The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-07

Ae was pldCeu III an dIllDuldHCS. lnouS-
ands of people had now gathered at
the scene and the police were on hand
in large numbers,
Near the top the ruins one arm and
the leg of a man protruded The re-
mainder of the body was buried be-
meath the rubbish.
AT intervals the arm was feebly NOV
ed. The rescuers centered their efforts
upon this point and worked bravely.
Many moments elapsed before the vic
tim was lifted into an ambulance. He
was then unconscious. AS the workers
dug into the rubbish and the air pene-
trated the furnaces set the debris ablaze
and the workers were driven back by
smoke through which from time to time
came muffied cries for help. The fire
men worked on heroically and streams
| turned on the blaze soon checked the
| fire so that gang of two hundred la
| borers who had been collected could
get into the debris and pull it into
the street.
Charles Hackett was found in the
| third story of the ruins, in the rear,
| to which approach was had through
the alley. He reported there had been
four or five girls on the floor with him.
He did not seem to be seriously in
jured
AS the diggers continued in front of
| the wrecked building the appraised arm
of man was uncovered on the side
walk not far from where four bodies
| were taken. 1t was necessary to move
| huge pieces of stone and fragments of
machinery before the body could be re-
! leased. The victim had escaped the
steam and smoke, but his head was
crushed into shapeless mass. He was
identified as Henry Lariviere, Jour
| nal mailing clerk.
| Two more bodies were found at the
same corner, making four taken from
| that spot. They presented an awful
sight as the hot bricks and smoking
| timbers were pulled away One was sit
| ting bolt upright with his back to the
street; the other was just below him and
had been caught as he plunged head
| long downward. This was Dunlap, the
| Typograph dealer. The other body was
| that of George Shaw Journal clerk.
| Another body was found half an hour
| later. 1t was that of young man in
blouse and overalls, and it lay under all
| the debris on the sidewalk. A great
| block of stone had fallen upon his head,
| taken from the walk soon after one
o'clock
Shortly after the rescue of Hackett
the men engaged in clearing away the
wreckage at the rear of the building
caught sight of two bodies, a mans
and a girls, under a great heap of
beams, boards and bricks 1t was at
first thought that both We're dead, but
some one said they could see the bodies
pulsation and could hear means. Eff
forts to reach them We're redoubled, but
about this time the fire spread to the
rear, driving the workers back. About
| the same time another man was dis
covered below an immense heap at an
other corner. He was shouting. The
workers saw him crouching in large
barrel which was standing upright and
into which he must have fallen feet
first. Cries of encouragement were sent
back to him, but hope failed when it
was seen the flames were slowly creep
ing toward him. All three had to be
abandoned when the smoke and flames
drove their helpers back.
John Lemon, who was handed out of
the ruins soon after IL O'clock, had
scratch on his cheek and slight burns
on his hands. He stated that he was
on the third floor when the crash came
and bricks fell around him. The floor
under him sank and tipped so quickly
that he could not escape AS he went
down he caught a glimpse of girl run
ming and of a man, who yelled Billy"
After the first drop there was gradual
sinking. He found himself pent up in
a small dark place with hole at one
side. He was nearly enclosed, but moth
ing was pressing upon him. Soon the
smoke poured into his small compart-
ment, but not in such quantities as to
overcome him. Looking around he saw
a small hole at his right, into which he
began to throw brick and other pieces
of the debris around him. A voice be-
low him begged that nothing more be
thrown down. 1t sounded like the voice
of the man who had called for Billy"
Lemon kept at work, however, enlarg-
ing the space around him. Once in a
while there was a slow sinking under
him. Once he touched a wire and his
hand was slightly burned by electricity.
There was an iron bar in front of him,
to which he clung a portion of the time
Still he labored desperately and once he
stopped to pray when strong hand
seized him and he was pulled out of the
hole.
A man with his rams free was discov-
cred. He called for water and it was
given to him. He began to fail from the
effects of the smoke. Hats were used
to fan the smoke from his face. The
scantlings were sawed away so that the
rescuers could get hold of him. but his
legs were so pinioned that he could not
be pulled out. 1t was fully three-quar-
ters of an hour before he was extricat-
ed. The cries of the girl further in the
ruins had died away. The man was
James Ross. He pleaded with the
workers to dig for another man, whom
he said was near him. He was practi-
cally dead when extricated.
Arthur Lynch, who was working
alongside Ross and Michael Ward, had
a wonderful escape. They were Citing
the matrix ready on the steam table
and Ross told Lynch to get underneath
and turn on steam higher for more
heat, In a minute Lynch felt the awful
crash and was carried down the five
floors under the table When at the
hottOm the bricks and falling floors