Show A CARNIVAL OF HORROR I A Brooklyn DeathTrap Collapses with Terrible Results Men Women and Girls in the lllmmzhig Rotten Ruins x Scenes of Frenzy and Excitement in the Streets f A ICIuck Way Brooklyn NEW YORK May 5Euly this morning morn-ing two houses Nos 55 and 57 Atlantic street Brooklyn fell in with a crash A number of persons are reported killed and others are seriously injured The Abbott buildings on State street which are let out with steam power for I various manufacturing purposes og timer with a building in the rear were destroyed de-stroyed The rear building was undergoing I under-going repairs and one of the props nude I the girders gave way when the entire structure collapsed burying the workmen beneath the ruins Fire then communicated communi-cated with the front buildings an < despite the efforts of the firemen they were destroyed de-stroyed About fifteen workmen are supposed sup-posed to be in the ruins BROOKLYN May 5Shortlv after 9 oclock this morning there was a crash at 55 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn and people on looking up from the street saw that the roof of the building had fallei and that a portion of the walls had fallen they could hear THE SCREAMS OP THE PEdlLE Injured and it seemed but a moment when a volume of smoke rolled up showing show-ing that the building had takn lire HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE MEN WOMEN AND GIRLS Were at work at the various branches of business carried on in the building which covered considerable ground having hav-ing wings and which extended through from Atlantic to State street As soon as the crash was heard of the falling roof hundreds of those employed in the building build-ing endeavored to make their way out by every avenue of escape and some who were the last to reach the street appeared with begrimmed faces and blood streaming stream-ing from the wounds which they had received from falling timbers EXCITEMENT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD Became very great and in a short time the wivesof the men who were known to be working in the building and the parents of girls who were employed blocked the streets Three alarms of fire were sent out and the services of a large number of police had to be called in to keep the people out of the way of danger It was reported at first that about one hundred girls who were employed in Milo Ifynes bolting works which wert on the top floor where the roof fell in were killed but it appears MOST OF THE GIRLS MADE THEIR ESCAPE By climbing on the roofs of tenement houses The buildings were occupied by twenty small manufactories and there were about 500 men and women em ployed therein It was a fivestory building erected twentyseven years ago he woodwork burning like tinder When the firemen arrived they found many young women at the windows screaming wildly for help their retreat being cutoff The firemen quickly ran up the ladders Hit the girls were hemmed in and MANY FElt BACIC INTO THE FLAMES Before help could reach them Th < i character of the building hindered the efforts of the firemen It was ascertained that the t engineer of the factory Daniel Lowry was one of the victims He was tilled by the falling of the left wall The tame of the fire was the oveituining of he boilers of the soap factory on the second sec-ond fioor The west wall of the middle wing on Atlantic Avenue had settled and workmen were screwing it up with jacks The middle jack had been screwed ip too high and it was lowered when he whole weight of the wall came upon the two jacks at the end and it fell with a crash Ten or twelve have been taken out severely injured Chief Levenson said he hough there were AT LEAST TWENTYFIVE PEOPLE IN TIlE BRUINS 2 Maybe more The loss is estimated at 00000 insurance unknown Three bodies have been taken from the ruins burned beyond recognition |