New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-01
FALLING BEAN KILLS MAN.
INJURIES SEVER4L OTHERS
Drops from U7indose of No, II Park
RO7c-Was UnfQstened.

ore man was killed and several were more or
less seriously hurt by the falling of an iron beam
from window Of the Park Building. at No.
Al Park Row late yesterday afternoon. The
man killed was ioha Bateman. of Cropsey and
Harway aves. Brooklyn He eghty-two
years old He had been in the cornice business,
but retired. His head crushed by the
beam.
TIE injured were Chauncey Holt, fifty-fve
years old, Of No. 10 Lexington-ave., Jersey
City, a printer at No. % Vandewater-st' this
city; he was struck on the head by falling
beam and received lacerated wound Of the
right side of the head and conclusion OF the
brain: William Balm. fifteen years old, Of Ne 4ol
Mallory-st Jersey city, bruises and contusons
of the right forearm, and an unknown man. who
was bruised and grazed by girder and suffered
from shock.
The accident happened shortly before / p. m.
when Nassau-st was crowded with pedestrians
and teams most of them their way home
from business The iron was fifteen feet long
and weighed 100 pounds.
There was not word of warning. The beam
fell with great velocity One end struck the
glass Sidewalk, light. broke through it as though
the obstruction had been paper. and stood up
right in the hole it had made, almost in front OF
the door of the American Tract Society Build
ms al NASSAU dIiN opt uCe oIc.
The noise of its fall and the screams OF the
frightened passersby created a panic. Ii seemed
as if part of the building was 10 fall
When nothing further happened an effort 10
aid those who injured WAS made lhey
lay on the sidewalk. The old man. who lay dead
was a familiar figure in the upper end OF Mas
sau-st. Chauncey Holt, one of the injured, Is
said to be member of the Printers Board or
Trade. The wounded were taken 10 the Irib-
une Building, where they were attended.
AS the dead man lay in the street some one
q
Thomas O'Brien of Whtestone Long Island
he explained. He knelt beside the man and said
the rites for the dead. He may not he Cath
Ollie" the priest said. but there was nothing
else to do"
| erai OF Captain O'Brien's mounted men, cleared
| a space.
arrested They were Thomas Kelly of No. 1916
! South Fourth-st. Brooklyn foreman of the steel
| construction, and Harry Miller, of No $50
Court-st Beleville y. J. They were taken TO
| similar accident happened on this building a
few months ago. when stone, weighing many
hundreds Of pounds. fell while being hoisted to
the roof. Crashing through the wooden bridge
which had been built over the sidewalk the
Park Row side, il hurt several persons. piece
of lead pipe also fell once, injuring a
After the arrest Of Kelly and Miller three de-
tectives made thorough investigation as 10
the cause of the accident They brought George
Baldwin of No. 81 Ormond st. Brooklyn. and
Isaac LoZier, of No. 1512 Lemon-st.. Newark.
TO the station. These two men were carpenters.
ana nad peeli working OH a SCdnOldlng directly
under the place from which the iron fell They
said this iron had been placed Intel for a
window directly over the spot where they were
working that morning According to their
statements, this iron had not been cemented
into place, and vas not secured in any way,
being simply laid in place When It fell they
said. il passed between them. and both narrow
ly escaped death.
According TO statements made by the ar
rested foreman. the hammering Of the carpen-
fers below this iron had caused II to fall On
the strength of charges that these wOrkingrnen
may have caused the iron to fall. they were
also placed under arrest. charged with criminal
negligence. and held for the coroner. Later they
were bailed.
Detective MCGEE said he was led TO believe
tnat the iron had been Jared from where ii was
placed possibly by the hammering of the car
penters working beneath It. or some other cause
mat was yet unknown. He said that there was
no question that the iron was not fastened in
any way When il fell from the fifteenth floor
II zen downward in straight line. until it
struck a scafodfng on the eleventh floor. Here
II was DETECTED.