The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-10-11
nine PERSONS KILLED
By the Collapse of an Eight Story
Building in New York.
CRIMINAL oARELEssNEss ALLEGED
The Outer Walls of the Big building Had
Just Been Conhpieted-H Carried Down
the Sleeping Inmates of Two Story
Building Adjoining.


the Sleeping Inmates of Two Story
Building Adjoining.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.-While the storm
was at its height, just before o'clock yes
terday morning, a new eight story build
ing at "A Monroe street collapsed, bringing
down with 1t the house at ~ Monroe street
and the rear extension Of the building on
the other side, No. 76 Both places were
Allied 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 rescue, which was con-
hnued well into the day by police and fire.
men. They mined far under the bricks
and beams and mortar, and from out of
the ruins they took the dead and injured.
The dead are: 1. I. Abrams, 40 years
old; Mrs Bessie Abrams, aged 40, wife of
!. 1. Abrams Rose Abrams, 18, daugh-
Ter of I. /. and Mrs. Bessie Abrams Mrs.
Bertha Karones, so years, board driven
Into abdomen; Abraham Karones, her son,
years old; Solomon Karones, aged 81;
Mrs. Jennie Steinman, aged GO; Meyer
Steinman, her son, aged 81.
In addition to the above sevel-tcen per-
SONS were injured more or less severely,
half a dozen having limbs broken.
The building had been finished externally
ut o'clock Tuesday afternoon, when the
last nail in the roof was driven. As soon
rs tho workmen completed their job they
helped the owners deck it with flags, in
accordance with the east side custom, had
q little celebration with beer ON the new
roof, and went away well satisfied Yes
terday the interior was to have been worked
on.
EARLY in the morning watchman, ~
ter Bryan, was standing at Pike and assss
roe streets. He said he had been wal hing
. phosphorescent light in the sky right
over the new building when, like a stroke
OF black lightning, as he put it, he saw the
wall split from the roof to the ground, In
Amonent the building had vanished and
the street was filed with dust and tho air
with wild cries.
The building had crashed down upon a
two story dwelling No 72, carrying tho
smaller structure to the ground, mass of
debris. Out Of the wall of the dwelling
No. rs Monroe street the falling structure
carried away enough material to leave the
third story rooms exposed. The people in
them ran out in dismay, but were not at
all injured.
As the neghbors ran to the scene figures
were seen squirming out of the mass of
bricks and mortar. The first to get out
was Michael Kroner. Others of his fam
iy followed, but all had to be helped out.
When all In sight were got out, groans
were heard In certain places, and here the
crowd dug away to save the buried. Four
more were extricated, more or less injured,
in short time. Then the flremen arrived
and went to work Systematically to extri-
cate the bodies of the dead and rescue the
living.
One by one the dead were carried ont
and laid in the midst of the frantic group
Of inmates of the little house, No ~, to be
identified. They wero expecting to see
tbeir relatives dead, for they had been
gathered and counted, and it was known
who We're not to be found.
The new building had been erected by
A b. Aaronwitz, proprietor of foundry
about block away. Aaronwitz was ar
rested and arraigned before Justice Hogan
in Essex Market police coust In spite of
tho fact that Aaronwitz was charged with
homicide Justice Hogan discharged him.
He, however, issued subpcenas for Aaron
witz and David A Molski, the contractor
who put up the building, to appear before
iim this afternoon and explain what their
responsibility, If any, was for the disaster.
The structure, 1t is alleged by Thomas
Brady, whose family occupied the rear of
No ~, was weak, and he says that he had
made complaints about 1t to the building
Inspector but that no attention had been
paid to them.
Other neighbors assert That one story
was built pretty well, but the costs seemed
TO have mounted too high, after which less
expensive material than cement was used
No reliance can be placed on these stories
rs yet, however, because all witnesses were
sxcited and indignant. They were too
anxious to find somebody tSaold guilty.