The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-25
ONE MAN DYING,
90THERS HURT AS
. SCAFFOLD FALLS
Father, Buried Under Debris,
Begs RescuerS to Save
Son First.
ALL BADLY INJURED.
Hoisted to Street in Bucket
After Drop of IS Feet in
Pennsylvania Tunnel.

Ten men were injured, Ave Of them
seriously, by the fall OF scatfold In
the excavations for the new Pennsyl-
vania terminals to-day Some OF the
victims were sent to the New York
Hospital. where It is feared that one
at least will die. The others were
able to so to their homes after their
wounds had been bound up.
The more seriously injured, all
stone masOns, were:
WILLIAM A. BRENNAN, No. 473
East one Hundred and Forty-third
street.
JOHN BRENNAN. his son, same
address.
LAWRENCE COMET. address un.
known.
THOMAS GARRETT, No, l39 West
Sixtieth street.
RICHARD WALSH No. 1851 Am
sterdam avenue.
The less seriously injured are; John
Barrett. laborcr, No. 1861 Amsterdam
avenue, JOHN bOlIIllNt ht'I'It 4+ISHNsI
avenue and Thirty-th!rd street;
Thomas Jones, helper. No. TAG East
One Hundred and SiXtieth street,
Edward Riley. helper, NO. 1855! Second
avenue; James Somers, helper
Eightieth street and Avenue y.
All the men We're in the employ OF the
National FireprOOting Company, which
has one OF the sub-contracts. TIE five
masons were at work under the flooring
OF the administration building, near the
corner Of Seventh avenue and Thirty
third street. facing up some concrete
arches with fircproofed surfaces. y
group OF helpers and laborers were
down below handling mortar and tools
for them.
Buried Under Wreckage.
Without warning the scanold col
lapsed, II was u heavy ailair, standing
eighteen feet high and being thirty feet
in length and four feet wide. The men
underneath had a moments warning,
thanks to the creaking and swapping OF
the timber supports, and they, got clear
in time to avoid being buried outright,
although nearly. all We're. struck by
flying debris and spiintered woods.
None of the five masyhs had chance
to Jump They were caught in pile or
shattered woodwork and materials at
the bottom OF the excavation. William
BRENNAN wv 'AN'sN llih' Va N4'' W. " ~
half covered. When the rescuers who
had been hastily recruited from a gang
OF laborers reached him, his first words
were:
For Gods sake, get my hoy out"
He meant his son John, aged nineteen.
who had gone to work with him only
Yesterday. Meanwhile the son, although
pinned down by a huge scantling thirty
feet long and suffering great pain,
begged the rescuers to look after his
father.
Hoisted In a Bucket.
In order to get the men to the street,
nifty feet above, II was necessary to
raise them In huge bucket operated
by w!ndlass and used ordinarily In
moving supplies. Reaching the street
Level. they were carried into the un-
finished Administration Building, where
two physicians In the pay OF the con
tractors worked over them until Dr.
Monroe and Dr. Burnett arrived with
ambulances. , ,u
Comet remained unconscious after
reaching the hospital. 1t was thought
that he might have a fractured skull
The others suffered mostly from shock,
Contusions. sprains and broken bones.
Acting Captain McElroy. OF the West
Thlrtieth street station, arrested the
foreman OF the job, Dennis Jones. OF
No l25S Third avenue, on the technica
charge OF criminal negligence