New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-21
RACEGOERS MEET DEATH.


side OF the ear grabbed my legs and drae grI
them ont of the ear, although | managed to keep
the upper part of my body in the For two or
three moments felt my legs scrapins and thump-
! ing Jong the ground IL seemed several minutes,
| hut A. IA matter of fact it only a few seconds
| before the ear, came TO standstIIl.
All can remember is that we going
along AT Il Tremendous, rat" when suddenly on"
side OF the ear tipped up. Wild screams and shouts
went up, and then | felt the edge of the car
giatns, ripping and Humping along the ground.
Then suddenly il stopped. and for a second there
was silence. But the next instant the air wa
iuil Of piercing Shreks and ptcous CRIES iol help.
MANY PINIoNED ny THEIR LEGS.
A. soon IL | could | dl-enenged myself from
the wreck, and found that | not seriously
not 20 fortunate. Nearly all the men who hal
been sitting on the step the
side toward which the ear tippel either
had then feet taken of altOg"thc
81 pinned under tine step and were unable
10 frc. themselves. Many of these people pte
or,v begged those Of rs who were unhnit to Int
;li. ear over and release them. several men, with
myself. lifted one end of the and released
several OF the poor fellows
One Of them. Louis Harms held on his
face by III" ear. crying pItcouSlv for and. eN-
p'ihU'n great u'dl VI pam ho"i
nv foot but managed to hobbc 10
the aso1,tancc OF TIL, poor man. SeN-
oral Of ~ lifted tli" ear up sufficiently - r !ed,"
him. ! Immediately "Nainm' nm ana ioIhl
both of hI~ les w"r" horribly mutlldtcI below
the. knees and that the feet merely hanging
on b.. lew shrrds of flesh and SKIN. II" asked
IN ia" most hratr"ndlng manner II he mus i1s'
hi> feet. /, OF course. saw that they must DE-
taken OH, but ~ Their" was nothing to De gained
by telling him that. | merely CAV" him S'n'
hope THAI they would i"' saved. promptly aP
Tho.
: f-ar..i thar some artery had been -''v'iet ana
IA" man might bleed to death bclor" he could i''
attended t..
4 CooL.HEADEn FHySiCl,N.
We then lifted Iarlng mp and ~arri"d him up
the steep cmbanknent, ior 1t was feared tIa'
another train might run right into the wreck De
lore the disaster was known to Tia" railroad
officials, then returned down the bank 10
A~,-t other, one man. about thirty five years
old, was helped from under the fatal step. HIS
night foot had been crushed through LIT le above
Tho ankle and when We loosen"d il- shoes ana
stockings ms foot fell on W., took HIM up the /
bank and lard him ont with the others IN a place. |
~ safety. did not get his name. dressed
his wound and again went down ia" embarrassment
10 assist others.
The n">t man helped had his left arm broken.
H." had also been sitting on IN" step, and when
fh" shock cam" his arm WAS w"de"h between
two SEATS. The behind w"r" thrown NIo-
lrntlv against hun. and broke his arm. dld /
not attempt 10 set IN" ann, but bandagcd II as
we'll ] rOuld under IN" clr'unlStdnr'~. dll
not get his name.
saw four other men lying under the wreck.
but they seemed IL ~ dead, and hv this time
numhcr of physicians and abc-boded mon had
we'd who were better able 10 look after III"
wounded than | was feeling the effect
n nv iniIrcs very much. and began TO
think Of getting home
GETTING HOME TO NEW YORK
II got mp the hanl, again and Mr. Ba''"v. of
No i2O Nandcrbilt-aVc. Brooklyn. who was
driving along the road nearby in carraG"
Kindly took me- in and drove me 10 thr Fifth
ave elevated railroad. where he turned me over
10 his niond. W II Eghcrt of No. 500 Fulton
S. who escorted mo 10 N"w-Nork
have no means Of knowing what Nh" caus"
If the accident WAS. but | heard sometime about
switchman's opening switch. II l. clear Ia
no however, that few people would have been
lurt if the ears had not h"en ov"rcrowd"d. IL
= fact that only the people sitting on the step
,crc seriously hurt
DR. Bauer was more seriously hurt than b" was
Wiling 10 admit lie unab" Ia walk unas
lated \ Tribune reporter saw him into Il cab. |
mt the phys needed sjmulantS. He had
,cen too Jealous in his good work Of caring for
theirs 10 think of his own Injuries. Ills Sho'S
md the logs Of his trousers had been torn 70