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ANOTHER BODY LIES UNDER THE WRECK, E. Jewitt Saw a Dead Man Pinioned Beneath the Debris. PATRICK M'KEOWN DEAD The Proprietor of the 111-Fated Brighton House Suc cumbs. SOME ONE IS SADLY TO BLAME- All Work on the Ruins Suspended for Fear That the Adjoining Build ing Will Share the Same Fate. Under a mass of debris and heavy tim- j bers of the wrecked lodging-house on [ Mint avenue and Fifth street lies the body I of an unfortunate and unknown laborer, j buch is the statement of E. Jewitt, a laborer at 148 Fifth street, who says that he saw the body at the lime that he as- ! sisted in removing poor Jesse May from the basement a few minutes after the Brighton lodging-house toppled over into Mint avenue on Monday afternoon. From midnight Monday until the pres ent time nothing has been done toward Jewitt Led the Searchers to the Place Where He Saw the Dead Man's lioiy Before the Side Wall Settled. searching in the ruins for the body o: bodies, should there happen to be mon than one. In this, as in many matter: where public officials are concerned, th< work is progressing very slowly, and yes terday was consumed in an effort to faster the blame and responsibility for the affan upon some one. Meanwhile thousands o people stood around the ruins and won dered why something had not been an. was not being done besides ollicially in vestigating. They wondered why no efforts were be ing made toward recovering the body o the Door workingman that was lvin§ crushed under heavy timbers in the debris and ooze of the basement. Chief Engineer Sullivan, Assistant Dougherty and the other officials of th« Fire Department gave their explanation! as to why the work haa been stopped, say insrthat * the foundation of the adjoining building was not firm enough to warrant the removal of the wreckage. The Chief ordered the owner of the building in ques tion to brace up the walls and foundation to prevent it from toppling over into tin ruins of the lodging-house. In the afternoon E. Jewitt took District Engineer Dougherty and several other- to a spot in the basement and showed them when; he had seen the body of a dead man soon after the crash took place. He says that since the side wall had settled the body is now jammed against the street embankment. Coroner Hawkins made an inspection of the premises in or.li r to be informed as to the situation when holding the inquests on the bodies at the Morgue. The question of responsibility caused much discussion, each party directly or indirectly interested claiming that he is not to blame. It is likely that some one will be called to task for the accident. ■ From all accounts neither ti>e architect nor the sub-ion tractor took the trouble to secure a permit from the proper authorities for the alterations of the building, and the Fire Wardens did not take the trouble to see if the work was being done under a permit or not. Late last evening PatricK McKeown, one of the victims of the accident, died in the Receiving Hospital, after suffering great agony for over thirty hours. He was the proprietor of the Brig ton House. ANOTHER VICTIM DEAD Patrick McKoown Dies From Being Crushed Between Two Large Timbers. Patrick McKeown, who, with his wife, conducted the Brighton House, died of his injuries last evening in the Receiving Hospital. He was in one of the middle rooms on the second story when the house went down. A.S the structure toppled over McKeown was caught between two large beams, which pres.-ed upon him so Hard that he couid hardly breathe, it was ne y to cut the timbers to remove the sufferer. He was sent at once to the Ke ceiving Hospital, where the doctors said that the man's injuries, which were inter nal, wrre of such a character that his re covery would be doubtful. He lingered in great agony until last night, when, at 9:55 o'clock, he died. The last sacraments of the church were j performed shortly before by Rev. Father Jacquet of St. Ignatius College. The man died surrounded by his wife, relatives and friend-. He was conscious aim the last. HisriDßhad been crushed and had pierced his lungs. The body was j taker, to the Morgue. H >"..c\ her 1, one of the lodgers in ;he same house, is still in the hospital. His rii'ht ■ lied. John Lyons, Simeon Deane and Richard Bucking were taken to their homes Mon day evening, and Mrs. Joseph Byrne wont to a friend's house yesterday. Miss S. A. j Byrne was taken to St. Mary's Hospital* A. Leuenberger to the French Hospital i and Dennis (irifHn to the City and County Hospital. Griffin is seriously injured. Ip wounds and interna'. in- I juries his right thigh was smashed and i Ins kidnov.t were iniiirpri. STOPPED THE WORK I Chief Suliivan Says That the Ad joining Building Must Be Strengthened. The work of charing away the debris : was Btopped at midnight Monday by order ;of Chief Sullivan, who decided that i; ! would not be safe to proceed further in ; that line. When the work was stopped i the top story had been removed and sev- I eral holes cut in the second floor, which j now rests in The basement. This was to I ena!;le the firemen to look for any bodies j ttiat might be between the two floors, but c were found. The Chief's next order was to dirpct J. T. Kelly and Mr>. Charles K. Pinney, the j owners of the four-story frame bouse a<i joining to brace up the east trail and ; "'jack up" under tne east part of the building with a long temporary girder in ; order to allow a strengthening oi the ; ; foundation wall. The Chief says that the brick foundation is still new and the mor j tar fresh. The s-oft nature of the sand and THE SAX FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUKE 24, 1896. the moist condition of the ground is likely to let the building down on the east side, which would result in a crash similar to that of Monday. He cla ins that the re mainder of the wrecked building is pre venting the Kelly building from toppling over, acting as a brace. Mr. Keliy set to work to comply with the Chief- order, but he does so much against his will. He states that his building is on a linn foundation and that the side walls rest on a seven-foot brick wall, with a two-foot footing. He claims further that the collapsed building is no support whatever to his, but, on the contrary, that the pressure caused by the weight is pressing against the bottom of his building and the brick wall of Use foundation. Ik asserts that there is no danger, as his house stands as plumb as the day it was put up eighteen years ago. It will take at least another twenty-four hours to put in the required bracing against the east wall. Until that is ac complished no more rubbish, broken timbers and debris can be removed from the cellar of the ill-fated building. BURIED IN THE CELLAR. E. Jewitt Showed Where the Body of a Dead Man Is Lying. "There is one more man buried in that pile," said E. Jewitt of 148 Fifth street to District Kngineer Dougherty and Coroner Hawkins yesterday afternoon, and he led the officials to the spot where he said he saw the body a few minutes after the building went down. The men went down the rough ladder into the basement, picked their way among broken timbers and piles of brick until they reached a spot on the east side, midway of the structure. "It ;s in there between the side wall and tbe street embankment." said Jewitt. "1 was at work cleaning brick under the rcr.r of the building, when I heard the tracking of timbers, and instantly 1 r> a [zed what \va< happening. I called to the men to run, and I sprang to the west wall, which did not come down, and saved myself. Alter great difficulty I got out on the street without any injury, but badly shaken up. Then I thought of Jesse May, with whom I had been working, and I started oack, followed by a number of lire m a. We picked our way to where I last saw May and I found him lying there, bleeding. I caught hold of him, but he was fast under some timbers. I got hold of a man's leg and said, 'Jess, is that your lee?' He said : 'No; it must be the man who fell on me. For God's sake, help me out.' '•Some one got a light and we took May out, but before I went I saw the man he spoke about. The man had evidently tried to crawl along the street embank ment when a big timber caught him across the middle of the back and he was 'crushed to the ground, his lem lying on May's body. I saw the man plainly. He was" lying* face down and bis head was covered with' blood. I noticed that lie w.as bald on the top of his head. lam sure the man was dead. The sidewalk at that time was several feet above the base i meat Holt, but it has settled since, antl in j doing >o it come down inside of where the nirtn was lying. We carried May out, and by that tune all my strength was spent, so I went b< rue to tell my wife tha. I was not seriously hurt. "To-day I went down to the Morgue to see is the man's body "as there, but it was not, so it must be here." Dougherty said that there was plenty of room for a man's body in the position de scribed by Jewitt, but