The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-13
SEVERAL HOOSIERS HURT
GEN. JASPER PACKARD's FOOT
CRUSHED AND ANKLE sPRAINED.
All the AmbuIances md Patrol
wagons I'm the City Necessary to
Care for the Many Wounded.

LOUISVILLE, Sept. 12-While 100000 peo-
river. front at 10 o'clock. tonight portion
of the grand stand. on which were seated
at least ten thousand people, gave way
and many were injured. No fatalities have
been reported. Those injured SO far as
known are:
JOHN FERRIS. farmer, of Brookline.
Mo-, post No. 2l9; foot crushed and ampu-
tation necessary.
MRS. HARSHFIELD. No. s23 East Mar
ket street. Louisville, foot crushed and leg
broken.
MRS. ]. v. FREELAND. of No TAB Third
avenue. Louisville. ankle crushed.
MISS MATTE NORGE. Jeffersonville.
MISS FEDORA STARR, No. 1919 West
Main street.. foot crushed and ankle
spratned.
E.NJ. BURKs.. veteran from Springfield.
Mass, foot crushed and toes amputated.
MISS EVA wI1LIS, foot crushed.
MISS FRIEDA SEM, No. 1912 West JEFF
ferson street ankle broken.
MRS. JULIA ADKINS. No. l2l2 West
Chestnut street, right foot sprained.
MRS. w. c.. NOONEss, No. 1915 East
Broadway. wife Of President Nooness, OF
the Kentucky wagon works, badly injured
leg and foot crushed.
MRS. MAGGIE FERRIS, No. 80 Portland
avenue, left foot and ankle crushed.
Twelve-year-old son of DR.. Peter Gun
therman, Baxter avenue, city, foot crushed
ping ;''S with tii' Mrs. Hayes, Fourth and Hin
streets, foot badly crushed.
GEN. JASPER PACKARD, editor of the
New Albany Tribune, oldest editor in In
diana, foot crushed ana ankle badly
sprained.
w II. GREGG. Bluffton. Ind, back
sprained, right leg broken.
GEcHGE DELoNG. Bluffton. Ind. foot
crushed
MINNIE HAYES, daughter of DR.. John
left foot crushed.
RIDER STEIN, No. 1905 Main street,
Louisville, right knee crushed.
f. D. OvERTON. Ninth street and Broad
way, Louisville, ankle crushed.
HENRY HART, Fifteenth and Prentice
streets. Louisville. leg broken.
KATE HINES. daughter Of Alderman
Hines, right leg broken.
WILLIAM WALTERS. Louisville. leg
broken.
MRS. A. J.. THURBER. Morehead. KY.
BENJAMIN scRoGGIN. Bagiad. KY.
| instep fractured.
MRS. MMILLAN, Chicago, internally in
jured and both legs badly bruised.
r. r. GLOVER, Louisville. foot crushed
| and head bruised.
MARK WALDON, South Louisville, leg
crushed.
STEVE GUTTMANN. South Louisville, leg
| broken
CARRIE DoNNELLY. Pittsburg, internal
| hemorrhage.
ROBERT VAUGHN. Louisville. right foot
| crushed.
WILLIAM WILSON. Louisville. internally
| injured.
LULU KING. Louisville. internally in
| jured.
MRS. MATILDA HAYES, Louisville. legs
| badly bruised.
MRS. DONALD M'DONALD. wife of
| building inspector. foot crushed: also her
| four-year-old son. injured internally.
FRANK MARTIN, Shelby and Market
streets. Louisville, both legs broken.
| WILLIAM WALTERS. Louisville. leg
| broken.
BASIL GUEST. Arbuckle Coffee Company,
| left foot crushed.
| The portion of the grand stand which
| fell was about four hundred feet long and
sixty feet wide. 1t was the lower part
ard only elevated about two feet. Imme-
diately behind this part were seats elevated
eight to twenty feet On the entire stand
there were fifty thousand people. That no
one was killed is one of the marveIs. Had
the seats been elevated to any great dis
tance from the pavement many deaths
must have resulted. AS it was the plat
| form 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 we're made
were forced together and the feet and legs
of hundreds of the spectators were caught
| as in huge trap The noise of the ex-
pIoding bombs and fireworks and the cheer
ing Of the crowd was so great that only
those adjacent to that portion of the
grand stand which fell could hear II. Had
it become generally known a terrible panic
would have followed. AS to The exact num-
| be known. Four policemen who were sta
toned at that part of the stand say that
| they saw from fifty to evelty-five persons
taken away by friends in vehicles. They
assisted at least as many more 10 get
| back on the street back of the stand All
the ambulances and patrol wagons In the
! city were summoned and those Only slight
ly injured were taken to the hotels or to
their homes.
On the portion Of the grand stand which
fell there was scene OF horrifying con-
fusion. Mr.. vreland. assistant city editor
of the Courier-Journal. was present when
the accident occurred. 1T was awful" he
said. Il men and women falling every
where Whether they were fainting from
fright or pain could not say. Then panic
followed. Those who escaped being caught
in the trap made a mad rush for The en-
trance. tramplins over those Who had fsll-