Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-10-19
BUILDING C0LLAPSES
Seven Stories Crumble Crushing
Other Structures.
NINE DEAD, A SCORE INJURED
A New Eight-storn Building Goes Down
in u storm of Wind and Rain Csus.
ing Death and Destruction.

storm was at Its height, Just before 4
O'clock this morning, the new eight
story building at "a Monroe street col
lapsed. bearing down upon tho house
at ~ Monroe, and i'll the rear extern
sion of the building on the other side.
No. rs. Both places were filed with
sleeping tenants, who were buried
under tremendous ruins. Tho crash of
the falling walls aroused the ighbors,
who, scantily clad. began the work of
rescue, which was continued well into
the day by police and tiremen. They
mined far under the bricks aud beams
and mortar, and from tho ruins they
took dead and injured.
Dead and Injured.
The dead are: |. |. Abrams, 40 years of
age: Mrs. Bessie Abrams aged Il, wife OF
A. Ii. Abrams; Rose Abrams. Is years old.
daughter OF |. |. Abrams; Mrs. Bertha
karoness. 80 years board driven into her
abdomen; Abraham baroness, her son.
years old; Solomon baroness, her son. aged
20; Mrs. Jennie Steinman 30 years OF age;
Meyer Steinman, aged 81.
1he in iured are: Alexander Abrams, cut
ana bruised about tho face and body; James
brduy, MAY cut anu
bruised; Thomas j. Brady, right log IN
jured ana cut about the body; Loretta
Brady, badly cut about the face; j. jacob
baroness, badly bruised Michae. karo-
ness, cut and injured internally; David
baroness, scalp wound and bruised; Fan
ME Karoness, bruised and cut: Carl karo-
ness. nose broken and head bruised; un
known woman. injured about the body;
Timothy Doolan, right arm broken;
George Robepsky, scalp wound.
The missing is: Eiiza Abrams, aged I.
dau ghter OF l. / Abrams.
Completed but One Day.
1t was O'clock yesterday afternoon
that the last nail was placed in the
The workmen pat five or six flags up.
so that the bright stripes would hang
over the streets, and two kegs OF beer
we're taken up to the top of the story
to add to the general rejoicing.
Stories of Rye illnesses.
To this mornings disaster there
seems to have been two eye-witnesses,
and their stories agree In every par
ticular.
Thomas Walsh is q Waterman at
Hecker's stables, in the rear OF the
house which fell. 1t was just $3.50
O'Clock when the disaster occurred.
1t was wild night. The rain fell In
| torrents and the wind blew n gale.
The watchman says there was sort of
mysterious half light in the air, which
he can not describe. By 1t he could see
through the blackness of the night
He says he was preparing to make his
rounds of the stable, alongside the
walls of this big new building, and
watched the slanting sheets OF the
rain as they beat down upon it.
"I'il never forget that eight" said
Walsh. Even as he looked there came
change in the appearance OF the side
of the wall. 1t seemed to the Waterman
that big black line suddenly APP
peared diagonal'y across 1t from the top
to the bottom. Before Walsh could
realize that the dark line was crack
In the wall there was Il low, rum bling
sound and seven stories of the building
crumbled before his eyes A cloud OF
dust went up, but the Delting rain
blotted 1t out before the Waterman
could recover himself enough to re-
enter the stable.
When the policemen patrolling In
the vicinity reached the scene of the
catastrophe, called thither by the noise
of the falling building, they found ex-
tending half way across the street q
mass OF debris. On the top Of 1t, 81
feet above the street level, two women
and II man where making an effort tc
get to the street, while from the in
terror OF the pile came mui1ied cries fol
help. The calls were sent in for fire
engines aud ambulances.
Inmatea of the Houses
In the two-story building south
were two families, that of Isaa,
Abrams, consisting of 10 persons, In.
Guiding Mr.. Abrams mother ant
brother. In the upper part of tn,
house lived Michael baroness ant
wife, their son David and his wife, tw,
other sons named Solomon aud Abram
Annie and two boarders, Jacol
Abrams and George Robensky.
) The thres-s,ory house To the north
some of the occupants of which wer
also injured, had IN the ground foo
+ the rami,y OF Michael J. MEG uirll, con
: sis,ing OF five people, all of whom slep
l in the extension which was crushed in
: All of them, however, escaped unln
jurea. On the secoud floor there wa
4 the family of Joseph Brady. consistiu
of himself, his wife and four children
r and one boarder. All of these wer
: sleeping in the extension. They wer
pinned In by timbers. All are more q
Z less iniu cd, but the little boy, JOSEPH
8 Brady, Ia the most sariously hurt. HI
head WAS caught teaeath n beam an
a crushed. and his leit leg WAS broker
o The people AZ fast os they were rescue
It were taken into Grumercy scho'
e near by and afforded to by docto
rom hospitals. Those who were mo,
badly Injured were taken to hospital
Pnifui Cries for Help.
D.. To add to the horror of IL there WI
the constant cry of the people impri
y oned beneath the mass imploring ii
i men to hurry and get them out.
e The midst of the cries. there came IL
a voices of children at times. On
there was weak voice raised
4. prayer.
# The first body, that of Bertha Kar
N ness, was taken out just after o'cloc
Al Hall an hour later the firemen eau
n upon S-year-old Alexander Abrams
At a cramped position in one corner
"a what had been his sleeping room. II
10 boy could talk to the men aud he sal
,e Don't mind Inc, father and moth
"a are back of me somewhere" but {
al men worked OF and In 10 minutes tn
had the little fellow free and carri
r. him Into the schooihouse.
ne The second corpse recovered W
20 that of Mir. Sieinman. Then the boz
a of Abraham karoness, years old, "
taken out and an hour later that