The evening world., 1895-08-12
OTHERS STILL IN THE RUINS.
Statement That the Building
Began to Sink Three
Weeks Ago.
sPAcE WAS THEN FILLED IN.
THE Places Responsibility Upon
DulIdsrs and the Department
Inspector.

Shortly before o'clock to-day another
ody was found in the ruins of the Ire
md building at West Broadway and
'hird street. The body was in such q
ondition. however. that the men feared
remove It without frst using a guam
ity Of chemical disinfectants.
The body was taken out at 10 and
was identified a. that Of John Rossa,
q hod-csrrier, living at 4132 First ave-
nue..
vas found yesterday in the ruins, was
identified this afternoon as John Muir
ply, laborer. Of 1904 Atlantic avenue.
Brooklyn.
Murphy leaves a widow and hve chill
dren. the youngest being only ten days
old.
The one hundred workmen which Con-
tractor Calligan has at work succeeded
yesterday in digging out three more
bodies. making In all fourteen lives
which were sacrificed to somebody's
criminal negligence.
Other workmen are known to be miss
ing. The police have the names OF five
mon unaccounted for. and 1t is pretty
certain that all OF these. II not more,
will yet be dug out.
During the early part OF the afternoon
an ofiicial of the Fire Department by
order Of his superiors. made an examt-
naticn Of the building.
He found that the collapse was due to
the sinking Of the centre iron pillar.
The foundation upon which the pillar
rested was made Of concrete. The pillar
itself rested on four layers Of cut gran
Its stone.
Every piece Of the stone had cracked
into four parts, then bulged out, and
through tho opening the iron column
had sunk more than seven feet.
Tho weight Of the floors above caused
the iron girdefs to sag to such an ex-
tent that the whole interior bent down
ward and the girders drawing out from
their brackets which held them allowed
the whole interior structure to collapse.
In the opinion of this expert. to only
one Of two causes can the accident be
attributed. The first is that the man
who laid the foundation did not dig deep
rough and allow for the weight that
the building was supposed to be able
to carry when completed.
The second is that all the floors Of the
building were unduly weighted with
building material, which in itself might
have caused tho main pillar to sink.
At $50 o'clock this afternoon Superin
tendent Constable. of the building De
partment, began an investigation int
the cause Of the collapse.
He had there number Of experts
including architects, builders and own
Mr.. stevens. counsel for the ,contrac
tors, who were arrested Saturday, salt
1t was evident that the building settled
at least three weeks ego.
2. the roof showing that re entire i build
s;. s;s sSsxn 81 hi. s:sins SHa's
the structure because an attempt hat
been made to fll in the space caused
by the settling"
surprise among the experts present
two persons-the builder and the In
mus, Of have shs kmo.n e. tse sean
Of the building and the attempt to II
The experts then went down to tn
short examination. They Will conven
again tomorrow.
A delegation from tho Central Labo
Ing on Behalf Of the victims familie
were told they could not enter tn
BEEN made by the BUILDING Department
Contractor Galligan then ordered tn
newspaper men of the premises, claim
ins that he had been instructed to do .
by Supt. Constable. Of the Building d.
Al 4 o'clock President O'Brien, OF II
Hoard of Walking Delegates. with fol-
delegates. called at the scene OF II
wreck.
expert Investigation was about to
made as to the causes OF the coiiap'
and he wanted to be present while
He was roughly treated by one of Il
Galiigan brothers and ordered to q
outside the fire lines.