Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-10
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Fall of Buildings and Loss ofLife.

Fall of Buildings and Loss or Lille.
NEW YORK. Oct. 10.-In the storm
of wind and rain, which swept over the
city at $3.50 O'Clock this morning, big
seven.story brick building in course OF
erection, at "a Munroe street, collapsed
on brick tenement and a dwelling
house which fanked it on either side.
There were nearly twenty persons in
the tenement house anil ten in rear
extension to the house on the other side
of the collapsed building. Both were
utterly crushed. Ten bodies have
been taken from the ruins, two of them
mutilated almost beyond recognition,
and at least fifteen persons are under
treatment for severe injuries received.
All were asleep when the crash came.
The whole of the back part of the
extension to the dwelling was wrecked
by the masses of brick, iron and timber
which crashed down. Among the de-
bris were heard the shrieks of the men,
women and children imprisoned there.
Fire companies went to work in front
of the building while others started in
to dig out the unfortunate victims. AT
ter two hours work Annie Korones was
rescued. In the front of the building
girls hand was uncovered after an
hours hard labor. The fremen were
able to reach her and give her brandy,
but it was an hour aud a-half after that
before they were able to rescue her
from the broken rafters and beams
that imprisoned her. Louis and Carl
Abrahams were buried in the ruins and
remained there two hours. Before that
time the fremen were able to give them
whisky through narrow opening.
At half-past seven o'clock there were
only two bodies believed to be in the
ruins. One of the two people impris-
oned was known to be dead, but the
cries of the other could be distinctly
heard. She encouraged the 6remen as
they worked, calling to them, "We're
not dead yet; but for Gods sake be
quick" In the dwelling house on the
north side of the spot where the fac
tory building stood, the wreck was not
so serious. A large portion of the side
walls had crashed down from the rear
end of it, completely burying the Brady
family with the exception of Mr.. and
Mrs. Brady. Among the children
there was only one serious casualty,
though all were very badly bruised.
Fourteen-year-old James Brady had
mis- right arm broken and his body
crushed about ae chsst by q mass of
falling bricclkiwark. me injuries to the
CHI ether members of the family consisted
merely of more or less severe cuts and
bruises. Mrs. Koroni, when her dead
body was taken from under the ruins,
was found to be horribly mutilated and
crushed about the lower limbs. Meyer
Steinman was brought to the surface
apparently just moment before he
breathed his last. His features were
distorted and his teeth firmly clenched
as though he had died in great agony.
The iremen are still at work on the
ruins, looking for the persons who
are missing.
ENGLEwooD, N. j., Oct. AT an
early hour this morning during the
prevalence of a terrific gale, the large
brick chimney of Mr.. T. B. Kerr's
house on Chestnut street was blown
down and the debris fell through the
roof upon Miss Mary Kerr. The crash
awoke the other inmates of the house
hold and, repairing to the chamber of
Miss Kerr, they found her buried be-
meath pile of brick. She was found
to be beyond medical aid and expired
a few minutes before nine o'clock.