Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-31
A Frightful Panic on the Great Bridge
that Uniles Brooklyn and
New York
Results in the Death OF Twelve Persons
and the Serious Woundisg Of
THenty.Six.
The Holocaust Caused by the Opera
items or a Gang OF Pick.
packets.
Blood-Curdling and Heartrending Scenes
at the Bridge and Sta
tiOnh5use.
List Of the Killed and W0unded-State'
ments Of the Superintendent and
Eye-Witnesses.

List Of the Killed and WOuuded-State-
ments of the Superintendent aHd
Eye-Witnesses.
NEW YORK, May 30.-A fearful cslastro-
phe occurred on the East river bridge this sf-
terooon by which large number of psop'e
have lost their lives. The narrowness Of the
footway for the passengers was the Cause of
the horror. The majority Of the dead are so
far unidentified. AT about 4 O'CLOCK long
liae of people on foot in the center walk OF
the structure going from or coming TO this
city swelied and stopped in it's motion just at
the stairs leading up from The concrete road
way to the bridge proper. Strong men and
feeble women, u anhood and infancy, we're
wsdged together in that jam by the fearful
pressure of the crowd which extended for
miles 90 either eide of the line. 1t was re-
morsels.s, fearful, stupid force that held its
victims SIS immovable as the stone fouuda-
tions Of the bridge itself. The stoppsge
lasted nearly an hour, during which time
scores of people tainted. To relieve the jam
the bridge officials removed some of the iron
paIing few feet from the stairway on the
New York side, when, of course, those un-
fortunate enough to be near the opening,
weak and fainting as they were, imme lately
fell heller skelter heels over head down Oh
the jagged, gravelIy road beneath,
A MASS OF BRUISED, DIscoLoRED HUMAN
FLESH.
Scores we're trampled upon instantly, and to
stumble was death, Men were dragged out
of that heap OF helpless humanity with faces
blue as indigo, the life blood trickliog out OF
their nostrils, children and wemsn pale, dis
hevellsd and dead. The roadway on either
side of the walk was strewed with the dead
and dying, pitiable eight, and yet it is said
no efforts we're made by tbs bridge officials
10 stop people coming on the bridge. The
dead and dying were carried off in wagons,
CART, etc, improyised on the moment for
service, aud it was long Tina before the
police arrived and anything like order Was
restored or the ambulance appeared. Mean
while teams were running both ways at full
g.llop over The roSdways, why no one could
tell, threatening the limbs and lives Of those
on foot who we're assisting the unfortunate
victims. The police were shouting them
selves hoarse, "Clear the wayp wagons rat
Ting over the rough stones, men and women
crying in all directions, made it a bedlam in
deed. A party Of Daen in uniform did yeo-
man service at the spoi as volunteer police TO
check the vulgar and curious At The Cham
bers street hospital there are
LYING THIRTEEN DEAD,
six unknown men and six unknown women
and George Smith, Of No. Az Water street.
The office wss filed with people making
frantic irquiries for missing friends and
With hys.eriosl women. Two more OF the
dead, one boy Of fifteen, sod the other a
young woman, are lyiog at the City Hall pc.
lice station unidentified; also F. E Dale, Of
No 20 Henry street; Wilhelmina Lowe, of
No. 100 Monroe street; two unknown women
Mrs. c. Ncgsl, No. SO West Twtnty-sixth
street; Minnie Smith, No. 215 Houston street
Ellen Ragin, No. 62 Hora;io street; en- I'M
known boy, unknown girl, Matte Aslyles,
No. PSI Grove street, Jersey City. The fol-
lowing is a
| PARTIAL LIST OF THE WOUNDED:
| FRANK BARRETT, 10 Mott street, leg and left
arm broken. His little boy and his mother were
OTTO BEsTCHoFF, GIG East sixth street. leg
| broken aud body injured internally.
| ANDREW DoUGHTERY, six years, 1872 Pear
CHARLES EBERwElN, SS4 East Fif,y-four.h
L. NJ. EBERT, mulatto, Manhassst place
BARBARA oTTINGER, young lady, chest in
| jured and right eye badly crushed, 4i3 East Sixth
THOMAS RERDoN, thirteen years cid, sc Mont
gomeIy street injured about the head
! BERNHARD REICHERS, cigarmsker, S35 De
1 laucy street. severely hurt.
| NINA SCHMIDT, 25S Houston street.
MRS. sEERING, 27S St. Marks Place, slightly in
LIZZIE TIERNEY, aged eighteen. St Marks ave
nue., Brooklyn, injured about the body.
| LESTER RECUE, severely injured.
| JOHN KELLER, West Farms, missing.
IGNACIo ANTEPARA, 2S2 Seventh avenue
HNNIE GoLDsTEEN, SO East Broadway, head
CARA GAERToNoYI. young, girl, ~ Suffolk
| ALBERTINE BONNET, 1879 Division street, was
seen TO Iall with her baby in her arms, when the
| crowd rushed over her. The baby was found, but
| the mother is missing.
TERRIBLE SCENE.
The scene 10 the CITY Hall polics stStion
was simply terrible. Women scre amiug and
wriuging their hands, men with torn cloth.
ing and bleeding faces, aud all around the
forms of the wounded, most OF them uncon
scious, lying beside the walls. Every now and
again a frantic mother would rush in irquir
Jog for some one losi; but there was no one
TO answer her, for the revival of the insensi
bic occupied all thoughts. Then the jangle
of ambulance bells added to the confusion
as wagon tore up to the door and surgeon.
descended A perfect stream OF unconscious
lorms was torue into the station on stretch
ers as the anbulances were filled and driver
away.
WITNESSES STATEMENTS.
81 vas walking along the bridge TOWARD
the New York entrance" said a man who
held young girl who vas crying bitterly By
the hand, "Wbeu / heard shouting anc
screaming suddenly arise in front OF me
| Then / saw hats, sticks aud hands stretched
sloit, and with one scream the whole deps'
"a ass surg.d and swsyed toWsrd the gates.
supposed the people thought the bridge wa
coming down; any way, they fought
screamed and yelled like demons, childrer
and women were Knocked down aud tram
Piled upon, sad | was borns irresistibly on
! OF Inc entrance. / neu IOuDO lnis llllls
girl who had Lost Der friends, and here ",
are safe, think Ged." The little girl between
her sohs said her name was Flora Davies, o
80 Lewis street.
Il went on the bridge" said Charlie
BIigb, Of SO Third street, Brooklyn, "a
about 4 o'clock, and as l WAS approach
log the river span l found myself un
able to move ether backward or forward
Women sEd children commenced acre aiming
aundr eds of men climbed with great diff
Gully On to the beams running over the rail
roads sad made their way 10 the carrisse
way. Many let themselves drop tkrougl
between the beams and we're caught by thos
beneath. A number of women also escapet
} iu this way. | escaped in This way myself
, The police and others helped TO pull out tn
dead aud dying, and they were laid on III
roadway until the ambulance came. Tn
shrisks OF the children on the pathway wer
: blood curdlng. They cried, 'Helpl hslp
, save me, for Code sakep But where W
were We could do nothing"
THE sUPEBIsIEEDEST's STORY.
, Mr.. Martin, superintendent of the bridgi
wss seen By reporter few minutes afie
the accident He said: "Five minutes be
fore word came to my Office about the catai
trophe / received word, In answer to my II