| Show UNDER TONS Of DEBRIS Seven Persons Killed by Collapse Of an Old House HouseIn In New York GAVE FORTH WARNING SOUND 1 tm I It II Tumbled liSt of Vt Ilic Ih I I me OC III f n Up by lJ Unit lIo Sew New oW York June 98 Seven S persons six Ix of or of o ono uM Italian fatally family were tere killed early arl today In III thu collapse of a j ramshackle tenement in to inthe Inthe the time downtown Italian mIlan I toni tem I Three other members of ot the tho some snub family In ln tho th father find 1101 t are In lit Ina lita a hospItal painfully Injured but wIt wll will willI I halo Theio were wee some seine 1 scenes cn s Immediately following the acci accident dent tient one cite on of ot which was the rescue ot ut otan an nn old man from Crom a ledge 40 feet from the ground this portion oC ot the tho fallen building having adhered tu to the tho adjoining structure lonG Ions enough ta to permit the firemen to 10 get sel to 10 raise a r ladder and take the tho th man mUi Ja Jacob Jacoh Jacob cob coh safely to the ground Thou Then Thol It Il full foil Into the ruins The collapsed building was a n tour four story stor affair built buit over oft 5 years ago aso and was located loc i ed at II the corner cottier of Walker alker and ond Lafayette streets It tt be belonged bl belonged longed to the Mono Taylor estate und for COI some Sante time Ume has been In a n dangerous condition of ot o excavations for Co a ti anew L new building on the adjoining prom 1101 lEes Ices It I hail had been leIl shored horod up Ul but Us Its weakened condition caused It I to full fullIn In iii at 2 3 Most of Qt the tho tenant warned wanted by b ominous creaking fled fed ti IL few minutes minute before It I collapsed The dead land were burled buried under Ulder tons ot of debris and It was Wai a not nol until the firemen and volunteers had hod worked for tor four hours that thal their thol bodies were recovered George U 13 I the ll contractor who had choice charge of the mime recent repairs and und shoring up of oC the was WIS arrested errested and charged with wih homicide That ninny many more persons p did not no hose losa their lives In Imi the thc collapse of oC the thc old building was tsa M due to 10 two of ot the younger occupants ot of the house having attended an Italian celebration last IHl night The Thc boys reached home shortly before 2 1 this morning and am warned wanted bv liv the lh severs severe shaking and creaking ot of tl II house hou ran through tho the building bul and warned walle the lo sleeping tenants of ot the Im Impending pending danger dangel Dozens of persons ran rAil Into the street streel In their night clothes cothes and ani many lan of ei them had scarcely gained the street before tho the crash came caine nyc Five 1110 minutes later scones of or firemen wore were at nt work tearing asay It ot nt the piles ot of brick and broken timbers Umbers In the hone bone hoo that somo of or tho tha burled persons persona might be betaken bt betaken taken out nut lve Over them tottered the tl remaining wall wll of ot the Lafayette exten extell extension Ion sion cracked In itt two places and threat threet threatening ening enin to tall fall Cul upon the rescuers every Cerv moment After a few tew ew minutes tearing at al the timbers and amid nd bricks the firemen fremen heard a low moan Inam and In II the tho dim light hands moving convulsive convulsively saw a n mans ly I The rh men caught it and tho man milan under the tho ruins ruin murmured For Gods God sake save my Jy 1 sister It was George Ms six sl ot of whoso whose brothers I and sisters perished p In tho the ruins The fhe dragged away wa the debris trying tr to 10 free the tho young ounH man Just then a watcher cried Look out OUI boys run hos The fragment of ot wall tottered and anti foil fell el throwing up a 0 cloud of dust and concealing from tram view clew of oC the anxious crowd In the street the firemen everyone supposed were burled buried Only Battalion Chief Galvin and Ladderman Samuel were badly hurt The others went back to 10 digging In spite ot or thou their cuts nOd aUd bruises brul s sI It I was wait thought that Geore would bo be killed by tho the second fall o brick but his life Ufa le was waH saved a ed by b a n strange happening Part of ot o the wood wooden en On roof that had remained upon lp on tho wall fell directly over ovel the hole holo which tho time wal firemen feI hail had ho opened to him and tho bricks and amid timbers rained harmless harmle harmlessly s sh ly h on his canopy The firemen pulled It I off of und and nd soon had out A few ow moments later laler the linemen firemen took out father ruther and mother They The were the last to be bo taken out of the tho wreck alive aUve They The are lre suffering su from wounded heads and ond contusions on their bodies bodle |
