The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-10
CHASTITY ruin.
New Tenement House Falls on
Two Dwellings = Three
Dead, Many Hurt.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 1894.-In the
storm Of wind and rain which swept
over the city at $3.50 o'clock this morn
ing big seven-story brick building in
course of erection at No. "a Monroe street
collapsed on a tiny brick front tenement
and dwelling house which flanked it
on either side There were nearly TWEEN
ty persons in the tenement house and
ten III rear extension to the house
on the other side of the collapsed build
ing. Both were utterly crushed, and
by eight o'clock four bodies had been
taken from the ruins, two of them mu-
at least fifteen persons were under treat
ment for severe injuries received.
AN AWFUL CRASH.
was eSt aoeut beerd fra@ tbe
side OF Monroe street When the resi-
dents of the street looked out tall fac
tory building which was going up at
No. IA, for use as a tailors' sweat shop,
was not to be seen, and from huge
pile of debris, covering 100 square feet
of the ground on which 1t had stood,
rose a terrible wailing and greaning.
A thick cloud of dust rose through the
rain. AS 1t cleared away George Robi-
nobitch, photographer, who boarded in
No. 70, crawled from the debris. He
and his wife through the window of the
wrecked house through which he had
crawled.
Policeman Curry turned in fire alarm
call, and ordered out all the ambulances
available in the lower part of the city.
Half an hour later there were three
fire engine companies and three hook
and ladder companies at work among
the ruins endeavoring to save the in
jured and secure the bodies of the dead.
The schoolhouse next door to the wreck
ed structures was temporarily turned
into a hospital.
Under the unceasing exertions of the
firemen-ssthe injured weres@tal1ens4. to the
sefloolhouse. In two hours three dead
bodies had been taken from the ruins,
and eighteen injured people were being
cared for.
A corrected list of the victims of the
disaster is as follows
DEAD.
Korones, Bertha, 4S years old, married,
of No. 70 Monroe street.
Korones, Abraham, years old, of No.
70 Monroe street.
Steinman, Meyer, 81 years old, single,
of No. Y Monroe street.
Steinman, Jennie, go years old, mar
ried of No. Y Monroe street,
Abrahams, Isaac, Isaac, 49 q years years 6}s old
Abraharils, Rose. Is years old.
Abrahams, Eli. years old.
Korones, Jacob, 26 years old;
Korones, Solomon, p years old.
INJUDED.
Korones, Annie, is years old, general
,contusions, fractured thigh and shock
caused by fright; Gouverneur Hospital.
Abrahams Louis, 20 years old, cut on
head and body.
Abrahams Herman, II years old, Sc
we're injuries; Gouverneur Hospital.
AhrahamS Minnie, 10 years old, gem
eral contusions; Chambers Street Hos
= Abrahams, Louis, 10 years old, left leg
broken; Gouyerneur Hospital
,@11 vSrrI1
arm broken.
Brady, James, IA years old,scalp wound,
left arm sDrained.
Dooley, Timothy, 27 years old, left arm
sprained, scalp wound.
Korones, David, "a years old, cuts on
head and body.
Korones, Fannie, % years old, wife of
David, sprained arm.
Korones, Karl, years old.scalp wound.
Korones. Annie, 16 years old, shock
and fright, fractured thigh; Gouverneur
Hospital.
Rabinowich, George, 20 years old, sim
gle, scalp wound and sprained back.
THREE MISSING.
Three persons, Minnie Abrahams, aged
man, were missing. At the time of the
catastrophe there were twenty persons
in the small two story tenement, and in
the extension. No. rs Monroe street, a
solidly built dwelling house, there were
nine. The twenty persons in the first
house consisted of two Jewish families
and their boarders. The building was
owned by, Isaac Abrahams, who carries
basement He and his family, consist
ing of his wife, their five children, his
brother-in-law, Meyer Stinman and his
grandmother, Jennie Stinman, occupied
the first floor and attic.
The second floor was let to the Koron-
es family, ,whoalso had a boarder. George
Robonobitch, The Korones family CON
salesman, his wife Bertha, their five
children, and the wife of their eldest son,
David Korones. All were asleep when
the crash came.
In the extension to the dwelling on
the other side of the factory building
were Thomas r. Brady, his wife and six
children, on the. second floor; William
McCsuirk, his wife and three children,
and the Thompson family.
MOUNTAIN OF WRECK.
The whole of the back part of this
BRICK, iron - and timber which crashed
down upon it. The huge masses of ma
terial crushed every, part OF the two
structures upon which they fell.
From among the debris were heard the
shrieks of the men,. women and children
imprisoned there, but where they lay
and how many of those buried within
were alive could scarcely be guessed at.
WORK OF RESCUE.
Engine Companies and Is at once
set to work to clear the front of the
building, while the members of Coripany
victims whose cries were family neard
in the rear.
There three women were known TO be
living. After two hours work one,
Annie Korones, was rescued and carried
into the schoolhouse.
In the front of the building girls
hand was uncovered after an hours
hard labor. The firemen were able to
reach her ard give her brandy. but it
was an hour and a half after that be-
fore they were able to rescue her from
the broken rafters and beams that i'm
priscned her. Louis and Carl Absahafus,
who had slept in the rear attic of the
tiny tenement house was Utterly buried
in the ruins and remained there two.
hours before the firemen were able to
reach them.
Before that time the firemen were able
to give them whiskey through narrow
opening, but could not take them frcal
the rubbish which pinned them down.
AT half past seven o'clock there We're
only two bodies believed to be ~. the
New Gravel or Stag roof guaranteed for ten years