Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-02
FATAL coLLAPses OF BUILDINGS.
Five Men Killed and score None or Ltss
Injaret ut New York


NEW YORK, March 1.-Two buildings,
,le in course Of construction and one IN
course of demolition. collapsed in this city
and killed five men and fatally injured, or
maimed or bruised, nineteen others. The
first accident occurred at a house at the
corner OF Forty-third street and Tenth
avenue which was being torn down by
some forty laborcrs 1t fell with "A crash,
carrying several workmen to tine base
ment three floors below, and they were
most completely covered by tons of bricks,
dry mortar and iron beams The dead
are: Hugh Cullen. Angelo Vicor. John
O'Connor and James Malloy. The in
iureC-Pa. Curran, Thomas McConnon,
Edward Meaney, NJ +. Kelley, Louis
Stein. Felix Moran and Charles Robson
The building, which Is an old one. had
been used Us Il malt house 10y y f. x =
Schweincr for the past thirty years, but 1t
has not bcen occupied for more than two
years. II was eight stories high and ran
back about sky feet on West Forty-thiid
street Men were tearing down TIE old
structure under the direction OF Con-
tractors O'keefe and kecgan- the work
| had gone on successfully until the men
got down as far rs the rear OF the third
| fIpor known rs the OLD Kiln house. sud
denly there was rumbling noise, and
| the building rocked as II shaken by an
earthquake In another moment the floor
| gave way and fell with lis human freight
! to the basement, carrying the other hooTs
| with it.
| Resccers were soon on hand and worked
| with almost supcrkuman Vigor To save
| those not killed ami recover the bodies OF
the dead, until the list was completed as
given in the foregoing IN the second ac-
c,dent, without the slightest warning TO
the fifty men that worked near 1t. the cen
| trail wall of the four double tenement
houses being erected at I5l to l51 Orchard
street crumblcd ard fell. With tAe wall
went portion, of fGar floors, leaving q
great rcat fifty feet long and thirty feet
| wide in the center Of the buildings IL
| was like a pit ut the bottom of which was
| a mass OF tangled iron and broken weed
that covered many men. From tha: heap
in an hour had been taken cut one man
dead and twelve injured
In the crash John Wilson was killed
and the following injured: William
Wilkinson. back broken; Frank Thorn
ton, badly injured; John Thornton, bodily
injuries; - Gloria, both legs broken:
Thomas Wilson, head injured; George
Gamble, both legs broken, Joseph Bar
ba-a, left leg broken; Frank Barbara,
back injured; Joseph Mesirc, head in
iured; Patrick Flaherty, leg injured;
Patrick Malloy, back injured; William
Malloy, arms bruised
Wilson was alive when carried out, but
died almost as he said Don't tell my
brother am hurt" Here as at the Other
wreck the work Of recovery and rescue.wa:
pushed. The building had been examined
by an expert and pronounced unsafe The
contractors are John Coomes, OF Astoria
and Peter c. Clcaves- The owneris VIII
lam +. Lannon- All were arrested, and
bail refused Captain Cartwright said h'
had made "a CAREFUL examination of ,h'
building. and said it was surprise to hin
that the house had stood as long as * Gid