The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-02
Contractors and Owners Of Both Ar
rested, Two Admitted to Hail and
the others Sent to jail.
MEXICO'S RAILWAY HORROR
ONE HUNDRED AND FotR PEOPLE
KILLED AND EIGHry-FIvE HURT.
Three Passenger Coaches and the En-
Railway Accident i'm New Jersey.


course of demoition, collapsed in this city
to-day and killed four men and fatally in
jured MANNED or bruised nineteen others.
The first accident occurred about $50
o'clock in the morning. house at the
corner of Forty-third street and Tenth ave-
nue. that was being torn down by some
forty Iaborers fell with a crash. carrying
several workmen to the basement, three
floors below. where they were almost COM
pletely covered by tons of bricks. dry NOR
tar and iron beams. The dead are
HUGH CULLEN, laborer.
ANGELO T1CCOR, laborer.
JOHN CURRAN. laborer; died on way to
Roosevelt Hospital.
The injured are
CHARLES BoBEsIN. fractured skull:
will probably die.
FELIX MORAN fractured collar bone
LOUIS STEIN, abrasion of knee and hips.
and suffering from shock; condition se-
MICHAEL GREELY, confusion of legs
JOHN F'LAHERITY, confusion Of back
EDWARD MEANY, confusion of face and
THOMAS ocoNNoR, slight injury.
PATRICK CURRAN, slight injuries
e ail1octd rsnera,iv rlos contsed conditon
serious.
The building, which is an old one. had
been used as malthouse by A. e. and F.
Schweir for the past thirty years, but It
has been unoccupied for more than two
years. 1t was eight stories high and runs
back about sixty feet ON West Forty-third
street. Men were tearing down the old
structure, under the direction OF contractors
O'Keefe and keenan,. The work had gone
on successfully until this morning. when
the men had got down as far the rear
Of the third floor known as the old kiln
house. There were, about eighteen men ons
this floor at the hour mentioned xlien
suddenly there was a rumbling noise and
the building rocked as if shaken by an
earthquake. In another moment the floor
gave way and fell with its human freight
to the basement carrying the other floors
with it. In instant every person in
the neighborhood. which is filed with tene-
ment houses. felt that something awful had
occurred, and men, women and children
ran distractedly in all directions. Some
of the cooler heads turned in the fire alarms
and ambulance calls, which were quickly
responded to-
Assisted by some laborers who had fort,i-
nately escaped and many willing citizens
the firemen began the work of rescue 1t
was a hard and very dangerous task as the
walls were tottering and the remaining
flooring and beams overhead threatened to
toppe down every moment. Besides, the
rescuers had to be very cautious, fearing
that the slightest careiessness on their part
might end the lives of some OF the injured.
whose groans and cries for help came from
all directions underneath the tons of debris
from which heads, arms and legs projected.
At 9:55 John Curran was brought out. but
he died in the ambulance on the way 10
Roosevelt Hospital. Half an hour later the
dead bodies of Cullen and Ticcor were extr-
Gated. and they were removed to the police
station. The rescuers worked desperately,
could be accounted for.
Contractors OKeefe and Patrick keegan
were placed under arrest but were later ad-
mitted to bail by the coroner.
The Second Collapse.
The second accident occurred about 3.35
o'clock this afternoon. Without the slight
est sound that might have warned the fifty
men that worked near it. the central wall
to the four double tenement houses being
erected at Nos. 15l to l57 Orchard street
crumbled and fell. With the wall went por-.
tions of four floors, leaving a great rent hr-
" feet long and thirty feet Wide In the CEN
ter of the buildings. 1t like pit, at
the bottom of which was a mass OF tangled
iron and broken wood that covered many
men. From that heap in an hour had been
taken out one man dead--John Wilson-and
twelve injured. The injured are:
WILLIAM WILKINSON, back broken.
FRANK THORNTON, badly injured.
JOHN THORNTON, bodily injuries
THOMAS Wi WILSON. head d Injured. js
GE0RGE GAMBi.E both legs broken.
FRANK BARBARA, back injured.
JOSEPH MESIRE, head injured.
PATRICK FLAHERTy. leg injured.
PATRICK MALLOY, back injured.
WILLIAM MALLOY, arms bruised.
Abraham Levy. with three or four other
men, got into the building and dragged out
by bits of wood. The second man carried
out was John Wilson. 1t could be seen that
R beS a he badly sa hq5 nd a te en y pqse
am hurt" His brother was lying beside him
as he spoke The second brother turned %
turned John gasped once and was dead.
There were fifty men working in the four
high, Of which four stories had already
been raised. Most of the men were ON
tween the front and rear of the house was
big partition wall, along tne side Of which
tition wall that crumbled. In heap the
men went down with the falling hoor. One
Of the Drickiayers, Mtehasi fuscteS; sn, Wss th
house. He had just time as the floor sank
beneath him 9t g S esg1cn "a at ,s wndow yr enor sao
four stories above the sround. lie man
aged to crawl up so as 70 SIT ON the win
dow sill, from which position he was after
wards rescued by the firemen. Anthony
Klein. of williamsburg, fell the four stories.
saws he was carried down gently and
thrown through one of the front doors into
Z the street.
The cries OF the imprisoned men could
be heard on every side when the flrenen
ditional firemen 20 begin removing timbers.
Ten of the twelve men who. We're rescued
losenh loser Rarbsra. who ESCAPED with oniV &
broken leg. must have escaped death by
narrow margin, lie fell benind wall and
was covered BY ten feet Of bricks and pias-