St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-11
The WALLS CRASHED.
Seven-Story Brick Bailding
in New York a Mass Of
Ruins.
EIGHT DEAD TAKEN OUT.
Sixteen Victims Rescued Bad
ly Injured and Another
Missing.
TIE OWNER ARRESTED.
Horrible Criminality in the
Construction Of the Build
ing Charged.
he OWNER ARRESTED.

New YORK. Oct. 10.-While the storm
was at its height, just before O'clock
this morning.a new eight-story building
at "A Monroe street collapsed. bearing
down with it the house at 72 Monroe
street and the rear extension of the
building on the other side. No. rs. Both
places were filled with sleeping tenants
who were buried under the mass of
ruins.
The crash of the falling walls aroused
the neighbors. who, scantily clad. began
the work of rescue. which was con-
tinued well into the day by police and
tiremcn. They mined far under the
bricks and beams and mortar, and from
the ruins they took the dead and in
jured.
The Dead.
l.. ABRAMS. forty years of age.
MRS. BESSIE ABRAMS, aged forty-sev en-,
wife of A. II. Abrams.
ROSE ABRAMS, eighteen. daughter OF l.
!. and Mrs. Bessie Abrams
MRS. BERTHA KAkONES. fifty years;
board driven into abdomen.
A3RAM KARONES her son. nine years
old.
SOLOMON KARONES, her son, aged
twenty-nine.
MRS. JENNIE SHERMAN, thirty
MEYER STEINMAN. aged thirty-one, her
husband.
The Injured:
Alex Abrams. cut and bruised about
the body. Louise Abrams, badly cut
on body. Herman Abrams, cut and
bruised about face and body. James
Brady, broken arm and scalp wound.
May Brady. cut and bruised about face
and breast. Thomas j. Brady, right
leg injured and cut about body.
Loretta Brady. badly cnt about face;
Jacob Karones, badly bruised; Michael
Karones, cut and injured internally;
David karones. scalp wound and
bruised; Fannie Karones, bruised and
cut; Carl KarOnes. nose broken and
otherwise Injured; unknown woman,
injured about body; Timothy Doolan.
scalp wound.
The Missing:
Eli Abrams, aged seven, son of l. 1.
Abrams.
The new building at "A Monloe street
was eight stories high 1t had been
erected by Aaronowitz, proprietor OF a
foundry about a block away. He built
the new building for foundry, and its
completion was celebrated yesterday by
hanging out flags and tapping keg Of
beer.
AaronowitZ was arrested this after
doom and arraigned before Judge Hogan
in Essex Market police court by Police
| man Mccarthy. In spite of the fact
that Aaronowitz was charged with
homicide, Justice Hogan discharged
him. He, however, issued subpen aes
for Aarouowitz and David Moiski. the
| contractor who put up the building. to
appear before him tomorrow afternoon
and explain what their responsibility. il
| any, was for the disaster.
The structure, ii is alleged by Thomas
Brady, whose family occupied the rear
] of No. 76, was weak, ami he has made
1, com plants about it to the building
| inspector, but no attention has been
| paid to them. The building viii CHI fell
| has been in the course of erection
| for the past two months. 1t was to have
| been occupied when completed as q
| foundry. Ever since the foundation
was laid there have been complaints Oh
every side that the structure was
weak, fllmsy affair, and many had
expressed the belief that it would fall
before the roof could be put on.
These were certainly far wrong, for the
| roof mad not been compieien ten hours
| when the building crushed in. 1t was
at 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon thai
the last nail was placed IN the root. and
then there were great rejocings. The
workmen put five or six flags up sc
that the bright stripes would hang ove1
the street. aud two kegs of beer were
taken up to the top story to add to the
/ general rejoicings.
| Tales of W itn es es
| To this mornings disaster there seems
| to have been two eye witnesses, and the
story they tell agrees in every particular.
| Thomas Walsh is the Waterman at
Hecker's stables, i'll the rear Of the
house which fell. 1t was just $3.50
o'clock when the disaster occurred. 1t
was a wild night. The rain fell
gale. The Waterman says that there
| was sort of mysterious halt light in
the air which he cannot describe. By
! it, through the blackness of the night.
he saw, as he was preparing to make
his round of the stable. the Sidewalk of
the big new building. and the slanting
sheets of rain, as they beat down upon
| it.
"I'll never forget that night" SAID
Walsh. Even as he looked, there came
a change IN the appearance OF the side
OF the wall. 1t seemed TO the Waterman
that the big black line suddenly ap-
| n q
top to the bottom. Before Walsh could
, realize that the dark line was crack in
| the wall, there was low rumbling sound
and the seven stories of the building
crumbled before his eyes. For mo-
ment Walsh stood amazed. A cloud of
| dust went up but the pclting rain blot
ted it out before the watchman could
recover himself enough to re-enter the
stable.
Walter j. Bryan. of II Monroe street.
was returning to his home, ana he stood
at the corner of Pike and Monroe
streets. fifty rect away. when the build
ing fell. He saw the big crack in the
wall, too. and saw the building topple
for an instant before it fell. "That
building" said this witness, Twas more
badly put up than any that was ever put
up by Buddensiek." Buddensiek is the
| man who went to states prison TO
| eighteen years for using sand in tn
| building of houses instead of mortar.
| When policemen patrollIng in the
| vicinity reached the scene of the catas-
trophe. called thither by the noise of
| the falling building, they found extend
ing hall way across the street a mass of
debris. On top OF it, thirty feet above
the street level, two women and man
we're making an effort to get to the
street. willis from the interior of the
pile came.
Mumed Cries for Help,
that told of the people imprisoned be-
meath the mass. Calls were sent in for
fire engines and ambplaDces. In the
two-st0ry house. No. "a Monroe street.
there lived two families, that Of Isaac
Abrams. consisting Of ten persons, in.
GLIDING MIR. Abrams mother and
brother. In the upper part of the
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