The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-06-09

ture between Prussia and the Vatican.
Edwin s. Burnaby, member of parlia
ment for Leiscestershire, is dead, aged s.
years.
The lord lieutenant of ireland has re
fused to reprieve Caffrey, the Phoeni,
park murderer.
The president has recognized All Vans
Ming rs consul for the Chinese empire a
the port of New York.
Hanlan was winner in the boat race
between him and Kennedy at Point o1
Pines. Mass, May 31st.
At Wheeling. West Virginia, it ha.
been definitely decided that there will be
no lockout in the iron mills.
A boat filed with workmen capsized al
Oleggio, near Milan, recently, and
twenty-five men were drowned.
It is estimated that the decrease of the
| public debt for May is about So, SOC, 900;
bond redemption during the month was
$lO, ,OOO.0 600; payments on account oil
pensions, $2,0OO,OOO
The outbreak against the Jews, which
occurred at Rostoff, Russia, on the 22d
| ult., on account of the murder of a
Russian by Jewish publican, has been
quelled. The same night 1870 houses be-
longing to Jews were destroyed. Fifteen
of the rioters were killed by the troops
Recently an accident occurred causing
! damage to the Knoxville Tenn water
works. The bottom of one of the reser-
voirs dropped out, emptying in five min
| utes SOC, 900 gallons of water into q cave
hnv, ko.. l.,
| surface, though the reservoirs are on a
hill several hundred feet high. The ex-
lstence Of the cave was not previously
| known.
A New York dispatch of May 30th has
the following: fearful catastrophe oc
| Cured on the East river bridge this
| afternoon, by which large number of
people lost their lives. The narrowness
of the footway for passengers is the
cause of the horror. At o'clock the
long line of people on foot in the center
| walk of the structure, going from and
| coming to this city, thickened, swelled
| and stopped just at the stairs leading
| from the concrete roadway to the bridge
proper. Strong men and feeble women,
manhood and infancy, were wedged to-
gether in that fearful pressure of crowd
which extended miles, we might say, on
either end of the line. It was remorse-
lessly fearful and stupid force, as i'm
| movable as the stone foundation of the
bridge itself. The stopLage lasted nearly
| an hour, during which time scores of
people tainted. To relieve the jam the
bridge officials removed some of the pal
ings few feet from the stairway on the
New York side, when of course those un-
fortunate enough to be near the end ,ard
weak and fainting as they were, immedi-
ately fell heller skelter, heels over head.
down on the jagged, gravelly road be-
meath, in mass of bruised, discolored
human flesh. Scores we're trampled
upon, and to stumble was instant death.
Men were dragged out of the heap of
helpless humanity with faces as blue as
indigo, and the life blood trickling from
their nostrils. Children and women
were pale, dishevele1 and dead. The
roadway on either side of the walk was
strewn with dead and dying It was
pitiable sight. and vet, it is said, no
efforts were made by the bridge officials
to stop the people coming on the bridge.
The dead and dying were carried off in
wagons, carts, etc., improvised on the
moment for the service, ,and it was long
time before the police arrived and any
thing like order was restored or an am
bulance appeared. Meanwhile teams
were rushing both ways at full gallop
over the roadways-why no one could
tell-threatening the limbs and lives of
those on foot who we're attempting to
help the unfortunate victims. Men
shouting themselves hoarse, wagons rat
thing over the rough stones, and men and
women crying in all directions, made it
bedlam indeed. A party of men in
uniform did some service at the spot as
volunteer police, to check the vulgar and
curious at the Chambers street hospital.
Here there are lying thirteen dead bod
les, six unknown men and six unknown
women, and George Smith, of AZ Watts
street. The scene in the city hall police
station was simply terrible. Women were
screaming and wringing their hands;
men with torn clothing and bloody
faces. many of them unconscious, were
lying beside the wall. Every now and
again frantic mother would rush in,
inquiring for some one lost. There were
none to answer, for the revival of the in
sensible occupied all thought. The
jingle of ambulance bells added to the
confusion, as wagon after wagon tore up
to the door and surgeons descended. A
constant stream of unconscious forms
were borne to the station on stretchers.
as the ambulances were filled and driven
away. 81 was walking along the bridge
to the New York entrance" said man,
who held little girl, who was crying
bitterly, by the hand, when I heard
shouting and screaming suddenly arise
In front OF me. / saw hats, sticks and
hands extended aloft, and with one
scream the whole mass surged and
swayed toward the gates. I suppose the
people thought the bridge was coming
down; anyway they fought screamed and
yelled like demons. Children and wo-
men were knocked down and trampled
upop, and was borne irresistibly off:
then found little girl who had lost
her mother, and here we are safe, thank
God" The Tribune gives briefly the
cause of the accident. As nearly as can
be learned some ruffianly young men.
who thought the people in front of them
did not move quickly enough. began
to push. The descent of the footway
gave force to the movement which it
would not have had on level place, and
the pressure at the stairs became fearful.
Women md children cried out and men
shouted. just at this moment women
and children fell on the steps, and the
results that were inevitable followed
The crowd was unable to pause, and the
mass at the stairs began to tumble upon
those already down. Confusion and
terror-stricken, some thought the bridge
was giving way, and before the few po-
hcemen who were scattered about the
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