The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-10
Two Families Are Buried Under
the Ruins.
TORRENTS OF RAIN.
All Wires Blown Down and
Shipping Destroyed.
The Life Saving Crews Have a
Hard Nights Work.

NEW YoRk. oct 1O-At $3.50 o'clock
this morning a seven story building in
course Of erection, at No IA Monroe
street, was blown down by the gale. 1t
crashed through a two story building az
No. 72, demolishing it completely. Two
families with boarders lived at r. They
were all buried in the ruins.
The building which fell had been in
course Of erection for the past two months.
1t was TO have been occupied when COM
pleted ID a foundry.
Ever since The foundation was laid
there were complaints on every side that
the structure was a weak himsy affair,
and many had expressed the belief that
it would fall before the roof could be
put on. These were certainly not far
wrong; for the roof had not been COM
pleted ten hours when the crash came
lit was at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
that the last nail was placed in the roof
and then there was great rejoicing The
WOrkmeu put five or six flags up, so 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 general
rejoicing.
To this mornings disaster there seems
to have been two eye witnesses and the
story they tell agrees in every particular
Thomas w alsh is the watchman at Heck
er's stable in the rear Of the house which
fell. It was just $3.50 o'clock when the
disaster occurred. 1t d wild night
The rain fell in torrents and the wind
blew d gale The Watchman says that
there was a sort of mysterious half light
in the air which he cannot describe. By
it, through the blackness of the uiqht
he says, as he was preparing to make his
rounds Of the sta Bile, he saw the side wall
of this big new blIlding and the slanting
sheets of rain as they beat down upon it.
"1u never forget that sight" said
Walsh. Even as he looked there came
change IN the appearance OF the side of
the wall It seemed TO the watchman
that a big black line suddenly appeared
diagonally across ii from top TO bottom.
Before Walsh could realize that the dark
line was a crack in the wall there was a
low rumbling sound and the seven stories
of the building crum bled before his
eyes. For a moment Walsh stood
amazed A cloud of dust went up, but
the pelting rain blotted it out before the
watchman could recover himself enough
o reenter the stable.
Walter j. Bryan, Of ~ Monroe street.
was returning home, and he stood at the
corner Of Pike and Monroe street, fifty
feet away when the building fell He
saw the big crack in the wall, too, and
saw the building topple for instant
before il fell ssThat building" said this
any that was ever put up by Buddensiek"
Buddensiek IS the man that went to
states prison for eighteen wears for using
sand in the building Of hc 45es instead Of
mortar.
The list of injured thus far recovered
from the ruins is as follows:
George RobinOvitz % years old, back
sprained and ear cut.
Louis Abrams, 70, left leg broken and
many contusions.
David Kronis, "A, cut about head and
body.
Fanny Kroniz. 2s. badly cut about the
body.
Joseph Brady, IA, head crushed and
left leg broken.
Timothy Dolan, cuts and bruises
Bessie Abrams, 40. cut about the head.
Lewis J. Abrams, 20, contusions of
head and body.
Maurice Abrams, contusions Of head
and body
Fearful storm at sea-
The storm. which broke upon this sec
ton shortly after midnight, has done
great damage on and land. The
tracks Of the New Jersey Southern rail
road, between Seabright and Highland
Beach. n. j., have been covered with
sand washed upon them by the waves.
The fishing smack, Louise. was driven
ashore al Highland Beach and is a total
loss. Her crew Of ten men were taken
of by the life saving crew.
steamship, apparently in dis
tress, was sighted soon after
daylight at anchor some dis
tance off Long Branch. While the
sea was running so high no effort was
made to establish communication be-
tween the steamships and the shore. At
1O a. I'd. the wind shifted aud the storm
somewhat abated
The steamship does not seem to be IN
any Immediate danger. In Seabripht
and vicinity a number of buildings we're
unroofed- At Long Island city the big
iron tank belonging to the East River
Gas company was blown to within five
feet of its foundation. The tank was
200 feet high and 175 feet wide
The police wires were all blown down
and small boats all along the shore from
Long Island to Bowers Beach were
broken and thrown upon the beach. The
telephone wires were broken and twisted.
aud at North Beach q number of boats
were wrecked The trolley wires of the
brooklyn railroad at North Beach were
All broken and cars are not now being
rnn The ferry boat Harlem. Of the
Nlnety-second street ferry. was disabled
on entering ner slip at Long Island Citv
1he new engine at the corner Of Stein
way and Flushing avenue which had
reached the heighth of one and one-half
stories was blown down. An unusually
high tide washed the east of Staten
Island doing considerable damage to