Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-10-18
BUILDING FALLS,
Seven Story Structure Cruroblea
and brushes an Adjoining
Tenement House.

New York, Oct. lU.-A soven-sto,y
building in course of construction at -
Monroe street was blown down by tho
gale at 500 this morning 1t crashed
through a two-story building at -, do
molishing it completely Two families
with boarilers lived at =, 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 mon
and women, all terribly injured, have
been dug from the ruins by The tiremcD
and policemen The dead are:
T. L. ABRAHAMS, aged 40.
MRS BESSIE ABkAEAMS, aged 10
wife of l. l. 4Abrahams.
SOLOMON KARONEs aged q years, son
of NJ karones.
The missing are:
ROSE ABRAHAMS, aged IS, daughter az
I. l. ABRAHAMS.
ELL ABRAHAMs, aged T., son of l. |.
Abrahams.
The list of injured is as follows:
GEORGE ROBINOVITZ, aged 20, back
Spraned and ear cut.
LOUIS ARRAHAMS. aged II, left leg
broken and many contusionS.
DAVID KRoNIs, aged a, cut about head
FANNY KRoNIs, aged %, badly Gu,
Jos JOSEPH BRADY, aged "A. head crushed
TIMOTHY. DoLAN, cuts and bruises
lewis ]. ABRAMS, aged 20, contusions
of head and body.
MAURICE ABRAMS, contusions of head
and body.
The building which fell has been in the
course of erection for the past two
months. 1t was to have been occupied
+GnndpV
since the foundations was laid there have
been complaints ON every side that the
structure was weak, tlin3sy flair, and
many had expressed the belief that i
would fall before the roof could be nut
on These were certainly lot far wrong
for the roof had not been completed ten
hours when the building crushed in. II
was at o'clock yesterday afternoon
that the last nail was placed 10 the root,
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 We're
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 the Waterman &.
Hecker's tables, in the rear Of the house
which fell. 1t was just $50 O'CLOCK
Wnen Jle UlSaSteE OCCuiitts IL WAS Il
wild night. The rain fell in torrents and
the wind blew a gale. The Watchman
saws that there was a sort OF mysterious
half light in the air which he cannot de-
scribe By it, through the n]ackness Of
the night, he saw, as he 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. TN never forget that sight
SAYS Walsh. Even as he looked there
camo a change in the appearance of the
side of the wall. It seemed 10 the watch
| man that big black line suddenly ap-
peared diagonally across it from the top
to the bottom Before Walsh could real
! ize that the dark line was a crack in the
wall there was low, rlmbllng sound
and the seven stories Of the building
| crumbled before his eyes. For q mo-
ment Walsh stood amazed a cloud Of
dust went up, but the pclting rain bI0tcd
it out before the Waterman could re-
| cover himself enough to rc-entcr tie sta
! BILE.
Walter J. Bryan Of II 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,
and saw the building topple for an in,
| slant before it fell. That building
said this witness, was more badly pat
up than any that was ever put up ny
| Buddensiek.'' Buddensiek is the man
who went to state prison Cor eighteen
years for using sand IN the building OF
| houses instead of mortar.