The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 23, 1896, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO C;&LL, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1896. REMOVING A VICTIM FROM THE RUINS. kissed him. McKeown calmed her by saying he was all right. Miss Sarah Byrne was upstairs in her | room when the building collapsed. She was hysterical when taken to the hospital, and said she could remember nothing aiter hearing the cracking of the walls. | Her right arm was broken, her right thigh | injured and she bad a deep wound in her | sealp, but her skull was not fractured. Richard Buckley, porter in the coffee- | house, escaped with a cut on the forehead received from a falling plank. Emile Leuenberger of 431 Minna street was in bed in one of the rooms on the top floor. He beard a crash, then the plaster cracked and the floor sank. He was :found among the debris of the bed. A | lady friend who was talking to him at the | time escaped without a scratch, Leuen- | berger assisting to drag her out. Leuen- | berger’s left side was badly contused and | he was suffering from internal injuries. H. Shepherd, a hotel employe, was in his room on the top floor. A beam fell on his chest, knocking him down, and he | sank among the ruins. His right foot was broken. Dennis Griffin, 21 Page street, a hod- carrier’s laborer, was worse injured than | any of tte others. He was working under- neath the building at the time of the col- lapse. He had an ugly cut over his eve- | brow and he was badly injured internally. | He complained of severe pains in his thighs, but no bones were found to be broken. He has a wife and child. Simeon Deane, 1209 Union street, was also working underneath the building. He great shout when they saw up a next taken out, then Miss Bessie Wilson. men were hurried to a neighboring un- dertaking blishment, where several of the Receiv Hospital corps had estab- lished headquarters for such cases s were not considered dangerous. “I was not frightened for ever so long after the building collapsed,” said Miss Woodward. *I was never at any time un conscious, but the whole thing was so sud- den that I did not have time to think of anything except to make a vain effort to | grasp something solid. I heard a low, rumbli und, and then without any warning the floor dropped from under me and I went down, down, down, bringing up finally with a jolt that seemed near shattering my teeth. “I thought I must be dreaming, and then like a flash it came to me that the building had collapsed. I called for help, but my voice was drowned in noise on the outside, which came plainly and painfully to me in my narrow prison. I was more afraid of fire than anything else, but when I neard the roar of the engines I knew | that I would be rescued in time.” In the meantime the firemen and the hundred or so volunteers continued the work of rescue. One by one the victims were taken from the ruins. Jesse May was the fiith person dugjfrom out the debris, and it was at once seen that he was badly injured, and two-thirds of those who gazed on his blood-stained face pronounced him dead, but some thought differently. “His heart beats!'’ exclaimed Dr. Fitz- gibbon. “There is yet a chance to save his life. Get him to the hospital as quickly as possible.’”” But poor May was beyond all human aid, The very life had been crushed out of im by the tons of falling timbers, and he was only breathing because his magnifi- cent physique would not give up the fight until forced to the last trench. did soon after reaching the hospital. It was a sorrowful sight, the bhauling out of the maimed and wounded from the deathtrap. In all ten were taken to the Receiving Hospital, only one of whom has so far died. It is thought, however, that at least five more will succumb. During the work of the rescue of the liv- ingand the hunt for the dead Chief Sulli- van was everywhere. His men libored together like so many automatons, with the difference that they worked intelli- tly and systematically. A hundred hands grasped the long ropes made fast to the fallen walls and pertitions and pulled away as though their own lives depended on the issue. It was an orderly, earnest gathering, working solely for suffering human One of first articles brought to light was what had once been & handsome bird cage. It was crushed into an unrecogniz- able mass, but in one corner just large enough to hold its wee body was a canary without even a ruffied feather to bear evi- dence to the terrible scene through which it had just pasted. Some of the workmen were caught like rats in a trap and were unabie to escape from under the weight of the mags that crushed upon them. Those who were at work on the north | side of the foundation were more for- tunate, for when the floor sank on the south side the timbers on the other end rested in part on the cribs and against the