The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-11
Flimsy Eight-Story Building in New
York Blown Down and Two Tene-
ments Buried in the Debris.
EIGHT DEAD TAKEN OUT
One Still Missing, and Sixteen
People More or Less Hurt.
Owner of the Tall Building Arrested.
but Released Oh Parole by a Face
tious Justice of the Peace.

was at its height Just before o. clock his
morning, a new eight-story building at No.
"a Monroe street collapsed. bearing down
with it the house at No. az Monroe street
and the rear extension Of the building on
the other side, No. 76. Both places were
filed with sleeping tenants, who were
buried under the tremendous mass of ruins
The crash OF the falling walls aroused the
neighbors, who scantily clad. began the
work OF rescue. which was continued well
into the day by police and firemen. They
mined far under the bricks, and beams.
and mortar, and from out the ruins they
took the deaS and injured The dead are:
J. l. ABRAMS, forty years OF age.
MRS. BESSIE ABRAMS aged forty, wife
ROSE ABRAMS eighteen daughter Of
MRS. BERTHA KARONES, aged city
years, board driven into abdomen
ABRAHAM KARoNES, her son. nine
SOLOMON KARoNEs. her son. aged
MRS. JENNIE sTEINMAN. sixty years
MEYER sTEINMAN. aged thirty-one.
ELI ABRAMS. aged seven. son of 1. I.
Abrams. missing.
The list of ;njured follows:
ALEX. ABRAMS. cut and bruised about
II Louis ABRAMS. badly cut about the
face; scalp wounds and bruised on body.
HERMAN ABRAMS, cut and bruised
JAMES BRADY, broken arm and scalp
wound.
MAY BRADY. cut and bruised about
THOMAS ]. BRADY. right leg injured
and cut about body.
LORETTA BRADY. badly cut about the
face.
JACOB KARoNES. badly bruised.
MICHAEL KARONES, cut and injured
DAVID KARoNEs, scalp wound and
FANNY KARoNEs, bruised and cut
CARL KARONES. nose broken and 9TH
JACOB KARoNES. leg broken and head
UNKNOWN WOMAN. injured about
TIMOTHY DOoLAN, right arm broken.
GEORGE DOHENSKY. scalp wound.
The new building at No. "a Monroe
street was eight stories high 1t had been
erected by Louis Aaronowitz, proprietor OF
a foundry about a block away. The build
ing had been in course Of erection for two
months. 1t was to have been occupied,
when completed, as a foundry. Ever since
the foundation was laid there have been
complaints on every side that the structure
was a weak, fitmsy affair. and many had
expressed the belief that it would fall be-
tainly were not far wrong, for the roof
had not been completed ten hours when
the building crashed. 1t was at o'clock
yesterday afternoon that the last nail was
placed in the roof, 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 were taken up TO the top story 10
add to the general rejoicings.
To this mornings disaster there seems
to have been two eyewitnesses, ana the
story they tell agrees in every particular.
Thomas Walsh is the watchman at Heck
er's stables. in the rear of the house whicn
fell 1t was just $3.50 o'clock when the dis
aster occurred. 1t was wild night. The
rain fell in torrents and the wind blew
gale The watchman says that there was
which he cannot describe. By IL, through
the blackness of the night, he saw, as ne
was preparing to make his round on tne
stable, the side wall of the big new build
ing and the slanting sheets OF rain as they
beat down upon it. "Ill never forget that
sight, said Walsh Even as he looked
the side of the wall 1t seemed to the
watchman that big black line suddenly
to the bottom. Before Walsh could real
ze that the dark line was crack In the
wall there was a low, rumbling sound,
bled before his eyes. For a moment Walsh
stood amazed A cloud Of dust went up,
but the pstng rain can,6 6lotted II out
enough to re-enter the stable.
Walter j. Bryan of II Monroe street, was
corner of Pike and Monroe streets. fifty feet
away, when the building fell. He saw the
big crack in the wall too and a saw tn, the
THAT building" said this witness, was
more badly put up than any that was ever
put up by Buddenseil.''' Buddenseik is the
man that went to States prison for eighteen
years for using sand in the building OF
houses instead OF mortar.
Louis AaronowitZ, the owner OF the build
ing, was brought into the Essex Market
police court this afternoon. Who Is the
prisoner and what's the charge" asked
Justice Hogan.
Hes the owner OF the building or Mon
roe street that collapsed this morning."
answered the policeman:
eve had a pretty hard storm this morn
ing said the justice. "Out West when a
cyclone blows a building down IL is not a
ever, we will set the prisoners examination
for tomorrow. and in the meantime he
will be placed on parole" The justice,
therefore. issued subpoenas for Aaronowitz
and David A. Molsky. the contractor who
put up the building, to appear before him
tomorrow afternoon and explain what their
responsibility, If any. was for the disaster.
The structure. il is alleged by Thomas
Brady. whose family occupied the rear Of
Mo- a. was Mssk bont s%d it e to the building @
spector, but that no attention mad been
paid to them. 1t is alleged that the mortar
used in he work had too much sand in IL
TO hold the bricks.
Charred Bodies Found at HinckIey.
ST. CLOUD, Mimi, Oct. 10.-Frank Drew.
a lumber Cruiser OF Crookston, returned
from the Hinckley district this morning.
where for two weeks he has been search
ing for the body OF William Murray. his
brother-in-law. Last night the searchers
found body which was identified by
ring as that of Murray. The bodies OF two
other CRUISERS named Evans and White
were found. During the search the uniden-
tifiable remains of thirteen victims were
found. 1t is believed that many additional
bodies will yet be found, while not even
the ashes of the others VINO perished/will
be distinguishable.
Two Dead and Eight Seriously Burned
NEW CASTLE. Wash. Oct. O.-A dust
explosion occurred in the oregon Improve
ment Companys mine. yesterday. with the
result that one miner is dead and ten
seriously burned. two probably fatally. The
dead Is George Parrish The two
probably fatally injured are David ]. Lloyd
and Charles Giles. The seriously injured
are: George Dobson, Thomas Pitts Max