Show NINE PERSONS INJURED S Peculiar Accident Wherein Many People Have ITarrowt Escapes New York Aug 2Three persons were seriously Injured and six others j badly cut and bruised today by the falling of five heavy pieces of structural Iron from the top of a twelvestory building in couroe of construction at Broadway and Walker streets Fannie Cohen 17 years of age Marris Bleich crelG years of age and David TValdc mann nineteen were so badly injured they had to be taken to a hospital and six others were painfully Injured All will recover All of the Injured persons were employed em-ployed by M Goldberg Co pocketbook pocket-book manufacturers who occupied the upper two floors of rivestory building build-ing on Walker street directly in the rear of the building In the course of construction Four heavy Iron girders each weighing weigh-ing over a ton were being hoisted to the top of the high building They were being swung around to the top of the building when they slipped out of the chains Three of the heavy girders crushed through eleven floors to the basement and tIme fourth stuck at the second floor Over a hundred workmen work-men were at work In the building but they escaped Injury When the big boom of the derrick was released of the girders It swung around and struck a fourteenfoot iron upright snapping it oft and throwing it over the side of the building This piece weighed over a ton It crashed through the roof of the Walker street building where thirty people were at work on the top floor They were burled In the debris Those who were not hurt badly made a rush for the fire escape leaving a number of women uho had fainted and the Injured persons per-sons lying helpless op the floor Alfred F Norton foreman In charge of the Iron workers was arrested on a charge of criminal neglect and arraigned ar-raigned In the Center street court He was paroled until tomorrow |