Evening journal., 1891-08-24

were occupied by lheDler x Mass, llthOga
raphers and at least eightysix and prob
ably over hundred persons were ia the
building when the accident occurred
All Unconscious OF Peril
II was just the noon hoar and the res
taurant was fairly well filed. Il accom-.
modated sixty persons. In the windows
overhead girls and men could be seen
catching breath Of air as they munched
their luncheons. There were several peo.
pie passing in the street, among them
woman with an infant Ia baby carriage.
Three little children were playing together
in front Of the drug store, and horse al.
tached to an express wagon was standing
by the curb. Above the noise OF traffic in
the street could be heard the din OF lieblel
q Mass ten big presses on the nppel
floors. The building vibrated aud trem.
bled with every revolution, just as it had
done for months before.
Then there came q low rumhling sound.
some who heard IL say il was accompanied
by heavy report, as of q cannon fired. II
was followed by crash of falling walls
and the grating, rasping sound of twisting
beams and timhgrs. A dark cloud OF dust
filled the air anu rose TO the height Of the
housetops. Before it had cleared fire burst
from the debris and leaped over to the ad.
| joining buildings TO the west.
Came Down in an Armchair.
The street was in an uproar in an in.
slant A dozen or more who had been
slightly injured were helped into adjacent
stores. One man was disc psered standing
to his waist in the debris He had a bad
cash in his head, He was Failed out and
cared for.
Another had rolled down from the sum
NIT Of the wreck in big armchair. He
was helped to his feet comparatively un
/ hurt The mother with her baby ia the
carriage and the three little children at
| play could not be seen. A waiter who had
escaped from the restaurant said there
was no one left but himself to tell the
tale. A leg of the horse by the curb could
be seen sticking up through the debris.
The fire gained headway with great
rapidity. When the fire apparatus came
changing to the scene the air was so fun OF
smoke that the drivers could hardly see
| further than their horses heads.
Girls aud men were climbing from the
windows Of the houses adjacent to the
wreck by the fire escapes. The building
70 and = Park place, adjoining the wreck,
was all ablaze. Ambulances came rattling
| up and carried away those who had been
badly injured, while Police Captain Slayin
| appeared promptly with a squad Of men,
who established fire lines and assisted tl.psC
in peril TO safety. In an hour the fire was
under control.
The Rescue OF Little Mary.
One Of the most remarkable incidents o
the day was the rescue alive Of little nine
year-old Mary Hengney after she had beer
covered with debris for three and hal
hours. During his work Fireman EdYart
Mulligan heard a faint cry below him
Somebody was living in that fearful wreck
The word passed through the thrilled and
excited crowd. Fast as the men worked
It seemed as though they never would get
through. At last they came upon a litti,
arm clad in soiled and torn cotton. Their
a face was uhclosed-the face OF a child
still alive and her eyes blinking at the
sudden Light. little cheer went up from
the laboring hremen With might and
main they flung away the bricks The
ambulance surgeon reached down and
pressed to the bleeding lips a glass Of
water The child drank IT, Her body was
still inclosed in timbers, but she could
speak, and her first words were about her
little sister.
my sister is down in there she said,
"can't you get her outsn
The dremen dug on. Mulligan, who had
first heard the feeble call for help, was the
first to get his hands around the little body
and lift It into the air AS the crowd saw
the living face what a cheer went upi Il
was the first and only person rescued alive
from the debris
The Heroine of the Horror.
The fireman, covered with dirt and sweat
and stripped to his undershirt, but look.
ing the hero for all Of that, raised the child
high in his arms and bore her to the end
of the street She was little Mary Heag-
ney, the plumbers nine-year-old daughter,
and just across, looking down upon the
exact spot where she had been overwhelm.
ed. was the home Of her agonized parents.
From the windows Of the house her mother
and her elder sister were gazing with
strained eyes upon her. She recognized
them by waving her little hand.
Il heard my little sister Annie crying
after the house fell on us she said, ''and
/ soothed her as long as | could. After a
while she stopped and I am afraid she Il
dead Won't somebody please 90 and seef'
Little Mary's fears were well founded
Fifteen minutes later the firemen drew
out from the mass just next TO where
Mary had been uncovered the body Of
little Annie Heagney, four years old.
1t Was an Impressive Scene.
The scene early this morning was an i'm.
| pressive one. A huge arc light hung di-
rectly over the ruins and brilliantly illu-
minated the arena Of death. Beneath its
rays the Italians labored faithfully. A
| little pile of empty pine collins near at
hand seemed to expectantly await the
efforts Of the dusky laborers The street
for a block was piled high with debris.
/ Only about a quarter Of the rubbish has
been cleared away and scores OF bodies
may yet be hidden in the ruins
Two More Bodies Discovered.
This morning the Italians working on
| the College place side discovered tsle bodies
| OF two men buried several feet beneath
them by a mass of broken timbers. The
bodies were badly eharred, and one man
was clasping the others hand. They had
met death together. Owing TO the great
mass Of beams and bricks above them the
bodies were not recovered for several hours.
These two swell the list to eighteen.
A Strange Coincidence.
A strange coincidence is the fact that
fourteen years ago the confectionery store
/ Of Greenfield g. Son, 63 Barclay street, al
most directly in the rear Of the present
horror, collapsed in much the same way,
snd twenty lives we're lost
The Dead May Number Sixty.
From the increasing number OF persons
who are reported as missing with reason
| to believe that they were in the destroyed
building when it fell it seems likely that
/ the total fatalities may number as many