that it wouid not be possible to reacu the .lead man until after the debris and timbers are all out. The place indicated by Jewitt is a ma : broken timbers, crushed wall, bricl; ehim i ney and debris. This is the second time that Jewitt has | had a narrow escape from .death. Four Lodgers of the Brighton Looking Over the Recovered Property for Lost Articles. years ap-o, while cleaning the ferry-boat I Piedmont, he fell overboard and was al- ' most drowiieU. WHO WAS TO BLAME? Officials Trying: to Fasten the Responsibility on the Culprit. The Coroner and the officials of the Fire ! Department made a long investigation I yesterday to determine who was respon i i sible for the accident and the attending i fatalities. It is needless to say that each one interested tried to throw the blame ; ! upon some one else. It will no doubt fall i : upon cither Sibley, Gleason or Davis, the ; i sub-contractors, or perhaps upon all three. Coroner Hawkins interviewed several of ! \ the workmen. One was Mike Howard, a i ' laborer, who lives on Twenty-sixth street, ; ! near San Jose avenue. He said that early Monday morning he noticed that the large . i iore-and-aft timber under the floor was on ,' a slant. The jackaerews and cribs were i i also out of place; that they were not j ! squared up as they should be. Howard : called the attention of Foreman Davis to it, t I but the latter said that they were all i right, and that the timber was just a little i warped. The jackserews in particular j were "off," and he did not think they • | were safe, but he could not do anything. Here District Engineer Dougherty inter . posed the statement that Fire Warden i | McCluskey had made an inspection of the building early in the morning and found everything all right. William Lenahan, a laborer employed in building the foundation, declared that i he saw nothing out of tue way with the , underpinning. E. D. Davis, Pibley's colored foreman, stated that at 3 :30 p. m. he was in the base ment and saw that everything was all t n k rbt - An inspection of the wrecked premises [ by District Engineer Shaughnessy, Fire ' I Marshal Towe and Mr. Pierson, a well- I j known architect, will probably do much ; j toward fixing the rebponsibility where it > ! belongs. They spent considerable time yesterday afternoon in the basement and found 1 plenty of evidence of either criminal care -1 lessness or ignorance. Even with the ■ timbers, cribs and jackscrews twisted and i displaced by the collapse very grave evi dence of lax methods were discovered. In the rirst place, those excavating the sand had next to undermined cribs and sup ' porting blocks. The street enbanknient, after being planked up, had been braced by large pieces of timber placed against the cribs, the intermediate Dlocksand the fore and alt timber under tne Moor. The street bank naturally settled and the buig ing sand pressed against tiie braces, which in turn pressed in the cribs and other teiu j porary supports. With the immense weight of the build ing pressing downward, the lateral pres sure from the street embankment oper ating upon the cribs, the cribs undermined by the excavators, it Wuuld have been sur prising to Mr. Shaughnessy if tne building j had been able to stand. Considerable has been said about the water in the basement. Several claim that the basement is really a quicksand and that the foundations under the cribs were washed out by the water that flows I through the sand. Coroner Hawkins said that when the in- I quests are held on the bodies he will have I all of the evidence he can pet, and if there I is sufficient to warrant a criminal prosecu > tion he will cause the arrest of the guilty parties. THEY HAD NO PERMIT. Repairs to the Fifth-Street Build- ing Apparently Without Legal Authority. Seven hours before the building on Fifth I street came crashing down, burying be- Death its fatal weight nearly a score of inmates and passers-by, John McCluskey, relief engineer and lire warden, went be neath the building, and, as he states, ex amined the work carefully. He says he found it resting upon dibs, not needles as has Lecn stated. "I would have been willing to sl-ep there," .said John Mc- Cluskey. "What the contractors may have done after I left of course I don't know. You never can tell what these contractors are going to do. Of course, I couldn't anchor there. I had other duties to attend to." So far McCloakey's statement seems to be satisfactory, bill there is one circum stance upon which neither McCluskey nor any one