The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-02
two KILLED BY
FALLING AWNINGS
Third Passerby Badly Hurt
Police Rope OFF Harlem
sidewalks.
CORNJCE HITS TAXICAB
Big Chimney Drops to Street
Electric Sign Smasbes
Windows.

Two persons were killed. one was badly
injured and scores had narrow escapes
from falling glass. iron and wood avn.
ings over sidewalks last night.
John Lauro. years old. and Gaetano
Cont. 2s years old. both OF 1916 First
avenue. between Tooth and iolst streets,
we're crushed to death when the wooden
shed extending from the tenement In
which they lived to iron posts on the
curb was blown down.
At 1927 Amsterdam avenue. near 145th
street. II heavy covering of galvanized
iron buried Raymond Poland. II years
old. of 5e5 West li5th street The boy
was dug out by fremen thirty-hve min
u,es later and was sent to Knickerbocker
Hospital, still alive but in a serious
condition.
copper cornice nfteen feet long and
weighing 200 pounds, was blown from the
roof of the twelve story Dorilton apart
m,nts At broadway and Scventy-hts'
street. narrowly missing Policeman Al
! nendinger and crashing through taxi
, cab. Another cornice on the same build
tnx was found 20 be weakened and the
entir. block was roped OF.
! The heavy glass awning over tho en-
, trance TO tho Hotel Wellington. Seventh
| avenue and Fifty-hfth street, was blown
, down No one was injured
Three blocks along First avenue near
I Doth street and In the section where
, the man and boy were killed were roped
off by the police because the wooden
! awnings over the sidewalks from tene-
' men, buildings in the Harlem market
had either collapsed or were likely 10
| do SO. 90.
Tho awning IN front OF 1916 F1rs'
| avenue which killed Cont and the Lauru
boy had been sagging all day. Lauro's
| father also was buried in the wreckags
hut was not Injured The boys back was
broken. Contrs skull, was fractured
while working at the wreckage severa
nremen had n narrow escape from the ran
ing awning next door at 1919 soon there
was a regular bombardment OF collapsihi
woodwork. At 1863. 2ols. 2o2s. .o2s anc
9oOs the frame structures fell. all II
front OF tenements
battalion Chief Dougherty WAS callec
10 the neighbour od by fire alarm. IL
sent the engines back. but kept the hool
and ladder trucks near by.
Raymond Poland and Edward Short p
Years old. OF AT Brook avenue. The
Bronx. were underneath the galvanize'
iron awning at lI2' Amsterdam avenue
when the wind lifted Il UP and wrenche'
GU, the supports short grabbed for tn
boy but missed him
Lieut. Slattery Of Engine Company 2
n nd his men soon rug out short who wa
not hurt much. They had trouble gett!n
Poland out, Part OF the awning stt'
chung to the building and threatened I
bury the rescuers II fell a minute afte
the boy was pulled out.
Father Joseph II. Mcmahon. rector o
the Church OF our Lady OF Iourdes, %
l43d street. near Amsterdam avenue rod
to the hospital with the boy
a twenty foot chimney fell from the 20
OF a three story building nj 2l6 Yves
Thirtieth street at o'clock ycsterda
afternoon No one was hurt a feN
minutes later an electric sign crashe
through the windows OF a millinery stor
on the second floor OF IA West Thirty
fourth street and then broke the wndo'
OF n jewelry store on the ground foo'
Eighteen Easter hats and some tewelr
; tumbled into the street Policemen gan
i cred the hats and Jewelry and took ther
TO the police station.
At 3s West Thirty-third street show
case outside "A japanese shop was blow
down and smashed It's contents were seal
: tered
: Many persons fen on the slipper
streets and received sprans and bruises