The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-31
BROOKLYN BRIDGE DISASTER.
Fourteen Persons Killed and Many
Wounded.

Wounded.
Heartrending Scenes, What
Caused /?
New York, 30.-A fearful catastrophe
on the East River bridge this afternoon
by which large number of people have
lost their lives, Narrowness Of tho foot.
wsysfor passengers is the cause IF the
horror. A mejority of the dead 30 far
are not know. At 4 o'clock the long
line of people were on foot in the centre
of the walk OF the structure gong from
and coming 10 this city tbiekened and
swelled ard stopped in its motion. Just at
tbs stairs leading from the concrete road
way to the bridge proper, strong men
and feeble women manhood and infancy
were dged together; there was fear
full pressure of crowd, which extended
miles we might say, on either end Of the
line. 1t was remorseful, fearful, stupid
force that held its victims "a immovs0le
as the stone frun1 stion of the bridge
itself The stoppsge lasted nearly al
hour, during which time score. Of people
fsihted. To relieve the jam the bridge
officials remove,! some Of he iron palings
few feet from the stairway on the
Now York side, VIXEN Of course
those unfortunate epou5 to be near Il e
plsce, and tne weak and the fsintirg,
Immediately fell shelter skelter, heels
over head, down on the jagged gravely
rosd, where they locked Ike mass of
bruised, discOlored human flesh. Scores
We g trsmpeled upon. To stumble was
death. Men were dragged out OF that
heap of helpless hunsnity, whose faces
we're as blue 3. indigo, and the life blood
trick ing cut Of their nostrils; children
and women, pale, dishevelled and dead.
The roadway on either side the walk WAS
strewed with the dead dying, pitisOle
sight, and yet it IS said no efforts we're
! made by the bridge officials to stop peo-
PIE coming on the bridge. The dead and
dying were carried off in wagons, carts,
etc., improvised 10 moment for service,
and it was long time before the police
arrived and anything like order WAS re-
stored or smbulsnces appeared. Mean
while teams were rushing both ways a.
full gal 'op over the roadways, why. nc
one could tell, threatening the lin BIS and
lives of those On foot who were attempt
ing to help the unfortunate victims
Men shouted themselves hosrse, "Clesl
the way" The wagons rafting over tht
rough stones, and men and women cry
ing in all directions, made it q bedlsn
indeed. A party of men in uniform die
some service at tha spot as volunteer
police, to check the vulgar and curious
At Cham ber's street hospital there ar
lying thirteen dead bodies, six unknown
men, six unknown women, an0 Georg
Smith, of AZ Watts street The office wa
Il led with people making frantic in
quiries for missing friends, and witt
hysterica women. Two more of tn
bodies, one a boy OF Is and the othe
q young woman, are lying at the polio
tation unidentified. The others are
E. Dale, of No. 70 Henry street. Viii
helmiHa Lowe, No. 100 Monroe sire
two unknown women; Mrs. D. Vogle
81 West TWenty-sixtu street; Mimi
Smith, No. 2l5 Houston street; Ellie
r gan, 81 Horatio street; an unknow
boy and a g'rl; Matte a. Styles, 70
Grave street, Jersey Civ. Following is
partial list of the wounded: Frank Bar
rett, 10 Mott street, legs and left arr
broken. His little boy and his. mothe
were with him, Otto Bischof, 6l0 Eet
Sixth street, leg broken and injured il
terually; Andrew Doldhuty, Fix yea1
OLD, NJ. l52 Pearl street, and Charlie
EbIrwirn, 334 Esst 81 street, legs crushed
l.. M. Ebire.t, a mulatto, 7 Machasst
place, Brooklyn; Bsrbsry Ottinger,
young lady, chest injured, and right ey
badly crushed; Thomas Reerdap,
years old, 46 Montgomery street, iniure
about the head; Birnhard Reichers, C
gar-maker, 1856 Delaney street, severed,
Nina Schraid:, 2 Heueton street; Mr.
ZTene, 265 St. Marks Place, slight
injured in the chest; Lizzie Turney, age
IS, s.. Marks avenue, Brooklyn, il
jured about the body; Lester Rique, SCI
ously injured: John Keller, w est Farm
missing; Ianaeco Antipsris, 362 Seven
avenue, bruised; Anne Goldstein, SO
Broadway, head badly injured; Sarl
Gsertes, young girl. q Suffolk stree
bruised on the head, arms and leg
Ailutinia Bohnee, 139 Divisit
street, last seen to fall, wi
with her baby in her arms when t
crowd rushed over; her baby was four
but the mother was missing. The see
in the city hall police station was simp
terrible, women screaming and wrin
ing their hands, men with torn clothil
and bleeding face. Most Of the unco
scious we're lying beside the wall
Every now and then 8 frantic moth
would rush in iuquiring for some O.
lost. There we're none to answer he
for the revival Of the insensible occupi
all thoughts. The jingle of ambulan
bells added to the confusion, as wag
after wagon tore up to the door and 81
geons descended. A perfect stream
unconscious forms was born 10 the stall
on atretchers. as the ambuiances we
filed and driven away.
81 was walking along the bridge
ward the New York entrance" said
man who held young girl who W
crying bitterly by the hsrd, when
heard shouting and screaming sudden
arise in front Of me. Then l saw ha
sticks and hands stretched sloft, a
with one scream the whole dense ms
surged and swsyed toward the gates.
supposed the psople thought the Bird
was coming down. Anyway tn
fought, screamed and yelled like q
mons Children and women we
knocked down and trampled upon and
wss borne irresistably out OF sigl
Then 1 found little girl who had Ii
her friends and here we are, safe, thai
God" The little girl between her so
said her name was Flora Davis,
Lewis street.
II want on the BRIDGE" said Char
BIigh, of SO Third street, Brooklyn, 5
about 4 O'Clock. l was approaching t
river span when / found mVself upal