southern wall of the building on the north, leaving a triangular space from which they were able to crawl out and be lified to the sidewalk. One of these was Cornelius Croning, a hod-carrier, who was cut across the chest by a scantling that struck him; another was Thomas Malan- dry, another hod-carrier. Two brick-cleaners, as well as Byron Bailey, a carpenter, escaped with slight bruises. James Daley was one of the fortunate laborers who was under the house engaged in working the jackscrews, and on hear- ing the crushing noise of the timbers overhead dropped his tools and rushed out from underneath the building just in time to have the place where he had been at work a few seconds before covered over with heavy timbers from the flooring overhead. Mike Howard was another of the for- tunate ones who escaped from under the house before the crash came. He, like Daley, beard the timbers creak above him and ran and saved his life. Joseph Hicks, one of the first on the scene, rushed on the fallen roof and suc- ceeded in rescuing Mrs. Byrnes by haul- ing her through the scuttle hole, unaer which she was. Cures Ab-olute, perfect, permanent cures, even after other medicines have utterly failed, have given Hood’s Sarsaparilla the first place among medicines and the largest sales in the world. “I had chills and fever for the last nine months. I have been using Hood’s Sarsa- parilla and Hood’s Pills, and these medi- cines haye cured me. Miss Gertie Binger, Loci, Cal. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. e Di cure Liver Ills; easy t Hood’s Pills o The three | This it | He assisted ber to a house | | { | FIREMEN AND CITIZENS DOING GOOD WORK. on Mint avenue, from which she was taken to the hospital. J. G. Keown, a veteran fireman, secured | an ax and, cutting a hole in the roof, | managed to rescue four men and two | women, all more or less bruised. “He | was so anxious to save those under the debris that he did not take time to ask | the names of those he saved,” said Thomas | | Green of 873 Filbert street, who related | this incident. | The firemen belonging to engine com- | pany 17 were startled by the loud noise | caused by the house when it tell into | Mint avenue. | John Conroy, the assistant foreman, | Tushed out and at once took in the situa- tion. He ordered the horses kitched to the engine and hosecart and directed the driver to back out into Stevenson street | and drive round on Fifth. In the mean- | time he turned in tne alarm, and with | Thomas Atkinson, John Murphy, William Nicholson, Thomas Mulldeny, Claud Brownell, Frank McCloskey, all members of the company, who were joined by John Doherty, the foreman, and Assistant Engineer Jobn Dougherty, proceeded to extricate the unfortunate people who were caught in the timbers. About half-past 5 o’clock a piteous little whine could be heard above the noise of the chopping and the splintering of the de- bris as the men worked like beavers upon the top of the avalanche of broken boards, timbers and plaster near the rear wall of the wreck. The sound grew more audible each moment as parts of the imprisoned roof of wreckage were being steadily hurled aside, and then a very little dog suddenly dashed out through the first available opening, frisking about and wag- ging his bushy tail. He was soon grabbed up by a sympathetic but dirty-facea little boy, who disappeared down Mint avenue hugging the pretty little black-and-white | creature to his breast. During the course of the afternoon sey- eral men more venturous than the rest forced their way under the building to see if they could render any assistance to the men who were pinioned under the wreck- age. They succeeded in reaching one of the laborers, who was taken to the Receiv- ing Hospital, but they were unable to reach the others. The young woman, Pearl Woodwarad, | who was rescued through the roof is the one who some time since donned a diver’s suit and walked under the water at Sutro baths. Every patrol-wagon had been called into requisition to takethe injured to the Re- ceiving Hospital, and as they drove up to the entrance they attracted an immense crowd of men, women and chilcren, all eager to learn how the maimed men and | women came by their injuries. Drs. Thompson and Hartley and Stew- ards Bucher ana Mogan worked like beav- ers stitching aud dressing the wounds, and in an incredibly short space of time | the wounded were properly attended to. Friends and relatives of some of the injured were present and it was pitiful to bear their pleadings to the doctors and stewards to hurry up and attend to the one they cared for. Nine of those injured were taken to the hospital, and one man, whose name could | not be ascertained, died on the way. He was supposed to be one of the graders. With one exception, none of the nine were l dangerously injured. | Patrick McKeown, husband of the pro- | prietor