Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-31
Neither can Pass the Other and Neither
can Give Way.
PRESSURE FROM BEHIND.
Causes a Crush and Panic that Kills
Many People.
SCORES DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED.
A Scene OF Frightful Agony and Despair
Graphically Described.
LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED
Some Stories OF Hair Breadth Escapes
from Terrible Death.

Some St0TleS OF Ha{T-DreaGtn GScapeS
from Terrible Death.
, New York, Nay 30.-A fearful catas-
trophe occurred on East River bridge
this afternoon, by which large
number OF people lost their lives. The
narrowness of the foot-way for passengers
is the cause Of the horror. The majority
of the dead ara so far unidentified. At
about o'clock a long line of people on
foot in the center walk of the structure
going from and coming to this city, thick
ened, swelled and stopped in its motion
Just at the stairs leading up from the con-
crete roadway to the bridge proper. Strong
men and feeble women, manhood and in
fancy 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 immovable as
the stone foundation of the bridge itself.
The stoppago lasted nearly an hour, dur
ing which time scores of people tainted.
To relieve the jam, the bridge officers re-
moved 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 faintlng
at the death, as they were, Immediately
fell heller shelter, heels over head down on
the Jagged, gravelly road beneath, mass
of bruised, djscolored human flesh. Scores
were trampled upon instantly and to STUN
BILE was Geath. Hen were dragged out of
that heap Of helpless humanity, their faces
as blae as indigo, and life blood tricll!ing
cut of their nostrils. Children and women
were pale, disheYa'ed and dead. The road-
way on either side of tbs walk was
strewn with dead aud dying-a pitiable
sight and yet. Is is said, no efforts were
made by the bridge officials to stop people
coming on the bridge. The dead and d.
ing were carried of in wagons, carts, ETC.,
improviscd for the service, and it was a
long time before the police arrived and
anything like order was restored or an
ambulance appeared.
Meanwhile, teams were rushing both
ways at full gellop over the roadways,
which No one could tell, threatening the
limbs and lives Of those on foot who were
attempting to assist the unfortunate VIC
Tins, the police shouting themselves hoarse
''clear the way wagons rafting over the
rough stones, men and women crying in
all directions, made it a bedlam in
deed. A party of men in uniform did
yeoman service at the spot as volunteer
police to check the vulgar and curious.
AT CHAMBERS STREET HOSPITAL
here, there are lying thirteen dead, six
unknown mon and six unknown women
and George Smith, of No. AZ Watts street
The Office was filed with people making
frantic inquiries for missing friends. and
with hysterical women. Two more of the
dead, one boy OF fifteen and the other a
young woman, are lying at city hall police
station unidentified. f. E. Dale, No. 20
Henry street, Wilhelmina Loew, 100 Mon
roe street, two unknown women, Mrs. G.
Vogle, No. % West Twenty sixth street,
Minnie Smith, 215 Houston street, Ellen
Regain, No, GO Horatio street, an unknown
boy, an unknown girl, Matte A. Style, 257
Grove street, Jersey City. The following
isa
PARTIAL, LIST OF WOTTEDFO
Frank Barrett, 10 Mott street, legs aud
arm broken. He is a little boy and his
mother was with him.
Otto BischofT, 619 East Sixth street, leg
broken and injured internally.
Andrew Dougherty six years old, No. Is:
Pearl street.
Charles Eberwin. 314 East Fifth street
leg crushed.
L. NJ. Eberet, mulatto, Manhasse
place, Brooklyn.
Barbara Ottinger, young lady, ches
injured and right eye badly crushed. 4t5
East Sixth street.
Thomas Rerdon, thirteen years old, 81
Montgomery street, injured about the
head.
Bernhard Reichers, cigar maker, 33
Delaney street, severely.
Nina Schmidt, 258 Hueston street.
Mrs. S. E. Ring, 273 st. Marks place
slightly injured in chest.
Lizzie Tierney. aged IS, st Marks ave
nue., Brooklyn, injured about the body.
Lester RESCUE, severely injured.
John Keller, West Farms, missing.
Ignatio Interrara, 2S2 Seventh avenue
bruised.
Aunie G Idstein, 50 z lst Broad way, hea
badly injured.