The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
THE GRAND.STAND WRECK.
1t Gave Way Under 10000 People.
List of Those Injured.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 12.-While
100, 900 people were watching the fire
works along the river front at 10 o'clock
tonight, portion Of the grand stand
on which were seated at least 10000
people, gave way, and many were in
jured. No fatalities were reported. AS
far as known the injured were:
HARRIFIELD, Mrs, No. 50 East Market
street Louisville, foot crushed and leg
broken.
vREBLAND. Mrs. W. j. No. 748 Third av-
nue. Louisville, ankle crushed.
HORGNE Miss Matte, Jefersonville,
Ind, foot crushed.
STARR, Miss Fedora, l129 West Main ST.,
foot crushed and ankle sprained.
BURKS, T.. j., veteran from Springfield,
Mass, foot crushed; will have to be am
putated.
WILLIS, Miss Eva, Morning Sun, o.. foot
SEM, Miss Frteda, 9l2 West Jefferson St,
ankle broken.
ADKINS, Miss Julia, 1912 West Chestnut
street, right foot sprained.
NOONESS, Mrs. W. c., wife of Presidents
Nooness, OF Kentucky Wagon Works, leg
and foot crushed.
FERRIS, MIS-. Maggie 33 Portland avenue,
foot and ankle crushed
a twelve-year-old son of Dir. Peter Gun
therman, Baxter avenue, foot crushed.
BENNETT Miss, Evansville, Ind, foot
PACKARD, Col. Jos, editor Few Albany
Tribune foot crushed and ankle badly
sprained.
GREGG, w. j., Blufton, Ind, back
sprained, right leg broken.
DELONG, George, Button, Ind, foot
crushed.
HAYES, Minnie. daughter of DR.. John
Hayes, Louisville, left foot crushed.
STEVIN, Rider, Louisville, right knee
oYERT0N, +. D., Louisville, ankle
HART, Henry F., Louisville, leg broken.
HINES, Kate, daughteC of Alderman
Hines, right leg broken.
The grand stand which fen was about
400 feet long and sixty let wide. That
no one was killed is marvel. Had the
seats been elevated to any great dis
tauce, many deaths must have result
ed AS it was The platform on
which the seats were placed,
swerved to the rear and then
settled to the ground with crash. AS
it careened, the planks of which the seats
were made we're forced together and the
feet and legs of hundreds Of the specta-
tors were caaght as in huge trap. The
noise of the exploding bombs and the
fireworks and the cheering Of the crowd
was so great that only those ad
iacent to the grand stand it is h ar it.
Had it become generally known panic
would have followed. The exact nam.
ber AZ people injured will never be
known. Four policemen who were stand
ing at that part Of the stand say that
they saw from fifty to seventy-five per-
sons taken away by friends in vehicles.
They assisted at least as many more
back of the stand. All the ambuiancos
and patrol wagons in the city were sum
moned and those only slightly injured
were taken to the hotels at which they
were stopping or to their homes. On
the portion of the g@nd-stand which
fell there was scene Of horrifying con-
fusion. Mr. Vreeland, assistant editor
of the Courier Journal, was present when
the accident occurred.
sit was awful, said he. 81 saw men
and women falling everywhere. Whether
they were fainting from frigat or pain l
could not say. Then panic followed.
Those Who escaped being caught in the
trap made q rush for entrance, tramp
ling over those who had fallen while those
who had been caught, screamed for aid.
Meantime, the vast multitude on all
sides confined to cheer and applaud the
grand fireworks that continued to ex-
plode and light up the sky"