St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-28
CRUSHED AND MANNED
Scene Of Horror at the Yale
Princeton Football
Game.
Fifty People Mangled by the
Fall Of a Grand
Stand.
One Of Chicago's Five Story
Brick Buildings Top
plies Over.
Steamer j. P. Leathers Burned
at Fort Adams, Mis-
sissippi.

dent occurred on the grounds at East
ern park. Brooklyn, before the Yale
Princeton foot ball game was played.
The big free stand OH the eastern side
OF the grounds, furtherest from the
grand stand, suddenly collapsed, carry
ing down with it its entire load of hu-
man beings. The crash came without
any warning whatever, and at the time
the long rows of bleachers were closely
packed with spectators. 1t is estimated
that there were more than 1000 people
In the structure at the time. a scene
of indescribable confusion and panic
followed the crash, which was heard in
all parts of the grounds. The occupants
were mostly men, majority OF them
students from Yale ard Princeton.
There were also many women in the
crowd. They all lay in confused and
struggling mass upon the ground. Many
of them were completely buried under
the wreckage Of plankS and joists, of
which
The R1ckety Structure
was built. The screams and shrieks
and groans which came from the un-
.l
Many tainted away from the injuries
viii ch they received. In an instant
there was general rush for that part
of the field, and score OF more of
blue-coated policemen were seen en-
gagged in pulling the manned and
wounded from the wreck. Others lent
their assistance, and within ten min
utes the whole place had been cleared.
At first 1t was feared that some might
have been killed. but this fear proved
TO be unfonnded. a great many per-
sons, however, were very severely hurt,
and broken limbs and bruised heads
aid bodies were numerous. Many OF
the friends of the wounded people had
them carried atonce out of the grounds
and placed in hacks, which took them
away before their names could be
learned. In this way great many
cases were not reported to the police.
The big dressing room under the grand
stand was rgged up as hos
pital, and the surgeons from three
ambulanceS from the Brooklyn hospital,
which had been summoned as soon as
the accident occurred, had their hands
full with patients. Among those who
were treated on the grounds and after
wards taken away were Charles Wilson,
ankle disloeated; Cadets john Aquillar
and Perrin Darney, of the
Military Institute
at Peekskill: two young lads. backs
badly sprained and bruised; Emery B.
Remington. Princeton '93, leg broken;
Yale man, name not learned, suffer
ing from conclusion of the spine; TWO
Rutgers college students, heads bruised
and cut; John Monroe. Princeton. con-
tuslon of the legs; S. &. Dunning,
Princeton '9l, broken ankle: George A.
Wylie, thigh broken; james McGlOne,
internal injuries; F. S. Keeler, Column
bia '9l. broken wrist: John Weed,a Yale
student. injured internally and taken
out unconscious. Stephen 2. Speare. a
Yale student. arm broken; John Car
ruthers, a Wesleyan university student,
badly cut about the head; Eldridge. a
Princeton '94, both legs badly jammed
about the ankle; - Curley. another
'91 Princeton student, knocked uncou-
scious by blow on the head. His case
Is deemed very serious: - Leonard,
a resident on Fifth avenue, New Iork.
a middle-aged man. had his right leg
broken; Edward Morgan.a Yale student,
leg broken; - McKean, Princeton
theological student, compound fraction of
the left leg; - Bradley. '92 Princeton,
both legs badly hurt: A. We'll, fractured
collar-bone; G, Turner, leg hurt; II. w.
Failer. scalp wound: George a. john
SON, confusion OF spine. A lot of boys,
a doZen or more. names not learned,
I'm IA I'm nj Al
bleacherS, were
Badly Bruised
and cut. The only ladies who were
hurt were two Brooklyn women. one of
whom had her feet crushed and the
other her leg bruised. They were first
taken to the managers Office, near the
main entrance, and were afterwards
taken from the ground by their friends.
Some OF those who were buried beneath
the wreckage and were taken out un-
conscious afterwards recovered and de-
clined to be treated. They went on the
field again and found other places to
view the game. The lowest estimate
puts The number of people injured at
fifty, while others place ii as high as
sixty or more. The stand was evidently
in most unsafe condition, for the bro
ken timbers showed that many of them
were nearly rotted in two, while the
structure was the most flimSy affair inn
aginable. When it began to fill up with
spectators the joistS were heard to crack
and strain, and many who started to find
seats gave it up as dangerous job.
Several persons stationed themselves
near the entrance of the stand and
warned people not to go up, as it was
was unsafe. Every one claimed that
very superficial examination of the
structure would have shown that it was
totally insufficient TO support the crowd