Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
A WEEK OF CALAMITY
eliminates in q Peculiar Accident to
Forty or Fifty Visitors
TO THE OHIO FAIR AT COLUMBUS.
A Section Of Glass Sidewalk Over the Neil
House Basement Gives Way,
INJURING MANY PEOPLE, SOME FATALLY
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TIE DISPATCH,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TIE DIsPATCH.t
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 15-This seems to
be calamity week, and the thousands OF
visitors to the State fair will have occasion
to remember their stay in the capital city
OF the State. A few minutes after o'clock
tonight, just after the display of fireworks
in the Capitol Square, which was witnessed
by probably $4,000 people, the second
serious accident of the week occurred in
front of the Neil House block
James Leach, crippled dwarf, whose
limbs and arms are shriveled up and who
makes his living by attending fairs and
whistling on the street. was entertaining
the crowd on High street, just south of the
Neil House entrance, when the huge jam
Of people, consisting of men, women and
children, crowded on the glass grating over
the sidewalk. Without moments warn
ing section of the grating, about by 20
feet, gave way and precipitated 40 or 30 peo-
pie to the bottom of the basement. The
people went down in the mass of broken
glass and twisted iron, piled three and four
deep.
Instantly there was the greatest excite
ment A heart-rending scream went up
from the women and mingled with the cries
of the children and the meanings of the in
jured.
Assistance Difficult to Render.
A swaying mass of people crowded about
the place, and for some moments the jam
was so great that no assistance could be
rendered the unfortunate victims of the ac-
cident. Finally the police pushed the
crowd back, stretched rope, and the work
of rescuing commenced. Those who were
last to go down escaped with slight bruises,
but the unfortunate first were crushed,
bruised and battered up, many having
broken arms and legs, with ugly cuts from
which the blood flowed protusely. In the
heap were old and young, women and men
and children.
The most seriously injured was James
Leach, the cripple, aged about 80 years.
He was unable to walk because of his
shriveled limbs, and his arms were almost
useless at best. In the fall both of his legs
and left arm were broken, his face cut in a
dozen places, and he was bruised about the
body His injuries are considered fatal.
His home is at Pleasantville, Ohio.
Moses Rothschild, German, aged about 80
years, received internal injuries that are
considered serious and probably fatal.
Others who were quickly hurried away
are badly injured, and some of these are be-
lltNcu W Uc 1WO pdLiOl
wagons and several hacks were summoned,
and the injured taken to the hospital and
their homes
A List of Those Injured.
AS near as could be ascertained q correct
list of those seriously injured, besides those
already mentioned, is as follows:
WILLIAM CoNNoRs, aged about l6, 562 George
street. right leg badly cut, foot mashed
and internally injured.
MRS. E. j. HAYES, South Bloomfield, left leg
bruised and internal injuries.
MRS. L. B. MORRIS, 236 Nineteenth street,
limb badly bruised.
MRS. BEEBE FISHER, 132 Vine street, bruised
limbs.
Miss EMMA KRONER, South Front street,
limb bruised and injured about body.
MISS ROSE DoNAHUE, Grubb street, West
Side, lower limbs bruised and ugly cash in
hip. A lady friend, whose name was not
learned, went down with Miss Donehue.
but received only slight cuts and bruises;
their clothing was badly torn in the fall.
MAUD RAMSEY, colored, about Is years old,
of Logan. Right leg bruised and sprained.
Rosa ALsPAUeH, West Fulton street, arm