Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-02
THREE FATAL ACCIDENTS.
Five Persons Killed and Twenty two
Severely Wounded.
Two Buildings Fall Down; One New
One and One Old One
A Largo Number Of Men We're
Working on Each. and in Each
Case Fatalities Resulted - A
Wreck on the Elevated Road
Does It's Share of Damage.

New York, March 1.-Two buildings,
one in course of construction and one
IN course Of demolition, collapsed in
this city to-day, and killed five men
and fatally injured or manned or
bruised nineteen others. About $50
a. IN. house at Forty-third street and
Tenth avenue, which was being torn
down, fell with a crash, carrying sew
eral workmen to the basement, where
they were covered by tons of bricks,
mortar and iron beams. The dead are:
HUGH CULLEN, 40 years.
ANGELO VICOR, 81 years.
JOHN O'CONNOR, 50 years.
JAMES DIALLOY.
The injured are: Pat Curran, Thos.
McConnOn, Edward Meaney, NJ. Z.
Keeley Louis Stein, Felix Morgan,
Charles Bobson.
Bobson may not recover. The
others are not dangerously hurt.
The building had been used as
malt house by A. E. and E. Schweyer
for thirty years. 1t was eight stories
high.
Eighteen men were on the third
floor when there was a rumbling, the
building reeled, the floor gave way and
fell to the basement.
Contractors George O'Keefe and Pat
rick Keegan We're placed under arrest,
but were admitted to bail
The second accident occurred about
3:35 p. m. Without the slightest
sound that might have warned the
fifty men that worked near it, the CEN
tral wall to the four double tenement
houses being erected at 151 to 157 Or
chard street, crumbled and fell. With
the wall went portions of four floors,
leaving great rent fifty feet long and
thirty wide in the centre of the build
ing. 1t 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 in
jured.
The dead man was JOHN WILSON,
80 years old, Astoria, L. l.
The injured are! william Wllkin-
son, bricklayer, Astoria, L. l., back
broken; Frank Thornton, q years old.
bricklayer, Astoria, l.. l., badly in
jured; John Thornton, 20, bricklayer,
Astoria, L. l., bodily injuries; --
Gloria, 30, bricklayer, both legs bro
ken; Thomas Wilson, 27, bricklayer,
head injured; George Gamble, 36, la
borer, both legs broken; Joseph Bar
bara, 81, labOrer, left leg broken;
Frank Barbara, back injured Joseph
Mesire, 27, head injured; Patrick Fla
herty 80, laborer, leg injured; Patrick
Malloy, Astoria, bricklayer, back in
jured; VIM. Malloy, 20, Astoria, brick
layer, arms bruised.
The first man carried out was John
Wilson. He said: DO not tell my
brother ! am hurt" His brother was
lying beside him as he spoke. The
second brother turned to look at the
one who had spoken, and as he turned
John gasped once and was dead.
Michael Tuscles was near a window.
He had just time as the floor sank to
clutch a window frame and was left
clinging to the frail support four
stories above the ground. He crawled
up and sat on the window sill, and was
rescued by the fremen.
Anthony Klein, of Williamsburg,
fell the four stories, but escaped with
out even a scratch
The police tried to find Building In
spector Timothy j. Ormsby to learn
from him why he had not reported the
flimsy character of the building They
were not able to find him.
ANOTHER SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
During the busy hours this after
noon, at the Franklin street station of
the Sixth avenue elevated railroad,
three persons were hurt, a car
smashed and an engine bent out of
shape.
AS the down town train approached
the station it came into collision with
a train switching to go northward. 1t
was reported by the police that the
switchman on duty at the station had
misplaced the switch which caused the
accident and when he discovered
what had happened he disappeared
and has not been seen.