The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-10
LAST EDITION
-FOUR KILLED.
Collapse Of a Seven-Story
Building in New York.
Many Persons Buried in the Ruins
Nine Badly Injured.
Bv The Associated Press.


this morning n seven-story DuilHing in
course of construction at No. "a Munroe
street, was blown down by the gale.
1t crashed through two-story bull
ding at No. AZ, demolishing it completely.
Two families with boarders lived at No.
72. They were all buried In
the ruins. So far four have been taken
out dead and nine badly injured
One dead body has been identified. 1t is
that of a woman, Bertha Ko~ones, aged 40.
The other bodies are of a man and boy.
Workmen are still digging in the ruins.
The building that fell was defective aud
frequent complaints had been made
about it.
Firemen worked for hours on the ruins
to rescue those who were still alive and
to get the bodies of those who were dead.
Up to z o'clock only four bodies have been
recovered, although there were several
taken from the building who were injyred.
The list of the dead and injured up to
that hour is as follows:
The dead:
BERTHA KoRoNEs, 40 years old.
Unknown man, about 80 years old.
Unknown boy, about is years old.
Unknown woman, taken out dead.
The injured:
GEORGE RoBINovIrz, 80, back sprained.
LOUIS ABRAHAMs, Y, leg broken and
contusions.
DAVID KoRoNEs, "a, cut about the head
and body.
FANNY KoRoNEs, %, badly cut about
head and body.
JOSEPH BRADY, IA, head crushed and
leg broken.
TIMOTHY LOGAN, 16, cut and bruised.
LOUIS s. ABRAHAMs, 20, head and body
confused.
MAURICE ABRAHAMs, II, head and body
confused.
Besides when the full details of the Ca
lamity are known, there will be others
dead and injured. The dead are still be-
meath the weight of debris and the injur-
ed have been carted away to the hospitals
or else they have been taken to the homes
of friends.
The seven-story building which fell
has been in course Of erection for the last
two months. 1t was to have been occu-
pied when completed by foundry.
Ever since the foundation was laid
there have been complaints on
every side that the structure was
weak, fiimsy affair, and there were many
who said that it WAS their belief that it
would fall before the roof could be put on.
They certainly were not far from right,
for the roof had been completed just 10
hours when the building crashed In.
Thomas Walsh is the watchman ct
Heckers stables which Is just IN the rear
of the house which fell. He says it was
just $3.50 when it collapsed, for he looked
at his watch when he left the door of the
stable to cross the little yard beside it. 1t
was wild night, the rain fell In torrents
and the wind blew gale.
The watchman buttoned his coat about
him and held his lantern close to his body.
In buttoning his coat about him Walsh
was compelled to lift his head up. II was
black night all around, but he says
that there was sort OF myster-
ious half light in the air which he
could not describe and he could see per-
fectly the side wall of the big new buiid-
ing and the slanting sheets OF rain as
they beat down upon it. "I'll never for
get that sight," says Walsh. Even
as he looked there came a change
in the appearance OF the side of the
wall 1t seemed TO the watchman that
big black line suddenly appeared diagon-
ally across the side wall of the building
from top to bottom. Before Walsh could
realize that the dark Ifne WIZ crack IN
the wall, there was low rumbling sound
and the seven stories OF the building
crumbled before the watchman's eyes.
For moment Walsh stood dazed. A
cloud of dust went up, but the pelting
rain blotted it out before the watchman
could recover himself enough to re-enter
! the stable.
Walter J. Bryant was returning TO HE
home, and he stood at the corner OF Pike
and Monroe street, tifty feet away, when
| the building fell. He saw the big crack
in the wall, too, and saw the building
collapse.
In the two-story house, "a Monroe
street, there were two families with two
boarders. The lower part OF the house
was occupied by the Abraham family. The
family consisted OF Isaac Abraham, aged
! AZ; Bessie, his wife,aged 40 years, and their
children Lewis j., 20; Maurice,19; Minnie
! IS; Herman, II; Alexander, s; and Eli, Z;
| years. Then there were Jennie Steinmen,
| Mr.. Abraham's mother, 80 years old, and
her son, Meyer. 81 years old. These two
boarded with the Abraham family.
Inthe upper part OF the house was tho
the Korones family, consisting Of Michael
and Bertha, husband and wife, aged about
46 years each, with their children, Davis,
| 80; and his wife, Mamie, %; Sole
omon, 21; Karl, 20; Annie, 10; Abraham, 9.
As boarders the family had Jacob, the
brother OF Abra aham, and George Robovitzs
photographer.
The three story house to the north,
where some OF the people were
also injured. had on the ground fioor tse
family OF Michael j. McGunk, consisting
| OF five people, all OF whom slept In the