Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-31
THE FOLLOWING ARE DEAD.

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THE FOLLOWING ARE DEAD.
t. E. Dale, 70 Henry street; Wilhelmina
Loeru, 100 Monroe street; two unknown
| women; Mrs G. Vogel, of No. 80 West
| Twenty -sixth street; Minnie Smith, No. 215
Houston street; Ellen Regan, 81 Horatio
street; an unknown boy, an unknown girl;
Matte A. Styles, 257 Grove street, Jersey
City. The following is a partial list of the
! wounded: Frank Barrett, aged nine, Mott
street, legs and left arm broken. He is a
little boy and his mother was with him Otto
Bischof, No. 619 East Sixth street, leg
broken and injured internally; Andrew
Dougherty, six years old, of No.
152 Pearl street; Charles Eberwien,
1874 East 54th street, leg crushed L. M.
Eberet, mulatto, of Manhanset Place,
Brooklyn Bsrbary Ottinger, a young lady,
chest injured and right eye badly crushed,
No. 443 East Sixth street !; Thomas Reardon,
Is years old, of No. Sc Montgomery street,
injured about the head Bernhard Reichers,
cigar maker, 335 Delaney street, severely
injured Nina Schmidt, of 25S Houston
street Mrs. Zering, of 273 st. Marks Place,
slightly injured in the chest Lizzie Tur-
ney, aged 1S, of st. Marks avenue, Brooklyn,
injured about the body; Lester Rogue, Sc
verely injured; John Keller, of West Farms,
missing; Ignace Antipsra, of No. 80 Seventh
avenue, bruised; Annie Golstein, So East
Broadway, head badly injured; Sarah Gaer-
bruised on the head, arms and legs; Alberti
ma Bonnet, 139 Division street, last seen to
fall with her baby in her arms, when the
crowd rushed over her-baby found
but mother missing. In the City
Hall police station the scene was simply ter.
rible, women screaming and wringing their
hands, men with torn clothing and bleeding
faces and all around the forms of the wound
ed, most of them unconscious. lying beside
the walls Every now and again a frantic
mother would rush in inquiring for some one
| lost but there were none to answer her, for
| the revival of the insensible occupied all
| thoughts. Then the jingle of the ambulance
! bells added to the confusion as wagon after
| wagon drove up to the door and the sur
geons descended
| PERFECT STREAM OF UNCONSCIOUS FORMS
| was borne into the station on stretchers. As
the ambulanoes were filled aad driven away,
"Safe, thank God" was uttered from many
| throats. 81 was walking along the bridge
| toward the New York entrance" said man
who held young girl, who was crying Bit
| terly, by the hand, t'when heard shrieking
| and screaming that suddenly arose in front
| of me. Then 1 saw hats, sticks and hands
! stretched aloft and with one scream the
| whole dense mass surged and swayed toward
the gate. I suppose the people thought the
bridge was coming down. Anyway they
fought, screamed and yelled like demons.
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down and trampled upon and was borne
| irresstibly out of the entrance. Then
| found this little girl who had lost her friends
| and here we are, safe, thank God" The lit
| tie girl between her s0bs said her mamma
was Flora Davies of No. 80 Lewis street.
Mr.. Martin, superintendent of the bridge.
| was seen by reporter few minutes after
the accident. He said Five minutes be-
fore word came to my Office about the catas-
trophe received word In answer to my in
quiries that everything was going on smooth
ly on the bridge and that the pedestrians
were moving along quietly. certainly have
no idea what caused the horrible tragedy, as
various accounts have reached me from diff
ferent sources. I hear, however, that the
panic was brought about by
GANG OF PIoKPooKETs.
The New York policemen had warned us
to-day that thieves and bunko men were OPP
Grating on the bridge. but as none of them
were identified of course we could do moth
ing. As soon as I heard Of the crush or
dered the roadways to be thrown open. Peo-
pie are going across that way now.
81 went on the BRIDGE" said Mr.. Charles
Bigh, of No. 50 Third street, Brooklyn, Sat
about o'clock and as 1 was approaching the
river span found myself unable to move
| either backwards or forwards. The
| women and children commenced screaming.
Hundreds of men climbed with great diff
Guilty on to the beams running over the rail
roads and made their way to the carriage
way. Many let themselves drop through be-
| tween the beams and were caught by those
beneath A number of women also escaped
in this way. I escaped this way myself.
The police and others helped to pull out the
dead and dying and they were laid on the
roadway until the ambulance came. The
shriaks of the children on the pathway was
blood curdling. They cried Help Help
Save me for Gods sake y but we could do
nothing
New York approach and said THE acct
dent was owing solely to the refusal of the
people who were walking the pathway to OBJ.