The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-02

Men, Women and Childre
Crushed to Death.
! A List Of the Killed an,
Wounded.
MISCELLANEOUS. ETC., ETC
The Brooklyn Bridge Horror.
| New YORK, May 3O.-A fearfu
catastrophe on East river bridge thi'
afternoon by which q large numbe
of people have lost their lives. Th,
narrowness of the footway for pas
sengers is the cause of the horror
The Number of the dead is no
known. At four o'clock the Ions
line of people on foot in the centre
walk of the structure going from and
coming to this city thickened and
swelled and stopped its motion just
at the stairs leading from the con.
crete roadway to the bridge proper
Strong men and feeble women, man.
hood and infancy were wedged to-
gether in that fearful pressure of the
crowd which extended miles, one
might say, on either end OF
the line. It was remofsefu]
fearful stupid force that held its VIC
Tins as immovable az the stone foun-
dation of the bridge itself. The stop.
page lasted nearly an hour, during
which time scores of people tainted.
To release the jam on the bridge the
officials removed some of the iron
paling few feet from the stairway
ON the New York side, when of
course those unfortunate enough to
be near enough, and weak and faint
ing, fell heller skelter, heels over
head, down on the jagged gravelly
road beneath, mass of bruised dis
colored human flesh. Scores were
trampled upon instantly, and to
stumble was death. Men were
dragged out of that heap of helpless
humanity with their face blue as in
digQ, and their life blood trickling
out Of their nostrils. Children and
women, pale, disheveled and dead.
The roadway on either side walk was
strewed with dead and dying, a pit
liable sight, and yet 1t is said no
efforts were made by the bridge Off
cials to stop the people coming on
the bridge. The dead and dying
were carried off in wagons, carts,
etc., improvised on the. moment for
service, and it was long time before
the police arrived and anything like
order was restored or an ambulance
appeared. Meanwhile teams were
rushing both ways at full gallop over
the roadways, why, no one could
tell, threatening the limbs and lives
of those on foot who were attempting
to help the unfortunate victims.
Men shouted themselves hoarse cry
ing "Clear the way" wagons rattling
over the rough stones; men and
women crying in all directions
made it bedlam indeed.
A party of men in
uniform did some service at the spot
as volunteer police to check the
vulgar and curious. At Chambers
street hospital here there are lying
thirteen dead bodies, six unknown
men and six unknown women and
George Smith of 81 Watts street.
The office was filled with people
making frantic inquiries for missing
friends, and with hysterical women.
Two more of the dead, one a boy of
Is years and the other a young wo-
man, are lying at the police station
unidentified. F. E. Dale, No. 70
Henry ST.; Wilhelmina Loewe, No.
1870 Monroe street; two unknown
women; Mrs. G. Nagle. No. 81 West
Goth street; Minnie Smith, No. 2l5
Houston street; Ellen Regan, 62
Horatio street; an unknown boy and
girl, and Matte Styles, 25l Grove
Street, Jersey City, are among those
supposed to be killed. :.
The following is partial list of
the wounded: Frank Barrett. 19 Mote
street. legs and left arm brokn1;
his little boy and his mother was with
him: Otto Bischoff, 6l9 East Sixth
street, leg broken and body injured
Andrew Daugherty, six
wears old, No. 157 Pearl street, Chas.
Eberwein, 324 East 54th street, leg
broken: L. w. Eberett, mulatto, 7
Manhasset Place, Brooklyn, Barbary
Attineer. a young lady, chest injured
and right eve badly crushed, 443
East 6tR street; Thomas Reerdon, 13
years old, 30 Montgomery street, in,
iured about the head; Bernard
Reichers, cigar maker, 1886 Delaney
street, severely injured; Nina
Schmidt, 25S Houston street, Mrs.
Scoring, 27S st. Marks place, slightly
injured in the chest; Lizzie Fenna,
aged Is, St. Marks Avenue, Brook
lyn. injured about the body;
Lester Reque, severely injured;
John Keller, West Farms, missing;
ignacco Anteparia, 2S2 Seventh ave-
nue.. bruised; Annie Goldstein, So
East Broadway, head badly inj dred;
Sarah Garertener, young glrl, -
Suffolk street, bruised head, arms
and legs; Albertina Bohnet, l3o Di-
vision street, last seen to fall with
her baby in her arms when the
crowd rushed over; her baby was
found. but the mother is missing.
The scene at the City Hall station
was simply terrible; women scream
ing and wringing their hands, men
with torn clothing and bleeding
faces, and with all forms OF WOUNDS.
Most of the unconscious were lying
beside the walls. Every now and
then frantic mother would rush in
inouiring for lost ones. There was
NO one to answer for the revival OF
the insensible, which occupied all
thoughts. The jingle of ambulance
bells added to the confusion as wagon
after wagon tore up to the door, and
the surgeons discovered a perfect
stream Of unconscious forms borne to
the station on stretchers as the am
balances were filled and driven
away. A.. .u;a.
toward the New York entrance,
said man who held a young girl
who was crying bitterly by the hand,
when I heard shouting and scream
ing suddenly arise in front OF me. l
then saw hats, sticks and bands
aloft and with one scream
the whole dense mass surged and
swayed towards the gates. l sup
pose tho people thought the
Sr;Iro was coming down;