The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-05
Several Fatally Hurt md Two Score
with Mangled Legs and Arms and
Bodies Badly Crushed.
GRAND STAND COLLAPSES
ACCIDENT DURING THE BICYCLE
RACES AT BUFFALO YESTERDAY.
Three Spectators Out of N Large Num-
ber Injured May Die-Other Fourth
of July Casualties.
Special to the indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
BRISTOL, Ind, July 4-One of the worst
accidents that ever occurred in northern
Indiana happened here at o'clock this aft
ernoon. About three hundred people were
on the bridge and its approaches over st.
Joseph's river, watching tub race, when
one hundred feet of sidewalk collapsed.
precipitating fully one hundred people 10
the rocks thirty feet below. The iron and
timber fell on the mass of humanity with
crushing effect, and forty-seven people were
injured. some fatally. and many crippled
for life. The following twenty-seven people
received the worst injuries:
DR.. C. z. DUTROW many bones broken,
body and head crushed; will die.
CLYDE TRUMBULL, Three Rivers.
Mich. body and head crushed; probably
fatally injured.
bodily injuries and condition serious.
MRS. ALBERT STAMP. bruised and un-
conscious from shock; leg and arm broken.
broken.
HUBERT NICHOLSON. leg and arm
Mrs. NJ LITTLE. both legs lsss, broken. broken
@, B. FLOYD. legs broken.
HOWARD MYERS, legs broken.
MISS MARY MILLER. legs broken.
ARTHUR SASSMAN. Mottville. Mich.
III,
MISS LYDIA king. one leg broken.
MISS LYDIA TRATTLES. Porte, AIich
foot crushed and neck injured.
FRANK FRY. hurt internally.
MRS. E. j. SMITH, arm broken.
JOHN KISTNER. Elkhart. injuries to
hip and head:
MISS STEWART. head cut and foot
CHARLES CARRIMEN, head and foot
NUT CARRIMEN. head and foot mashed.
DOUGLAS STEWART internal injuries.
| FRANK REPLOGLE. serious body in
MRS. FRANK REPLoGLE. crushed
MISS REPLoGLE. body crushed and
bruised; I; ,l,s badly I, Injured; -,
| and internal injuries
JESSE FRAME, Elkhart, leg broken and
4 hurt internally.
| Twenty others who were more or less
crushed and bruised demanded the atten-
ton of the physicians after being removed
/ from the scene of the accident, but their
| injuries are only slight compared with
those mentioned above.
| Hardly a man or woman who went down
with the wreck escaped without bad
! scratches or bad bruises. Twenty or more
lay unconscious in a dead faint for some
| time after being carried away. 1t was sup
| posed at first that score had been killed,
| but the timbers of the bridge gave away
! slowly. and the fall was not bad as it
might have been. OF the injured half
/ dozen or more, whose injuries not fully
! determined tonight, may die. but it is be-
/ lieved that not more than three are fatally
| hurt.
Bristol has about six hundred inhabitants,
and half the town was out TO see the race
on the river. For some time the excitement
was so wild that none knew what to do,
and the mass of struggling people climbed
over and injured each other. number of
the victims fell in the water, but it Is be-
lieved none was drowned Physicians were
brought from the surrounding country
towns, and tonight all that is possible is
being done to relieve the distress of the
nearly half hundred victims.