The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-10

ruins. One of the two people imprisoned
was known to be dead, but the cries
She. encouraged the firemen as they
worked calling to them, Were not
dead yet, but for Gods sake be quick.
THE NORTHERN HOUSE.
In the dwelling house on the north side
of the spot where the factory building
had stood, the wreck was not nearly 50
serious, A large. portion Of the side
walls had crashed down from the rear
end of it, completely burying the. Brady
family, with the exception of Mr.. and
Mrs Brady, who slept in the front part
was only one serious casualty, though
all We're very badly bruised. Fourteen
year-old James Brady had his right arm
broken and his body crushed about the
chest by mass of falling biickwork.
He was taken to Gouverneur Hospital.
The injuries to the other members of the
family consisted merely of more or less
severe cuts and bruises.
Mrs. Korones, when her dead body was
taken from under the ruins was found
to be horribly mutilated and crushed
Meyer Stinman was brought to the
surface apparently just a moment before
he breathed his last. His features We're
distorted and his teeth firmly clenched
as though he had died in great agony.
The corpses were laid out in the child
ren's play ROOM. which had never held
such CHASTITY relics before.
The Warmest sympathy with the sur
vivors of the wreck was displayed by
the kind-hearted people of Monroe street.
A number of women inside the school
building busted themselves continually
in making coffee and assisting the sur
geons in dressing the injuries of the
wounded. James Wallace, a Hamilton
street saloonkeeper, opened his cellar
and provided free stinlulants for the in
jured and the men who worked in the
driving rain to- rescue the imprisoned
unfortunates. The firemen are still at
work on the ruins. looking for the three
persons who are still missing.
At ten o'clock Contractor Galligan ar
rived on the scene with wrecking crew,
and the task of clearing away the ruins
and searching for the bodies of those
still believed to be in the ruins was vigor-
.ously begun.
The firemen of several hook and ladder
companies also aided in the work
The bodies of the dead were carried
into the play room of the school house,
where they were covered with sheets.
AS soon as the trustees of the school
were notified of the fatal disaster they
decided to suspend the attendance of
the scholars for the day. The children
were sent home as quickly as they ar
rived at the fire lines that were establish
ed around the ruins
Annie Korones and her brother Carl
aged fourteen and twenty-five respec-
lively, weret aiken from the wreck to
Gouverneur Hospital. The young woman
besides sustaining a severe shock, suf-
but the doctors say she will recover.
Carl Korones has a broken nose and
bad contusions on the face, but his con-
dition is not serious.
Minnie Abrams. who suffers from shock
and contusions of the lower extremities,
was sleeping quietly at noon at the
Chambers Street Hospital, and will no
doubt survive her terrible experience.
She is but eighteen years old and was
employed as domestic at No. z Mon
roe street.
Alexander Abrams, a lad of eight years,
had his wounds, which were of minor
nature, dressed by the ambulance ply
sician of Chambers Street Hospital at
the scene of the wreck, and went to the
hnnSe of friends