The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-02

COLLAPSE OF A BUILDING
A Number of BricklayerS and Labor
erS Buried in the Ruins.
WORK OF RESCUE VAS SLOW
Jimmy Rose, an Itaii0n labOrcr. stu
Missing Joseph Barhora Buried for
TWO Hours in Brick and Mortar.
List OF Injured
BY the United Press.

bS tUe lHittu i'TtsS.
New York, March l.--Another build
ing disaster occurred about 4 o'clock
this afternoon which proved nearly as
fatal in its results as did the Tenth
avenue malt house accident. The IN
terror of four tenementS in course OF
construction ON orchard street, near
kiVington, crashed in without mo-
ment's warning, and II number OF brick
layers and laborers who were working
on 1t were carried into the cellar with
the falling walls. The dust that arose
had hardly settled before rescuers were
at work trying to eNtrlcate the buried
men. The 1iremen Were also summoned
and in few minutes several of the
unfortunate workmen We're dug out of
the ruins.
The diSmantleQ beams and debris of
brick and mortar formed such an in
tricate mass to disentangle that the
work of resCuinG those buried beneath
it was rendered necessarily slow. Their
cries could be plainly heard, however
and served to locate the various points
where they were to be unearthed.
The hardest task encountered was
in the rescue of Joseph Barbara, one
of the Italians who was working in
the cellar when the collapse occurred.
There was several feet OF debris bear
ing upon him, but he was still conscious
when reached. 1t was two hours after
the building collapsed before the impris-
oned man was finally released from his
terrible position. He was the last one
rescued.
one man, an Italian laborer, is miss
ing. and it is believed he is dead in
the ruins. He was known to his fellow
wOrkmen by the name of Jimmy Ross.
List of the Injured.
The list of injured with the extent Of
their wounds is as follows:
WILLIAM WILKINSON, q years old {.
back broken; will probably die.
PATRICK MALLOY, aged IS; badly in
jured.
/ PETER MALLOY, 46 years old; skull
fractured injuries serious.
/ FRANK THORNTON, Is years Old in
juries of the head and body. His in
| juries will likely prove fatal.
( JOHN THORNTON, u years old; head
cut and confusion of the body.
GEORGE GAMBLE, % years old; gen.
eral contusions of the body, and both
legs broken.
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head and back injured.
/ EDWARD LAWLER, aged 10; head cut
and shoulder injured.
JOSEPH BARBAR, 26 years old; internal
injuries.
The wrecked buildings have been in
course of construction for ten weeks
work had progressed as far as the fifth
floor when the crash came. The owner
of the building is William +. Lennon.
| The contractors were Peter Coomes
and John G.. Gleave. Both of the con-
tractors, as we'll as the owner. We're
present when the accident occurred.
They We're placed under arrest. The
charge made against them was crimi-
nal negligence.
1t is expected that the responsibility
| for the disaster will be placed upon the
prisoners.
The materials used in the construc-
| tion of the buildings, it is alleged, were
| faulty.
| The loss of life in the wreck on the
/ Inter-Oceanic railway was made known
| late this evening. SiXty-five persons
were killed and forty injured. The
/ death list is likely to be increased, as
| several passengers who were brought
| back in the wrecking train are expected
to die within twenty-four hours.
| Up to II o'clock tonight no bodies had
| been recovered from the ruins, al
though thirty men were at work re-
moving tho debris. The general i'm
/ preston is that the man Ross, another
man named Scumann, and two hod
carriers are somewhere buried beneath
/ the ruins.