Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1894-01-04
WHOLE NO. 2AH
THE WALL FELL.

| Inc NOrbn ~hAA OI tMe new EY331-
GfOn Ger House ON south Ava.
nue. Falls and Carries Eomzr
| Masons with L..
| Without warning the north wall on,
the new car stable of the South jersey
Traction COMPANY fell Friday afteRs
noon and carried down with 1t four saf
J the masoDs who were at work UPON
the sesffolding. All of them ere merD
or less IL jured.
The accident occurred Just efte1 u
O'Clock, and PIONEER reporter has-
lily made his way there to investigssm
the matter. Arriving at the scene TIN
reporter went Immediately to thu
house of Joseph Towser, directly olA
posite the scene of the accident, wherD
the injured men had been taken.
The injured we're James Cox. Harry
Johnson, Thomas Blackwood anR
Moses Mulford. With the exceptions
OF Cox the injuries of the men were
chiefly of bruises, cuts, scars and n.
general shaking up.
Er-
of FairtoD, was driving along and he
Immediately gave his professional. at
tention to the men. Dr.. j. O. Appel
gate was sent for and promptly put I'm
an appearance.
Cox was found to be the most sever ks,
ly Injured. His face was covered with
| blood from an ugly scalp wound, aRE.
several cuts upon bis face, and cozs--
planned Of his back considerably. Ths7
| physicians made careful examinations
| and dressed the wounds and the in-
jured man was taken to his home, NO.
l0S Church street, In Lee Haines' stosM,
wagon. 1t was found that the Eaosk
serious injury received by Cox was Az
injury. to his back, over the right kid
ney, which must have resulted from hfx
being struck sharply with piece OF;
the timber OF the scaffolding. Fhs-
| physicians, however, do not think 81 81
the injuries OF Cox will prove very
serious.
| The walls of the car stable are ons,
hundred feet deep, and eighteen fest
from the foundation walls, the lsefs r.
5sing i've and a half feet high frasA
the bottom os the cellar. The soN A.
wall was finished. and Line masonF,
were putting the last courses upon thz
north wall. Had the accident not oe-
Cured until an hour later, the masonx
would have finished their work art
been away from the building. ThE
walls were in thickness, eighteen
inches.
Messrs. Coz, johnson, Black wooF
and Mulford, were at work upon the
wall nearest the stree John Miller.
Lem. Loper, Harry Nichols and ChaE
Hustled were further east on the sa xSs
scaffold. William Johnson, snoth az
mason, was down 10 the cellar By ths.
mortar bed.
Without any warning there was a
cracking sound, and fifty feet Of sAa
wall fell in, the mass of bricks anfk
mortar tumbling down, twenty-thrss
feet below In the cellar. The mid ala
of this wall fell ftst, iusran II follove6
by the ends. The four mssons wins
were injured, had no opportunity Of
escaping and were carried downwar&
with the debris. The other five seeing
the danger, and thinking that the eA-
tire wall would go in, ran the lengta
of the seaffoIding and jumped ever tlaa
east wall to the groun1 below
Cox, who was injured more than tns
Others, was at work upon the emo o8
the wall nearest the street He v@aa
carried down in the cellar, head d. sns-
ward, snd completely covered froR
sigot in the mass of bricks How a
escaped with his life seems marvellous
In fact the escape of any of TIE mem
seems almos5 ineredib
The other nlasons, and those stanI-
ing about, immediately began rsii. g-
ing their fellow workmen The o9lr
manner in which the rescuers eoalE
locate Cox, was ty his cries, his body
being wholly obscured.
The car house is being built on aosa-
tract by Lemuel johnson and the soM
sill, of course, fall upon him.
The cause of the accident Is psuss-
ably due TO frozen mortar. as the rsa-
sons have been working during the ex-
treme cold weather.