of the rooming-house, was seri- | ously injured internally. He was in a room on the middle fioor and was jammed between two beams. Mrs. Joseph Byrne, McKeown's sister- in-law, was also in her room on the mid- dle floor. She had been on top of the building putting out some clothes to day and bad just returned to her room when the floor sank down., Mrs. Silver- stein, an old lady, had been talking to her, and when tbey were dragged out of the ruins Mrs. Bilverstein was dead. Mrs. Byrne had a narrow escape, A dressing- case fell on top of her and left a clear space of a tew inches above her., When found she had her arms around the dress- ing-case. Her only injury was a contusion on each of her arms. When she saw her broth er-in-law sitting in a chair in the hospital bent almost double she gavea take, easy 10 operate, 25¢ | scream, threw ber arms around him and i had two wounds in his scalp, one being long and deep, but the skull was not frac- tured. John Lyons, 154 Clara street, & hod-car- rier, was going up a ladder with a hodful of bricks when the building collapsed. | He was dragged out of the debris by 8. M. Scott, manager of the Manhattan Rubber Company, who accompanied him to the | hospital. The blood was spurting from a | ent artery in Lyons' right wrist when Scott dragged him out, and Scott made a | tourniquet from a broken cigar-box and a handkerchief and probably saved him from bleeding to death. Lyons was also | cat on the scalp, but after having his wounds attended to he was able to go home with his wife, who had hurried to the hospital. One of the most pitfful sights at the hos- pital was that of a Mrs. Davis, who called to see if her husband was among the in- jured. She said he had been working un- derreath tne bnilding. She was assured that he was not there, and just then her eyes rested upon the sheet covering the dead man. With a shriek she threw down | the sheet, gazed upon the dead man’s face | and fell into a fit of hysterical sobbing when | she found he was not her husband. She | grew calmer, and some one said in her | hearing that there were two or three men | et in the ruins, and she rushed out of the | hospital in the direction of Fifth street | with the tears streaming down her face. | Last night Griffin and McKeown were in a critical condition and faint hopes were entertained of their recovery. They were both very severely injured internally. MRS. McKEOWN’S STORY. The Landlady of the Brighton Tells of the Fall. Mrs.K.McKeown, a woman about 30 years of age, who managed the two upper floors as a lodging-house, was one of the first 1o be rescued from the wreck. She was cut behind the left ear, slightly injured about | the hands and severely bruised over the left hip. Removed at once tothe lodging-nouse in the rear she was soon visited by a physi- cian, who pronounced her injuries not dangerous. She had not yet received defi- nite assurance of the safety of her hus- band, and her first inquiry was for news of him. Being assured that he had been removed to the Receiving Hospital with only a comparatively slight gash across the cheek, Mrs. McKeown told the following story of the experience through which she had passed: ¢‘I was on the top floor, in the hall. All at once it commenced to rumble and it grew dark, and the ceiling began to fall in great, big pieces. Everything started to slide and it got terribly dark in just a second or two. “There were seven or eight of us, I guess, altogether on the third floor. Nobody, I think, was on the floor below. There was wmy husband and one other man, Gus Sprouse, Mrs. Eugenia Byrne, her daugh- ter, Miss Sarah Byrne, Mrs. John Waller, Miss May Ward—all roomers—and Mrs. Yager, who does the housework. “I was in room 16 and Mrs. Byrne was right opposite, in room 17, while Miss Ward was in room 18. When the first crash came I rushed into the hall. 1 was there when the rest happened. “It didn't seem that I fell very far. 1 was picked up at once on top of the pile. The men rescued me about three minutes afver the crash. I was out in plain sight and above everything, only I was caught by the beams and held by my hips so 1 couldn’t get loose. “My loss? I think what I lost in fur- niture and other things was worth about $2000. Mrs. McKeown was injured more seriously than she first believed. Three physicians examined her injuries at the undertaking establishment of McAvoy & Gallagher, where she was taken immedi- ately after the accident. They found that three ribs were broken besides the severe wound on her head. After she was treated her anxiety for her husband prompted her to visit the Receiving Hospital. After standing about she was finally taken by friends to the residence of Mrs. John Murphy on Hayes street, her cousin. Last night while suffering extreme pain she repeated in substance the above story, and said.that Mrs, Silvetstein was calling on her