Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-28
MANY SPECTATORS HURT.
A FliInsily Constructed Stand ut the Bi
Foot Ball Game Collapees.

flimsily Constructed Stand ut the Big
Foot Bali Game Collapses.
The big free stand on the eastern side OF
Eastern Park. Brooklyn, farthest from the
grand stand, suddenly collapsed at the foot ball
game yesterday at noon, carrying down with it
Its entire load Of human 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 1900 people in the
structure at the time.
MANY BADLY HURT.
The occupants we're mostly men, great ma
jority of them students from Yale and Prince
ton. There were also many women in the
crowd. They all lay in confused and strug-
Cling mass upon the ground. At first it was
feared that some might have been killed, but
this fear proved to be unfounded. great
many persons, however. were very severely
hurt, and broken limbs and bruised heads and
bodies were numerous. A lot of boys. dozen
or more, names not learned, who stood upon
the top row of the bleachers 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.
The stand was evidently in a most unsafe con-
dition. for the broken timbcrs showed that
many of them were nearly rotted in two,
while the whole structure was the most flirlsy
affair imaginable. 1t was reported that bets
were made quite early at odds of five to
the game was over. The greatest indig-
nation prevailed among the people in the
grounds against the management Of Eastern
Park, and the blame was all put upon
those officers. Every one claimed that a very
superficial examination of the structure would
have shown that it was utterly insufficient to
support the crowd which would occupy it.
THE INJURED.
Among those who were treated on the
grounds and afterward taken away we're:
Charles Wilson of 403 Downey street, Brooklyn,
ankle dislocated; Cadets John Aquillar and
Perm Daney of the Military Institute at Peeks-
kill. two young lads, backs badly sprained and
bruised: Emery B. Remington of 300 Clinton
street, Brooklyn. Princeton '93, leg broken;
Yale man, name not learned. suffering from
conclusion of the spine; two Rutgers College
students. heads bruised and cut: John Monroe,
Princeton, confusion of the legs; s. G.. Dun
ming, Princeton 81. broken ankle; George A.
Mylie, Hotel Normandie, thigh broken; James
McGlone, Brooklyn, internal injuries; F. s.
Keeler, Columbia 81, broken wrist; John
Weed, a Yale student, injured internally and
taken out unconscious; s. ?. Spear, Yale stu
dent, arm broken; John Carruthers. n Wesleyan
student. badly cut about the head; - Ed
| ridge Princeton man of "a, both legs badly
jammed about the ankles; - Curly, another
81 Princeton student, knocked unconscious by
blow on the head; case deemed very serious;
= Leonard, a resident on 5th avenue, New
York, middle-aged man. had his right leg
broken; Edward Morgan, a Yale student, leg
broken; Mexican, Princeton theological
student, compound fracture of the left leg;
- Bradley. '92 Princeton, both legs badly
hurt; A. We'll, 32G East 18th street. New York.
fracture of collar bone: c. Turner of Troy, leg
hurt; H. w. Fuller, Bayonne. n. j., scalp
wound; George A. johnson, Hotel Normandie,
confusion of spine.