New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-18
EIGHT HURT IN CRASH.
NEW HOUSE COLLAPSES.
Storm, Had Weakened Wall, but
-Four Arrests Are Made.

a new tenement house at the northwest corner
os Madison and Rutgers SITS partly collapsed and
the entire front wall in Rutgers-st. fell with a
crash shortly before = yesterday. partly bury
sng several az the worzmen employed In the ouilc-
ing The walls 81 the building had been weakened
by The storm % wednesday Eight workmen were
injured by the accident They were;
lFs5y1 nth st. risht ies fractured.
lAoR0PPoB. Csrnelo twenty-five years ole. No. i7s
Tszslsth-st; internal injuries
LEN u , 1sssSR ss5iy''' years '' 10 o.
roPFINA c'slshYiss thir-y-nve years old No. -
Chryrfie-et.. lace-atiors n right arm
NoRvIA. Benerio thirty-three sears Ole. No ElEa-
beth-st. scalp wound
7SSeiftS 81 contSsi6as 9. head ana back
sOPPIo Salvatore tventy-three ola. address IN
srERr,,zA' Joseph. forty years ola No los Elizabeth
lacer1tiozs q ankle and contusons q BACK
All the injured men were sent to hospitals. eK-
oept Loppina. who was arrested foreman in
charge OF the work In addition 10 Loppna. the
police also arrested BENJAMIN Rubenstein. az No
az West One-hundred- and nfteenthst the genera
contractor. Frank Bacher. New-Rochele. general
foreman. and Philip Jacobson. No. 2S9l Flrst-aNe'
e foreman The four prisoners were arraigneo IN
she Essex Market Court before Magistrate Flan-
me- Rarher the foreman Of the mason work was
he'd IL 81 SO hail Tor examination next TUESDAY
Rubensten. Loppina and Jacobson were paroieo
1o- examination al tho same time Bacher was
hailed out by Rubeusteiu. The mon were arralgneo
GfIlGFfs maze te AyelelAlN's --NlNC ''I-
- the Madisou-st station, who say that the sool-
cent was tho result OF faulty construction ana unt
building material
After the wall fell the police and hremen were
called 10 search in the ruins as II was beheNeo
for "a tim. that many workmen had been buried
end that some had been killed. and there was greai
excitement in the ueighborhood DR. Emily Dun
ming vas active among the ambulance surgeons at
the place.
Superintendent Thompson. ~ the Buloins DC
7,srtn1eut reached the collapsed building about
3 p m and had conference with those there
14e said the wall on RUtcers-st. probably fel be
cans. the piers on the corners had been under
mined bv the heavy rains OF Wednesday. In his
oririan re sale. The mortar and the bricks were
sn right A contributing cause 10 the collapse, he
ta.d might have been because the mortar was
greer or rarly laid and not set
Asked who had been the district superintendent
whose cu:v q was 10 watch the construction OF the
huiid.ue re ssid that il man named Nerrell,
-.no had acca superseded couple of days ago ny a
man rarrcd s7ellman. lie was told that mason
named Kc7per had refused TO work on the build
.ng because poor material was used and he said;
oh there ara always disgruntled people who
ere arding saUl- You can see for yourself that
;he bricks are all right.
u was pointed out 70 the superintendent that
IN places there dc not appear 70 be any mortar
between the bricks
Wei look hoW it has rained he said
do you think it eNcUsahle that the buildlng
should have collapsed because q the RAIN he was
usked.
Mr. Thompson hesitated . little. and then said:
We'll. no. perhaps not