Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-10
STORMS FATAL FURY
1t is RAGING Along the At
laldC Coast.
SEVENSTORY BUILDING BLOWN DOWN
Many Persons Buried in the
Ruins.
STORIES TOLD BY WITNESSES
The Work Of Rescuing the In
jured Progressing.
REPORTS OF GREAT DAMAGE

NEW YORK. October lo.-At 3.2o O'Clock
this morning scyrn-story building I'm
course Of construction al ~ Monroe street
Nas blown Gown tN the aale. II crashed
through two-st.ry building at -, demol-
i-Aing il completely.
The building that i-l WAS defective and
frequent complaints had been made about
il.
Two famI $, with boariers. lived at -.
They were all buried in tho ruins
The list OF dead. ~ lar as known al noon,
l. a. follows.
Mrs. Bertha Koous aged forty-siN.
Abraham kOons aLed nine her son.
Mrs. Jennie Steinman. aged sixty.
Meyer Steinman, aged thrty-0ne. har son
There are still six persons missing. Voices
coming from beneath the debris can be
heard.
The lis, OF injured thus TAR recovered
from the runs L. as follows:
George RobinovIJz. twenty-nine. back
spramei aud ear cut.
Louis Abrahams. seventy-two, LEFT leg
broken and many c,ntusions.
DAVID hronis, twcnty-loIr. cut about head
aud body.
Fanny kronis, twenty-five. badly cut
about the BODY.
Joseph Brady, fourteen. head crushed and
left leg brUkyu.
Timothy Bolan. cuts and bruises
Bessie A5rahams, fourteen, cut about
the head.
Lewis }. ADrahams, twenty, contusions Of
Maurice Abrahams. contusions Of head
and body.
Distrust of the Building.
The building which tell has been in the
course OF erection for the past two months.
Ii was to have been occupied, when COM
p!cted. a foundry. E1er since The foun-
cation WAS laid there haze been complaints
on every size that the structure was a
weak. nImsy affair ana many had express
ell The hriIef That it WoGid fall before the
roof could Ice pat on. These certainly were
not Tar wrong, Tor the ROOF had not been
completed ten hours when the building
crashed in.
1t MAS at o'clock yesterday afternoon
the last nah MAS placed in the roof. and
then there were great reyJicings. The work
men put hNe or siN ha-s up 20 that the
bright suipes MUClI hans over the street
ana Two kees of beer were taken up 10 the
top story 10 add 10 the general rejoicings.
Described bs Miunesscs.
To this mornings disaster there seem to
have been Two eaeWlnussos, and the story
they tell agrees an every particular
Thomas Malsh is the watchman al Heck
.rs stables. i'm the rear of the house which
fell. 1t Was just 3:,io o'GlOck when the dis
aster occurred. IL was a wild night The
rain ielI in torrents and the wind blew a
gaze. The watchhan says that there Was
sort OF mysterious nan iIgnt ia the air
which he cannot describe. By IL through
the blackness OF the night, he saw, as he
Was preparing TO make hIs round OF the
stable. tie side -.all OF The nig new building
AMI the slantlng sheets OF lam as they beat
down UPON IL.
IN never foISe' that sight" says Walsh.
Even as he looked there came a change in
hA RrHsarg - na.a Of a, e
seemed 10 the Waterman that a big black
line suddenly appeared dIagOnalIy across il
from the top TO the bottom.
Before Walsh could realize that the dark
line "A crack in the wall there was a
low, rumbling sound ana the seven stories
OF the building cgumbiel before his eyes.
For moment Md.sl stood amazed
cloud OF dust went ur, hut the pelting rain
blotted il out before the watchman could
recover himself enough to re-enter the
stable.
Worse Than BuddcnsiecL's.
Walter J. Bryan of a. Monroe street was
returning to his home. and he stood at the
corner OF Pike and Monroe streets. nfty
feet away. when the building felL lie saw
the big crack in the wall. too. and saw the
building topple for an instant before ii fell.
THAT building" said this witness, was
more badly put up than any that was evel
put up by Buddensieck."
Buddensieck Is the that went TO
states prison for eighteen years for using
sand I'm the building OF houses instead Of
mortar
When the Policemen Arrived.
When policemen patrolng in the vicinity
reached the scene of the catastrophe cali
ed thither by the noise Of the falling build
ing, they fClnd extending half way across
the street a mass Of deDris. On top of IL,
thirty feet above the street level. two men
and a woman Were making an effort TO get
to the sire Il. while from the interior of the
pile came muiiie1 Crlss for help that told
of the people imprisoned beneath the mass.
Calls were sent in for tire ergines and
ambuldnces.
In the two-story house No. "a Monroe
street there lived two families. That OF
Isaac Abrahams, consisted OF ten persons.
including Mr.. Abrahams' mother anc
brother. In the upper part OF the house
lived Michael Krons and his wife their
son David and his wife; two other sons
named solomon and Abraham. a daughter.
Annie and two boarders, Jacob Abrahams
and George Robinovitz.
The three-story house TO the north, some
Of the occupants OF which were also in
iu-ea, had on the ground floor the family
of Michael J. McGJirll, consisting Of five
people. all Of whom slept in the extension,
which was crushed In. All of them how
ever, esq apei unnjured.
Pinned fn Their Beds.
On the second floor tn re was the family Of
Joseph Brady. consisting. besides himself.
of his wife and four children and one
boarder All of these were sleeping in the
extension. They Were pinned I'm their beds
when the crash came All of them are more
or less injured. but the little boy. Joseph
Brady, IS the most seriously hurt His
head was caught beneath a beam and
crushed, and his left leg was broken.
The people. as fast as they were rescued.