Weekly Phoenix herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory [Ariz.]) 1882-1896, 1883-06-07
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tary authorities near San. Carlos,
direct from Mexico, and report all
the hostiles ready anil anxious to
surrender. These indians hre a part
of the Chiricahuas no left the res
ervation over year ago, last April,
The Junction
MoHAvE. Cal, May 3l-A gang of
workmen on the Atlantic & Pacific
raj road completes laying the track
tn the Needles, on the Colorado
river, to-day. This is practically the
completion of the road, as the is
only about 100 feet of the bridge
work on the river to be finished. AMI
the come ton with the Sc ulhern
Pacific will probably be made i'll
day or ten days.
Brook YIN Bridge ID snster.
A New York dispatch gives the
following particulars of ii fearful
catastrophe which occurred on east
river bridge On the afternoon of
Memorial Day, by which Il Urge
! mum Der of lives were lost. The mar
rowuess of The foOtway for passen-
gers was the cause of the horror.
The mai ,rity of the dead so far are
not known. Strong men and feeble
women, mani cd and infancy, were
wedged together in that rnarful pres
| - .ol, nv4op6 Id FIR
miles and as immogable as Il some
foundation of the bridge itsel The
stnppage lasted nearly an hour,
| during which time several people
f4inled. 10 relieve the f, arful jam
the b.idge officials removed some
of the i'm paling few feet from
the stairway, on the New York side.
Those unfortunate enough to be near
the end fell helte. SHELTER WI on
the jagged gravel road beneath a
| mass of bruised and discolored hu-
man flesh. Scores were t.ampled
upon. To stumble was death. PEG
pie were dragged ont of the heap of
helpless humanity with facce blue
as indigo and the life blood rrickling
out of their nostrils. The roadway
on either sidewalk was ,trewn with
dead or dying
No efforts were made by the
bridge officials TO stop the people
from coming on the bridge. Men
shouted themselves hoarse, "cl' AT
the way" wagons rattling over the
rough stones; men and women cry
ing in all directions made it bed
lam indeed.
A party of men in uniform did
some good service as volunteer
police to check the vulgar and Gu
rious. At the Chambers street hos
pital were thirteen dead bodies, six
known women, and George Smith of
AZ Watt street. The office was filled
with people making inquiries for
missing friends. A writer says: Il
was wa king along the bridge to-
ward the New York entI ance; saw a
man who held n young girl who was
crying bitterly, hy the hand, when l
heard shouting and screaming Su l.
| denly. on Il rise infront of me, l SAW
hats, sticks and hands stretched aloft
| and with ore s.r am the whole dense
mass snrged and swaycd toward the
gates, l suppose the people til .ug..t
lie fridge ives coming down, any
way they fought and screamei end
yelled like demons. Chi drcn anu
women were knocked ,wn and
trampled on, and l was born ire
sistably off shortly before fur At
that hour there were thousands of
people on the bridge most OF them
coming from Brooklyn. The air
was clear and brisk, and people
walked rapidly as the crowd APP
preached short flight of steps.
Those in front pushed back for fear
they would be prccipitatcd over The
STEPS, distance of abo 1t six feet
These people in drawing back from
the steps ma led nucleus for The jam
of thous 'nds behind th"m VIII
pushed almost instantly. People be
gan TO s,out, Stand back and give
us room" Meanwhile the crowd
from New York which wds IT ii:
foot OF he steps. got bl ckcd. In
few minutes, at point just five
steps from The end there was slow
Welding from th.. frightful pressure
from behind and The crowd was
forced to the ed &c of the tips, some
screaming To stop the jan, some
TIN owing bundles away to free their
hands, and others fighting with their
canes. A young girl fell headlong
down the steps and was Immediately
smothered t. death by four feet of
bodies who stumbled ard were
crushed into a writhing, shrieking,
helpless mass.
Cor densed Teiegr ms
1t is found difficult to devise
means 10 prevent brushes and jams
on the Brooklyn bridge.
Portland, Or, will have a ferry
boat that will carry thirty cars, it
being exceeded in siz", IN the Unitetl
States, by only the Solan0, at Port
Costa, Cal.
An engineer and fireman were
killed at STAFFORD Hollow, VT, by
derailed train.
Eleven Chinese passengers on the
shin GlaneIav of Son Francis n