New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-01
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY JUNE !, -lsea

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wer. hold TO b favorable The surgeon bad been been
'u wilsn nSs E.rp.b.v age soyteus Of Ne $40
terday, with two week3 ticket from the SECRETARY
q Society for the tbat =. OF sas
from confusion of the thigh received BY being
crushed at the Bridge on Wednesday lie was 3D.
mitted ~ oox r.,,
Inst. Brooklyn was reported at the hospital by
bis brother a. missing last night. Young Bowers
left home on Wednesday At 80 O. m, and hsd not
returned home He had spoken OF going TO Nyack,
but his brother heard that he crossed tho Bridge
on Wednesday with friend named Watson, and 80
it was possible that he had been hurt Bowers Is IN
Of No. 457 Broomo-st
CONDITION OF THOSE TAKEN HOME.
The injuries to Mrs. David Chambers OF No. 116
Kng-st. proved yesterday to have been less severe
than was anticipated on Wednesday evening. The
hemorrhage had ceased. and beyond some bruises
and the aches and pains incident to being crushed
to insensibility she was all right Mr.. Chambers,
in speaking of tho accident, said: Il was adverse
to going on the Bridge that afternoon.
but Q nephew had como down from
Yonkers purposy to see tho Bridge.
and 1t was on his account that We went. There
were in our party myself and wife, our two little
boys, my nephew, my daughter. age nineteen, and
Miss Osborn. We had just passed the steps when
we were caught il the jam. Some young mon ran
down the railing and begged the crowd to keep
back, but they might as we'll have talked to the
Winds succeeded in getting my two Little boys
to place of safety on tho roadway and then re-
turned to find my wife and daughter. BY the time
got back on the foot passage there was mass OF
people eight or ten deep at the foot OF the stairs
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bodies out. The first man we got out
was large gray-whiskered man. As soon as we
got him out he went back with the crowd
to hunt for his boy. 1t was some time before
found my wife. She had been taken from under
the pile of people unconscious Her face was COW
ered with blood and her clothes had been torn to
ribbons She was placed In the roadway among the
| dead, A man saw fellow who wos attempting 70
rob her. and when no drove him away discovered
signs of life and went to work to resuscitate her.
her ct that time. Al a. she regainod
consciousness got her in carriage and took her
home l saw several attempts to rob the bodies OF
tho dead and injured frustrated by bystanders
| 10 far ~ I could SEQ thero were no
pohcs present. After time both my
daughter and her friend. Miss Osborn. came
home considerably used IN. It WA stated in the
| papers this morning that my daughters leg was
fractured. That is mistake. She was consider I
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hats caps and everything else. but all things CON.
siderod. felt that we're very fortunate in coming
Katie Maher, of No. 1872 Pearl.st; age twenty
said that she heard . scream and then somebody
cried out that the Bridge was fsiliRg Inc no next ext
lying ut the loot OF the stairs with dozen peo
Die on top of her screaming and RroaninR. Sbe was
taken out by some unknown man and waa aeon able
to find her way home. She feared that she had 10
ceivod internal injuries, but was able yesterday 70
| Lester 81 Requa, the six year-old boy who. with
his little sister and was IN the JAM was
| ont at play when THE TRIBUNE reporter called at
| his fathers house. No. o. Iior .tiO-st.
the chest, brought on by the crushing
she underwent on Wednesday. Sac
COMMISSIONS. hope shall never have another snch
| experience. / was with Mrs Margaret Gallagher
aud we were just returning from trip across the
| Bridge. How the thing commenced haven't the
| slightest idea. was about twenty feet from tho
steps W hen heard screams and shouts he crowd
behind us pressed forward and was lifted Oh my
| feet and carried towards the steps. The crowo was
damned 80 tight that IL was impossible TO move.
were reached. think that was hurt more IN the
press then than was after Fell aud was trampl.d
on. lost consciousness rs soon a. fel, ana the
next thing | knew ! was on the roadway my
| clothes torn almost off of me and my FAC"
| received no internal injuries but have constant
| pain in my chest which gives me great deal OF
sarah Gaertner, Of No. 81 Suffolk ST. age fourteen
| and Annie r. GOldstcin, OF No. 5o East BROADWAY.
were on the Bridge together and were considerably
| bruised but both # them were ont yesterday and
showed no signs Of injuries beyond few black and
| blue spots.