else connected with the Fire De partment seemed to be able to throw any particular light, upon. That is, by whose permission the building was beinir re* i aired at all. It is within the Cre limits, anJ the ordinance seems clear enough upon the que-tion of permits necessary to be obtained and lue manner of obtaining them for repairs within the City limits. Yet among those who should be be.it posted 'the matter seems to be very Lazy. Inquiry of out- of the Fire Wardens who was iUperint<'!iiJi!ij_' the w->rk of clearing away the debris elicited the information that the work of reconstructing the build ing was being regularly prosecuted under a permit issued by the City Superintend ent of streets. At the headquarters of that official a permit relating to the prem- ] ises was readily found, but it failed en- i tireiy in serving as a warrant for the work j which was being done. The authority of the Street Department ends with the street line. The permits which they issue in re lation to new buildings are uniform niid i m:iy be obtained by any onr upon deposit ing $20 a*< a guarantee of good faith. These permits simply ullow the grantes to ob struct one-third of the street with build- | ins materials for a limited time. Such a j permit>was on June 10 jrrnn'ed to Adam Miller for the Fifth-street building. "Per mits for the reconstruction of buildiiigs within the fire l'mits may be found at the office of the Fire I'ej.artmcnt." At the office of the Fire Commissioners, Fire Marshal and Fire Wardens they either bad no record of the permit to 1 Miller or refused to show it. Tii^ clerk ••aid the place to pet the information was from the clerk of the Board of Supervisors. Here the search practically ended. C'.erk .(. I». Russell said that all applications for permits to repair buildings within the fire limits should come before the *'ire Com mittee of the Board of Supervisors. He had records of all permits granted, and a search for six montds back failed to show that any permit had been granted for the building which has collapsed. "That set tles it," said the clerk; "they have got no permit." McCluskey, when asked about the per mit, was very much inclined to evade the issue. "It is my duty as Fire Warden/ he said, "to examine all the buildings south of Market and east of Seventh. I examined the Fifth-street building all right Monday morning and it was ad safe and sound. Of course 1 don't know what may have happened after that" "Did you demand to see the permit under which the work was being done?" McCiuskey was asked. "Well," he replied, "they had a permit from the Street Superintendent. They had to have that before they could tear up the sidewalk." "Did you see this permit? " he was asked. McCiuskey admitted he hadn't seen the permit, but it was the Street Superin tendent's duty to see that no sidewalks were torn up without a permit, and he supposed the Street Superintendent had done his duty. Then John McCluskey made a most re markable statement. He said it was not the custom of Fire Wardens to demand permits for the mere replacing of a foun dation, even if it is within the fire limits. "If the foundation is insecure, " he said, we serve a notice upon them to repair it. "If they repair it without notice, we are glad of it and say nothing about permits." The Fire Warden seemed to be laboring under considerable doubt as to just when a permit was necessary. He finally ad mitted that if the whole front of a building was to be torn off a permit would be es sential, and in such a case he thought the Fire Warden's duty was to see that the owner or the contractor had one. "If you saw such work in course of con struction," he was asked, "would you de mand to see the permit? " "Well, if there was a permit," he said, "we would honor it. We would see it in the Dapers and ttien we would be noti fied." So McCluskey must have known that there was no permit issued for the re pairing of the building. In the General Orders of the Board of Supervisors the matter seems to have beeu lucidly stated, and the befogged condition of the official minds on the subject seems rather uncalled for. The following is the section: Sec. 40. No wooden building within the fire limits shall be altered, changed or re paired without permission in writing, signed by a majority of the Fire Wardens, approved by a committee on Fire Department and the Mayor, wnich permit shall fully express the alterations, changes or repairs allowed, a copy of which shall be tiled by the grantee, within two days, in