The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-10-11
MANY IN THE RUINS.
A Seven-S:ory New York Building
Collapses, Crushing Another
in Its Fall.
WALLS WEAK AND FLIMSY
Four Persons Taken Out Dead, Thir.
teen Badly Injured and Six
Are Missing.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.-At $3.50 q. m. q
7.story building in course of construo-
ton at "a Monroe street was blown
down by tho gale. 1t crashed through
q 2-story building at ~, completely de-
molishing it. Two families with board
ers lived at ~. They were all buried in
the ruins. So far four have been taken
out dead, thirteen badly injured
and six others are missing. Only
one dead body has been identified. 1t
is that. of Bertha Krons, aged 40.
Workmen are still digging in the ruins.
The building that fell was defective
and frequent complaints had been made
about it. Ever since the foundation
was laid there have been complaints
on every side that the structure was a
weak, fimsy affair, and many had ex-
pressed the belief that it would fall ~
fore the roof could be put on. These
were certainly not far wrong, for the
roof had not been completed 10 hours
When the Building Crushed In.
There seems to have been two eye
witnesses of the disaster, and the story
they tell agrees in every particular.
Thomas Walsh is the Waterman at
Hecker's stables, in the rear of the
house which fell. 1t was just $3.50 am.
when the disaster occurred. 1t was
wild night. The rain fell in torrents
and the wind blew gale. The watch
man says that there was sort OF
mysterious half 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 side wall of the big new
building, and the slanting sheets OF
rain as they beat down upon it.
'I'n never forget that sight" says
Walsh. Even as he looked, there came
a change in the appearance Of the side
of the wall. 1t seemed to the Waterman
that big black line suddenly appeared
diagonally across it from the 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.
Found Mass of Debris.
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 half way across the street mass
of debris. On top of it, thirty feet
above the street level, two women and q
man were making an effort to get to
the street, while from the interior Of
the pile came muffled cries for help that
told of the people imprisoned beneath
| the mass. Calls were sent in for fire
engines and ambulances. In the 2-story
house, 70 Monroe street, there lived
two families, that of Isaac Abrams, con-
sisting of ten persons, including Mr..
Abrams mother and borther. In the
upper part of the house lived Michael
Kronds and his wife, their son David
| and his wife, two other sons named
Solomon and Abraham, a daughter
Annie, and two boarders, Jacob Abra-
hams and George Robinovitz.
Pinned in Their Beds.
The 3-story house to the north, some
of the occupants of which were also in
jured, had ON the ground floor the fam.
lily of Michael J.. McGuirk, consisting
of five people, all of whom slept in the
extension, which was crushed in. All
of them, however, escaped uninjured.
On the second floor there is 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
their beds, when the crash came. All
of them were more or Jess injured.
The people, as fast as they were res.
cued, were taken into the grammar
school near by and attended by doctors
from the hospitals. Those who were
most badly injured were taken to the
hospitals, where they could receive
more complete treatment.