The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-18
BUILDINGS C0LLAPSE
Fatal Fall Of a Tenement Hous5
Tear Providence.
THRBEKILL3D, ,TWoFATALLY HURT

Nine Others Receive Irjuries More OF Less
Serious - One Killed aud Two Fatally |
Hurt While Removing the wall Of n
Burned Building in Chicago.
PROVIDENCE, May 18.-A two and half
story wooden tenement house, owned by
Joseph LeMoine and occupied by him and
several other French families, in that part
of the town Of Coventry known as "Jeri-
cho, seven miles from this city, collapsed
late yesterday afternoon and three persons
were killed and eleven injured. 1t is
tho ught that two Of the latter are fatally
hurt. The building had been raised toI
permit the building Of another story be-
meath It,
The killed are M~s Mabel Guertin, 90
years old, occupant of house; Asa Aid
rich 50 years old. workman employed in
raising house; 2]5-year-old child of Louis
LeMoine occupant of house.
The injured are: Mrs. LeMoine, aged
20 years. crushed, bruised and injured,
probably fatally; Noah Richards, work
man, scalp wounds, side crushed, proba
bly, fatal internal injuries; Mrs. Louis
LeMoine, 35, injured about head; Fred
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Frank LeMoine, IS, leg fractured; Joseph
LeMoine, SO, serious contusions, - Cos
selin, TO- scalp wounds, shoulder crushed
Two small children named Gauniere were
also seriously injured. Two others sus.
tained slight injuries, but were able to
care for themselves.
The building was about fifty feet long
with frontage of twenty feet. The lower
fory,,arlvr SIR AND thn
owner recently decided to raise it thirty
feet and fit up the lower stories for tene-
ments, and about three weeks ago Con
tractor Poole, of Apponaug, began the
work, and the structure was raised to the
required height. The two families in the
upper stories did not move out, as they
were told the building was perfectly safe.
While the men were working at the
underpinning the building, without warn
ing, slid of the piles on which it rested
and pitched endwise into the street, strik
ing the ground with terrific crash as II
was split and smashed into mass of kind
ling wood. From the ruins rose the cries
of the injured and dying and the passers
| by and others at once began the work o.
rescue. In the excitement the Centrevillt
| fire department was summoned, and theJ
rendered valuable assistance in tearing
away the debris. An alarm was rung uI
| on the mill bells and soon thousands hat
| gathered at the scene.
Meanwhile the rescuers were tearing
apart the mass of splintere1 beams anC
boards and soon came upon the body of I
woman lying in the street under the sec
ond floor. 1t was crl led into a condition
almost past recognition, but from tn,
clothing it was identified as that of Mrs
| Guertin, a widow who lived on the secont
floor. A short distance away the body o
a child was found. The neck was broker
and the lower parts were badly mangled
Half an hour later the body Of Asa Al
drich, of Arctic Centre, was found Hi
back was broken and his head crushet
into pulp. Aldrich was in the act of NOV
ing heavy jack under the building whel
it started on its downward plunge.
Mrs. Joseph LeMoine, wife of the owne
of the building, and Noah Richards,
workman, were taken from the ruins S
badly injured that they will probably die
half dozen others, including children
who had been playing near by, were ais
injured. Joseph LeMoine, a man So year
old, escaped with severe bruises and a ba
shaking up.