Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-06-07
A Crush on Brooklyn Bridge
People Crushed and Tram
pied to Death by the
Press of a Panic
Stricken Crowd.
Men, Women and Children Squeezed
to Death-Blue in the Face and
Blood Forced From Their
Nostrils.
A Human Stampede.
Terrible Calamity.
Nostrils.

/ VIZ klC ObCAfANA bA tjlt DlOOhltn
bridge this afternoon, by which a large
number Of people lost their lives. The
narrowness Of the foot way for passen-
gers is the cause of the horror. About
4 o'clock d long line of people on foot
in the outer walk going from and
coming to this city, thickened, swelled
and stopped in its motion just at the
stairs leading up from the Concrete
roadway to the bridge proper. Strong
men and feeble women, manhood and
infancy were
WEDGED TOGETHER IN THAT JAM
| by the fearful pressure of the crowd,
which extended for miles, one might
say, on either side Of the line. 1t was
remorseless, stupid force, that held the
victims as immovab,e as the stone foun-
dation of the bridge itself. The stop
page lasted nearly an hour, during
which time scores of people tainted.
To relieve the jam the bridge officials
removed some of the iron paling a 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
gravely road beneath
MASS OF BRUISED, DIsCoLoRED FLESH.
Scores were trampled upon instantly,
and to stumble was death. Men were
dragged ont of that heap of helpless
humanity with
FACES BLUE AS INDIGO
and the life blood trickling out of their
nostrils. Children and women lay
there pale, dishevelled and dead. The
roadway on eisheI side of the walk was
strewn with the dead and dying, pitt
able sight andi yet, it is said no
efforts were made by the bridge
officials to stop the people coming on
to the bridge.
THE DEAD AND DYING
were carried off in wagons, carts, ETC.,
imprOyised for the service and it was
long time before the police arrived,
and anything like order restored, or
ambulsnces appeared. Meanwhile
teams were rushing both ways at full
galop, threatening the limbs and lives
of those on foot who were attem pting
TO assist the unfortunate victims. Po-
lice shouting themselves hoarse, "Clear
the way" Wagons rafting over the
rough stones, men and women crying
| in all directions, made it q bedlam in
deed. A party of men in Uniform did
woman service ut the spot as volunteer
police to check the vulgar and curious.
At Chambers street hospital there
are lying thirteen deadl-six unknown
men and six unknown women, and
Geo. Smith of No. AZ Watts street.
The office is filed with people making
frantic inquiries for missing friends.
Two more of the dead, one q boy of
fifteen, the other young woman, are
y ing at the city nall police station,
unidentified.
The following is a partial list of the
wounded:
Frank Burnett. 70 Mott street, legs and left
arm broken. He Is a little boy and his mother
was with him.
otto Bschof, 6l9 east ssxty-eighth street, leg
broken and injured internally.
Andrew DOugherty, four years Old NO. Auz,
| Pearl street.
Charles Eberstein, 3l4 east 54th street, leg
crushed
l. NJ. Eberel, mulatto, Mahasset Place
| Brooklyn.
/ Barbara Ottiuger, young lady. chest injured
and RICH: eve badly crushed, 4i3 east 9Th street,
! Thomas Reerdon, thirteen years, Montgomery
street injured about the head.
! Bernhard Kercher, cigar maker, S35 Delany
+ street. severely injured.
! Minnie Schmidt, 25S Houston street
! Mrs. S. Il. Ring 273 St. Marks place Chilly
! injured about the chest
/ Lizzie Lienny, aged IS, ST. Marks avenue,
/ Brooklyn injured about the body.
! Lester ResQuer severely injured.
John Heller, West Forms, missing.
A woman was seen 10 fall with her
! baby in her arms, when the crowd rush
ed over her. The baby was found, but
/ the mother Is missing. The scene in
4 the city hall police station was simply
/ terrible. Women screaming and wiring
ing their hands, men With
/ TORN CLOTHING AND BLEEDING FACES,
and all around were the forms of the
wounded, mos. Of them unconscious,
! wing beside the walls Every now and
sgain frantic mother would rush in,
nqurng for some one, but there were
none to answer. The revival of the IN
sensible occupied a}l thoughts. Then
/ the
JANGLE or AMBULANCE BELLS