Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-08-15
BUILDING COLLAPSES.
Sixth Floor of New York Sky
scraper was Over
loaded,

New York, Aug. San eight-story
building in course of construction at the
northeast corner of Third street and
South Fifth avenue fell with a crash this
morning and a number of the workmen
were carried down in the ruins. At least
FIVE men are thought to have been killed
and several others seriously wounded
A policeman was near the scene wheE
the accident occurred He said he heard
the roar of the falling building and I'M
mediately after it saw a horse running
away. Hurrying towards the animal
he saw the cloud of dust near Ihlrd
street and turned towards it. There he
saw two men struggling in a pile OF
debris. He pulled them out and began
to release a third when the floor be-
meath him gave way and let him down
into the basement He was terribly cut
and it was feared his back was broken.
The structure was to be an office and
warehouse building. the property of
John Ireland, real estate dealer
At ] 40 the revised list of the dead and
injured was as follows:
Dead.
216 East Ninety sixth street; died at. St.
Vincent's hospital His skull was frac,,
tured, right arm broken. right side crushed
in and severely injured internally
JOHN BURKE. laborer. married, A years
old. Brooklyn; dead when taken from the
ruins.
William Fox, laborer, broken thigh and in
jured internally.
John Clune, labOrer.
James kelney, As years old, laborer,, con-
Cornelius Guider laborer, 773 Bergen
street, Brooklyn; scalp WOUNDS and contu.
sions. not seriously injured.
William Frank laborer age and residence
IN Spri0uSly iniJlroH
Smith. two ribs fractured and con-
tusions.
John Murphy, laborer, of Atlantic avenue
Brooklyn; christopher O'Rourke, laborer,
BROOKLYN; Michael OHare, laborer, Brook
Ign; Michael Savage, laborer. Brooklyn; Ed
ward Hanley, laborer, Brooklyn; John Nc
CURE. laborer BROOKLYN; Michael Flynn,
laborer. Brooklyn; James Farrell; Michael
Fahey; Charles Riley; Charles e. Peterson
Charles Smith was taken from under
pile of bricks horribly cut about the
head and body. 1t is said that eighty-two
lpen were employed in the building on the
different floors.
number of men who were engaged on the
building, soon after the accident occurred,
left the scene. This makes it impossible
to state just how many men are actually
missing and the true number will not be
known until those have reported to their
foreman.
The ruins lie in the center of the build
ing with broken timber, twisted iron
girders and columns covered with lath and
plaster. The mass is as dense and hard
to handle as a bank of clay. It is said
that seven men were at work in the cellar
directly under the center of the wreck.
The building was filed with plasterers,
plumbers, electricians. gas filters and la
borers.
Contractor Parker and Foreman Selig-
man have both been arrested 1t was said
at the scene of the disaster that the cause
was undoubtedly the overlooking of the
sixth floor with plaster and building ma
derChamberlain Electrical company,
which was doing the electrical work in the
building, said that his men had reported
to him on Monday that the wires that
had been placed on the sixth floor were
out of line, showing that the walls had
already got out of plumb.
Mr.. Parker, the contractor, said that
the plasterers had overloaded the center
of the building The iron work was sound
and we'll made The bolts were sliced
clean off where the iron work parted,
showing that heavy pull had been exert
ed downward.
New York, Aug. 9.-The workmen en-
gagged in clearing away the debris in tho
collapsed building at West Broadw; y
and West Third street at $50 O'Clock
thi morning unearthed another bod.',
the fourth victim of the disaster re-
covered. 1t has not yet been identified.
The bodies of two more victims were
discovered in the ruins shortly before
noon" One was identified as that of
Michael Flynn. His body was drawn
from beneath a mass of wreckage on the
first floor. The other body was unidenti-
fed. This was found beneath the first
floor.
The body of the sixth victim is thought
to be that of Michael OHare. a laborer
Of 112 Walworth street. Brooklyn.
The revised list of the dead and miss
ing as furnished by the police at 2 o'clock
is as follows: The dead:
JOHN BURKE. plasterer. Brooklyn.
CLAUS PARSON. electrician, New York.
CHARLES SMITH electrician, New York.
MICHAEL SAVAGE. plasterer, Brooklyn.
MICHAEL FLYNN. laborer, New York.
MICHAEL O'HARE. laborer. Brooklyn.
The missing: Patrick Cassin laborer,
Brooklyn: Patrick Conlin. plasterer. Brook
Ign; James Crosse. New York; Edward Han
ley. piasterer, BROOKLYN; John Murphy. Ia
borer. Brooklyn; Christopher O'Rourke,
Brooklyn; Augustus Phillips New. York
George Smith, iron worker, New York; Will
lam Hayes, BROOKLYN.