Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-03-06
WORKMEN ARE BURIED.
Several Are Killed and Many In
jured in an Accident in
New York.

New York, March IAN accident by
which at least three workmen were killed
and twelve others injured occurred this
morning at Tenth avenue and Forty
third street The old building at the
northwest corner, formerly used as a
malthouse by A. & z. Scheweyer, was
being torn down at the time of the acct
dent
Following is list of the dead:
ANGELO TICCOR.
CHARLES ROBSON.
JOHN O'CONNOR.
Injured:
Patrick Curran, 40 years old.
T. Meeny, 80 years old.
jos sD Mallory ays Il years e gsa Old oio'
Louis Stein, . years old.
The building which was being demol-
lShed is the old malthouse of 4. Sc e.
Schuyler, brewers. For two years it has
not been occupied The portion of the
building that fell is the old kflnhouse and
was five stories high. For three weeks a
gang of rlen under Contractor George
O'keefe has been tearing down the build
ing. This morning most of the gang
were at work on the old kilnhouse on the
Forty-third street side. During the first
part OF the morning portion of the
roof had been taken off and the naked
wall on the Forty-third street side was
left standing. Suddenly there was ter
rife crash. There was roar of failing
brick and timber that was heard for
blocks, and great cloud of dust went up.
In the midst of the roar were heard the
cries of men. The three upper stories on
the Eirty-third street side had toppled into
the interior of the building. Tons Of
brick and mortar had fallen on the work
men.
A dozen men ran distractedly in all
directions to send in fire alarms and calls
for ambulances In a few minutes fire
engines and ambulances were on the
scene. Ambulances were there from
every hospital in the city. Groans and
half-stihed cries could be heard from be-
meath the mass of bricks. The laborers
who had escaped, the fremen and the
crowd attracted by the noise of the fall
ing walls ran to the ruins like mad men
and began tearing the debris away with
their hands and with crowbars. A leg
here. an arm there and q head in another
place showed the best points of attack.
The men who were at work on the ruins
were thoughtless of danger at first and
then cooler heads saw that other parts
of the wall might fall and not only kill
rescuers but bury the unfortunate work
men still deeper.
In short time ten men were taken
out. OF these two were already dead.
Another, a man of 20 years who was
later identified as Charles Bobson, was
unconscious and breathing feebly. He
was hurried into an ambulance, but died
on the way to the hospital
The building as it stands shows on the
Fortythird street side q wall broken off
at the third story. The wall just oppo-
site is broken of at about the same point.
The walls on the other sides are still
standing five stories high, and here lies
the greatest danger for the firemen and
the rescuers
Contractor O'Keefe and his partner,
Patrick Keegan, were arrested and
locked up in the West Forty
street station. No bail would be taken
when the owner of the fallen building,
James McKelvey, called to offer security.
Chief Gicquel said at noon that he
thought there were two more bodies in
the ruins. This would swell the list of
dead to FIVE. The body of the unknown
Italian was identified IS that Of Angelo
Ticcor. Contractor O'Keefe denied the
statement that a lot of material had been
left on the floors of the building. OF the
injured men Malloy viii die.