Gustave Zickler, of $40 Washington street,
Hoboken.
Leonard Cole, of Bedford Avenue Brooklyn.
Heidrich Jacob, Of ls5 East One Hundred
and Eighth street.
Whser, Otto, aged "a years, OF lOs East
5relte, Charles, aged l5 years, of ias Essex
Etreet.
Herch, Frank, aged 80 years, of III First
street
Hageny, Charles, agod 10 years, OF O5 Park
place.
Eberle, Philip, aged le years, of 40 South
Fourth street, Brooklyn.
Barry, John, 35 years old. offs Grand street.
Derschopki Abraham, A. years old, Of lil
Delaney street.
! Steiner, Gustav, 20 years old, of eli East One
Hundred and Seventh street.
Tho Injured.
These rooplo were treated at Chambors
Etrcet hospital and kept there:
Barrett, Miller r., 40 years, of johnson City
.!enn., and 100 West Fiftieth street, compound
fracture Of skull.
Heagney, Mary, years, 6l Park Place; lace.
rated scalp, fractured rib and confusion over
eyc.
Eorrell, Frank, 1s years, Thlrty-third street,
near Second avenue; confusion of chest aud
broken rib.
These people were treated a. Chambers Street
hospital and went horne
Adelbrook, Bernard, 81 years, III Eldrldge
street; lacerated wound of nose. Diswasher In
restaurant.
Baumgartner, Louis, "a years, IS West Eley.
snth street. compound fracture of skull
Bernard, Louis, "a years, Go West Eleventh
street, lacersted elbow aad scalp.
Goldberg, Thomas fractured clavicle.
Gottlet, Maurice, II years, 279 West Fourth
street, fractured collar boupt
Link, John, of Engine company 2T; lncerated
wound of eye.
s;heehan, John, 20 years. Of FAN River, Mass;
hheerated wound of eyebrow. Butcher in res
hAurant.
Smith, William, 30 years, OF Brooklyn; lace
rnted check and head.
Williod. John, 81 years, $50 Madison street;
punctured wound in arm.
unknown man, o. years, full faco, gray
hair and mustache, black diagonal coat and
west brown striped trousers, white overshirt,
white turned down collar and black silk tic;
Sls.ls aud a pair Of eyeglasses found in his
pockets.
Cleaning Away the Debris.
The fremen and laborers are working
diligently, but are making poor pro.
gTess, owing to the heavy machinery in
Ehe ruins. 1t will probably be neces-
sary to use derTicks to get the machinery
and iron girders out of the way.
The Cause.
That is the story. The official report
of the police department ascribes the ac-
lcident to an explosion OF chemicals, but
the n,ortarlees bricks, the heavy presses
ON the upper floors and the veritable ac-
counts of tho trembling of the walls
under their use tell the true explana-
tion. No ordinary explosion in drug
lgists stock could have so wrecked and
and torn building that had any right
10 stand.
The destroyed edfice, called the Tay- |
flor building, was numbered GS, 10, ~ |
and n Park place and was stuated be-
tween College place and Greenwich
street. There was a wild rush among
those in that portion of the building
that remained standing when the rum
!ble and roar and crash of the falling
walls sounded In their ears MANY Of |
the worRInen were eating their lunches,
tOthers We're preparing to depart for
hheir homes.
There were fire escapes on the Green.
ct. &c =,
first 10 reach these were the employees
of the art department of Liebler & |
Maass, some eighteen in number. They
had been at work on the third floor of |
as Park place.
Next to be rescued were eight girls |
who were employees in the Lindsay type
foundry. The front brick wall Of the |
building fell in one great mass that ex-
tended clear across Park place to the |
railing of the house on the north side of
the street. The floors, with The fifteen
heavy presses belonging to Liebler 90 |
Maas, with tho heavy machinery used
IN Lindsays typo foundry and in Ellis |
d McDonald's Lalla Rookh Pattern |
company, with all the weight usually |
In the lofts of such buildings, went |
straight down, and buried beneath this |
mass were the bodies of men and women, |
victims Of the cheap building craze that |
prevailed generation ago.
An Extraordinary Sight.
People in the buildings opposite had
also heard the cracking that preceded |
the collapse and had gone 10 the win
dows to see what had caused it. Some
of them saw an extraordinary sight
They saw young man go down with
the wall, waving his arms as he fell and
they saw him get up and walk away,
and they wondered. He was fortu-
nate one. His name is Louis Bernhardt,.
of No. 55 West Eleventh street. He
worked as stone gTainer for Liebler &
Mas.
The Kisses of the escape of steam and
Hashes from broken electric light wires
added TO the confusion. The street car
rails on College place became charged
by coutaet with these wires and truck
6orses passing over them danced about
One man caught hold of the end of a
broken wire and stnnd ON nnn nf tl,n