The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-28
:IFTYE STUDENTS INJURED.
Accideht at the Yale-Prince-
ton Football Game.
The Free Stand Falls by the Weight OF
1000 Interest. al Spectators Grent
Confusion and II cartrcnding Scenes
Tho Dressing Room Turned Into Hos
pitnl-The Injured NJ. 'stly Students.

Tho Dressing Room Turned Into u Hos.
pitnl-The Injured NJ, ,stly Students.
BRooKIYN, n. Y, Nov. a1..-[Special]
"A terrible accident occurre d on the
football grounds at Eastern, Park,
Broollyns few minutes after IL
o'clock, and before the Yalc-Prinrcton
game began.
The big free stand on the eastern side
of the grounds furthcst from the grand
stand suddenly collapsed, carrying down
with it its entire load of human beings.
The crash came without any warning
Whatever, and at the time tho long
rows OF blcachers were closely packed
with spectators
1t is estimated that there were more
than 1000 people on the structure at
the time.
Asceno OF indcscribablo confusion and
panic followed tho crash. which was
heard in all parts of the grounds.
The occupants were mostly men, Il
great majority of them students from
Yale and Princeton. There were also
many women in the crowd
Thoy all lay in confusad and strug-
CLING mass upon tho ground, many of
them completely buried under the
wreckage of planks and jois,s, of which
the rickcty structure was built.
Tho screams and shrieks and groans
which came from the unfortunatcs were
heartrcnding to hear. Many tainted
from tho injuries they received.
In an instant there was a general rush
Tor that part of the field and a score or
more OF pollccmcn were soon engaged in
pulling the manned and wounded from
the wreck. Others lent their assistance.
and within ten minutes the whole place
had been cleared.
At first it was feared that some might
have been killed, but this fear proved
unfounded
a great many persons, however, were
very severely hurt and broken limbs
and bruised heads and bodies we're
numerous. Many friends OF the wounded
people had them carried at once out of
the grounds and placed in hacks, which
took them away before their names
could be learned. In this way n great
many cases were not reported to tho
police.
The big dressing room under the
grand stand was turned into Il hospital,
and surgeons from tho brooklyn hospi-
tai had their hands full with patients.
Among those who were treated on
the grounds and afterwards taken away
were: Charles Wilson, 4o3 Downcy
street, brooklyn. ankle dislocated;
Cadets John Aquillar, and Perrin Dalney,
n hn ~
two young lads, backs badly spraincd
and bruised; Emery Il. Remington. 3os
Clinton street, brooklyn, princeton,
'93) leg broken; a Yale man, name not
learned, is suffering from conclusion of
the spine; two Rutgers College students,
heads bruised and cut; John Monroe,
Princeton. broken ankle; George A.
Wylie, Hotel Normandie, thigh broken;
James McGlonc, Brooklyn, internal in
juries; +. S. Keeler. Columbia, 'gD
broken wrist; John Weed, "A Yale student,
injured internally and taken out I'M
conscious: S. p. Spear, Yale
student, arm broken; John Carruthers,
Wesleyen student, badly cut about the
head; Eldridge, Princeton 81, both legs
badly jammed; Curley, another '94
Princeton student, knocked uncon-
sciou. by Il blow on the head and case
Fifth avenue, New York, a middlc-aged
man, right leg broken; Edward Morgan,
Yale student, leg broken; Mexican,
Princeton theological student, COM
pound fracture of the left leg; Bradley,
% Princeton student, both legs badly
hurt; a. We'll, 32G East 18th street,
New York, fracture of collar bone, G.
Turner, Troy, leg hurt; IL. w. Fuller,
Bayonne, \. j., scalp wound; George A.
Johnson, Hotel Normandic, confusion
OF the spine
A lot of boys, a dozen or more, whose
names were not learned, and who stood
upon the top row of bleachcrs, were
badly bruised and cut
The only Ladies' who were hurt were
two brooklyn women, one of whom had
her foot crushed and the other her leg
bruised. They were first taken to the
managers Office, near tho main on
trance, and were afterwards taken from
the grounds by their friends.
Some of these who were buried he
meath the wrecliage, and who were
taken out unconscious, afterwards re-
covered and declined to be treated
They went on the field again and
found other places to view the game.
The lowest estimate puts the number
of injured at fifty, while others place it
as high as sixty or more.
The stand was evidently in q most
unsafe condition, for the broken timbers
showed many of them were rotted in
two, while tho whole affair was the
most fiimsy structure Imaginable.
When it began to ill up with specta-
tOrs the iOiStS wore hna ri to eronl- apJ