| Show CARRIED DOWN DOWNTO TO THEIR DEATH Foo F Io CoI Collapsed in Colored Ch Church ch in New ew York I r T TEEN PERSONS KILLED LE LEMOE MOE M OPE THAN FIFTY INJURED SOME FATALLY 1 I EW YORI yoni Feb per persons r L sons were killed and more than 50 Injured some probably by bythe the he t collapse or of the decayed supports of o f the of the Fleet street African Airl can an c Methodist Episcopal church in Brooklyn tonight tonight Of those killed ten tea were women two men and one Those kled killed were Bertha Green Teresa EUs Ellis Samuel ChiShOlm Anna Anna Bean Anna Louis A Smith Mar Mary Scott Scott Four unidentified women One uni unidentified child One unidentified man man Victims Suffocated D Death ath In nearly every case resulted from suffocation The building was an ancIent rm ram ramshackle shackle frame frane structure erected sixty years ears ago in the heart of oC the colored eUon ot of Brooklyn In Fleet street near Myrtle avenue I It was condemned at as several years ago ag Arrangement Arrangements had been made to tonight tonight night to hold funeral service o of Sid Sidney Sidney ney Tainter one of the older of the church and the which Is the second one foor of the building the ground floor being used b by the Sunday school wa was crowded wih with audience of more thu than per persons perSons sons of whom the majority were wo wom women m men n Floor Collapsed The congregation w ii waiting in si lence for the arIval arrival of the body and i Pastor Jacobs was standIng at the a al altar tr tar awaiting the summons to meet the I funeral procession at the door when a g ot of timbers was heard and andin andin in an instant te the halt half o of the auditorium nearest the door c carrying down more than a hundred persons who were crushed in the wreckage wreckage of the flooring and aud pews A geat great volume ot of dust for a few moments hid from view the victims The remainder or of the audience finding themselves cut off from the door and expecting every in Instant stant that the rest of the floorIng would collapse under them fought madly to reach the windows and In some in Instances stances leape leaped from them and sus sustained tamed serious injuries Work of Rescue On the arrival ot of the police and ire men the work of rescue bega began h se remaining unInjured on the of the loor remaining intact were n from the windows by ladder ladders Those lying in the mass or of wreckage on the lower foor could Only be reached after the firemen had bad hewed their way to them wih with axe axes Out of the wreck ten bodies were recovered and taken to a station hoUsed house and about about thirty removed to the Brooklyn hospital where three women died soon after being admitted Al All te the ambulances In Brooklyn Were cled called out and about a Score or of those hurt were able to g go home after their Injuries had been attended to Heartrending SCenes were in the staton station house which was thronged wih with relatives and frIends who came to IdentIfy the dead |
