Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-31
A Heap of Helpless Humanity,
Bruised Almost Beyond
Recognition.
Tremendous Excitement at the
Chambers Street Hospital
and Clty Hall.
Husbands, Wives and Children
Separated, Some Never to
Meet Again. .
A sad Ending of Decoration Day
Ceremonies.

Special Dispatches to The Bxs.
NEW YORK, May 3O.-A fearful
catastrophe occurred on the East
River bridge this afternoon, by which
a large number of people have lost
their lives. The wncss of the
footway for passengers Is the CAUSE of
the horror. A majority of the dead
are 30 far unidentified.
At about 4 o'clock the long line of
people on foot in the centre walk of
the structure going from and coming
to this city, thickened, swelled and
stopped in Its motion just at the
stairs leading from the concrete road.
way to the bridge proper. Strong men
and feeble women, manhood and in
fancy.
WERE wEDGED TOGETHER
In that fearful pressure of the GRO wd,
which extended miles, one might cay,
ON either end of the line. 1t was a re.
morseless, f~easful, stupid force, that
held Its victims IS immovable az the
stone foundations OF the bridge itself.
The stoppage lasted nearly one hour,
during which time scores or people
tainted To relieve the jam, the
bridge off removed some of the
iron paling a few feet from the New
York side, when, of course, those un-
fortunate enough te be near enough,
and weak, faiating at death, as they
were, immediately fell helter.skelter,
heels over head, down on the Jagged,
gravelly road below, a mass of
BRUISED DIsCOLohED HUMAN FLESH.
Scores were trampled upon in.
stantly and to stumble was death.
Men were dragged out of that heap
of helpless hum anity with faces blue
as Indigo and the life blood trucking
out of their nostrils, and children as
we'll as women pale, dlshevelled and
dead. The roadws on either side OF
the walk was strewed with dead and
dying, a pitiable sight. and yet, it Ii
said, no efforts were made by the
bridge officials to stop people coming
on the bridge. TIE dead and dying
were carried off in wagons, carts, etc,
i~mprovised on q moment for service,
ana it was q long time before the DO.
lice arrived and anything like order
restored or an ambulance appeared.
Meanwhile
TEAMS WERE RUSHING BOTH WAYS
at full gallop over roadway5, why no
n could tell, threatening the limbs
and lives of those on foot who were
attempting to help the unfortunate
Victims. Men shouted themselves
hoarHe, "Clear the way" wagons rat
Ting over the rough stones, men and
women crying In all directions, made
1t q beolam indeed. A party of men
In Uniform did some service at the
spot as volunteer police, to check the
vulgar and curious.
AT CHAMBERS STREET HOSPITAL.
Here there are lying, IL bodies
six unknown men and six unknown
women, and Geo. Smith of AZ Watts
street. The Office was filed with PEG
pie making frantic inquiries for miss
Ing friends, and with hysterica
women. Two more of the dead
one boy of Is and the other . youn,
womsn,-are lying at the police sta
ton unidentified. F. E. Daily, No
70 henry street; Wilhelmins Loewe
No. 100 Monroe street; two unknown
women; Mrs. g. Vogel, No. 1921.
26sh street; Minnie Smith, No. 21j
Houston street; Ellen Regen, 6.
Horatio street; an unknown boy anc
an unknown girl; Matte A. Styles
257 Grove street, Jersey City.
Following Is a partial
LIST OF WOUNDED.
Frank Barrett, 10 Mott street, legs an
left arm broken. He is q little boy, an
his mother was with him.
Otto Bischof, GIG East Sixth street
Ter broken and body injured internally.
Andrew Dougherty, six years old, No
1872 Pearl street.
Charles Eberwien, 1884 East Fifty
fourth street., leg crushed.
h.. M E1eret, a mulatto, z ManhAssst
Place, BROOKLYN.
Barbary O~stinger, a young lady, chea
injured and right eye badly crushed; "A
East Sixth street.
Thomas Roerdon, 10 years old, SO Mont
gomery z%treet, injured about head.
Bernhard Reieksis, cigar maker, 80
Delaney street, severely injured.
Nina Schmidt, 258 Houston street.
Mrs. Scoring, 273 81. Marks plac,
slightly injured in the chest.
Lizzie Terney, aged Is. st. Marks svt
nue, Brooklyn, Injured about the body.
Leslie Rogue, severely injured.
John Keller, WGst.Farms, missing.
Ignacio Antepara, 2S2 Seventh avenu,
bruised.
Annie Goldstein. So East Broadwa,
head badly injured.
Sarah Gsertener, a young girl. q Su
folk street, bruised in the head, arms IN
legs.
Albertina Bonnet, 139 Division stree
was last seen to fall with her baby in h,
arms, when the crowd rushed over he
The baby was found but the mother
missing.
THK III IN THE CITY HALL
police station was simply terrible