New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-09
THREE TON DERRICK POLE FALLS.
ONE MAN HURT AND WALLS OF NEW
BUILDING INJURED THROUGH
THE ACCIDENT.

BUILDING I'M RLD lHiNCt'i'
THE ACCIDENT
Rv the falling of a three ton pole which was
being hoisted to the eighth floor of an apartment
house in West Eighty ty-frst-st.. last evening"
William Gigbolt, forty years old, laDorer' Nv
ing at No | Duffied-st. Brooklyn, was injured
and large portion of the building was torn
down. Gigbot was taken TO R'ose'eie fi"SP''
He is not seriously hurt
The building where the accident occurred IN
beine constructed by the Fire Proof Dwelling
Company. OF No. 2291 Broadway. in West
tt-frst-st. between Broadway and West
End-ave. The structure when completed Is 10
be a nine story apartment house. on the OPP
nosite side of the partially erected building Is
the narIsh house o. All Souls Church.
The structure has been erected 10 the he'eh'
or seven stories and about two feet or the out
side walls for the eighth floor have been lald.
In order to hurry up the work IL was ueciue'
TO erect tent over the building SO that pas
terers could plaster the lower hoors WINE INC
contractor was completing the upper TWO i'ooiS'
The contract for erecting this tent was Ie' '"
Thomas Martin Of No. 326 Canal-st.' ana MI
Martin proceeded to put the tent In place ias'
evening.
In the day he had pole So1a feet iohs' h'he-
teen inches in diameter at the base ana "e'sh'
ing nearly three tons. hauled TO the place 10 10
boisted to the top OF the building. Immediate
" after the day shift stopped Work Ma'UH
started his men at work. The derrick which
was tvsntv-fve feet long with a three inch
rope and a one inch guy rope, was SET on 'he
wall at the top which was twenty inches "'oe'
Back of the derrick was another Derrick "l'0"
,os nut an the eighth floor 10 hold the nrst
derrick in place. Both derricks were set near
the west side Of the building and near the
Wellesley Apartment House
Six men we're stationed at the windiass l"
hoist the pole and two men were lett IN c"aie7
OF the guy rope the ground below Inc ue
rick rope was attached TO the base or Inv po''
and had been hosted on level with the e'sn'n
floor OF the building The end had oeeh puS"'N
inside the walls when one OF the men a' 'no
guy rope let the rope slip.
1rmediately the pole was thrown 10 one sine'
struck the derrick and the wall ana tell 10 inc
street with crash. The noise was hearu ior
.a,eral blocks and people came running toward
49,, oone Of the accident. The architect, Mt
Ia,rh Who was standing on the steps OF the
rar,sh house watching the operation seee"
n he paralyzed. In front OF MN mug So ~
Weighing so POUNDS had cropped "'n' wv
cigholt was buried under the debris "hich tne
Mole had knocked from the wall he was eSsly
extricated and sent to Roosevelt hospl'dl Wiz
Il was found that he had sustaiheu 'it.. ~, 80
,romnds and contusons OF the leg. BACK anu
shoulder The men At the guy rope escaped 10
iurv by running Much excitement was ~cause' ~
~ The wellesley Apartment House next door,
and some Of the stone trimmings anu ""
,rere broken by the pole I'm its descent .,.
Mr. Lamb was taken TO the west lS,V SiAV
ot,hth st station house by Policeman "nite'
hut WAS not held by the sergeant