Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-10
ONE DEATH TO MAR THE FESTIVAL

a remarkable feature in connection
with The celebration was the comparative
" small number of accidents and emer-
gency hospital cases. Not more than $50
people had been taken TO the hospital be-
fore the multitude started surging home
ward. Nearly all of those who were re-
ceived at the hospital needed only tempo
rary treatment. James MalcOmb, q Wis
itor from California, dropped on the floor
of the Mining building during the after
noon and was taken unconscious to the
ambulance wagon. He died at the hos
pital one hour after being received and
the doctors said apoplexy was the cause of
death.
Elaborate arrangements had been made
by the big restaurant companies for the
feeding of the thousands who did not
bring their lunches, but the very presence
of such a multitude almost caused a
famine in the refresh ment market. The
Wellington Catering company alone pro-
vided for 300, 600 people. But early in the
afternoon they were compelled to turn the
people away for the want of supplies.
This was cansed by the inability OF the
company to get itsfourteen supply wagons
through the dense crowd to the various
this company.
The rush for admittance into the
grounds may be conceived when it is
known that at no time since the fair
opened have all the gates been used to
anything like their full capacity, and for
some time past many of the gates have not
been used at all. But yesterday all were
open from 6:30 a. N. until late in the after
noon, and at all times there was jam at
every gate. Yet these facilities were in
adequate. At l p. N. Superintendent
| Tucker ordered every wagon gate opened
and stationed a corps of men at each to
take tickets, relieving the pressure from
| without to marked degree. A bout 4
| o'clock, when it was seen that the crowds
| had diminished sufficiently to permit oil
! their handling by the regular entrances
| the wagon gates were closed after 500 OOC
| people had been admitted. To this vast
army Isl, 900 were added in the next three
| hours.
| The glorious October weacher, and the
| grandness of Chicago day at the fair
kept the crowds coming all afternoon and
| evening. Previous to this ever-memorable
day the palm for large attendance rested
with Independence day, July 4, when tbs
attendance was 2S3, ,213. Others days nota
BILE for great crowds are: Illinois day
43,951; Transportation day 231, ,522; PoIisf
day Qast Saturday, DDS, 176; Knights Of
Honor day 215, 643; Pennsylvania day 203,
AGO. and Railroad day 202, 315. The creates
day at Paris was 397, $50 and at Philadel
phia 2I7 ,526.
A large number of casualties resulted
from the awful jams at the downtown
terminal stations and from the overcrowd
ed condition of all surface cars. Ouly on,
fatality is reported, Charles A. Clark, o
Buffalo, was struck by grip car on Madi
son street and killed. Among the injured
by minor accidents were William J. Burr
Hopkins county, Ky, struck by a grip ca
and seriously injured-taken to the hos
pital; Andrew Wells, Waupaca, Wis
knocked down by grip car-taken t.
hospital; Miss Nettie Rogers, Columbus
O.; Mrs Matilda Stewart. Fond du Lac
Wis, and Charles Long, of Cincinnati, O.
badly bruised in the crush at the Congress
street elevated station.
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