the office of* the Chief Engineer and Fire Marshal; but no permit shall be given to increase the «ize of said building, ex cept as provided for iv this order. Another section provides that it shall be the duty of the Fire Wardens to see thut the provisions of this order are car ried out, and in case of violations they are instructed to make complaint to a" Po lice Judge. A NARROW ESCAPE. S. L, Shields of Sacramento Came Near Being One of the Victims. A dispatch to The Call from Sacra mento states that S. L. Shields of that city narrowly escaped being included in the j list of wounded or dead of the building i collapse in San Francisco Monday, having j left the building but a few minutes before I the awful catastrophe occurred, after an interview with Sarah Byrne, one of the unfortunate victims. In speaking of the matter Mr. Shields said: I had engaged toe services of Miss Byrne for iuv laundry here In Sacramento, aud "just be fore leaving the City I called at the house to as certain it she would roiiie up on the following I day. As I passed into the building I noticed that I the floor SHnk under my weight, and thought at the time that the building was unfitted toi I occupancy. The feeling increased, for wnile I in conversation with Miss Byrne I could hear the tlmben in the wall creaking and groaning. I called the matter to the attention of Miss ]'. yrrie and her relatives, saying: "Do you hear those sounds? This building la unsafe.' 1 in answer llw^. replied that they had also : b 'ii Hlarined. but that the contractor had told the lundlady that everything was per j fee tly safe. ,\- I : s,M -d out of the building I noticed the sinking an'! giving of the floor, and when I got out on the sidewalk, my curiosity I being nronsed I looked under the building oh tii south *id<- und found that the stringers of I the foundation did not rest upon the shoring by over two inches and seemed to be very in secure, resting as they did ou a bed of sand that seemed obe slowly shifting. Shortly after 1 left the vicinity the building col lapsed. AROUND THE RUINS. But Little Property of Value Left After Passing Through the Wrec'<. The wrecked lodging-house looked yes terday as though it had been struck by a tornado. Broken timbers, smashed furni ture, scraps of clothing and bric-a-brac were scattered over the adjacent streets. The firemen gathered up all of the hitter NEW TO-DAY. | I Mil IN o I p""™™"™! I SPRING I 1 *^V 35 [| SUMMER P^^^^^^l | oUIIo, jl . \\ In the latest shades, L-^^Bv^^^^CTE^aiaHHEEgJ patterns and styles. A i£ iJ IN PRICE « IMMMnM -^.i II ■■■ $10, $12. 50, $13.50, $15.00 * _^_ c> til T*f^ A *T^ ILLMMkILJ-U-L — lU LTTHir~lirirniliTTTll 1 1 Hi II III— SUITS AT 11111111 '■""'■■HBHaSffl REGULAR PRICES ■ nuUU LAn rnlOcb DURING OUR GREAT Alteration Sale! "While we are making oar store bigger— cutting through to Ellis street (to accommodate our customers and the in- creased trade) we are -offering big bargains — ALTERED prices for the ALTERATION" Sale. Other people talk about bargains— just watch our ALTERED prices and compare! Remember, too. fashionably cut and tailored — NO TRASH! ■" H. BDMMERFIELD & CO., 922-930 Market Street. ; UNDER THE BALDWIN HOTEL. that was of any value and piled them on the sidewalk beside the Mint. During the day those who had lived in the Brighton inspected the pile to see if they could re cognize anything that belonged to them. Several took away small articles, but a larg» amount was left, evidently being re- ; garded as not worthy of further trouble. Upon receiving Chief Sullivan's order to clear the wood and rubbish from the ' street the owners of the Brighton and the j contractors at once set a lot of men and teams to work. The teams were kept on the move all day, and by night consider able of the stuff was carted away. A large force of police were kept on the ground, their duty being to protect the property from the thieves who riack to su.cn places \ and to keep the larce crowd of curious and sympathetic away from the workmen. CHIEF SULLIVAN'S VIEWS. He Says the Alteration Was Not Such as Called for a Permit. Chief Sullivan stated last evening that no permit had bean issued for the work being done to the building and that none was needed. "Putting in a foundation," he said, "is ; not such an alteration or repair as to re quire a permit. It is only making the structure more safe, and no one can pre vent them from doing that. liaising or lowering the building would require a permit, and in that case it would be the duty of