yesterday afternoon and had just left her. She was at the time on the top floor and was descending the stairs when the crash came. Then she says every- thing grew dark and she felt the heavy beam bearing down on her side. She saw the daylight and pushed aside the beam. It was then that the men rescued her. R e WHERE MEN WERE EATING. Scene In the Coffee Saloon When the Bullding Collapsad. There were a few stains of blood on the white cravat of Martin A. C. Christensen, as he viewed the ruin of his coffee-house after the crash. He endeavored to con- verse with John Hansen, his cook, who, in white apron and cap, was nursing a bruised arm on the street. “Three men customers were sitting at the tables,” he said, as he began to review the situation, *‘and I was behind the desk working on the books. “The windows began to rattle, and right away there was a noise of crasbing up above. Everybody made a break for the acor. The~ ~Il got out—the three men, my three wuiters, the cook here, J. Han- sen, and his two assistants in the kitchen. | There was another waiter named Chris Jakenson (in English Johnson), he has not shown up yet. Idon’t know if he was in the building at all. ““I bought out my partner a year ago for §$5000. Then I spent $2000 last July in fitting up the place and refurnishing it. | My loss must be $10,000. Anyway I| wouldn’t have sold out for that. “‘The building has been sinkiug the last couple of years. I complained to the proprietor a year ago, just aiter the prop- erty changed hands. When the contractor came the other day to examine the under- pinning he said he was surprised the | building had stood so long with such rotten foundation. “The men just started to-day to put in ! brick work. They have been on the job about two weeks. I think there were | twelve or fourteen of them at work in the | basement.” | “And I,” added the cook, “was in the | kitchen with Frank, the porter, the dish- | wasber, whose name I do not know, and | Chris, a waiter. The slide came and | everything went and I don’tknow how I | got out, but I think I was pulled out through the roof. The other men all got | out; but I think there was one customer | in the men’s part of the restaurant, but I | think he got out.” “Were there any ladies in the ladies’ saloon ?” he asked the proprietor, who de- clared that he could not tell. Christensen was watching until after midnight in front of his old place of busi- ness. Not satisfied with having saved his life he moaned over the fact that there was $40 in a cigar-box and $60 in the cash reg- ister, all of which he did not think would ever be reached by him. In the debrs he also had a safe containing $500 wnich he confidently hoped to recover. e THE COLLAPSED BUILDING. Those Who Were the Occupants of the Structure, The building was known as Nos. 20 and 22 Fifth street. It had 25 feet front by a depth of 75 feet. The ground floor was oc- cupied as a lunch-house and coffee-saloon, kept by Martin A. C. Christensen, while the two upper floors were occupied by Mrs. K. McKeown, who kept a lodging- house known as “The Brightoa.’’ The building was erected a number of years ago on the slight style of construc- tion prevalent in those days, A few weeks ago it wae noticed that the foundation was not as secure as it ought to be. Samuel O’Kelly of 312 Ellis street, the owner, con- cluded to have a new foundation piaced under it. He secured the services of an architect, Edmund Kollopotto of 933 Market street. to prepare plans for the work of improvement. This having been done, the contract for the necessary repairs was let to Adam Miller of 404 Kearny street, who sublet the contract for grading to Levi B. Sibley of 1305 Howard street; and the one for placing the building on cribs and screws was let to P. W. Gleeson of 309 Mason street. The foundation was found to be exceed- ingly weak, and it beeame necessary to prop up the structure with jackscrews and cribs, as house movers and raisers use. These rested on a sandy bottom, but whether this was responsible for the col- lapse it was impossible last night to de- termine. It was the opinion of some who claimed a knowledge of such matters that the sand at <oume point had caused the building to topple and fall. It was the intention to place a brick foundation under the building, and for that purpose there were at work a number of hod-carriers, bricklayers and car- penters. About a year ago the old building and | The Police Take Possession of a the property on which it stood were offered for sale for $55,000, and were soon after purchased at a sale by auction by Samuel 0. Kelly, the capitalist, for the reduced sum of $47,000. —— THINGS WERE AWRY. Two Men Who Believe That Some=- body Was Culpable. R. E. Saunders, who lives in the lodging- house immediately adjoining on the west, said: I had been working under the | house and had left only a few daysago, because