The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-17
UNDER The RUINS.
Eight Killed and NearIy a score
Injured.

NEW YORK, oct. 1O.-While the storm
was at its hight, just before 4 o'clock IN s
morning. a new eight-story building at Il
Monroe-st. collapsed. bearing down with
it the house at y Monroe-st. and the rear
extension of the building on the other
side, &c. Both places We're flied with
sleeping tenants, who were buried under
the tremendous mass Of ruins. The crash
of the falling walls aroused the neighbors.
who scantily clad, began the work of res
cue. which was contlnu well into the day
by police and firemen. They mined fer
under the bricks and beams and mortar
and from out the ruins they took the dead
I and injured.
The dead:
IL ABRAMS. forty years OF are.
MRS. BESSIE ABRAMS. aged forty,
wife of I. l. Abrams.
ROSE ABRAMS. aged eighteen, daugh-
ter Of / l. and Mrs. b ssie Abrams.
MRS. BERTHA KARONES, aged fifty
years. board driven into abdomen.
ABRAHAM KARONES, her son, nine
years old.
SOLOMON KARoNEs, her son, aged
nine.
MRS. JENNIE sTEINMAN, aged sixty
years.
MEYER sTEINMAN. aged thirty-one.
her son.
The injured:
ALEX ABRAMS. cut and bruised about
the body.
LOUIS ABRAMS. badly cut about the
face: scalp wounds and bruised on body.
HERMAN ABRAMS, cut and bruised
about face and body.
JAMES BRADY. broken arm and scalp
MAY BRADY, cut and bruised about
face and breast.
THOMAS j. BRADY, right leg injured
and cut about body
LORETTA BRADY, badly cut about
JACOB KARONEs. badly bruised.
MICHAEL KARONES, cut and injured
internally,
DAVID KARoNEs. scalp wound and
bruised.
CARL KARONES, nose broken and
JACOB KARoNEs, leg broken and
head bruised.
Unknown woman. injured about body.
TIMOTHY DOOLAN, right arm broken.
GEORGE ROBENSKY, scalp wound,
Ell Abrams, ,ged seven, son OF 1. ,.
Abrams. is missing.
The new building at "a NIonroe-st. was
eight stories high. Il had been erected
oy a AronOwitz, proprietor Of a foundry
about a block away. He built the new
building for a foundry and its completion
was celebrated yesterday by hanging out
flags and tapping a keg Of beer. Arono-
WIZ was arrested this afternoon and ar
raigned before Justice Hogan in Essex
market police court by Policeman Nc
Carthy. In spite OF the fact that Arono-
WITT was charged wiki homicide Justice
Hogan discharged him. He, however, IS
sued subpoenas for Ar0nOwltZ and David
A. Molsky the contractor who put UP the
building. to appear before him tomorrow
afternoon.
The structure, it is alleged by Thomas
Brady, whose family occupied the rear
of 76. was weak. and he says that he had
made COMPLAINTS about IL To the building
inspector but that no attention had been
paid TO them,
The damage at Long Branch is great.
About one hundred feet of piling of the
new iron pier was washed out. The bulk
head between the Brighton and Grand
view hotels is badly wrecked. a cut of
about twenty-five feet was made in the
buff on the east end property. About
twenty-five feet of the West End hotel was
blown off and the old Oliver cottage ad-
iolrlng was unrOOfed. So also were the
cottages of II. H. Painter of Washington,
ID. c.. and +. NJ. Shaffer Of New York.
Many bathing houses were washed out
to sea.