The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-31
CRUSHED AND TRAMPLED.
the East River Bridge.
Twelve Persons Killed and a Number of
Others So Badly Injured that RecoV-
cry Is Impossible.
The Disaster Caused by the Narrow
ness of the Passengers FoOtway.
An Attempt to Relieve the Jam Results in
Precipitating Dozens of People to
the Street Below,
Where They Are Bruised and Crushed
by Others Falling Upon Them.
and Police StatiOns-Lists of the
Killed and Injured.
An Attempt to Relieve the Jam Results in
Precipitating Dozens of People to
the Street Below,
Where They Are Bruised and Crushed
by Others Failing Upon Them.
Exciting and SorrOwful Scenes at Hospitals
and Police Stations-Lists of the
Killed and Injured.
A DEADLY CRUSH.
Twenty-Five Persons Reported Killed and
Many Others Injured.

Many Others Injured.
New York, May 30-A deadly crush oc-
CURED on the East-river bridge this after
noon by which large number of people
have lost their lives. The narrowness of the
footway for passengers is the cause of the
horror. The majority of the dead are so
far unidentified.
At about o'clock the long line of people
on foot in the center walk of the structure
going from and coming to this city, was
thickened, swelled and stopped in its motion
just at the stairs leading up from the con-
crete roadway to the bridge proper. Strong
men and feeble women, manhood and in
fancy, were wedged together in that jam
by the fearful pressure of the crowd, which
extended for miles, one might say, on either
end of the line. 1t was
remorseless, fearful, stupid force
that held its victims as i'm
movable as the stone foundations of the
bridge itself. The stoppage lasted nearly an
hour, during which time scores of people
tainted.
To relieve the jam the bridge officials re-
moved some of the iron paling few feet
from the stairway on the New York side
when, of course, those unfortunate enough
to be near the opening, weak and fainting as
they were, Immediately fell helter skelter,
heels over head, down on the jagged,
gravelly road beneath, a mass of
bruised, discolored human flesh. Scores
were trampled upon instantly, and to
stumble was death. Men were dragged out
of that heap of helpless humanity with
faces blue as indigo and the life blood
trickling out of their nostrils, and chill
dren and women pale, dishevelled and dead.
The roadway on either side of the walk
was strewn with the dead and dying-a
pitiable sight and yet it is said no efforts
were made by the bridge officials to stop
people from coming on the bridge.
The dead and dying were carried off in
wagons, carts, etc, improvsed on the mo-
ment for services, and it was a long time
before the police arrived and anything like
order restored, or an ambulance appear
ed. Meanwhile, teams we're rushing both
ways at full gallop over the
roadways-why no one could tell-threaten-
ing the limbs and lives OF those on foot who
were attempting to assist the unfortunate
victims The police shouting themselves
hoarse with Clear the way" wagons rat
tling over the rough stones, and men and
women crying in all directions made it
Bedlam indeed. A party of men in uniform
did yeomen's service at the spot as a volun-
teer police to check the vulgar and curious
AT CHAMBERS STREET HOSPITAL.
Here there are lying thirteen dead-six
unknown men and six unknown women and
George Smith, of No. AZ Water street. The
office was filled with people making frantic
inquiries for missing friends, and with hys-
terical women. Two more of the dead.
one boy of fifteen and the other young
woman are lying at the city hall police sta
ton, unidentified. Also the following; F.
e. Dale, 70 Henry street; Wihelmina Loew,
100 Monroe street. two unknown women;
Mrs. G. Vogle 80 West Twenty-sixth street:
Minnie Smith, 215 Houston street; Ellen Rea-
gan, 50 Horatio street; an unknown boy; an
unknown girl; Matte A. Styles, 257 Grove
street. Jersey City.
The following is partial list of wounded:
Frank Barrett 10 Mott street, legs and left
arm broken. He is little boy, and his mo-
ther was with him. Otto Beschoff 619 East
Sixth street, leg broken and body injured in
ternally.. Andrew Dougherty, six years old,
152 Pearl street. Charles Eberwein, 334
East Fifty-fourth street, leg crushed.
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