the Fire Wardens to see that they had it. The only thing they did in this case that would call for a permit was dig- j ging under the sidewalk. To do that they ' should have a permit from the Street De- j partment. If they had that they are all rieht." Reverting to the catastrophe the Chief j said: "It is hard to say where tne blame lies, but it wa3 a cheap contract and it was i evidently tho resuli of a 'penny-wise-ar.d pound-foolish' policy. I was reliably in formed to-day that Gleason came very near having a similar accident on a larger ; scale some time ago. He was raising the j Langdon, the big five-story hotel on the | corner of Mason and Ellis streets, when , it commenced to shift slowly. Architect i Frank Shea chanced to come along and he directed his energies toward saving the building until far into the night, with rinal success. Had the Langdon collapsed as did tliis building the loss of life would I have been frightful. "What this City needs is a bureau of inspection, such as the large Eastern cities have. These bureaus are composed of men skilled in architecture nnd construc tion. Tho results are far more satisfac tory than can be looked for from men who have been trained only to put out fires." The D^ad Victims. The bodies of Mrs. Ernestine Silverst° ; n and Jesse May, the two victims of trie Fifth-street disaster whose injuries re sulted fatally, were yesterday conveyed from tbf> Morgue to an undertaking estab lishment at 122 Eddy street, where ar rangements will be made for their funeral. 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The establishment of this enter prise is of great importanc? to the people of Monterey, as it will furnish work during the packing season to quite a number of unemployed people. Heat Kill* a Fetalutna Jtanrh Hand. PETALUMA, Cal., June 23.— Coroner ! i'oung will hold an inquest on the re mains of an Italian, Tranquil Gubbi by name, who had resided here with his family. He was aick and out of work, but found employment on tne Soldate ranch four days ago. The heat overcame him while in the field Monday and he was bro tight to hia home, where he was at- ''■ tended by his wife, but died before the doctor arrived. There beng some rumors afloat that he was poisoned the funeral was delayed and an autopsy will be held. NEW _ TO-DAT. Steadies the Nerves of worn-out women and over- worked men. It is a wonderful tonic and a non-intoxicating stimulant, from which there is no depression or reaction. 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Agent. «_«, NOTICE TO _SU!POWNEB& FROM AND AFTER JULY 1, 1896, THE Spring Valley Water Works proposes to undertake the delivery of water at such wharves in this city as are supplied with its hydrants. Written applications for water are to be made at the water office, which the Harbor Commissioners propose to er»"ct on tli^ seawall, between Howard and Mission streets. Ships lying in the stream will be informed at the above office, a', the time of making such applications, . from what hydrants their water-boats will be supplied. Reasonable notice must be given in all cases, and applications will be filled at the earliest convenience, between tne hours of 7 a. m. an.l 0 p. m. daily, Sundays and holidays excepted, unless specially contracted otherwise By order of the Board of Directors. I'ELHAM W. AMES. Secretary. UP-TO-DATE BICYCLES. Crawford ■:■ "Unsurpassed," $40, $50, $00, $75. Phcenix "Stands the Racket" SIOO. The guarantee of the Crawford • same as thai given with $100 wheels. EDWIN MOHRIG, Agent, 1510 Market St., San Francisco. Cal. Redemption of Dopont-St. Bonds. fTIREASrUKR'S OFFICE. CITY AND COUNTY 1 of San Francisco, June 17, 1896. Holders of Dupont -street bonds issued under an act of ;he state Legislature entitled, "An aft to authorize the widening of Dupout street. in the City of San Francisco," adopted March 23, 1876. are hereby notified that the uiulersijrned win re- ceive sealed proposals for surrender of said bonds, as provided by section 18 of said act, at his office. in the New City Hall, San Francisco,- until Vi o'clock noon of TUESDAY, June 30, Ife9*>. The amount to be applied to the redemption of said bonds is about three hundred and seventy-rive thousand dollars ($375,000). Bidders will state at what rate they will surrender their bonds for payment, less coupons due. No proposals above I par will be considered. Bids to be indorsed. "Proposals for Surrender of 1 Dupont-strvet Bonds." A. C. 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