Evening journal., 1890-11-28
THOUSANDS Went DOWN
n Stand Coilapses at the Prince
ton-Yale Game.
rIrrx PEOPLE WE'RE IsJuRED

whe wsnaer Was That Number of the
5000 Struggling Human Bsings Were
Not Crushed 80 Death by the Debris
Fatal Accident at Indianapolis.
NEw YoRK. Nov. aS-By what seems tc
have been rniswcle the great Yale-p Prince.
ton footbasl game yesterday escaped en- in.
production OF slaughter at Eastern park
A temporary stand broke down, causing
more OF less serious injury to half y hun.
alred persons; hnt, providentially, causing
the death OF no one. For the purpose OF
providing more seats, the managers Of the
park had sent to it from Philadelphia q
movable stand. capable of accommodating
about 5000. This contrivance with iron
supports and wooden seats about six inches
across and three inches in thickness, IL
so constructed that it can readily be
taken to pieces and quickly put together
again. 1t was erected in the southeasterly
section Of the park, nearly opposite the
eastern end Of the grand stand. It was in
tended Cor us5 by persons who had paid
the dollar entrance fec but had not pur-
chased two dollar reserved seats
Au@ StlA&au AnAueN DOWN.
In anticipation Of great crush when
the hour foe calling the game approached
quite number Of sensible spectators
reached the grounds about noon. The
temporary stand having been erected AZ
greater distance from the fence, aud there
fore nearer the playing field than the
other bleacheries, the early arrivals gave
IL the preference, and as consequence
* af mar.
sons, OF whom perhaps a score were women.
1t WAS extremely cold on the grounds and
some OF the young men on the stand, with
= view 20 warming themselves. began
jumping up anw down on the seats, which
ran from about foot from the ground in
the front TO a height OF about sixteen feet
in the rsan
The stand coilapses.
The police say that at least 800 men and
boys we're engaged in this perilous pro-
ceeding when che great stand collapsed
with a crush. The north end fell 90 the
ground and tha southern portion few up
ward. while three thousand people we're
buried in the 0~bris. In an instant after
the collapse the air was filled with the
shrieks and Rroans Of those injured
Capt French Of the new ward precinct,
who was on the grounds with a detail OF
his men, set them TO work to extricate the
fifty or &c parsons pinned under the fallen
stand, and then rushed to the nearest tele-
phone and eens word 70 headquarters 70
have all the ambulances in the city sent
20 the park
Owing 70 the lightness Of the material
with which the stand was constructed the
work of extrication was not either difficult
OF tedious, ana the debris had been almost
I'D y. 4.
bulance arrived. Ia fifteen minutes it was
ascertsined that no one had been killed
List Of the Injured.
The injured so far as known are:
John Agniar. Cuba cadet at Peekskill Lex
Perrine Bonnsy. cadet at PeeAskn, kuee
spraiued
s. @. Dunuiags Princeton. III. confusion OF leg.
Frank X Mfrsage. Princeton, ~ hurt about
che legs.
". FaHer. student, Bayonue. n. J., slight
ncalp woun&.
james McGloae. agcd is years, i0s stone ave
nue. Broosrfyu csutused leg
John Il. mcKran, Princeton. theological stu
dent ccsnponad eracturn OF the Lex.
Edward peiFie piainheld \. =, Princeton, %,
hip bCnised
y b. Remington. se clinton st-co,. Brooklyn,
right foot aud aukle ianlmed,
~ - xurnvss r yrars student Troy \. Y, fract.
nre Of lcft ARIA.
Lawrence Van Buren,, plainheld. Princeton
graduate, rght ankle badly crushed.
Albert Weed aoa Clinton, muscles Of the back
strained aud bs1ssed
Charles whsoa y years. 20 Bowery leg bruised
George A. @y4ie, . years, photographer, Hotel
Noriuaudie slight confusion 81 the back.
Alexander BrouEh. Jr., lawyer. 100 East Thirty.
righth sssueA leg bruised.
Elder. Princeton, Q3, thigh bruised
Oufey, rssDocmon 81 arm iammed
w A. Csind Princeton '0s. hex jammed
r. 8 Keeier. ~ East Thirty ighth street Go.
lnmbia SCHOOL Of Mines, 81 left wrist broken
". Keesef, brother Of the above, right wrist
sprained
ilaalSin. rrinccton 'as ankle spraiued.
Cause Of the Accident.
Wagner Bros, Of Philadelphia, erected
the staud. They employed two expert
stand bnfiders who had the use OF a patent
owned BY Mr.. ziegler. OF Buffalo. Mr.
Ziegier's petont was to build stand con
structod with such an admirable interde-
pendence ct tinbers that the more people
you put cu TIRE stand the stronger aud
firmer 1t became
The managers Of the park however,
claim that it would have stood the strain
OF the 5000 people it was expected TO hold.
They say that it was the jumping at one
end Of il chat caused il to collapse.