Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-08
KILLED As wAO
sMASHEs HOUSE
One Dead, One Missing, Many
Hurt at Banquet of
Friend.

CLIFTON, April S.-A two-and-a-
half story frame building on Acker-
mar venue this place. was blown
dow in a terrific wind storm hat
arose last evening. Twenty-Five per-
sons were in a hall at the
rear of the ground floor. giving d
farewell banquet to a friend. One OF
these was killed, another Will probably
die. and the body of a third. who is
missing, is probably lying in the pile
of wreckage that fills what was once
the cellar of the house
THE DEAD.
GRUNDE. ANTONIO; crushed to
death by falling floor beams.
THE INJURED.
ID CELLO, LOUIS; Commissions on body
and internal injuries; will probably
die.
EATTEL, PETER. cut on the head.
SERIO, JOHN, cut on head.
KOSHID, Edward, Rabbit Fork, hands
cut.
zoNcINo, VALENTINE. clifton. cut
on body.
SAvIo, JOHN, Clifton, shoulders badly
wrenched; taken to hospital.
CANIO, ANTONIO, Clifton, right eye
bruised.
MARcHEsIAN, PETER. Clifton, hands
cut.
NoRBU, THOMAS. Clifton, body
bruises.
GALLO, VICTOR, cut on head.
on the ground floor of the building
was a saloon conducted by Louis
Poles. At the rear of this was the
meeting hall where the banquet was
taking place. The second floor was
occupied by Poles and his family. A
remarkable feature OF the accident is
that his wife and seven children were
in their apartment at the time of the
buildings collapse and not one, of them
was injured. Above the Poles apart
ment was a shallow attic.
Poles, who had been in the banquet
hall looking after. the comfort of his
patrons left the building and walked
to the sidewalk when the first heavy
gusts of wind swept through the
street. He glanced UP at rhe frail
structure, which was poorly built and
more than forty years old. and shook
his head in a puzzled way as he heard
its bea1ms creaking nder the stress
of the strong wind. After the collapse,
Poles said that he saw the old shack
swaying on its foundations for several
moments before the crash.
Suddenly the ~creakings of the beams
and walls became louder, deep assures
appeared in the clapboard sides and
the four walls seemed almost alive as
they spread apart and the roof came
creashing through.
With a cry of fear Poles ran from
beneath the front wall and escaped
the falling timbers by only a few feet.
For a second he was almost paraIyzed
with alarm. then, recovering himself.
he cried: 20 my wife and babies!'
and dashed over the wreckage of the
front wall into the mass of debris
that Uttered the space within which
the building had stood.
Three or four young men who had
been watching the rwaying of the old
building from an opposite corner,
rushed for a nearby store shouting an
alarm as. they ran One of them tele-
phoned to fire headquarters in Passaic
and then, reinforced by a crowd of
nearly a hundred which had been at
tracted by their cries, came back to
render what aid they could.
The hastily-recruited rescue party
jumped into the middle of the wreck
age, and taking their cue from Poles,
who was making frenzied though inef-
fectual efforts to lift the huge beams
that Uttered the ground, started to
search for the injured.
BY some strange freak of luck all
but two of the men who had been at
tending the dinner party had rushed
for safety through a rear door when
the swaying of the building gave the
first warning of the collapse that was
coming, and now, recovered from their
temporary fright, returned to aid the
searching party. Their two friends.
Grunde and Di Cello, the former dead,
the latter grooming in pain. they
picked up from beneath a pile of
splintered lumber and carried to the
street. Mrs. Poles and her seven chill
dren were found, scared but unhurt, ly-
ing and sitting about on bits of wreck
age.
Grunde's body was taken to the Pas
sale morgue and Di Cello was removed
to the hospital. Up to a late hour the
body of the missiong member of the
dinner party was not found.
The roof of the Forstman & Fluff
man Mill in Clifton, where the textile
strike is on, was blown off by the wind,
and several residences in the section
were unroofed. John Nichols. a watch
man at the mill, was slightly injured.