Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-17
BUILDING FALLS.
seven Story Structure Crun7bIeS
and Crushes an Adjoining
Tenement House.

New York, Oct. 10 seven-story
building III course of construction at ii
Monroe street was blown down by the
gale al 3;20 this morning. It crashed
through a two-story building at II, dc
molishing it completely. Two families
with bOarders lived at Y, and they were
buried in the ruins. Seven bodies have
been taken from the ruins, SIX persons
are still buried under the mass of fallen
bricks and timbers, while thirteen men
and women, all terribly injured, have
been dug from the ruins ty the fremen
and policemen. The dead are:
/. I. ABRAHAMS, aged 40
MRS, BESSIE ABRAHAMS, aged 40
wife Of / l. Abr9hams.
SOLOMON KARONES, aged Il years, son
of NJ. Karones.
The missing are:
1. l. ABRAHAMS.
ELL ABRAHAMS, aged T. son Of l. /.
AbrahamS.
The list of injured is as follows
GEORGE ROBINOVITI, aged 20, back
LOUIS ABRAHAMS aged r. left leg
broken and many contusions.
DAVID hRONIS, aged q, cut about head
FANNY ,KRoNIs, aged 3D. badly cut
JOSEPH BRADY, aged ID. head crushed
TIMOTHY DOLAN, cuts and bruises
BESSIE ABRAMS, aged 40, cut about
head.
LEWIS ]. ABRAMS, aged 20, Commissions
of head and body.
MAURICE ABRAMS, coDtusions of head
and body.
The building which fell has been in the
course Of erection for the past two
months. It was to have been occupied
when completed as a foundry. Ever
since the foundations was laid there have
been complaints on every side that the
structure was weak, fJnSy affair, and
many had expressed the belief that it
would fall before the roof could be put
on. These were certainly not far wrong,
for the roof had not been completed ten
hours when the building crushed in. 1t
was at o'clock yesterday afternoon
that the last nail was placed in the roof,
and then there were great rejoicings.
The workmen put five or six flags up so
that the bright stripes would hang over
the street and two kegs Of beer were
taken up to the top story to add to the
general rejOicings.
To this mornings disaster there seems
to have been two eye-wItnesSes, and the
stories they tell agree in every particu-
lar. Thomas Walsh is nc Waterman as
Hecker's stables, in the rear of the house
which fell. 1t was just $50 O'CLOCK
when the disaster occurred. Il was a
wild night. The rain fell IN torrents and
the wind blew q gale The Waterman
says that there was d sort Of mysterious
half light in the air which be cannot de
scribe. By it, through The blackness of
the night. he saw, as be was preparing
to make his round of the stable, the side
wall of the big new building and the
slanting sheets Of rain as they beat down
upon it. III never forget that sight
says Walsh. Even as he looked there
camo q change in the appearance Of the
side of the wall. It seemed to the watch
man that a big black line suddenly APP
peared diagonaly across II from the top
to the bottom. Before Walsh could real
ize that the dark line was d crack in the
wall there was a low, Tumbling sound
and the seven stories Of the building
crumbled before his eyes. For a mo-
ment Walsh stood amazed. a cloud Of
dust went up, but the pelting rain blOtted
it out before the Waterman could re-
cover himself enough to Tc-enter tie sta
BILE.
Walter J. Bryan Of Y Monroe street
was returning to his home, and he 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,
slant before it fell. That building
said this witness, was more badly put
up than any that was ever put up by
BuddenSiek." BuddensieE is the man
who went to state prison for eighteen
years for using sand in the building Of
houses instead of mortar