New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-19
PINNED UNDER WALLS.
FALL WITH BUILDING.
FACTORY Girls Dug from Wreck OF
Structure an BOsccry.

"a, the collsnse of an Old three story brick
building at No. 40 Bowery yesterday ten people
were injured. They were;
,AsSIcb Abraham tventy-four old No Ii 4sse1
81 shock and bruises
81: face cut and bruised
1yrKowsKY. Bertha sixteen years old. No 1se Essex
hands cut - -, -
s,s9n ~. sSe9s ut, sns g BRUISED old No
sc45AEFFER Carl. thirtyeight years old NO 20 BOW
I)oIGorr Minnie sixteen years old. Nc. 544 ssokman-
St Brooklyn. hands ard feet cui -
f-1DF1NaN Abraham twenty-five years ole No 50
f.5Hidse St: right arm slrained and bruised
shock and bruises
wEINsTiIN seventeen years old, No ri Henry
right arm cut and bruised
sIanv ,-ears ago No 40 Bowery was the home
o. Dan" Bryants Mastodon Mnstrels, place
to which the whole town wont TO throng
When the old walls caved In yesterday the
ground floor was occupied by Isaac Poiinsky. as
= restaurant. and the two upper floors by the
LYON box factory the proprietors of which are
David Joseph and Morris Albert The last
TWO are the sons of David. They were ar
rested. charged with criminal neglect, and, after
bcing arraigned before Magistrate Mayo IN Es-
sex Market court We're held for further examlna-
ton to-day in $1,000 bail.
The collapse occurred shortly before IL a. m.
According 10 employees of The box factory, the
building had shaken in the early part Of the
morning. and distinct were the tremors that
many Of those the second and third floors
became alarmed. though none left the place.
When the crash came the half OF the
building slid into the yard, carrying all
IN the building with it. and covering them with
q mass of debris. Many of those who were in
5ured were dropped through to the cellar, and
had to be dug out
Word was Immediately sent to Police Head
quarters and Inspector Schmittberger ordered
out the reserves of the Eldridge. Madison, Null
berry and Elizabeth SITS. stations. An alarm of
fire was also sent in, and Hook and Ladder Com
panies 6 and s. and Engine Companies 81, and
u responded Six ambulances were sent from
New-York and Gouverneur hospitals.
Ffremen and policemen were speedily at work
rescuing those who were struggling in the
ruins. John Milken, of No. 241 East Sixty
second-st, ard William McCabe of No. 354
West Twenty-seventh-s ran to the roof Of the
adjoining building and succeeded in rescuing
several girls by cIambering down ladders into
the ruins. Among the policemen who did good
work was Patrolman O'Nel who was dismissed
by Devery and recently restored TO the depart
nnent through special act of the legislature.
Miss Schlemmer said she had noticed the
building shaking and vibrating in the morning
She grew afraid and asked to go home, but the
foreman assured her the building was safe
Just before the walls fell she noticed some Of
the stock slipping off the shelves. Then the floor
gave way and she and another girl were pinned
the floor by beams. She was squeezed
so that her head and knees touched They man
aged 10 kick away the stuff around them, ana
then broke three or four panes OF glass in Win
COW. and Crawled to a fire escape.
Joseph Albert told Inspector Schmittberger
hundred an6 forty bundles of paper were
the top floor. Each weighed fifty pounds.
Didn't you know the floor could not hold as
much that?'' the inspector asked.
I thought it all right. said Albert.
Eidelman buried in the ruins for over
three hours before he was discovered He vas
pinned under machine and about a dozen rolls
of paper.
when they heard voice crying out Boards and
other debris pulled away and Komensky
was discovered. He called out: I'm all right,
but I'm in cage" 1t was found that num-
her of boards had fallen around him In such a
Nay as to form a kind OF cage
The front walls OF the building had been left
standing. and shorings We're erected. The
restaurant OF Polinsky, and a Chinese laundry
and Italian shoe repairing shop in the base
rnent uninjured. In the rear of the restau-
rant was pool table. When the rear of the
building fell this carried down into the eel
lar.
The lessee of the building is P p Kappel- 1t
IS owned by the estate of Charles Drake Kap-
pei told the police he had repeatedly warned the
Alberts not 10 put much paper in the build
fng
Commissioner Woodbury. thought the collapse
was due to the weight OF the paper stored on the
floor that first gave way. There were, in all
probability. many such buildings standing in the
CITY which should be thoroughly inspected by
the Buildings Department he said.