Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-09
UNDER TONS OF BRICK.
Seventeen Men Supposed to Be
 Buried Tn the Debris.
IT COLLAPSED WITHOUT WARNING.

Through, Carrying Down With Them Eight wOrkmen.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The list of dead from yesterdays building collapse is still incomplete. The full horror of the acci- dent is just being realized today. The cen ter of the eight story yellow brick and iron building at the northeast corner of Broadway and West Third street, one block south of Washington square and opposite the curve of the Sixth avenue ele- vated road, fell without warning. About 80 men were at work inside, and of these it is believed that more than dozen were killed.
 Ten were injured more or less seriously. Three dead bodies were taken from the ruins up to this morning, the list of miss ing men reported to the police numbering 17.
 Of those in the list marked missing sev- eral are known to be buried in the cellar of the building beneath a mass of heavy frebrick, tile, cement, sand, mortar, man. moth timbers and enormous girders and beams weighing several hundred tons. Pc lice Captain Eakins estimates that at least eight bodies lie beneath this avalanche of building material, and he admits that his | estimate is conservative. Contractor Galligan has a gang of 70 men working at this mass of debris, with dangerous cracked walls and jagged floors ! towering over them. Great flare lights | blazed on the scene all last night, and the | work will be pushed until every square | foot of the enormous mass of material has been dug over and every mangled corpse | recovered.
 The Dead Recovered. John Burke, A years old, laborer, mar ried; lives in the Fourteenth ward, Brook lyn. Dead body taken from the ruins. Charles Petersen, electric wireman, 26 years old, married and had one child; was working beside Smith and buried in the ruins
 Charles Smith, electrician, of 216 East l Ninety sixth street. Taken from the ruins alive, but died at St. Vincents hospital | 20 minutes later. Following is list of the injured men: John Clune, driver, knocked from his wagon by a falling beam and seriously in | jured; St. Vincent's hospital William Fox, laborer, aged s0 of 133 Liberty place, Brooklyn; thigh broken and internal injuries; may die; New York | hospital.
 William Frank, name given by his fel- | low workmen to Italian laborer; serious l ly injured; St. Vincent's hospital.
 Cornelius Guider bricklayer, of 77S Bergen street, Brooklyn, brother of John Guider, foreman of the plasterers; scalp wounds and contusions; may die; New York hospital.
 John Kelly of White Plains, struck by falling bricks while walking past the building; broken nose.
 James Kenney, laborer, 245 East Twen- ty-eighth street; confusion of the back.
 Joseph Livingston, park policeman; slightly injured by a fall after making l two brave rescues.
 James O'Connor, 34 years old, 323 East | Thirty-f1fth street; head cut and possible | skull fracture.
 - Smith, bricklayer, Brooklyn; two ribs fractured and contusions.
 The Missing.
 Henry Billheimer, 40 years old, mar. ried, tiler; last seen at work on eighth l floor.
 Patrick Cashin plasterer, Atlantic and Classon avenues Brooklyn.
 Michael Fahey, laborer; in cellar wher the building fell.
 James Farrell, laborer; in cellar wher the building fell.
 Michael Farrell, 35 years old, steamfit ter, Rutherford, N. J.
 Michael Flynn, plasterer, married, g. Third avenue, Brooklyn.
 James Crosse, 42 years old, married, la borer, 432 East One Hundred and Twelfth street, New York.
 Edward Hanley, plasterer married Al! De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn.
 John McGuire plastcrer single, Myrtl, avenue, Brooklyn.
 l Peter Morris, 30 years old, married, la borer, 40 East One Hundred and Twelfth street. New York.
 James Murphy, laborer, Atlantic ave nue. Brooklyn.
 Michael O'Hare, laborer, 112 Walwortl street, Brooklyn.
 Christopher O 'Rourke laborer married 325 St. Marks avenue, Brooklyn.
 Charles Riley, laborer; in cellar whel the building fell.
 Michael Savage, plasterer's laborer married, 739 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn.
 George Smith, ironworker, 35 years old Lexington avenue and One Hundred ant Thirty second street, New York.
 Charles Thomas, 23 years old, tiler Thirty-fourth street, New York; last seel at work on the fifth floor.
 Accompanied by a Crash.
 The crash which accompanied the col ! lapse was deafening. A hole 30 feet squar was made through the middle of the bi building from roof to cellar. Dozens O wOrkmen were carried down in the ruins Cries of horror heard for a second wer stif1ed by tons of iron, mortar and timber
 Then followed moans and groans, whic told of the agony of those buried alive Some were imprisoned by falling beams . while others were crushed to death, thei bodies lying beneath the debris
 To those on the lower floors the cras came like a clap of thunder. Passers b in the street heard the roar and looked uI ward. The ground shook and heaved UT der their feet. and cloud of dust aros and shut out everything When the clou lifted, the new building on the corner wa revealed. There was no debris in tn street. All had fallen within, but throug gaps made in the wall pedestrians saw a open space where before there had bee iron and brick. Bleeding and bewildere men crowded out from the debris on thei hands and knees.
 Another Bicycle Manufacturing Firm.