The record-union., 1894-10-11
sneciaI to the Rrcoep.ux1ox.
5erIaI Used in Its Construction.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
New YORK, Oct. I0.-While the storm
was at it's hight lust before 1 O'Clock this
morning, new eight-story building at
"a Monroe street collapsed. bearing down
upon the house at Y Monroe, and on the
rear extension Of the 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 fire.
men. They mined far under the bricks
and beams and mortar, aud from the
ruins they took the dead aud injured.
The dead are: 1. l. Abrams, 40 years
old; Mrs. Bessie Abrams, aged ~ years,
wife of A. II. Abrams; Rose Abrams, Is
years, daughter of 1. 1. Abrams; Mrs.
Bertha Karoness, 90 years, board driven
into abdomen: Abraham Karoness, her
son, 8 years old; Solomon Karoness, her
son. aged % years; Mrs. Jennie Stein
mad. 30 years; Meyer Steinman, 81 years.
The injured are: Alexander 4 brams,
cut and bruised about the face and body;
James Brady, broken arm; May Brady,
cut and bruised; Thomas j. Brady, right
leg injured and cut about the body; Lor-
eta Brady, badly cut about face; j. j.
Karoness, badly bruised; Michael Karo-
ness, cut and injured internally; David
Karoness. scalp wound and bruised; Fan
ME I\aroness, bruised and cut; Carl Kar-
Oness, nose broken and head bruised;
unknown woman, injured about the
body; Timothy Doolan, right arm broken;
George Robensky, scalp wound.
MISSING. Eli A DramS aged seven sOn
of l. |. Abrams.
1t was 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
that the last nail was placed in the root,
and then there was great rejoicing. The
wOrkmen put five or six flags up so that
the bright stripes would hang over the
streets, and two kegs of beer were taken
up 10 the top story to add to the general
rejOicings.
TO this mornings disaster there seems
to have been two eye witnesses, and the
story they tell agrees in every particular
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. 1t was a wild
night. The rain fell in torrents and the
wind blew a gale. The watchman says
there was sort OF mysterious half light
in the air which. he cannot describe. Bv
it, through the Dlackness OF the night, he
saw, as he was preparing to make his
rounds of the stable, the side walls of this
big 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 came a change
in the appearance of the side of the wall.
1t seemed to the watchman that a big
black line suddenly appeared diagonally
across 1t from top to bottom. Before
Walsh could realize that the dark line
was crack in the wall, there was a low,
rumbling sound, and seven stories of the
H,,Hl Ia ,YN1l,1 ,1ah hafN !, ,fe,o
a moment Walsh stood amazed. 4 cloud
of dust went up, but the pelting rain
blotted it out before the watcnman could
recover himself enough to re-enter the
stable.
Walter j. Bryan of n Monroe street
was returning home, and stood at the
corner of Pike and Monroe streets, fifty
feet away, when the building fell. He
saw the big crack in the wall, too, and
saw the building topple for an instant be-
fore it fell. 1.-The building" said the
witness, was more badly put up than
any that was ever put up by Budden-
Sleek" Buddenseick is the man that
went to States prison for eighteen years
for using sand in the building of houses
instead of mortar.
When policemen patrolling in the vi
cinity reached the scene of the catastro-
phe, called thither by the noise of the
falling building, they found extended
debris. On top oft, thirty 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
muffied cries for help. Calls were sent IN
for fire engines and ambulances. In the
two-story store at the south there lived
two families, that of Isaac Abrams con-
Sisting of ten persons. In the upper part
of the house lived Michael Karoness ana
his wife, their son David and his wife,
two other sons, named Solomon and
Abraln, daughter. Annie, and two
boarders. Jacob Abrams and George
RobinsovitZ.
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. McQuirk, consisting
of five people, all of whom slept in the
extension, which was crushed in. All of
of them, however, escaped uninjured. On
the second floor there is the family of
Joseph Brady, consisting of himself wife
and four children and one boarder. All
of these were sleeping. They were
pinned in their beds when the crash
came. All of them were more or less in
jured. Joseph Brady is the most seri-
ously hurt. His head was caught be-
meath beam and crushed, and his left
leg broken.
The people, as fast as they were res
cued, were taken TO the Grammercy
SCHOOL near Dy, ana attenQeQ by doctors
from the Hospital. Those who were
most badly injured were taken into the
hospital, where they could receive more
complete treatment.
The bricks and great beams and stones
lay in one compact mass. To add to the
horror oft, there was constant cry of
the people imprisoned beneath the mass,
imploring the men to hurry and get them
out. In the midst of their cries there
came voices of children at times. one
was weak voice raised in prayer
The first body, that OF Bertha Karoness,
was taken out just after 1 O'clock Half
an hour later the firemen came upon the
eight-year-old boy of Alexander Abrams
in cramped position III one corner of
what had been his sleeping-room The
boy could talk 10 the men and he said:
Don't mind me- My father and mother
are back of me somewhere" but the men
worked on and in ten minutes they had
the little fellow free and carried him into
the schoolhouse. He did not seem to be
injured in the slightest particular.
The second corpse recovered was taken
from the rear of what had been the two
story building. 1t was that of Mr.. Stein
man, aged 81. Then the body of bra
ham karoness, 9 years old, was taken out
and an hour later that OF Mrs. Jennie
StpiDman was recOVered