The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-10-13
DEAD In THE RUINS.
A Poorly Built New York Structure
Falls During a Hurricane.
~ brushes AN Adjoining House and the In
mates Are Buried Meath the De-
bris-Elght Killed, One Missing
and sixteen Injured.

ana sixteen Injured.
New YORK. Oct. li.-While the storm
which has ragged here for twenty-four
hours was at its height just before
o'clock Wednesday morning a new
eight-story building at "a Monroe
street collapsed, bearing down with
IL the house at ~ Monroe street and
the rear extension of the building on
the other side. 90. Both places were
filed 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 wore Of rescue, which
was continued well into the day by
police and fremen. They mined far
under the bricks and beams and NOR
tar and from the ruins they took the
dead and injured
The dead are:
l. l. Abrams 40 years OF age. Mrs Bessie
Abrams aged a. wife OF l. l. Abrams. Rose
Abrams ~ daughter OF l. l. and Mrs. Bessie
Abrams Mrs. Bertha Karones. aged So
Abraham Karoncs, her son, years old Solo
mon Karones aged -; Mrs Jennie Steinman.
aged 90, Meyer Steinman, aged 81. her son, Eli
Abrahams. aged 2, IL missing.
The following were injured:
Alex. Abrams cut and bruised about tho
body; Louis Abrams. badly cut about the face,
scalp wounds ana bruised on body. Herman
Abrams. cut aud bruised about the face and
body James Brady, broken arm and scalp
wound May Brady, cut and bruised
about the face and breast; Thomas
j. Brady. right leg injured and cut
about body Loretta Brady badly cut about
face ia, Kar0nes. badly bruised; Michael
Karoncs, cut and Injured internally; David
Karones scalp wound and bruised; Fannie
karones, bruised and cut Carl karoncs. nose
broken ana otherwise injured. Jacob karoncs,
leg broken and hand bruised; unknown woman,
injured about body. Timothy Doolan, right
arm broken; George Robenssi, scalp wound.
The building which fell has been in
the course OF erection for the last two
months II was TO have been occupied
when completed as a foundry. Ever
since the foundation was laid
there have been complaints on
every side that the structure was a
weak. flimsy affair and many had ex-
pressed the belief that it would fall be-
fore the roof could be put on. These
were certainly not far wrong, for the
roof had not been completed ten hours
when the building crashed in.
When the policemen patrolling in
the vicinity reached the scene of the
catastrophe, called thither by the
noise OF the falling building,
they found extending half way
across the street a mass of debris.
On top OF il, 80 feet above
the street level. two women and man
were making an effort 10 get 10 the
street, while from the interior OF the
pile came mufiied cries for help that
told Of the people imprisoned beneath
the mass. Calls were sent in for fire
engines and ambulances
The people as fast as they were res
cIed were taken into the grammar
school near by and attended by doe
tors from the hospitals. Those who
were most badly injured were taken
TO the hospitals where they could
receive more complete treatment
The bricks and great wooden beams
and stones lay in one compact
mass. To add to the horror OF il all,
there were the constant cries OF the
people imprisoned beneath the mass.
imploring the men to hurry and get
them out IN the midst of the cries
there came the voices OF children az
times. Once there was weak voice
raised in prayer
Mr.. Aaronowitz, who was the owner
of the new baildipg Mt - Monroe
street, was arrested during the after
noon and arraigned before Justice
Hogan in Essex Market police court
In spite of the fact that Aaronowitz
was charged with homicide, Justice
Hogan discharged him. lie, however,
issued subpmnas for Aaronowitz and
David Molslti the contractor who put
up the building, to appear before hun
this afternoon and explain what their
responsibility, II any, was for the
disaster