The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-31
DOWN TO THEIR DEATH.
A DAY OF HORROR AND SORROW
Ia the Welded CltIr-rhs East Blysr BrldE.
Proves Death Trap, aad Number ofP.rons
Go DOVE 10 b. smothsrsd Od.oi Exist.
anes-A Horrible Death Roll.

NKw YORK, May SO.-A fearful catas
trophe occurred on East River Bridge thi
afternoon, by which a large number o
people have lost their lives. The narrow
ness Of the footway for passengers is th'
cause OF the horror. The majority OF th'
dead are so far unidentified. At about .
o'clock long line Of people on foot in th'
centre walk Of the structure, going from
and coming to tAiscity, thickened; ;swelleC
and stopped in its motion Just at the stair
leading up from the concrete roadway t.
the bridge proper. Strong men and feeble
women, manhood and infancy, were
wedged together in that jam by the fearfu
pressure Of the crowd which extended fol
miles, one might say, on either end Of The
line. 1t was remorseless, fearful, stupid
ferce that held It's victims as immovable al
the stone foundations Of the bridge.
THE CAUSE. s"
The stoppage lasted nearly an hour, dur
ing which time scores OF people tainted
To relieve the jam the bridge officials re-
moved some Of the iron palings a few feet
from the stairway on the New York side,
when, OF course, those unfortunate enough
to be near the opening, weak and fainting
to the death as they were, Immediately
fell heller skelter, head over head,
down on the jagged, gravelly road beneath,
mass OF bruised discolored human flesh.
Scores were tranpled upon instantly and
men were dragged OUT OF that heap Of help.
less humanity with faces blue as indigo and
the life blood trickling out oil their nostrils,
AID children and women pale, disheyeled
and dead. ~
PITIABLE SIGHT. ""
The roadway on either side Of the walk
was strewn with the dead and dying, and
was pitiable sight, and yet, it is said, no
efforts were made by the bridge officials to
stop the PEOPLE from coming on the bridge.
The dead and dying were carried off in
wagons, carts, &C., 'improvised on the
moment for service, and 1t was a long time
before the police arrived and anything like
order II stored, or an ambulance appeared.
Meanwhile teams were rushing both ways
at full gallop over the roadwaye, why, no
one could tell, threatening the limbs aud
lives OF those on foot who were attempting
to assist the unfortunate victims.
A DRAMATIC SCENE.
The police were shouting themselves
hoaBe, "clear the way; but the wagons
rattling over the rough stones, the men
and women crying in all directions made
it a bedlam indeed. A party Of men not in
uniform did yeoman service at the spot as
volunteer police to cheek the vulgarand
curious. At Chambers Street Hospital
there are lying thirteen dead,
six unknown men and SIX un.
known women and George Smith, OF ~
Watt street. The. office was filed with
people making frantic inquiries for missing
friends and with hysterical women. Two
more Of the dead, one q boy ot ten and the
other young woman, are lying at the, City
Hall Police Station unidentified. =
THE DEAD AMI WOUNDED,
The following is a list of the dead: ].
Edel, No. FOL Henry street; WilkelniDg
Low, No. 1870 Mott street; two unknown
women; Mrs. Naglc, No. 80 West Twenty.
sixth street; Minnie Smith, 2l5 Houston
street; Ellen Regan, No. 62 Horatio street !;
unknown boy; unknown girl; Matte A.
Styles, 257 Grove street, Jersey city. The
following is partial list Of the wounded: :
Frank Barret, 1876 Mott street, legs and left
arm broken; he is little boy and
his mother was with him; Otto
BeschoG, No. 6l9 East Sixth street,
leg broken and body injured internally !
Andrew Daugherty, six years old, No. l52
Pearl street, Charles Eberwein, mo. 334
East 54th street, leg bruised; Il H. Eberet,
mulatto, Manhatton Place, Brooklyn; Bar.
bara Otlinger, young lady, chest injured
and right eye badly crushed, No. 443 East
9Th street; Thos Roordan, thirteen years
old, SO Montgomery street, injured about
head; Bernhard Reichers, cigarmaker, 1856
Dtlancey street, severely; Nina Schmidt,
No. 25S Houston street, Mrs. Scoring, No.
2ss st. Marks Place, alightly injured about
the chest; Lizzie Qterney, aged IS, East,
St. Marks avenue, Brooklyn, injured
about the body; Lester Reqiee9ndy,
injured; John Keller, West Farms,
missing; Ignatio Antepara, No. 2S2
Seventh avenue, bruised; Annie Goldstein,
SO East Broadway, head badly injured;
Sarah Goertener, young girl, No. 81 Sui.
folk street, bruised on the head, arms and
legs. Atertena Bohnet, lS9 Division, street,
was last seen to fall with her babyin her
arms, when the crowd rushed over her.
The baby was found, butthe mother is
missing. 80
APlTiFuL SCENE.
The scenein the City Hall Police Station
was simply terrible; as women were
screaming aud wringilg their hands, men
with torn clothing and bleeding faces and
all round the wounded, mostly IN.
conscious. Every now and again a
frantic mother would rush in iaquiring
for some one lost, but there were none
to answer her, for the. removal Of
the insensible occupied all thoughts.
Then the janglel Of the ambulance
added to the confusion. AS wagon after
wagon tore up to the door and sur.
geons descended, perfect stream Of hn..