The herald., 1894-10-11
COLLAPSED BY THE GALE,
A Terrible Catastrophe in
New York.
An Eight-Story Brick Block
Blown Down.
Eight People Killed and a Score of
others Injured.
The Building Had just Been Completed. /.
Too Much Sand in tho Nor
tar to Hold the Bricks
Together.

| building on the other side, No. 76
Both places were filled with sleeping
tenants. who were buried under the
tremendous ruins. The crash of the
falling walls aroused the neighbors,
who, scantily clad, began the work Of
rescue, which was continued well into
the day by the police and tremen.
They mined far under the bricks and
beams and mortar, and from the ruins
they took the dead and injured.
The dead are:
/. l. Abrams, 40 years OF age.
| Mrs. Bessie Abrams, aged AZ, vile OF
| A. III. Abrams.
Rose Abrams, aged 18 years, daughter
of /. /. Abrams.
Mrs. Bertha Karoness, 30 years, board
driven into the abdomen.
Abraham Karoness, her son, years
old.
Solomon Karoness, her son, aged 29
| Mrs. Jennie Stenman, 80 years.
| Meyer Steinrnan, 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.J. Karoness, badly bruised.
Michal 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 Doolnn, right arm broken,
George Hobensky. scalp wound.
The missing: Eli Abrams, aged 7,
con OF l. l. Abrams.
1t was at o'clock yesterday afternoon
that the last hail was placed in the roof,
and then there was great rejoicing. The
woTkmen put five or six flags up 30 that
the bright stripes would hang over the
streets, and two kegs of beer were then
| taken up to the top story to add to the
general rejoicines.
70 this mornings disaster there seem
to have been two eye-witnesses, and the
stories they tell agree in every psrtic-
ular.
Thomas Walsh is the watchman at
Hecker's stables in the rear OF the
/ house which fell. 1t was just $3.50
o'clock when the disaster occurred. II
was wild night. The rain fell in tor
rents and the wind blew gale. The
watchman says that there was a sort OF
mysterious half-light in the air which
he cannot describe. By it, through the
blackness OF the night. he says, as he
was preparing to make his rounds of the
stable. he could see the side walls of
this new building, and the slanting
sheets of rain as they beat down upon it.
"Pll never forget that sight," said
Walsh. Even as he looked there cama
a change in the appearance OF the side
of the wall. 1t seemed to the watch
man that big black line suddenly ap-
peared disgonally across it from top to
boston. Before Walsh could realize
that the dark line was crack in the
wall there was low rumbling sound
and the seven stories of the building
crumbled before his eyes. For mo.
ment Walsh stood amazed. A cloud OF
dust went up, but the pelting rain
botted it out before the watchman
could recover himself TO re-eater the
stable.
Walter ]. Bryan of II Monroe street
was returning home and stood at the
corner of Pike aud Monroe streets, so
feet away, when the building fell. He
saw the big crack in the wall too, sud
saw the building topple for an instant
before it fell.
THAT building" said the witness,
"was more badly putt than any that
was ever put up by Buddensiek."
| Buddsnsiek 10 the man that went to
sta,e's prision for IS years for using
saud in the building OF houses instead OF
mortar.
When the policemen patrolling in the
vicinity reached the scene OF the catas-
trophe, called hither by the noise OF
the falling building, they found, extend
ing half way across the street, mass
of debris. On top of it, 80 feet above
the street Level, two women and man
were making an effort to get to the
street, while from the interior OF the
pile came mufflsd cries for help. Calls
were sent in for fire engines and ambu-
lances.
La the two story store at the south
there lived two families, that of Isaac
Abrams, consisting of 10 persons. In
tho upper part of the house lived
Michael Karoness and his wife, their
son David and his wife, two other Bons,
named Solomon and Abram, q daughter
Annie, and two boarders, Jacob Abrams
and George Rooisoviiz.
The three-story house to the north,
some Of the occupants of which were
also injured, had on the ground floor the
family of Michael j. McGuirk, con sist-
ing OF five people all OF W hom slept in
the extension, which was crushed in.
ALI of them, however, escar ed uninjured.
On the second floor there was the fam.
lily OF Joseph Brady, Consisting of him
eelf, his wife and four children and one
boarder. All of these were sleeping in
the extension. They were pinned in
their beds when the craah game. All OF