Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-18
THREE KILLED.
And a Dozen More
Injured.
COVENTRY HORROR
House Topples Over Into
the Street.
1T WAS BEING RAISED.
The Occupants Wero Given Assu.
rance That All Were Safe.
1T WAS BEING RAISED.
The Occupants Wero Given Assu.
rance That All Were Safe.

A tenement house at the village OF
Jericho. In Coventry, fell over into the
street yesterday afternoon while workmen
were placing new foundation under IL.
Three persons were crushed to death and
IL were injured.
Inc following are the killed: Mrs.
Guertin, 30 years Old Asa Aldrich, 30
years old; 2K-year-old child of Louis Le-
moinc.
Fatally injured: Mrs. Joseph Lemoine,
20 years old, crushed and bruised, inter-
nally injured; Noah Richard, workman,
scalp wounds, side crushed, internally in
jured.
The injured: Mrs. Louis lie Moinc, 35,
seriously injured about the head Fred
Balliere, 10 years old, scalp wounds; Frank
lie Moine, IS years old, leg fractured;
Joseph Le Moine, IS years old, bruises;
- Cosselin, 10 years old, scalp wounds,
crushed shoulder.
Two small children named Ganniere
were injured. One, a boy, had a deep cut.
on the head, and the other, girl, had her
leg crushed. Two others were slightly in
jured. The physicians in the surrounding
towns attended the injured, most Of whom
were sent to the Providence hospital.
Workmen Said Building Was Safe.
The building was a wooden one, 2X
stories high and about so feet long, with
Of the building was formerly n store, and
the owners recently decided to raise it 30
feet and fit up the lower stores for tene-
ments Contractor Poole of Apponaug
was given the contract, and about three
a ct IN ~
required height.
The two families i'm the upper stories
did not move out, as they were told the
building was perfectly safe, resting, as it
did, on stout piling One end hung over
the street, and several persons observed
within the past few days that it had an in
cline outward. The workmcn who were
preparing the foundation, however, stated
that there was no danger Of it falling into
the street.
About o'clock yesterday afternoon,
while the men were working at the under
pinning, the building slid off the piles and
pitched headlong into the street, striking
the ground with terrific crash. The
building was literally smashed to kindling
wood.
The cries of the dying and injured could
be plainly heard by those who reached the
scene first.
The Ccntreville fire department was
summoned and the mill bells were rung
The wires In the street were first cut TO
prevent the wreck from taking fire. The
firemen and mill hands, after short
search.
Found the Body of n Woman
lying in the street under the second floor
The body was terribly crushed, but was
recognized as that of Mrs Mabel Guertin,
widow, who lived on the second floor.
A short distance away the body of child
was found. The neck was broken and the
lower parts were badly mangled Half an
hour later the body Of Asa Aldrich was
found. His back was broken and his
head was terribly crushed. Aldrich was
moving heavy jack under the building
when il started.
Mrs. Joseph Lcmoine wife Of the owner
Of the building, and Noah Richardson,
workman, were found i'm the ruins SO
badly injured that they will die. Half
dozen others, including several children,
were also injured. Joseph Lcmoinc,
man 80 years old, the owner was i'm the
building when it fell, but he was not scri-
ously injured.
The electric lighting and street car sys-
tenn of the pnwtuxct Valley was crippled
last night owing 10 the grounding of the
wires at the scene of the accident The
valley towns are all i'm darkness.