Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-04
A TERRIBLE FALL.

Mrs. Annie Park1ngton Of No. 693
 Grand Street Steps of the Grand
 Street Railroad Bridge-Falls TWen-
 ty Feet to the Tracks Beneatk%Per-
 haps Fatally Injured.
 Mrs. Annie Perkington, twenty-three years of age, lives with her husband, Charles Park fngton, in the third story of the building No. 693 Grand street. Early last evening MT. and Mrs. Parkington, after doing some shop ping up town, started to return home end turned down from State street into the right hand side of Grand street, thinking they could cross at the railroad bridge with safe ty. A wooden fence is generally placed across the sidewalk at each end of the bridge nights to prevent people from crossing while the new bridge is being built. The fence was not put up last evening, however, and Mir. and Mrs. Burlington, thinking every thing was all right, proceeded to walk over the pile of stones and timber at the State street side of the bridge and had partly suc- ceeded in doing so when suddenly Mrs. Park ington, who was B little in advance of her hus- band, gave loud cry and disappeared from sight while her husband who stood mortified on the edge of the bridge, heard her strike
 
 feet below. A crowd quickly gathered and Officers Gerard and Bissell quickly descended to the track by means of the rough stone steps at one side of the bridge and found Mrs. Parkington lying on the ties outside of the railroad track with her head hanging over ditch alongside of the track. The woman was moaning as if in pain, and her head and the upper part of her dress were covered with blood. The officers carried the woman to the opposite end Of the bridge and tenderly carried her up the steps before the eyes of the crowd, which numbered nearly 200, and took her into filings drug store on the cor ner of Grand and State streets, where Dr. Park and Druggist filling attended her. She was terribly cut about the head and face, her right cheek was laid bare to the bone and her left eye was torn out. The woman all this time had not once lost con- seiousness, but her moans were pitifal to hear. The police ambulance having been summoned by this time arrived and Mrs Burlington was taken to her home where Dfs. Park and Luby made an examina- tion of the woman, and found that her left eye had been torn out, as if she had struck on tie in her terrible fall. She was also suffering greatly from the shock, besides con cussion of the brain, a severe injury to the right hip, and her body was covered with cuts and bruises. The doctors worked over the unfortunate woman until after midnight to ease her pain, and when they left her she was in 8 semi-unconscious state, but more comfortable, although suffering from the shock. Dr. Park said early this morn ing that if the woman was not internally in jured that she might possibly recover, but would lose one eye. MI. Parkington, who is young man, is nearly frantic with grief, and thinks with horror that the same fate might have been his had he taken another step forward. Nearly 6 thousand people pass over this bridge nightly after dusk and it is wonder that no accidents have oc cured there before now, as the bridge, ex cept where the horse railroad track crosses the bridge, is all open, and beside pile Of stones at each end of the bridge is piece of bridge fence to prevent people from walking