The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-05
ALLVICTIMS OF THE FOURTH.
a STRUGGLE FOR A RIFLE IN WHICH
4 BHSThNDER WAS KILLED.


Fourth Of July OF late years.
1sidor CHASER. a Trainer. 4S years old, OF az
Lenox avenue. and Louis MissiG. a mason. %
years old. OF 22S East 10th street. were among
| the dozen or moro men and boys who were
| celebrating the day at Hath street and Lenox
avenue. CHASER had brought out email rife.
| and Missig was preparing to discharge 1t,
when Chaser seized tho gun to prevent him.
Thetwo men st uggled to secure the weapon,
and their companions gathered to watch them
wrestling. Suddenly the gun was discharged.
neither Of the contestants knows Just how.
The bullet struck Adam Strupee in the groin.
and he fell upon the sidewalk, bleeding
copiously from the wound.
Policeman Reilly of tho East 104th street
I station ran across the street and sent hurry
| call to the Harlem Hospital. but Strupee bled
| to death within a few minutes after receiving
the wound and before the ambulance arrived.
The body was carried to his homo at 20 Lenox
avenue. The dead man was a lamplighter. 50
| years old.
Chaser and Missig were taken to the East
1O4th street station. but were afterward trans
ferred to the West 125th street station. as the
shooting occurred in the Thirtieth precinct
Mrs. Catharine Barry. u boarding house
keeper at 80 East EiGhty-seventh street. had
narrow escape from burning to death. She
was passing the southeast corner OF Park
avenue and Eighty-seventh street when q big
frecracker dropped In front OF her from win
dow of one OF the flats at the corner. 1t ex-
ploded under her skirts and set them on fire. In
or herss n her ars
philip Holtzen. jantor of the apartment
ssfsec on the n 0PIoshtc to her
prompt aid Mrs. Barry was burned on the face CO.
HoltZen went to the Presbyterian Hospital,
where his blistered hands were put in band
ages II could not be discovered who threw
While tho general banging Of flrecrackers
was GOING on all over the upper east side yes
+ IN s Ely
aiaE sas sssaEEa1 Rs
but found no one who had shot or. had seen
Sny s enc else sheet Mrs Lena Hsnts who
nue., said she had been &c m struck avn IN
%smgPss before fhs Su uss had any glanced 'sT
notified and detective oDonohne Was sent to
from a. 22-calibre pistol. but could not dis
cover who owned the weapon. Later he ar
but as It was only toy pstoi the IS, Sergeant sgt
t1e WITH a
20 years old. Of the same. address. and GottIeb
Klein, IL years old. OF 267 Avenue A. were
81 Mss at nEst Eat the sEsn
te eel street ,,1 The men were drinking beer.
containing one pound and half Of gunpowder
and toy cannon.
on 9 se and sparE s
loved yhish., xfeefsd IL saloon and
about the face and hands. window
was smashed and an old man sitting under it.
ter. IheinIured men were taken to Bellevue
Hospital pit n The so small boy ESCAPED: ,ooo
Third avenue, is dying. it i. thought, in the
left side The boy was shot near his
4ss by {hn Smith
eened by an explosion at Eleventh avenue and
Forty-frs street. aud Smith was thrown aud
trampled upon. He died at his home within
:. The full list OF accidents reported by the DO
lice is as follows
to see wSSd not 60 on viii probably
street: burned FACE hands legs through her
cassnsn ased Is s77 Park avenue.
fs q Joy f'eHpn ea.4n. avenue.
hands un. and face burned a, :. =, %.
s Ss
iass II OF bottle of
sf. his "a
ps. Thomas aged 49, of Goerck street. sno. in the
right lung to Gouverneur Hospital.
BY the shs Of ana u
Ts snn nsn ap o. Ta%
Ged6eTs: MARI aged Il Of I;o2s Third shot
Ge f MoTr. AGED a, OF sd Norfolk street; shot
e RAJ 6eaTs. aged q iaGs Eighth avenue;
TO- ssa a. Of S'
42o E. Six
street burned ss On fsG s Hna hands
Ign; iaseratea wound from an explosion Of
Held. Charles aged TO- OF sS4 Third avenue; shot in
Htntz. Lena. aged27. of 941 First avenue; sho, in
HOFFMAN. Mrs. Mamie. Of 24e East Fourth street;
orchar street wound dressed by an nmhn lance sur.
sg
street kundt and AbtomoSieh Mers arrested
LEI; eye ana @ BY powder
Haitzsr Philip aged 80, OF 1ol East Eiuhty.seventh
street; hands severely burned ia tearing of Mrs.
Klein. Gottieb. aged is OF ae7 Avenue A. burned on
Klnke George aged "A. of 1857 First avenue: hands
badly our 1"nn with po gsJ E, ., cso r,,, ,.,
struck head by spent bullet in front of 2395 Third
powdsr burns about eyes and lace 10 harsn Nos
Mrrgethaler. Charles aged 80 OF 400 East Sixteenth
street burned on face and hands.
Moser. Ira. coIOre,i aged nf Third place Nor
hands burned and cut by glass by plosion
NJ bottle OF powder. which some white boys held |
behind him: to Fordham IlO.p.tni.
MIligan, Patrick aged 40, of 3.27D Third avenue
thrown from wagon aud badly hurt near tho KiEgs
bridge railroad station his horse being frightened by
fireworks; t0FOrdhan Iosrital.
Moran b i, aged 49, Of s94 West l22th street hand
SewberV. I'd w ard aged H. Of 247 East Fort fourth
street. burned about head holy and hands By the
Ilos lOn OF a bottle or powder: TO Bellevue.
0kests jeremiah. o. l.!4H Avenue A; shot under
Pre- sbyterian Hospital
Preston Mary, aged 3D. of Minetta street; wounded
n face by a hrecracker
PyfEocii. Frank. a Bohemian cripple Of 40 East
sixty third street face peppered with pebbles from
10Y cannon fred by Frank kempf, aged H. OF 400 East
sixty bird street. Kempf was arrested
Reilly Peter Of 81 East Fourth street, shot in right
,heek: 10 Bellevue.
10Th ankles badly arernted by explosion OF pack Of
to Roosevelt Hospital.
Sands. George aged ~ OF :I7 East Forty-fourth
tire et burned about he ad body. and hands by the
,losiou OF n bottle Of powder: to bellevue.
RuotInAn, Henry, aged ~. of AL East Fourteenth
treet shot himself in right hand.
Schaener Henry aged - OF t30 First avenue, left
INDEX finger b own of by toy cannon.
Sold James aged 10, OF +o7 East 18TH street, shot
himself in the hip. ... -
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