Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-31

last seen to fall with her baby in her arms,
when the crowd rushed over her. The
baby was found but the mother is missing.
THE SCENE IN CITY HALL POLICE STATION
was simply terrible. Women were scream
ing and wripging 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 and again frantic mothers would rush
inquiring for some one, but there were
none to answer. The revival of the insen-
sible occupied all thoughts. Then the
jangle of the ambulance bells added to the
confusion as wagon after wagon tore up to
the door, and surgeons descended. A per-
feet stream of unconscious forms was
borne into the station on stretchers as the
ambulances were filled and driven away.
81 was walking along the bridge to-
wards the New York entrance" said
man who held a young girl who was cry
ing bitterly by the hand, ''when I heard
shouting ana screaming suddenly arise in
front Of me. Then 1 saw hats, sticks and
hands stretched aloft, and with one scream
the whole dense mass surged and swayed
towards the gates. suppose the people
thought the bridge was coming down.
Any way they
FOUGHT, SCREAMED AND YELLED LIKE DE-
MONS.
Children and women were knocked down
and trampled upon, and I was borne ire
sistably out on the entrance. Then found
this little girl, who had lost her friends,
and here we are safe, thank God?' The
little girl, between her sobs, said her
name was Flora Davies, 80 Lewis street.
II went on the BRIDGE said Charles
Bligh, SO Third street, Brooklyn, cat about
four o'clock, and as I was approaching
the river span, I found myself unable to
move either backward or forward. Women
and children commenced screaming. Hun
dreds of men climbed with great difficulty
| onto the beams, running over the rail
| roads and made their way to the carriage
way. Many let themselves drop through
between the beams, and were caught by
those beneath. A number of women also
escaped in this way. [ escaped in this
way myself. The police and others helped
to pull out the dead and dying, and they
we're laid on the roadway until an ambu-
lance came. The shrieks OF children on
the pathway were blood curdling. They
| cried help, save me for Gods sake but
where We were we could do nothing"
THE SUPERINTENDENT s STORY.
Mr.. Martin, superintendent of the
bridge, was seen by reporter a few min
utes after the accident. He said, 'fve
minutes before word came to my Office
about the catastrophe, received word IN
answer to my inquiry, that everything
was going on smoothly on the bridge, ana
pedestrians were moving along quietly. /
certainly have no idea what caused the
horrible tragedy, as various accounts have
reached me. From four distinct sources
1 hear, however, that the panic was
brought about by gang of pickpockets
New York policemen had warning to-day
that thieves and bunko men were opera.
ting the bridge, but as none of them were
identified, of course we could do nothing
As soon as heard of the crush, I ordered
the roadways to be thrown open, and peo
are going across that way now.
FROM THE SUN EXTRA.
There was a crush at the step:
at the New York approach to Brook
lyn bridge this afternoon, panic followed
and at least IA persons we're killed ant
many wounded. The crush began shortl!
before 4. At that hour thousands of PEG
pie were on the bridge, most of them com
ing from Brooklyn. The air was clear anc
brisk and people walking rapidly. AS thu
crowd approached short flight of steps
those in front pushed back for fear the,
might be precipitated over the steps,
distance of about six feet. These people
in drawing back from the steps, made tn
nucleus of jam, for thousands behint
them pushed on unheeding. Almost in
stantly people began to shout ''stant
back" and ''give US ROOM
Meanwhile the crowd from New York
which was at the foot of the stairs, go
blocked. Men at the head of the New
York crowd fought their way back, leaving
a clearing space at the foot of the steps
The shouting and crowding from tht
Brooklyn side increased, It was utterl.
inexplicable. People in the advance guart
Of the Brooklyn throng were pushed il
spite of themselves toward the steps
They seemed to have horror of goiny
over the steps, although the flight is onl,
five or six feet high. They locked arm
and pushed furiously back against tn
thousands coming steadily over iron
Brooklyn. In few minutes, at poin
q, just above the steps, there was a SLOW
yielding to the frightful pressure from be
hind, and the front of the crowd wa
forced nearer and nearer to the edge of th
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