The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-11
COLLAPSES, 8 DEAD.
CONCRETE GARAGE AT MTNEOLA
.CRUMBLES WITH WORKMEN.

$4,000 Structure on Robert A. Greaves's
Place. on which Nisht~WOrk n Sun.
day Work Had Been Going On, Goes "a
Pieces -ImprOper fixture Of Materials.
MNEoLA, L. l., Sept. iO.-Three men were
killed and nearly a SCORE injured seriously
by the collapse OF q large garage that has
been In the course Of construction for some
time at Mineola for Robert 4. Greaves
the wall paper manufacturer Of Maphat-
tan. The building was to have cost about
sc! 900 and to be OF concrete. II was
being rushed, night and day and also on
Sundays for cars Of Mr.. Greaves n his
friends that were to come out from Man
haitian for the automobile races for the
Vanderbilt cup.
The building was to be -four stories, and
In the centre a large tower on which was
to have been placed an ornamental clock.
Twenty-Five masons and carpenters were at
work ON the upper part OF the building
which collapsed without a warning.
The killed are: Alfred Potter Of Glen
Cove, breast crushed; John Drewry. aged
50 years, stucco worker, Of Mott street.
New York, chest crushed, and George
Durham, stucco worker.
H ~ b0A AONEAy bJuAoN nv CAACA Neh@
brio and Michael Rooney, both with crushed
chests, Glen Cove, l.. l.; John Scott, Garden
City, plasterer, internal injuries; Max
Ostromeski, carpenter, crushed thig b; How
ard Schmuthena, carpenter, Port WASH
ington, arm fractured; Harris Dayton,
carpenter, Glen Cove, fractured right leg
All these we're taken to the Nassau Hospi-
tai and were reported in no serious danger
tonight. Those of the injured who we're
taken home were: G. F. BuckhaIn and +.
L D,.l.A.-. - n,w1a- C,fxy ,arponNaro.
Chris Heusen and A. H. Billings OF Garden
City, deep cuts on legs, and Frank Blake
Of Garden City, left leg sprained.
Tn building was being constructed by
George A. Avery & Co. of l46 Fifth avenue,
New York city. The superintendent was
John Beader OF Sea Cliff, who Immediately
vanished after the collapse OF the building
and was last seen running across the helds
toward Westbury. He has not been found.
Sheriff F. +. Gildersleeve Of Nassau county
and Earl J. Bennett, the Assistant District
Attorney, have been making a rigid in
vestigation all the afternoon, n arrests
are likely to follow. Edward Cody, the
foreman Of the carpenters, remained on
the grounds all the afternoon and assisted
the fifty men engaged in hauling the debris
of the crushed bodies Of the workmen.
Cody was arrested this evening by order
Of Coroner Remsen. Beader was not to be
found, although he had retained ex-Assist-
ant District Attorney John Graham. and
VII NIhhhLl was WdALIlh " AlAAh ~ q AObCA
here to surrender to the Coroner. Bail IN
the sum of IS 1000 was furnished for Cody,
and when Beader s~urrenders Codv will be
released. Coroner Remsen will hold the
inquest at the court house on Wednesday.
According to reports several workmen
refused to work on the building recently
because they thought it dangerous. All
day yesterday a large gang OF men were
engaged on the building, regardless OF
the fact hat 200 feet ava services were
being held in two churches. Il was learned
after the collapse hat some OF the men
mixing the cement and stone refused to
do 80 longer. oo~ntending hat the proper
tons were not proper for solldifying the
concrete. The workmen said that the
work was pushed forward with such de-
spatoh that there Yas not sufficient time
for the cement TO harden.
Hundreds OF automobiles from all over
the country brought parties Of sightseers
to the scene Of the accident. Father Blinn
Of the Mineola Catholic church adminis-
tered the last rites to the dying. One Of
the most remark able escapes was hat of
Edward C~orrigan, a New York plasterer,
who fell from the top OF the building to
the bottom, a beam falling across his arm.
After hours OF difficult work he managed
to cut his clothing of and teal his arm
from beneath the beam. Pwo Of the dead
were not recovered until 5 O'Clock this
afternoon,