The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-11
KILLS EIGHT PEOPLE INSTANTLY
While the Owner and the Contractor
Will Probably Go to the
Penitentiary.

falling walls aroused the neighbors, who,
scantily clad, began the work of rescue,
which was continued well into the day by
police and fremep. They mined far under
the bricks and beams and mortar, and
from the ruins they took the dead and In
jured. The dead are:
l. l. Abrams, 40 years of age.
Mrs. Bessie Abrams, aged At, wife OF A.
81. Abrams.
Rose Abrams, Is years, daughter of ]. l.
Abrams.
Mrs. Bertha Karoness, 80 years, board
driven into her abdomen.
Abraham Karoness. her son, years old.
Solomon Karoness. her son. aged %.
Mrs. Jennie Steinman, 80 years.
Meyer Steinman, aged 81.
The Injured are:
Alexander Abrams, cut and bruised
about face and body.
James Brady. broken arm.
May Brady. cut and bruised.
Thomas j. Brady, right leg injured and
cut about BODY.
Loretta Brady, badly cut about face.
@J. Jacob Karoness, badly bruised.
Michael Karoness, cut, and Injured in.
ternally.
David Karoness, scalp wound and
bruised.
Fannie Karoness. bruised and cut.
Carl Karoness, nose broken and head
bruised.
unknown woman. injured about the
| body.
Timothy Dooan. right arm broken.
George Robensky, scalp wound.
Eli Abrams, aged seven, son of /. !.
| Abrams. is missing.
1t was at O'Clock yesterday afternoon
that the last nail was placed in the roof of
the new building, and then there was
great rejoicing. The workmen put five or
six flags up, so that the bright stripes
would hang over the streets, and two kegs
of beer were taken up to the top story 10
add to the general rejoicings.
| To this mornings disaster there seems
| to have been two eye-witnesses and the
story they tell agrees in every particular.
Thomas Walsh is watchman at Hecker's s
stables, in the rear of the house which
fell. 1t was just $3.50 O'Clock when the dis
aster occurred. 1t was a wild night. The
rain fell In torrents and the wind blew a
| gale. The watchman says that there was
a sort oil mysterious half-light in the air
which he cannot describe. By it. through
the blackness of the night, he saws. he was
| preparing 20 make his rounds OF the stable
when he could see plainly the side walls of
this big new building and the slanting
sheets OF rain as they beat down upon il.
III never forget that sight," said Walsh.
Even as be looked there came a change in
the appearance of the side of the wall. 7,
seemed to the watchman that a big black
line suddenly appeared across it from the
top to the bottom. Before Walsh could
realize that the dark line was a crack in
the wall there was low rumbing sound.
and the seven stories Of the building
crumbled before his eyes. For moment
Walsh stood amazed. A cloud of dust
went up, but the peltiDg rain blotted 1t ont
before the watchman could recover him.
self enough to re-enter the stable.
Walter j. Bryan of II Monroe street was
returning home, and he stood at the corner
of Pike and Monroe streets, ffty feet
away. when the building fell. He saw the
| big crack in the wall. too, and saw the
building topple for an instant before il
| fell.
THAT building" said the witness, was
more badly put up than any that was ever
| put I'D by Buddensi ek."
State prison for eighteen years for using
sand in the building of houses instead of
NOR ar.
When the policemen patroling the vicip
ity reached the scene Of the catastrophe,
called thitber by the noise of the falling
building, they found extending half way
across the street mass Of debris. On ton
of 1t, thirty feet above street level. two
women and man were making an effort
to getto the streer, while from the interior
of The pile came muffled cries for helm.
! Calls were sent in for tire engines and am
| balances.
| In the iwo-story store at the south there
lived two families; that of Isaac Abrams.
con sisting Of ten persons, including Mr..
Abrams mother and brother. In the up.
per part of the house lived Michael Kar o.
ness and his wife. their son David and his
wife. two other sons named Solomon and
Abram. Annie and two boarders, Jacob
Abrams and George Robisovitz.
| The three story house to the north, some
| of the occupants of which were also in
| jured, had on the ground floor the family
of Michael j. McGuirk. consisting of five
| people, all of whom slept in the extension.
which was crushed in. All of them. how.
ever, escaped unDjured. Ou the second
| floor there was the family of Joseph
Brady, consisting of bimself. his wife and
| four children, and one boarder. All of
| these were sleeping In the extension.
| They we're pinned in their beds when the
| crash came. All OF them are more or less
| Djured, but the little boy. Joseph Brady.
| is the most seriously hurt His head was
caught beneath beam and crushed and
| his left leg was broken.
| The people as fast as they were rescued
were taken into the grammar school
near by and attended by doctors from the
| hospitals. Those who were most badly
INJURED were taken into the hospital,