The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-06-07
In carrying on the dead and wounded. Itwa.
not until quarter of six O'Clock that squad
of police were sent on the bridge and the
crowd was thinned."

in carrying OF the dead and wounded. Itwa.
not until a quarter of six O'Clock that squad
crowd R was thinned."
SOME OF THE sICKENINo SCENES.
The police Joined the bridge officers in clear
ing little space about the foot Of the steps;
and in dragging to one side from the mass 0f
bodies the dead and the dying. Some crawied
out by themselves. A company of the Twelfth
them out. Seventy-fve seemed to be nearly
dead. They were laid along on the north aud
south sides of the pathway, and the people
swollen @ a and. % bIood-stained faces Of the dead,
teen years were quite dead, or died In G few
| moments. They had been found on tho as
Rhat at the bottom m 9f fne hbeap
ing for water. Before be was reached ne nud
ceased to breathe. Beneath the body OF q
young girl lay an infant, its face crushed to
pulp. A woman was extricated from between
| two bars of the railing. She moaned once or
Griys Gay but diea as the man 'a'o nef across ''s
BOSS CARPENTER WILLIAM DEMPSEY,
| q quiet, coolheaded, bronzed workman, was
one of the foremost in breaking the block,
| and rendering assistance to those who were
trampled on at the steps; a. ,d;I,e was near tne
| the work of the railroad track, when heard
there was terrible block on the foot-path- I
the chord The foot-path was literally packed
with men, women and children, from Frank
lin street % the New York tower The dSfs. foot.
strike it and go under the floor to the auchor-
age than at any other point. 1t has been
AFAvoRITE A PLACE FOR PIoKPocKETs
| to congregate ever since the bridge was open
| ed, because four or five of them can stretch
across the foot-path, and by stumbling around
apd sna @ n ts Wes far
can learn, that was the beginning Of the
| trouble. Standing on the chord could see
strike the walk. The stream from brooklyn
was circling round the tower, and the stream
fSe eSe Mex Setbea as woud ye ene and the
block at the cables could not be broken. l
saw that something ought to be done TO tore re1
| lieve the crush as quickly as possible, ana
knew that
| THERE WAS ONLY ONE PLACE
| where it could be done, and that was at tho
Of the ' s6s s
saw in moment that il few lengths Of # #
over on to the railroad tracks. I ran along
the top of the chord until was stopped BY
and letting themselves down to the cross-ties
| of the railroad track. I dropped down, too,
and ran along the ties to the anchorage, call
me and help
I TEAR DOWN THE RAILING.
! When struck the hard bed of the anchor
age the crowd on the steps was tammed light tight,
hurt, only a few persons beingcrushed against
the railing and tops of the tr1sses. Nick
HiKsr With few bfoWs SroSe the light bolts that
held the iron railing on the north side OF the
wad aPS the railing
south side, and the lengths were down IN an
4 instant The crowd began to push through
the bed of the railroad before we could get
planks for them to walk on. Fully 500 persons
escaped from the crush
BEFORE ANY BODY WAS TRAMPED ON.
The following is a revised list of the dead
and injured, obtained shortly before mid
night from the hospital and stations, It then
been Identified, and twenty-six injured some
badly, and and others less seriously;
THE DEAD.
Jernsha Bazzerino, forty-fve years. 3e Ply.
sixty years, Of $50 Grand street, New York,
,, leaves wife and four children; Maud craw-
street, near broadway. Sarah Hennessey,
aged twenty-five, of 1s0 Washington avenue;
Eliza Karten. aged sixty-%six; % Jersey City;
o'Brien, aged ffty.five. No, IS Laight street,
leaves wife and four children; Ellen Rior
I George Smith. aged forty-four, of No. AZ Watts
r street: Mrs. Emma Sherwood, aged thirty-hve,
cf
, about fourteen, light hair, dressed in dark
suit.
Frank Bassett, aged fifteen. of 10 Mott street
! left leg and arm broken; Adolph Bischoh, i
Sixth street, knee-pan broken; Albertlna
/ crushed and bruised; Samuel Dalton, aget
3 thirty-three, widower, $50 West Twenty,1in
. street, Commissions on back and loins; Davie
Delmonte, aged thirty-One, No. los Avenue Is
] contusions; Edward 6oherty, age five, of No
Q 15a Ferry street. spine broken; Mary Distler
dred and Third street, fatally crushed
!. Charles Eberwein, age eleven, OF No
sslS Fourth street, right & leg % broken g ken,
z Gallagher, aged thirty, No. 50, Madison street
q | suffocation and bruises; Wjlhelmina Loew
= = aged eixty-two No. 100 Monroe street. suffoca
Z ton and bruises; Lizzie O'Brien, aged eleven
!. No. sS Laight street, crushed dangerousiy
= : Seventh street, eye and head hurt; william
= Oxford, aged twenty-five, No. 90 Cherry street
t sSHHn e Henry street, Re severe sever Scalp wound; Eli,
f Regina, No. 81 Horatio street, sufocation an.
1 bruises; B. Reichers; cigsrmaker' Tnon,s no, %
. Riordan,- aged nineteen, No. So Mont
70 gomery street, leg broken and - bruised
street shoeH sH Minnie smith, age
= nineteen, No. 25S East Houston street, sufoca
OR Matte Jersey A sts Gss
= = crushed; Andrew -Tardy, aged five, No: Is
e Thompson. aged seven, No. lib Monroe stree
skull fractSred; Mrs: Mrs. Ghas; vegelser stage, age
thirty-three. No. Z Manhausett Place, Broof
lyn, bruises; Unknown man, delirious an
ls badly crushed, in New York Hospital.
Is The list will yet be extended. 1t is reporte
20 that many of the wounded, perhaps some G
d, the dead, were driven straight to their home
t. when they reached Chatham street. instead Q
1T to the City Hall Station.
s. THE CAUSE OF IT ALL.
10 There is no room for doubt that the cause q
the accident was, in the first place, the stat
way at narrow point on the promenade.
al blockade of considerable magnitude occurre
I'd shortly before the fatal crush at point q
or most midway between the anchorage ana tf
d. New York tower, where the promenade is ma
Id rowed from fifteen and one-haif rect 70 tni
iy teen feet by the cables coming down to II
t. foot bridge. At the head of the stairs Il
tn promenade Is fifteen and one-half feet w1d
m The iron banisters of the stairway narrow
down to fourteen feet in width. There al
seven steps, rather low, and then comes
.st landing of the same width of the stairwa
%, or eight feet three inches. Beyond this landir
aSS are seven more steps. The bed below them
to of stone for foot or so, and then the concre
az walk begins and widens out to the width of Il
rn | promenade above. From the top of the stal
ne way across the landing. and to the bottom, q
on | width is only fourteen feet Persons stoppiI
bn on the stairway, or Just below, can. by lean1i
Nv over the railing little, look into the trestl
ways through which the cars are to ru
Many persons stop there, and in the narro
nd stairway and at the feet of 1t blockade
as easily produced In the second place, the 9
lw cident at the stairway could not have occurr
lid if there had been an efficient force OF poll
he there to keep the throngs moving.
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