New-York tribune., 1921-11-30
'Eorkmen on BROOKLYN
Building Buried When
Walls and Roof Fall;
Several Still Missing
Two Owners Held
Pending Inquiry
Woman and Husband
Hart When Debris De-
molish hes Residence;
Searchers Hear Means

Six men are known to have been
nrshed to death and twenty-six injured,
;asuding one woman, when the walls
ind roof of the American Theater, in
curse Of construction at ITO to 7S7 Bed
bri Avenue, Brooklyn, collapsed yes
tsday few minutes after the crew of
about forty workmen had returned from
Encheon. Four men are missing and
nsy still be buried in the ruins.
gang of firemen reported Just be-
fore midnight that they heard the
moaning of a man in the extreme cor
asr Of the orchestra pit near the east
vail Of the building. All the firemen
wailable were sent TO the spot in the
hope of rescuing the man.
Two of the injured are not expected
u survive. The woman, Mrs. Josephine
Page, who was eating lunch with her
husband, Edward, in their home imme-
diately adjacent to the north wall of the
theater when the collapse came, saw the
second floor of tht.- home fall in upon
them, but neither suffered fatal injuries.
Both, however. were severely cut about
the head, face and body. Their frame
honse is wreck.
The dead are:
Albert Sheridan, thirty-one years
old Of 305 West 111th Street, Manhat-
tan, forman of the wire lath workers.
Thomas A. Stone, wire lath work.
man, 663 Madison Street, West New
York, N. j.
William P. Guthrie. thirty years old,
of 1921 Farragut Road, Brooklyn.
3 Isaac Barkin, plasterer's helper, 293
Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn.
Cornelius Briney, twenty-five years
sold, of $50 West Fifty-frst Street,
manhattan, also a lath worker, mar
ned and had two children.
PHILIP Stein, concrete contractor, of
gs Howard Avenue, Brooklyn.
Twenty-six Hurt
The injured are:
George Lawson, seventeen years old,
ri 62S Sixty-second Street, Brooklyn,
Malp wounds; Charles Bauer, twenty
SIX, metal lath worker, of 500 West
lFoIty-second Street, Manhattan, cuts
sea head and body; Adam Mum, twenty
hye, Of 1877 West Third Street, Manhat-
tan, scalp wounds; Frank Healy, thirty
nye,. OF 465 West Forty-sixth Street,
aManhattan, decorations and abrasiof1s;
sinenIy McManus, forty-one, of 726
Ninth Avenue, Manhattan, decorations
aud abrasions, not serious; sent home
from williamsburg Hospital; Philip
Aeaiy, twenty-three, of 343 Ninth Ave-
nue.. Brooklyn, scalp wound and lacera-
ton of right leg; at williamsburg
Hospital; Jacob Bauer, brother Of
Charles. metal lath worker, of 521
West Fifty-frst Street, Manhattan,
!scerations and loss of teeth; Charles
Nicholas, twenty-nine, Of 1703 Wood
m e'ne Street, Greensboro, lath worker,
nacerations and abrasions, at Jewish
hospital, Brooklyn; William Synott,
iefty-two, of 2537 Catalpa Avenue,
Vueensboro, fractured spine, serious,
At Williamsburg Hospital; Thomas
Synott, forty-fve, brother of william,
M1;actured left leg, at williamsburg
Hospital.
Contractor Injured
Emil Ball. sxty-five, contractor, of
80 sao Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, lacera-
nons 70 about the head, face and body; at
.noocS hospital, DIOOkIyn. MI
'enael % Matbello, thirty-three. laborer, of
9. g sklllman Street; at Beth Moses Hos
Mtal. Ellsworth Keefe, fifty-five, of
ssls Fifth Avenue. Brooklyn, an cleo
ssnsclan, married; at Beth Moses Hog
sptal; Luke Reilly, Bradford Street,
91rooklyn, minor injuries. James Ga
sI, saona, 1410 Bergen Street, Brooklyn,
n1oerer; at williamsburg Hospital.
s,aaes Ridortella, fifty-fve, of 27f4 AZ
anIIc Avenue, Brooklyn, fractured leg:
9 q, Williamsburg Hospital; Samuel Sab
sal.se, twenty-seven. of 173 Harrison
nnvehue' Brooklyn, fractured leg; at.
setn Moses Hospital. Joseph Lambert,
ipnenty-eight, of 48 Reid Avenue.
brooklyn, possible fracture of. skull.
Nrious; at Cumberland Street Hos
srnai' pn' brooklyn. Louis Decissi, forty
yAe' oil 1894 Rockaway Avenue, Brook
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