Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1894-10-13
BUILDING COLLAPS
Seven Stories CrumbIe Crushing
Other Structures.
NINE DEAD, A SCORE INJURED
A New Eight Storm Building Goes Down
10 u Storm Of Wind and Rain Gaus-
ing Death and Destruction.

New YORK, o.. l0.-While the
storm was at It's height, Just before 4
O'clock this morning, the new eight
story building at n Monroe street col
lapsed. bearing down upon the Louise
at Y Monroe, and in the rear extern
sion Of the tn ldng on the other side.
No. Is. Both places were filled with
sleeping tenants, who were buried
under tremendous ruins. The crash Of
the falling walls aroused the neighbors,
who, scanti!y clad. began the work of
rescue, which was continued wei! into
the dav BY ,oi.ce and firemen. They
mined far uauer the bricks and beams
and mortar, and from the ruins they
took dead and injured.
Dead and Injured.
The dead are: !. l. Abrams, 40 years of
age: Mrs, Bessie Abrams, aged 47, wife OF
A. H. Abrams; Rose Abrams IS years old,
daughter OF L. |. Abrams; Mrs. Bertha
karOness 50 years board driven into her
abdomen; Abraham karoness, her son, 8
years old; Solomon X aroness her son, aged
%; Mrs. Jennie Steinman. ID years OF age;
Meyer Steinman, aged ~.
The in juret are: Alexander Abrams, cut
and brulseu about the face and boiy; James
Brady, broken arm; May bf"dy, cut ana
bruised; Thomas J. Brady, ilGht leg In
iured ana cut about the D.dy; Loretta
Brady badly cut about tue isc }. JACOB
karoness DutiIy bruised; M!chae. karo-
ness, cut and I'M ured internally; David
baroness, scalp wound and bfulsed; Fan
ME .ron@ss. bruised ana cut: Car! haro-
ness, nose broken and head bruised; un-
IN jurei a out The tOtV.
Timothy Doolan, right arm broken;
George Robensky, scalp Moun"
The missing is: F,z A, rams, aged 7,
dAu. .hter OF | i Abrams.
Completed but Ono Day.
1t was o'c,ock yester day afternoon
that the last nail was placed in the
roof and then there was great rel ociug.
The workinen pat five or six flags up,
so that the bri .ht stripes would hang
over the s.ree 8, ID two kegs OF beer
we're taken up to the top Of the story
10 add to the genera! rejoicing.
Stories of Eye-Witnesses.
To this mornings disaster there
seems to have been two witnesses,
and their stories agree in every par
ticular.
Thomas Walsh is n 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 wild night The rain fell in
torrents and the wind blew gale.
The watcnman says there was "a sort Of
mysterious half light in the air, which
he can not describe. BY it lie could see
through the blackness Of the night
He says he was preparing to make his
rounds of the stable, alongside the
walls of this big new building, and
watched the s!anting sheets Of the
rain as they beat down upon it.
"l'll never forget that sight, said
Walsh. Even as he looked there came
Il change in the appearance OF the side
Of the wall. / seemed to the watchman
that q big black line suddenly ap-
peared diagonal'y across ii from the top
to the bottom. Before Walsh could
realize that the dark line was a crack
in the wall there was low, Iumbling
sound and seven stories of the building
crumbled before his eyes. a cloud OF
dust went up, but the Deltlng ram
blotted it out before Tie Hatchman
c,uld recover himself enough TO re-
enter the stable.
the vicinity reached the scene of the
catastrophe, called thither by the noise
of the falling building, they found eX-
tending half way across the street a
mass OF deblis. On the top # il, 80
feet above the street level, 70 wonen
and man where maxim AN effcEt to
get to the street, while from the in
terror OF the pile came nuttl ID cries for
hoI, tHha naltS for -
engines aud ambulances.
Inmates Of the House.
In The two-story building south
were two families, that Of Isaac
Abrams, consisting Of 10 persons. in
cludlng Mr.. Abrams mother and
brother. In the upper part OF the
house lived Michael karoness aud
wife, their son David and his wife, two
other sons named Solomon and Abram,
Annie and two boarders, Jacob
Abrams and George Robensly.
The three story house 70 the north,
some Of the occupants of which were
also injured, had on the ground floor
the rami;y OF Michael ]. MEG uirls, con-
sis,ing Of five people, all Of whom slept
in the extens on which was crushed in.
All of them, however, escaped uEin
jured. On the second floor there was
the family Of Joseph Brady. consisting
Of himself, his wife and four children,
and one boarder. All of these were
sleeping in the extension. They were
pinned in by liEl bers. All are more or
less injured, but the little boy, Joseph
Brady, Is the most seriously hurt. His
head was caught beneath q beam and
crushed, and his left leg was broken.
The people as fast as they were rescued
were taken into GTamercy school
near by and attended to by doctors
from hospitals. Those who were most
badly injured were taken 10 hospitals
ri:iful Cries for Help.
To add to the horror Of it there was
the constant cry of the people jmpris
oued beneath the mass imploring the
men to Lurry and get them out. In
the midst of the cries. there came the
voices of children at times. Once
there was weak voice raised in
prayer
The Fl rst body, that OF Bertha karo-
ness, was taken out just after O'Clock.
Hal an hour later the tiremen came
upon S-year-old Alexander Abrams in
u cranlped positien in one corner OF
what had been his sleeping room. lie
hoy could talk to the men and he said:
"Don't mind me, father and mother
are back Of me some where.h bu! the
men worked on and in 10 minutes they
had the little fellow free and carried
him into the schoolhouse.
The second corpse recovered was
that Of Mr. Steinman. Then the body
of Abraham Karoness, years old, was
taken out and an hour later that Of
Mrs. Jennie Steinman was recovered.
Louis Abrams and his brother Maui
rice were dug out of the ruins. The
Injuries of the men are not serious.
Owner OF the Building Arrested.
Louis Aaronwitz, owner of the
building, was brought into the Essex
Market police court this afternoon.
&, no iS tho