I thought I was not sufficiently paid. I thought whep I left that too much water was allowed to run on the sand of the foundation. The workmen had cut holes in the water pipe and let out the water in order to soften the founda- tion. The sand was completely saturated with the water, and I was fearful when I saw it that an accident might happen.” Frank Coleman, who works in the Cali- fornia Hotel, occupied a room on the mid- die floor. He was unaware of the acci- dent until told later in the aiternoon. He said: ‘‘Last night I endeavored to get into my | room, but the door was so sagged that I| was unable to open it. I was obliged to | awaken the landlady, Mrs. McKeown, who told me that a new foundation was being placed under the building. After much effort I at last succeeded in opening the door. “Mrs. McKeown told me at that time that she had consulted the landlord, and that he had told her that everythinz was perfectly safe and that there was nothing to worry about. The only way that I can account for the accident is that it was| owing to carelessness on the contractor’s | part.” —_— A DANGEROUS HOUSE. House That Is Out of Plumb. About 5 o’clock in the afternoon Police Commissioner Tobin appeared on the scene, and he and Police Captain Spillane | ad their attentiou called to the three- | story bu:lding adjoining the fallen one on | the north. They noticed that it was no longer plumb, but was leaning to the south. They at once summoned Fire Marshal Towe, who agreed with them that all the inmates should be given notice to vacate. This was done at once by the police, and | three officers were placed on guard, with | instructions not to allow any one to re-| enter. The Fire Marshal then served a| notice on Charles Finey, the owner, to | secure it with shoring-posts withoutdelay. | The Fire Marshal viewed the debris for | hours after the disaster. He shook his head in an ominous way saying: “This is very rough when you stop to | consider that not only several human be- | ings have been crushed to death, but that scores of people might have met with the same fate. “You see that building over there,”” he said, pointing at 20 Fifth street, the frame and brick two-story next to the one that fell. *“I'be studding 1s only 2x4 on the first two stories and even less on the top stories. The building is not built even to bear the weight of the bricks. "Nowadays we will not allow studding to go up smaller than 4x6. But this build- ing was put up years ago in a most crim- inal fashion.” R SAVED BY THIRST. The Narrow Escape of E. S. Abbott of Ninth Street. E. S. Abbott of 12 Ninth street probably owes his life to a glass of beer, fof just be- fore the fall he was on the temporary bridge that had been constructed over the | undermined sidewalk in front of thedeath- trap. He felt a thirst coming on and sought a'neighboring saloon to discuss a foaming schooner. When about to return to his former po- sition he was delayed on the sidewalk by the voice of a friend calling to him to come and *‘have something,” and as he diplomatically hesitated before the dont- carefido he says he saw two women and a little child on the footbridge, heard the crashing of glass and the breaking of tim- bers, and saw the trio hasten wildly off the platform, so quickly in fact that one woman dropped her cloak and the other let her pocketbook fall. And then the crash and crush came. {2 s The Identified Dead. Those who were killed, as appears from the records at the Morgue, are Ernestine Silverstine of 284 Stevenson street, and on whose body was found a purse with a small sum of money and a bankbook showing a deposit of $900. She leaves a brother, Ja- cab Levy. Jesse May died while being conveyed to the hospital, a laborer, 55 y earsof age, who lived at 1662 Market street. 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All search for bodies was abandoned until to-day, when a thorough investigation will be made and the ques- tion settled asto wh ther any more per- sons perished in the catastrophe. Down smonyg the ruins one more sur- vivor was rescued and extracted from dan- gerous and close quarters. It was a parrot belonging to Joseph Burnes, one of lodgers. It was uninjured but full of fight, and bit the hand of the police officer that carried it from the wreck, till the blood came. e Altering Buildings. Alterations or repairs to frame build- ings within the fire limits, and this buila- ing was within sucn, cannot be made with- out a permit obtained from eitherjthe Fire Wardens or the Board of Supervisors, but this does not entail upon either of these powers any authority to perform any other function than that of seeing that the al- terations or repairs are in excess of those mentioned in the permit. The wardens do not watch the progress of the work. B i Ald for th= Sufferers. W. E. 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