The record-union., 1895-07-11
COLLAPSE OF A STAND.
"A Thousand People Precipitated Over
Twenty Feet.

- NAHouSsshu L eople TFeClpttaCeu over
Twenty Feet.
ATLANTIC CITY On. J.). July 10-A
frlghtful accident terminated the Elks'
festivities at the Inlet Casino to-night. in
which large number OF persons aus
tanned terrible injuries, from which some
will die.
1t was at $50 o'clock when Grand Ex-
alted Ruler of the Buffalo body, Meade
ID. Detwiler of Harrisburg, had finished
his address at the opening OF the social
season Of the Elks and was about to in
troduce James j. Armstrong of New
York, when q crack from the stand was
heard. moment later the stand. upon
Which were almost a thousand people,
slowly parted and the mass of humanity
was precipita!ed to the first floor, dis
tance of twenty five feet.
Men, women and children vera
plunged into the hole and upon one an
other. The cries, Shrieks and groans
were deafening, and the direst confusion
reigned.
An alarm was Immediately sent out,
and all The physicians IN town responded.
Ihe work of eXtrlcating the injured pro-
! ceeded rapidly, and by II O'Clock they
had all been removed to the hospitals or
their hotels.
Among the Injured are: At the United
States Hotel-C. NJ. Foote of Memphis.
collar bone and arm broken; C.. X. Lom-
bard OF Boston. feet crushed and arm
fractured; j. K. Duke OF Joliet, H.,
badly injured on the head and about the
lace. AL Shauifter's Hotel-James Long
OF the internal Revenue Service, Phla-
delpha, injured about the face and nose
broken; Ullie Lee of Camden, internally
hurt; Charles Folwell OF Camden, left leg
broken; George j. Peachlin of Camden,
leg crushed. At the Majestic-Charles j.
Armstrong, Exalted Ruler of the New
York Lodge sof Elks internal injuries,
and also his little ten- year-old daughter
hurt: Mrs. Jappha and her niece, Miss c.
trledenthal OF New York, slight internal
injuries. Az the Albemarle-Mrs. G.
Meyers OF Philadelphia, leg fractured;
Mrs. X. A. Liverley OF East Liverpool,
o.. spine Injured.
In addition to the above, the following
are at other hotels: Prescott Eckermau
OF Mount Holley. n. j., leg broken Fred.
Laproth of Camden, internal injuries,
probably fatal; j. Melville Janson of Car
niero's Theater, Philadelphia, eye and leg
badly cut; Mrs. Janson. com pound fract-
ure OF leg; Mrs. Anton Webber of Brook
lyn. back injured. Mrs. Henney, bruised
about the limbs and teeth knocke ed out:
John Throun of Baltimore, severe cut on
the mead; James Long OF Camden, nose
broken; Mrs. William w. Mines of Cam
den, fractured elbow and badly bruised;
Frank Wilson, ankle fractured; j. L.
Eckman. Mount Holley, n. j., ankle
fractured; G. L. Just, leg broken; F. De-
mond, internally injured Frank Bolton,
eye cut and badly injured; Dr.. Frye of
Pom County, Va, seriously bruised;
c. f. Sheriff, shoulder and knee badly
bruised; Mrs. c. f. Sheriff, left side
injured; j. NJ. Newbury, foot badly
bruised; Mrs. William Lee, slight
injury; Mrs. r. CHASER. badly bruised;
Miss Colvin of Allegheny, Pa, head CUT
and left limb bruised; Mrs. Knox Little
MIR. Lee, Camden. internally injured;
Mrs. James Armstrong, injured inter-
nally; Montrose Barringer, New York,
fractured knee; Leopold Frye, Phila-
delphia, leg broken; Antonio Dunon of
Camden, leg broken.
Captain Samuel Perry had just begun
the preliminaries of starting the social
session. The night was a fine one. and
as the strains of the music foated out
over the ocean 1t seemed that more jOy-
Gus crowd couldsnot have been gathered
together anywhere.
just chen the crash came. A portion
OF the floor, about thirty feet square,
located at the middle OF the pavilion and
near the railing on the board walk side,
came tumbling down, bringing along
about 100 people.
In a second the electric lights on the
second floor We're exiting Euished, but
luckily those on this floor kept burning
long enough to permit some of the panic
stricken people to get to the stairway,
which remained intact, and reach the
board walk. Men. women and children
were jammed together. trying to escape
by the stairway; while the victims OF the
crash were screaming for aid to extricate
them from the fallen beams and timbsrs.
An alarm of ire was turned in, bat
when the firemen arrived all the victims
had been released.
Fred c. Laproth. a mem Der of the Jen-
nlngs Band of Camden, died at the City
Hospital late tonight as the result Of in
ternal injuries.