The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-07
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Three Men Hurled Under the Ruins-o
 Alau Egcaneu


 New York, Feb 6.-An old brick building, four stories high, that stood at the foot of Thirty-ninth street on First avenue, South Brooklyn, was blown down by the high wind this morn ing at about S;SO o'clock, and three men were buried in the ruins, Two were killed and the other will probably die
 One man escaped Just as the crash came-there had been only four in the building-and he 1t was who told the names of the unfortunate men who were buried.
 This man is Daniel Meehan of IDA Bed ford avenue, Brooklyn,
 The killed were:
 James Quigley of Fourth avenue and Fifty-third street, South Brooklyn,
 Simon Seaman of Fulton and Navy streets, Brooklyn,
 When the building fell the whole re- zion was aroused and a fire alarm and telephone messages brought the fire de- partment, police reserves and hospital ambulance to the scene. The tiremen and police at once be- gan to remove the great mass of bricks, mortar and timbers in hopes of reaching |some of the buried men and finding them still alive.
 Volunteers were pressed into this ser vice, too, and forty men worked and labored at the great mass of ruins. It was not expected, however, that the buried men could be reached for several hours at least.
 It was 9:30 o'clock before the firemen and police really got to work on the ruins to dig out the buried men. There was one wall of the building that had not fallen-the wall on the ferry side and it stood menace to any who might attempt the work of rescue. The firemen put up ladder from the center of the roadway to the top of the wall. Then one of the men went ID, fastened ropes around the shaking wall, and it was pulled out into the roadway-the top half. The place was safe for the work of rescue to go on. Daniel Meehan, the man who had es- capped from the building, directed the rescuers to the places where the men would most likely be found.
 After the wall fell the rescuers rushed in, anxious to begin their labors. They went to a spot indicated by Meehan. about thirty feet from the entrance, and heard groans or muffled sounds, as though someone was calling for help.
 Looking through the spaces in the piled-up' bricks and timbers the men could see the knees of the man who was groaning. It took a long time to uncover him, but when the bricks and | mortar and timber were cleared away | it was seen that the man was young Mulcahey.
 He was still alive, lying on his back, was badly cut and bruised and unable to move, evidently being seriously in jured internally. He had been partially ! protected by some timbers which had ! first struck him.
 l Mulcahey was taken out, placed in an ambulance and removed to the hospital. | He became unconscious after being re- ] moved, and the ambulance surgeon
 thought he could not possibly recover. 1 Meehan told the rescuers where Sea man was likely to be buried, and so dig
 ging in the ruins was begun at that place-a point about fifteen feet nearer the entrance than where Mulcahy had | been found.
 | After good deal of Tabor the rescuers
 came upon the body of a man. Il was not Seamon, however, but Quigley. He 1 was dead.
 1 The body had been buried under many feet of bricks, plaster and heavy tim bers.
 l It did not show much disfguration. 1 Death had evidently been from internal | injuries.
 l Soon after the finding of Ingley's body the rescuers came across that of Sea- man. He, too. was dead. His body was all doubled up and bad
 ly crushed. He had evidently been kill
 ed instantly. as Quigley had in all probability.
 1 The position of the three bodies show ed that Quigley and Seaman had heard the crash in the building when it began | to fall, and had been caught by the fall l ing walls when half way on their rush | for the door.
 | Both bodies were taken to the morgue. 1 The building was condemned nearly a ye ar ago, but beyond this fact nothing 1 was done in the matter. It stood isolat-
 ed on big lot facing the river, and 1 was literally target for a worm. OI1ip1ay had intended rnnyiney Or o,lf of