The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-11

!! New York, Oct. 10.-The storm which
| broke shortly after midnight has done
great damage to sea and land.
The tracks of the New Jersey Southern
railroad between Seabright and Highland
Beach, N. j., are covered with sand
washed upon them by the waves.
| The fishing smack Louise, driven
ashore at Highland Beach, is a total loss.
| The crew were taken off by the life saw
| ing crew.
Ship in Distress.
A steamship, apparently in distress,
was sighted soon after daylight at anchor
some distance off Long Branch. While
the sea was running so high no effort
was made to establish communication be-
| tween the steamship and shore. The
steamship does not seem to be in i'm
mediate danger. In Seabright and vicin-
lty buildings were unroofed.
At Long Island city big iron tank
! belonging to the East River Gas COM
pany was blown down to within five feet
| of the foundation. The tank was 200 feet
high and 1S5 feet wide. The wires were
| all blown down and small boats along
the shore from Long Island City to Bow
ers Beach were broken and thrown upon
the beach.
The trolley wires of the Brooklyn rail-
| the care are not now being run. The
ferry boat Hartwell, of Sixty-Second
street ferry, was disabled on entering the
| slip at Long Island City. The new en-
CINE house at the corner of Steinway and
Flushing avenue was blown down. An
| unusually high tide washed the end of
Staten Island, doing considerable damage
to small yachts.
Damage Mt Jersey City.
In Jersey City three horses were killed
in in tor ~ i,
Many shade trees were uprooted The only
steamers that reached quarantine this
morning We're the Manitoba, from Rio de
Janeiro, ard Teutonic from Berlin The
vessels due today are Alesiaf from Ma
PIES Havil from Bremen, Kronprinz
| Frererich Wilhelm from Naples Mobile
from London, Scandal from Hamburg,
| State of Nebraska, from Glasgow, Willie
had from Bremen. Several steamers from
southern and western Indian points due
today are no doubt receiving the full
| from Barbados, Elmar from New Or
! leans, Nuces from Galveston, and Yucca
tan from Havana.
Off Belhaven, near Greenwich, Conn,
the yacht Verona is ashore with every
prospect of becoming a complete wreck.
At Englewood a falling chimney killed
Miss Mary Ma, Kerr, 10 years of age. The
seven barges loaded with coal at Lloyd's
harpor, L. L. were all driven ashore.
-Four persons known to be in the boats
o d.
schooner was seen off White Stone L. L.
going before the wind IN the direction of
New York. Her foremost was gone and
most of her bow torn away.
Building CoIIapses.
While the storm was at it's height. lust
before 4 o'clock this morning a new
eight-story, building. at IA Monroe street
collapsed, bearing down upon the house
at Y Monroe and IN the rear extension
of the building on the other side. No. 76.
Roth places were filled with sleeping ten
ous ruins.
The crash of the falling walls aroused
me neighbors. who, seantily clad, began
Ine work ,e Of rescue which was continued
They mined far under, the bricks and
beams and mortar, and from the ruins
The dead:
/: /. Abrams, 40 years of age.
MIS-: Bessie Abrams, 40 years, wife of I.
Rose Abrams, Is years. dauehtar Of
/. Abrams. l.
Mrs. Bertha Karoness. so wears: hoard
driven into abdomen.
old dd0raham baroness her son, 9 years
Solomon Karoness, her son. aged %
Mrs. Jennie Steinman. 80 years
meyer Steinman, aged 81.
The injured:
Alexander Abrams, cut and bruised
about the face and body
James Brady, broken arm
May Brady, cut and bruised
Icut about the body -
Loretta Brady, badly cut about the face
]. Jacob BARONESS, badly bruised
Michael Karoness, cut and injured in
ternally. -
David Karoness. scalp wound and
Fannie Karoness, bruised and cut
Carl baroness, nose broken and head
lbruised.
Unknown woman, injured about body.
Timothy Doolan, right arm broken.
George Robenshy, scalp wound.
The missing:
Elk Abrams, aged Z, sen of L + All
Trans.
Was Wild Night.
1t was at o'clock yesterday after
noon that the last nail was placed i'm the
roof and then there was great rejoicing.
that the bright stripes would hang over
the streets. and two kegs of beer were
taken up to the top story to add to the
To this mornings disaster there seems
to have been two eye-witnesses and the
stories or, they tell agree in every particular
Hecker,s stables. in the rear of the house
which fell 1t was just $50 o'clock when
the disaster occurred. 1t was a wild
wind blew gale. The Waterman says
that there was a. sort of mysterious half
light in the air which he cannot describe
I'm never forget that sight" said
Walsh. Even as he looked there came a
lchange in the appearance of the side of
the wall. 1t seemed to the watchman
that a big black line suddenly appeared
diagonally across it from the top to bot
tom. Before Walsh could realize that
the dark line was a crack IN the wall,
there was low rumbling sound and the
seven stories of the building crumbled be-
fore his eyes. For a moment Walsh stood
amazed. A cloud of dust vent up, but
the pelting rain blotted it out before the
Waterman could recover himself enough
to re.enter the stable.
Walter ]. Bryan, of AZ Monroe street,
was returning 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 instant
before it fell.
THAT building" said this witness was
more badly put up than any that was ever
lput UP by Buddensiek"
BuddensielS is the man that went to
states prison for is years for using sand
in the building of houses instead OF
Came Cries For Help.
When police patrolling in the vicinity
Preached the scene of the catastrophe,
Icalled thither by the noise of the falling
building, they found extended half way
across the street, a. mass of debris. On
top of it, thirty feet above the street
level, two women and d. man were making
an effort to get to the street while from
the interior of the pile came nlufiled
cries for help. Calls were sent in for
fire engines and ambulances. In the two