The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-11
NUMBER KILLED and WOUNDED
Families Crushed While Sleeping by
Falling Brick and Timbers-During
a Hard Rain Storm New Building
Sinks to the Earth in Heap-The
Accident Due to the Use of Cheap
Materials in Bulding-Heroic Work
of Rescuing Parties-List of the In
iured,
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.

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house, in Monroe street. between Pike
and Market streets, at 3:45 o'clock this
morning. The wind that blew so
strongly from the northeast caused the
disaster. but bad workmanship, it is
believed, the result Of parsimony. is
mainly responsible for it.
The following is a list of the victims:
KILLED.
BERTHA KARoNER, 4S years old: death
caused by board piercing the abdomen.
ABRAHAM KARoNER, son, 0 years old,
fractured skull.
JENNIE SPE1NER, 60 years, suffocated.
MEYER SPEINER, her husband, 62 years,
suffocated.
SOLOMON KARoNER, 81 years old.
One unidentified.
MISSING.
BESSIE ABRAMS.
ROSIE ABRAMS.
ISAAC ABRAMS.
INJURED.
JOSEPH BRADY, IA, scalp wound, leg broken
aud several cuts and bruises.
LORETTA BRADY, 10, right arm broken.
LOUIS ABRAMS, Z, left leg broken.
MINNIE ABRAMS, face head and body cut
and bruised.
DAVID KARoNER "a, cut and bruised.
KARL KARoNER, 9. cut and bruised.
JACOB KARoNER, internal injuries.
FANNIE KARoNER, thigh broken, cut and
bruised.
Many others were scra tched, bruised
and injured less seriously. No one in
the buildings was quite unhurt.
The building that fell was newly
built, and was to hays borne the num-
Der OF "a Monroe. 1t had been finished
externally at 4 o'clock yesterday after.
noon, when ths last nail in the roof
was driven. AS soon as the workmsn
completed their job, they helped the
owners deck it with flags, in accord
ance with the east side custom. had
little celebration with beer on the new
roof, and went away we'll satisfied. To-
day the interior was to have been
worked on.
FALL OF THE BUILDING.
At As o'clock this morning watch.
man, Walter Bryan. was standing at
Pike and Monroe streets. He said he
had been watching phosphorescent
light in the sky right over the new
building, when like a stroke Of black
tightening, as he put it, he saw the
wall split from the roof to the ground.
In a moment, during wieh he saw
nothing, the building had vanished. 1t
took several seconds for him to realizs
what had happened. The street was
filled with dust and the air with wild
cries. Rain quickly laid the dust, and
then the cause of the shock and roar,
which had aroused the people for
blocks around. was known.
The new building had fallen forward
(northward and westward). 1t was
seven stories high and had crashed
down upon a two-story dwelling, No.
70, carrying the smaller structure to
the ground, a mass Of debris.
Out of the wall of the dwelling No.
76 Monroe street, the falling structure
carried away enough material to leave
the third-story rooms exposed. The
people in them ran out in dismsy, but
were not at all injured.
AS the neighbors ran to the scene
figures were seen squirming out of the
mass of bricks and motar. The first to
get out was Michael Kroner. Others
Of his family followed. but all had to
be helped out. When all in sight were
got out, groans were heard in certain
places, and here the crowd dug away
to save the buried. Four more were
extricated, more or less injured, in a
short time. Then the firemen arrived
and went to work systematically, saw
ing all the list of injured and others
not named, whose wounds are slight.
One by one the dead were carried out
and laid in the midst of the frantic
group of inmates Of the little house.
No. ~, to be identified.
THE WORK OF RESCUE.
All through the forenoon the firemen
and a gang of laborers, under L. B.
Gallagan. the authorized excavator
for such disasters, dug in the ruins.
At 10 o'clock the fremen heard dis.
tinctly the moan of man in the ruins
under their feet. 1t was dangerous
place, and the work of recovering and
releasing the man below had to be done
slowly. 1t was not long, however. be.
fore hole was made through which
he could be heard breathing huskily.
A 6remsn asked him if he was all
right.
Eyes, but help me-" was the answer,
A few minutes more digging and the
man was drawn out DR.. Roberts oi
the Gouvsrneur hospital said he wat
only slightly injured externally. The
mans name is Jacob Karoner, 90 years
old. He had been given up as dead by
his relatives.
At the same moment, in another
part of the ruins, the hand and arm oI
one body and the trunk of another
were reached These were not taker
out for an hour.
Members of the families who crowd
ed around the pile of ruins, ran bacl
pale and frightened, when they heard
the sounds 1t was only this horror
that could keep them away. Theil
bleeding heads and faces they did moi
heed, though some OF them ought tt
have gone to the hospital. All the in
mates Of the house were OF two fami
lies, the Karoners and the Abrams.