St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-02
FIVEARE INSTANTLY KILLED
Nineteen Others Fatally In.
jured or Seriously MAN.
gled and Bruised.
CONTRACTORS ARRESTED.
The Building Inspector Is Also
Wanted but Cannot Be
Found.

NEW YORK March 1.-Two build
ingS, one in course of construction
and one in course of demolition,
collapsed lin this city today and
killed five men, and fatally injured
or mangled or bruised nineteen
others. The first accident occurred
at about $50 in the morning. A
house at the corner of Forty-third
street and Tenth avenue which was
being torn down by some forty la
borers fell with a crash, carrying
several Workmen to the basement.
three floors below, and they were
almost completely covered by tons
beams.
THE DEAD.
HUGH CULLEN.
ANGELO TICCOR
JOHN CURRAN.
THE INJURED.
Pat Curran. Thomas McConnon, Ed
ward Meaney, NJ. e. Kelley, Louis
Stein Felix Moran, Charles Robson.
The building, which is an old one,
had been used as a malt house by
A. e. & S. Schweiner for the past
thirty years, but it has been unoc-
cupied for more than two years. 1t
was eight stories high and ran back
about sixty feet on West Forty-third
street. Men were tearing down the
structure under the direction of Con-
tractors O'Keefe and Reagan. The
work had gone on successfully until
this morning, when the men had
got down as far as the rear of tho
third floor, known as the old kiln
house. There were about eighteen
men on this floor at the hour men,
toned. Suddenly there was a rum
bling noise and
THE BUILDING ROCKED
as if shaken by an earthquake. In
another moment the floor gave Way
and fell with its human freight tn
the basement, carrying the other
floors with it. In an instant every
person in the neighborhood. which
is nlled with tenement houses, felt
that something awful had occurred.
ara men, women and children ran
dlStractedly in all directions. Soma
Of the cooler heads turned in the fire
alarm and ar .bulance calls, which
were quickly responded to. Assisted
by some laborers who had FORUM
ately escaped and many willing Gift,
zens, the f1remen began the work Of
rescue. 1t was hard and very
dangerous task, as the walls were
totterlng and the remaining flooring
and beams overhead threatened to
topple down every moment. Besides
the rescuers had to be very eau.
uous, tearing that the slightest care
lessness on their part might end tn,
lives of some of the injured. whose
groans and cries for HELM came
from all directions underneath the
IONS OF debris from which heads.
arms and legs projected.
AT > o'clock Joe O'Con or was
Drought out, but he died in the an
pulance on the way to Roosevelt
hospital Half an hour later the
dead bodies of Cullen and Vic,r
Wfrf extricated. The rescuers
worked desperately, and before .
CLOCK every one If the Ianorers
mad been accounted for. Contract
ors George O'Keefa aaI Patricle
ecgan were placed under arrest
but were later admitted to bail NV
the coroner.
THE SECOND ACCIDENT
occurred about 800 o'clock this after.
noon. Without the slightest walr-
ing to the fifty men that worked
near 1t, the central wall to the four
double tenement houses being eract-
ed at 151 to 157 Orchard street oIun,-
bled and fell. With the wall went
portions of four floors, leaving q
great rent fifty feet long and thirty
feet wide in the center of the ht;fId-
ings. 1T was like a pit, at tho bot
tom of which was a mass Of tan
gled iron and broken wood that COW
cred many men. From that he1D in
an hour had been taken out one man
dead and twelve injured.
The dead:
JOHN WILSON.
The injured:
William Wilkinson, back broken.
Frank Thornton, badly injured Jonn
Thornton, body injured; - Gloria.
both legs broken; Thomas Wilson. head
injured; George Gamble, both legs
broken; Joseph Barbara, left leg broz-
en-; Frank Barbara, back injured; Jo-
seph Mesire, head injured; Patrick
Flaherty, leg injured; Patrick Mallov.
back injured; William Malloy, arms
bruised.
Abraham Levy. with three or four
other men, got into the building and.
dragged out three men who were only
lightly held down by the bits of wood.
The second man carried out was John
wilson 1t could be seen at once that
ne was badly hurt. He only spoke
once, when he said: Go tell my broth
II | am hurt" His brother was living
beside him as he spoke. The second