The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08

fed. At about four o'clock the long line of
people on foot in the center walk of the
structure going from and coming to this city
thickened, swelled and stopped in its mo-
ton just at the stairs leading from the
concrete roadway to the bridge proper.
Strong men and feeble women, manhood
and infancy, were wedged together in that
fearful pressure of the crowd, which ex-
tended miles, one might say, on either end
of the line. 1t was remorseless, fearful,
stupid force that held its victims as imnoy-
able as the stone foundations of the bridge
itself. The stoppage lasted nearly an hour,
during which time scores of people tainted.
To relieve the jain, the bridge Off
Gals 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 by, and weak,
fainting, at the death, as they were, I'M
mediately fell helter-skelter, heels over
head, down on the jagged, gravelly road be-
meath mass of bruised, discolored human
flesh. Scores were trampled upon instantly,
and to stumble was death. Men were
dragged out Of that heap of helpless hui
mainly with faces blue as indigo and the
life blood trickling out of their nostrils
children and women, pale, disheveled and
dead
The roadway on either side Of the walk
was strewed with the dead and dying, pitt
able sight, and yet it is said no efforts were
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pie 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: :" Clear the
Wayp The wagons ratified over the rough
stones and the men and women crying in
all directions made it a Bedlam indeed. A
party of men in uniform did some service
at the spot as volunteer police to check the
vulgar and curious.
Following is a list of the dead and injured
obtained shortly before midnight from the
hospitals and stations:
DEAD.
]. E. Busha Razzerano forty-fve years, No
BOZ Plymouth street, Brooklyn; William II
Craft, aged sixty, Grand street, New York,
leaves a wife and four children: Maud Craw'
ford, aged thirty-tve, OF West Thirty-sevcnth
twenty-five, Of No. 100 Washington avenue;
Eliza Karten, aged sixtysix, Jersey City; All
La Ling, aged sixty, Brooklyn; James Bnen
aged fifty-tive, No. 81 Laight street, leaves
wife and four children; Ellen RiordaA. aged
| sixty, No. 80 Montgomery street; George
| Smith, aged fOrty-four, of No. ~ Waite street
| Drs. Emma Sherwood. aged thirty i've, Fridge
| port, Conn; Margaret Sullivan, aged thirteen
| OF No. ll5 Monroe street; unknown boy, aged
| fourteen.
Following is a partial list of the
wounded:
Frank Barrett, No. 10 Mott street, legs and
| left arm broken His little boy and his mother
were with him. Otto Bischotf, No. 6l9 East
Sixth street; leg broken and badly injured in
| ternaly. Andrew Dougherty, six years old
No. 1872 Pearl street. Charles Eberwein, No
| 1874 East Fifty-fourth street; leg crushed L.
| M. Eberet mulatto, No. Manhassett Place
Brooklyn. Barbara Changer, young lady,
| No. 443 East Sixth street; chest injured and
right eye badly crushed. Thomas Reerdon
thirteen years old, No. Sc Montgom
| cry street, injured about the head. Bern
hard Reichers, oigar-maker, NO. S35 Delaney
ton street. Mrs. Scoring, No. 273 st. Marks
| place; slightly injured in the chest Lizzie
| Iierney, aged eighteen, st. Marks avenue
Brooklyn; injured about the body. Lester
Rogue; severely inju' ed. John Keller, West
| Farms; missing. Jgnacio Antepara, No. 20;
| Seventh avenue; bruised. Annie Goldstein
Sarah Gaertener, young. girl, of No. n Suf
| folk street; bruised on the head, arms anc
| legs. Albertina Bonnet, No. 139 Division
street; last seen to fall with her baby in hel
4Ikaa had hon.
baby was found, but the mother is missing.
The scene in the City Hall Police Station
was simply terrible; women screaming anC
wringing their hands, men with torn clothing
and bleeding faces, and all around the forms
of the wounded, most of them unconscious
| lying beside the walls. Every now anC
| again frantic mother would rush in inquir
| ing for some one lost. There were none tt
answer her. for the revival of the insensiblt
occupied all thoughts. The jangle of ambu
| lance bells added to the confusisn as Wagon
after wagon tore up to the door and sur
| geons descended. A perfect stream of I'm
conscious forms was borne to the station on
| stretchers as ambulances were filled an(
| driven away.
| " / was walking along the bridge TOWARD
| the New York entrance" said man wht
| held young girl, who was crying bitterly
| by the hand, "when heard shouting anC
screaming suddenly arise in front of me
| Then [ saw hats, sticks and hands stretched
| aloft and with one scream the whole denst
| mass surged and swayed toward the gates
| / supposed the people thought the bridge
was coming down. Anyway, they fought
screamed and yelled like demons. Children
| and women were knocked down and tram
| pied upon, and [ was borne irresistibly ou
| of the entrance. Then I found this littlt
| girl who had lost her friends, and here wv
are-safe, thank GodW
| The little girl between her sobs said he
name was Flora Davis, of No. 90 Levi
| street
81 went on the BRIDGE" said Charlie
Bligh, of No. SO Third street, Brooklyn, "a
about four o'clock, and as / was approach
| ing the river span found myself unable t.
| move either backward or forward. Womel
/ and children commenced screaming. Hun
dreds of men climbed with great difficult,
| onto the beams running over the railroads
and made their way to the caraiage- way
Many let themselves drop through between
| the beams, and were caught by those be
| meath. A number of women also escaped il
this way. / escaped this way myself
| The police and others helped pull out tn
dead and dying, and they were laid on th
roadway until an ambulance came TIL
| shrieks of the children on the pathway wer
blood-curdlhg They cried: Help Help
Save me, for Gods sakeI' but where w
were we could do nothing"
| Mr. S. Martin, Superintendent of tn
bridge, was seen by reporter few min
Ites after the occurrence. He said: " Fiv
minutes before word came to my Office abou
the catastrophe / received an answer t
my inquiry that everything was goin
on smoothly on the bridge, AM
! the pedestrians were moving alon
| quietly. ] certainly have no idea wha
caused the horrible tragedy, as various &C
counts have reached ane. From four dis
tinet sources | hear, however, that the PAM
was brought about by gang of pickpoch
rts. The New York policemen had warne
| rs that thieves and bunko-men were work
ing on the bridge, but as none of them wer
identified we could do nothing. As soon a
| / heard of the crush ordered the roadway
thrown open, and people are going acres
| that way now"
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