The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-02

New York. March 1.-Two buildings,
.bne in course OF construction and one
N course Of demolition. collapsed in
this city today. and killed four men
and fatally injured or manned or
bruised nineteen OTHERS. The. first &C
cident occurred about $50 a. m.
a house at he corner Of Forty-Third
and Tenth avenue. which was being
torn down by some forty laborers. fell
with crash. carrying several work.
men TO the basement three floors be-
low. and they were most completely
covered by tons Of brick, dry mortar
and iron beams.
DeSd-Hugh Cullen. Angelo Yicor,
5ohn o'Connor, James Manoy.
Injured-Pat Curran, Thomas Nc
Common, Edward Meany, NJ, Z. Keely,
Louis Stein, Felix Moran, Charles Rob
son.
The building, which is an old one,
had been used as a malt house by NJ.
and 4. Z. Sehweinfurth for the past
thirty years, but it has not been oc-
CuDied for more than two years.
A RumhIfng Noise.
II vas eight stories high and ran
back about sixty feet on West Forty
third street Men we're tearing down
the old structure The work had gone
on successful until this morning when
ME men had gone as far as the rear
$hird floor known as the old '@Oid
tlln house.. There were about eigh-
teen on this floor at the hour mention
ed when suddenly there was a. rurnb-
ling noise and the building rocked as
If shaken by an earthquake. In an
other moment, the floor gave way and
fell with its human freight 10 the
basement, carrying the other floors
with it. In al instant every person in
the neighborhood, which IS filed with
tenement houses. felt that something
awful had occurred and men, women
and children ran digtractedly in all
directions. Some Of the cooler heads
turned in the fire alarm and arabuI-
ance calls. which were quickly res
pended TO. Assisted By some laborers
VINO had eScapeG-and many willing
citizens, the fremen began the work of
rescue 1t was a hard and very
dangerous task, as the walls were tot
terdng and the remaining flooring and
beams overhead threatened to topple
down every moment, Besides, the
TeScuers had TO be very cautious
fearing that the slightest carelessness
on their part might end the lives Of
some Of the injured whose gTOans and
cries for help came from all directions
from, underneath the, debris. from
which heads, arms and legs projected.
At o'clock John O'Connor Was
brought out and ne died in
the ambulance on the way to
the Roosevelt hospital. Half an
hour later the dead bodies of Cullen
ana Vicor were eKtrtcated The res
cuers worked desperately and by Y
Af I1 Ta1 1. I
been accounted for. Contractors
George O'Keefe and Patrick Keegan
were placed under arrest, but we're
later admitted to bail by the coroner
The Second Accident.
The second accident occurred about
S:95 this afternoon. Without the Slight
est warning to the fifty men that
worked near it, the central wall of the
Four double tenement houses being
erected at III TO 157 Orchard street.
crumblea and fell. With the wall went
portions of four floors, leaving a great
REM lilly feet long and thirty feet
wide in the center of the buildings. IT
was like pit. at the bottom Of which
was a mass of tangled iron and broken
wood that covered many men From
that heap in an hour had been taken
out one man dead and twelve injured,
Dead: John Wilson
broken; Frank Thornton, badly injured:
- Gloria. both legs broken; John
Thornton, badly injured; Thomas Viii
son, head injured: George Gamble, both
LEGS broken; Joseph Barbara, left leg
broken; Frank Barbara, left leg
ibrohen5 Joseph Mesire. head injured
Patrick Flaherty, leg injured; Pat Nal
10y, back injured: William AIalloy, arras
bruised.
Abraham Levy, with three or fonr
Of~er men. got into the building and
dragged out three men who were only
tightly held down by the bits Of wood,
The second man carried out was John
Wilson, It could be seen at once he
W2g badly hurt.
Went Down in :. Heap.
After that, The hrernen came, soon TO
he followed by the reserves from the
EldridSe street police station. There
-xere fifty men working in the four
buildings. Most Of the men were on
The fourth floor Of the house No. 155.
Between the front and rear of the
house WAS d big party wall. along the
side Of which ran a narrow shaft. It
was tie party Wan that crUmbled In
q heap the men went G0wn with the
falling floor. One Of The brick layers,
Michael LUscles was near a window
towards the front OF the house, He
him 10 clutch at d window sash and
1Tas left cIinSjnS to the frah support,
four stories above the ground. He man
aged TO crawl up so az TO sit on the
window sil, froraP which position he
vas afterwards rescued by the fire.
men.
could be heard on every side. when the
frenen caused alarms to be sent for
additional firemen 10 begin removing
the tfmbers. Ten Of the twelve men
who were rescued early were gotten
out with lite trouble.
The contractors are John Coomes, Of
Astoria, and Peter G. Cleeves. The
owner is William T. Lannon. All were
CAPTAIN Cartwright said he mad
made a careful examination Of the
buildinE and SAID it was a surprise to
hin, that the house had stood as long
as it did. The mortar, he said. had
been examined by an expert and pro-
s>ounced worthless II was also said
the bricks were OF poor quality; that
rbe beams were not properly supported,
and that the iron Orders were not on
stones in the walls, as they should be.
Al the station, bail for the arrested
men was refused. The police tried in
vain TO ind Bpilding Inspector Tim
o4hv ]. Ornsby, TO learn from him Why
he had not reported the hinsy char
acter Of the building, They were not
able to find him.
DODGING A BOARD BILL,
Kansas City, March Mckee Rankin,
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