New-York tribune., 1885-08-09
THE DAYS CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
COLONEL scorrs LEO MISREPRESENTATION
FROM HEAT.

COLONEL scorrs LEG BRoKEN-PRosTRATIoNs
FROM HEAT.
From Ia. m. to $3.50 p. m. twenty-six calls
for ambulances sounded by nremen stationed at
signal boxes along the route Of the procession Not all
Of the persons whose account the calls had been sent
found afterward by the ambulance surgeons After
being slightly injured by the jostling crowds the sde
WALKS the had gone to their homes to other
places, without medical assistance Many women
swooned from heat In the throngs but before
u necessary to send for ambuances Slight INJURIES
caused by crowding and ostnR werereported on every
block but in most the injured persons did not de-
sire the assistance Of the police ambulance surgeons
When the Sth Regiment, N. @. 8. n T., was about TO
turn from Fourteenth st. into Fifth at IL
serious accident happened to Colonel George d. 6cott
commanding the regiment. He riding In advance Of
his STAFF and turning his horse across the railroad
tracks into the avenue from Fourteenth st. when one
Of the animals hoos caught in hole between apavng
stone aud Of the rails Before Colonel Scott had time
dismoun the horse fell and rolled the pave
mont crushing the Cooners left leg. For moment 1t
looked the Colonel would be killed. but he managed
to extrlcate himself the horse made An effort to
stand. Members Of his staff and policemen went to
Colonel SCOTS assistance and hoped him to the side
walk An ambulance from st. vncents Hospital quickly
responded 10 call sent from the signal box at the
corner and Surgeon Reilly said that tho Colones Lex
broken the ankle Leaving the regiment under
the command Of the Leutenant-C Colonel, Colonel Scott
was taken to the hospital. where bis leg was put in
bis Home az No. siS w Vest 'H W L was
said that the fracture OF his leg was simple one ami
tna he probably would recover quickly Colonel Scott
Peter Coossn age thirty laborer who lives IN
elm at Riverside drive and one-hundred-
dtwenteh-st to ger good view OF the procession:
fell to background breaking his bacE he was taken TO
Ninety ninth street Hospital where his case was found
to be hopeless. His body below the shoulder blades,
where the spinal column fractured is parayzed and
James Cox. Of No. 815 West Forty sixth ST., started
10 to look at the parade. He went 70 the house
Of his sister. Mrs. Mary Rider. in Forty NTH St, be-
get pint OF beer" At the shop, Cox says he met
German who was very friendly, and asked him TO
had can beer still pressed his attentions. and In the
halfway Of the tenement house requested Cox TO drink
the stranger took outsa kafe aud stabbed Cox IN the
arm The woundwss dressed at Roosevelt Hospital.
Thomas Dorsey, ase fourteen, OF No. 8lY West For
tlethst fell from fenoe FItty-ninhst and Eighth
ave. and sustained compound fracture OF the skull
The first call for ambulance along the line OF march
sent at 9:4O m, by fireman statiore at the sig
who being held up by her mother to see the
troops was josted By the hrong and fell to the side
walk Her head was cut severely.
John Ke.ney, are sixteen. of No 81 North Moore-st
G r soop s 1s ann the unds
part OF his chin and bruisng his arm
heat at Broadway and Prneest and remained lnsensI.
BILE until she had been removed to ST. vncents Hospital
ssnthst was prostrated at Fiftsava and Forty yhrds
An unknown man fell ut Fsurtecnth-st and Fifth
JAYNE. r%n S"a .ss sF'ss Of S No. sss rs
ave-. wa. sanstrack At Tw'utytOurtn,st aud Enn n,
!. aHs .Hss ' a
scven was overcome BY tho heat nc Eighteenth
It, teen. and d fS.'' h. Ss' SoS Is' Es sirsa
.Scc;ambcd .S; at Tventy.fourth-st: and Fith-ave.
Braotlyn Grand Army ' MAJ Was prosrated Ut Twsn
ty-fourth-st and Ffhavc. Annie Meyer. of No 233
tsta firm. lat
ave- Francis q. Lane. aye forty-nve Of Oue.hun
Observation-Disclosures aud Kings Place. was over
George Atkins. aye ninosen, OF No O83 Broadway.
Brooklyn. Arthur wagner and John Brown were over
The following miIitIansn were overcome BY the heat
and taken to Roosevelt and Ninetyninth Street Hos
Cooper. COMPANY D. 6tS n j.; Henry Dias Of the Ilth
Ncw-York RegiInent; George Mack. Company q, LIST
Pennsylvania; John Bickner. member OF the llth Reg
The long began to toll on the soldiers by the time
they CaremOnt Ranks broken and sand
wiches and ce water were distributed among the men,
who stretched themselves under Tue shade & trees Hall
called into active duty In caring for the soldiers
viscd an oprn.ar hospital in the grove knoll short
from the tomb and as the patients were Drought
a were M on TO shs% Private
Copnel. OF the 22d Regiment, was one OK the nrst |
out just as the line reached the tomb
The unfinished strilcture, the Bloomingdale Re-
formed Church. OF which the Rev. Carlos Martyr is pas
tor was converted Temporary hospital under the
charge of DIR. Edward C. Harwood. OF No. A West
Forty nnths The church being situated directly on
the liue OF march, sixty ghth st. and the Boulevard.
convenient. The doctor assisted by the sexton
T. Il. senior william j. Lyon, William NJ. Stout o. j. g.
Hall and ladies Of the church Among those cared for
was o private from Company T.. 3D. Regiment, n g.
g. ~ ]. and Henry Biorwith, q member OF u D. Grant
Post, No 90 Veteran Zouaves. OF Elizabeth. n.
Tho surgeons who attended at the Manhattan Hospital
tents IN the OF James Deering near
An .third-st were L. A. Rodensten. Charles Jersey,
William Larkin George \. Jackson, 8. Y. Ten Eyck, W.
A. Tatava and W. T. Alexander. AL things consld-
cred George Ennis. the ambulance bearer was not
very busy yesterday. Tho following cases were /
placed In the hands Of the careful nurses
and surgeons in attendance during the day j. H.
Pierce Millenburg. A. Austin, aud William Taton.
all OF the flat Regmont Charles Clnggers OF the Attn
Regiment. Brooklyn serseant De,eyan 18TH Ecxmsnt.
Brooklyn; w. H.. Thomas. I'd Regiment. Bridgeport;
U H. y. Swatara, and Enoch Cook (coored drummer OF
he Veteran Guards.
Beside these T. r. Taure the secretary Of st. Johns
ud spraued his ankle and wrist from the fall OF his
lorse IN Fourtoeathst, bat he rode up as far as the
Manhattan Hospital tcnts when his limbs became 90
w ollen that he oblged to dismount aud receive
surgical aid.
COMING OVER THE BRIDGE LIKE WAVE.
At the Bridge everything went smoothly.
The by Superintendent Martin on the one
and and Captain Ward the other were perfect The
aptan had sixty on dity and twenty more In read
ness tho entire force should occasion make their pres
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