Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-31
Scores Of Struggling Wrstches
Hurled to Their Death From
the Brooklyn Bridge.
Scenes Enacted Which the lmaql-
nation Cannot Depict or the
Pen Portray.
The Ssnseless Blunders Of the
Bridge officials the Gauss
of the Disaster.
The Bloody and Horrible DstaiIs--'
MangIed COrpsss Cartsd
Away Like Logs.

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NEW York, May 3O.-A fearful catas-
trophe occurred on the East River bridge
this afternoon, by which a large number
of people have lost their lives. The
narrowuess of the footway for passengers
is the cause of the horror. The majority
Of the dead are so far unidentified.
At about o'clock long line OF people
on foot in the centre walk OF the struc-
ture, going from and coming to this city,
thickened and swelled and stopped in its
motion just at the stairs leading up from
the concrete roadway to the bridge proper.
Strong men and feeble women, manhood
and infancy were
wedged Together in That Jam
by the fearful pressure Of the crowd which
extended miles, one might say, on either
end of the line. 1t was a remorseless,
fearful, stupid force, that held its victims
as immovable as the stone foundations Of
the bridge itself. The stoppsge lasted
nearly al hour, during which time scores
Of people tainted. To relieve the jam the
bridge 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 the
opening, weak and fainting as they were,
Immediately
Fell Heller SHELTER,
head over heels, down on the jagged, gray
ely road beneath, a mass Of bruised dis
coiored human flesh. Scores were trampled
upon and instantly hurried to their death.
Men were dragged out of that heap of help.
less humanity with faces blue as indigo
and the life blood trickliRg out of their
| nostrils, and children and women, pale,
disheveled and dead. The roadway on
either side of the walk was strewn with
the dead and dying,
A PItiabIe Sight,
and yet il is said no efforts were made by
! the bridge officials to stop the people
| coming on the bridge. The dead and dying
were carried OFF in wagons, carts, ETC., i'm
| proyised on the moment for the service,
! and it was a long time before the
| police arrived and anything like
order was restored or ambulances
appeared. Meanwhile teams were rushing
both ways at full gallop over the road
| ways-why, no one could tell-threatening
| the limbs and lives of those on foot who
were attempting to assist the
Unfortunate Victims
Police shouting themselves hoarse ''clear
| the way" wagons rattling over the rough
stones, men and women crying IN all direc-
| tiOns, made il q bedlam indeed. A party
| of men in uniform did ysoman service at
| the spot as volunteer police to check the
vulgar and curious.
At the Chambers street hospital there are
| living thirteen dead, six unknown men, six
unknown women, and George Smith, Of II
| Watt street The office was filled with peo-
pie making frantic
Inauirers for Missing Friends.
and with hysterical women. Two more OF
the dead, one boy of ten and the other a
Young woman, are lying at the City Hall
| Police Station unidentified. +. Edel, OF
| No. 20 Henry street; Whitening Low, OF
| No. 100 Monroe street; two unknown
women; Mrs. Nogle, OF No. 81 West Twenty
Sixth street; Minnie Smith, of No. 2l5
Houston street; Ellen Regain, OF No. 62
| Horatio street; an unknown boy; an un.
known girl: Matte A. Styles, OF No. 21I
| Grove street, Jersey City, are also dead.
| The following is
A Partial List OF wounded.
Frank Barrett, of 195 Mott street, legs
| and left arm broken. He is a little boy and
| his mother was with him.
Otto Beschoff, OF 619 Sixth street, leg
| broken and injured internally.
Andrew Dougherty, six years cid, OF lo2
| Pearl street.
| Chas. s. Eberwein, OF Jj4 r.. Fltty'tourtn
| street, leg bruised.
BsrberS OttenCer, a young lady, chest
| injured and right eye badly crushed.
Thomas Riordan, thirteen years old, OF
So Montgomery street-inJured about the
head.
| Rarnhard Reichers, a cigarmaker OF No.
\ S25 Delaney street-seyerelv hurt.
Nina Schmidt, of Ne. 25S Hanslon street.
Mrs. Scoring, OF No. 2T2 st. Marks flace
slightly injured in the chest.
Lizzie Oierney, aged eighteen, OF East
Marks avenue, Brooklyn-injured about
| the body.
Lester Regnezverdy.
John Keller, OF West Farms, missing. .,
Ignatro Antepora, OF No. ~ seventh
Annie GoIdstein, of 50 East Broadway,
head badly injured.
Sarah Gsertener, young glrl, OF - ouI-
| folk street, bruised on head, arms and legs.
Altertena Bohnet, OF lS9 DIVISION street,
last seen to fall with
Her Baby I'm Her Arms,
! when the crowd rushed over her. The
baby was found, but the mother Is
| missing.
The scene in the City Hall Police Station
wa, simply terrible. Women screaming
and wringing their hands, men with torn
| clothing and bleeding faces and all around
the wounded, mostly unconscious,
lying beside the pals OF the
dead. Every now and again
| frantic mother would rush in inquirlng
for some one lost, but there were none to
answer her, for the revival OF the lnsensl'
Die occupied all thoughts. Then the jan
Gle of ambulance bells added to the con-
| fusion, as wagon after wagon tore up 10
The door, and surgeons descended. A per.
feet
Stream or Unconscious Forms
was born into the station on stretcners as
ambulances were filled and driven away,
"I was walking along the bridge towards
the New York entrance, said man who
held a young girl, who was crying
| bitterly, by the hand, when l heard
| shouting and screaming suddenly
| in front OF me. Then i saw hats, sticks
and hands stretched aloft, and with one
scream the whole dense mass surgei and
1 swayed toward the gates. 1 suppose the
| people thought the bridge was coming
down. Any way they
Screamed and Yelled
like demons. Children and women were
Knocked down and tramped upon, aud |
was borne irresistably out of the entrance.
Then found this little girl who had lost
her friends and here We are safe, thank
| God"
The little girl, between her sobs, said her
name was Flora Davies, OF No. l"2 Lewis
| street.
Invent on the bridge" said Rev. Blight,
of No. 50 Third street, Brooklyn, ''at about
four O'Clock, and as was approaching the
river span found myself unable 10 move
either backward or forward. Women aud
children commenced screaming: hundreds