St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-02
BUILDINGS CRASH.
Criminality of Contractors
Causes Heavy Loss Of
Life.
FIvEARE INSTANTLY KILLED
Nineteen Others Fatally In.
jured or Seriously Man
gled and Bruised.
CONTRACTORS ARRESTED.
The Building Inspector Is Also
Wanted but Cannot Be
Found.
FIvEARE INSTANTLY KILLED
CONTRACTORS ARRESTED.

NEW YORK, March 1.-Two build
ings, one in course of construction
and one in course of demolition,
collapsed lin this city today and
killed five men, and fatally injured
or mangled or bruised nineteen
others. The first accident occurred
at about $50 in the morning. A
house at the corner of Forty-third
street and Tenth avenue which was
being torn down by some forty la
borers fell with a crash, carrying
several workmen to the basement,
three floors below, and they were
almost completely covered by tons
of bricks, dry mortar and iron
beams
THE DEAD.
HUGH CULLEN.
ANGELO TICCOR.
JOHN CURRAN
THE INJURED.
Pat Curran, Thomas McConnon. Ed
ward Meaney, NJ. e. Kelley, Louis
Stein, Felix Moran, Charles Robson
The building, which is an old one,
had been used as a malt house by
A. e. & S. Schweiner for the past
thirty years, but it has been unoc-
cup1ed for more than two years 1t
was eight stories high and ran back
about sixty feet on West Forty-third
street. Men were tearing down the
structure under the direction of Con-
tractors O'Keefe and Reagan. The
work had gone on successfully until
this morning, when the men had
got down as far as the rear of tho
third floor, known as the old kiln
mouse. There were about eighteen
men on this floor at the hour men
toned. Suddenly there was a rum
bling noise and f-,-
THE BUILDING ROCKED
as If shaken by an earthquake. In
another moment the floor gave way
and fell with it's human freight tn
the basement, carrying the other
floors with it. In an instant every
person in the neighborhood, which
IS hlled with tenement houses. felt
that something awful had occurred.
ana men, woBlen and children ran
SNSNNSDy III Oil Soma
Oh the cooler heads turned in the fire
alarm and ar .bulapce calls, which
were quickly responded to- Assisted
by some laborers who had FORUM
ately escaped and many willing citi.
zens, the firemen began the work of
rescue. 1t was hard and very
dangerous task, as the walls were
tottering and the remaining flooring
ana beams overhead threatened to
toppie down every moment. Besides
the rescuers had to be very eau
tious, fearing that the slightest care
Iessness on their part might end tn,
lives Of some of the injured. whose
groans and cries for help came
from all directions underneath the
tons of debris from which heads
arms and legs projected.
AT o'clock Joe O'Con or was
brought out, but he died in the om-
puiance on the way to Roosevelt
hospital. Half an hour later the
dead bodies of Cullen and Vicor
Wer' extricated The rescuers
worked desperately, and before 2
CLOCK every one If the laliorers
mad been accounted for. Con4raot-
ors George O'Keefa ani Patrick
l. eegan were placed under arrest.
but were later admitted to bail bv
the coroner.
THE SECOND ACCIDENT
occurred about 8: 80 o'clock this q rtcr.
noon. Without the slightest warn
ing to the fifty men that worked
near it, the central wall to the four
double tenement houses being eract-
ed at 151 to 157 Orchard street crum-
pled and fell. With the wall went
portions of four floors, leaving a
great rent fifty feet long and thirty
feet wide in the center of the build
fngs. 1t was like a pit, at the bot
tom of which was a mass of tan
gled iron and broken wood that COW
cred many men. From that heap in
an hour had been taken out one man
dead and twelve injured.
The dead
JOHN WILSON.
The injured
William Wilkinson, back broken.
i4Oi iiIOii, JdCiy injured. JOnn
Thornton, body injured; - Gloria
both legs broken; Thomas Wilson, head
injured; George Gamble. both legs
broken; Joseph Barbara, left leg brok-
en-; Frank Barbara, back injured: To-
seph Mesire, head injured; Patrick
Flaherty, leg injured; Patrick Malloy,
back injured; William Malloy, arms
bruised.
Abraham Levy. with three or four
other men, got into the building and
dragged out three men who were only
lightly held down by the bits of wood.
The second man carried out was John
Wilson 1t could be seen at once that
ne was badly hurt. He only spoke
once, when he said: Go tell my BROTH
sr [ am hurt" His brother was lying
beside him as he spoke. The second