Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-10
BURIED UNDER WALLS.

Collapse of a Seven Story Building In
 New York Early This Morning-Fifty
 Buried in the Ruins--Nsny Dead and
 wounded-Four Persons stlri Missing.
 NEw YORK. Oct I0.-At o'clock this morning when the fierce storm was at its worst the big seven story building in pro cess of construction at No n Monroe street. fell with a terrible crash carrying down with it the big tenement house No 72 Monroe street and part of No 76. Both 7a and 76 contained a large number of in- mates and heavy loss of life resulted.
 Policeman Gilmartin of the Madison street station was standing two blocks away from the scene of the accident and thought a terrific explosion had ocsnred He hurriedly rang the fire and police alarms and in a short time large force or both were on the scene. which was one ot the widest disorder and excitement Groans. moans and shrieks were heard from all parts of the debris and the res cuers hardly knew where to begin.
 Ambulances were hurried to the scene with a force of physicians and the work of rescuing the dead and injured from the de- bris was carried on with the greatest haste. Rain was falling in torrents at the time and the wind was blowing a gale. The dust which rose from the mortar made 1t impossible to see at times and the rescuers were Eulueu more uN tue CEltS tA tAS ANA- rrisoned people than anything else.
 At 5:3O o'clock it was believed that in all fifty people had been buried in the ruins. At that hour two had been taken out dead and sixteen injured. All were removed to school house No 66 and 6S Monroe street, which was used as a temporary hospital. The dead were Mrs Bertha Koranes, aged D, and an unknown man. Mrs koranes met frightful death. A plank was driven through her abdomen and she must have expired instantly. The unknown man whose body was found about the same time was suffocated to death. The fire men heard him moan and groan and guided by the sounds found him buried under a great quantity of debris. The | tiremen set to work to rescue him and hoping to keep him alive until they sue ceeded. the rescuers kept feeding the i'm prisoned man whiskey. Before they were able to remove the debris from his body the man Gasped several times and died. His body was still warm when taken out.
 The iremen had no sooner succeeded in extricating this body from the ruins when they discovered three girls pinned down by masses of debris. They told the res- cuers that they were unipjured, but begged to be taken out After hard half hours work the girls were rescued unin- juTed except for few bruises and l scratches. At the same time four other persons were heard crying for help. | Many thrilling escapes were reported. The Brady family. consisting of seven per sons. were asleep in the house adjoining No n. They all escaped in safety by crawling through n gap in the ceiling. | The father of this family claims that several days ago he complained to the building inspectors that the structure which collapsed this morning was unsafe, but that no attention was paid to him. At noon four bodies had been identifiFd d as follows; Jennie Steinman. 50. Meyer Steipman. 3l Bertha Koranes, 46, Abra- ham koranes. 9. The missing are Jacob | KUranes, Laura Koranes, Eli Abrams and Isaac Abrams. The list of injured is large.
 It is possible that the owner and con tractors will be arrested. The fremen say that it was the worst constructed building l they ever saw. not excepting the mud houses for building which Buddensitk was sentenced 10 seven years in Irison some years ago.