Evening journal., 1896-05-06
DEATH IN The PARADE.
One Killed and Six Injured In
Barnum's Circus Pageant.
CRUSHED BY HOOPS AND WHEELS

A Team Frightened by an Elephant
PIunges Into Crowd Of Peopie-scores
Were Knocked Under Wagon Laden
with Three Tons of Coal.
PATERSON, N. j., May G-The horses
attached to a loaded coal wagon became
frightened sc the elephants in the Barnum
a Bailey circus parade, which was pasa-
ing through Main street. dashed through
the crowd and killed boy, Edward
Schultz aged j years, and injured six per
sons before their progress was checked.
The injured are Mrs. Greer, bruises and
cuts; Thomas Hampden, 10 Lane street,
face cut; Edward Olsen, n Clinton street,
oontusions; Olga Olsen, 16 years old, a.
Clinton street, shoulder broken; william
II. Sohaffhausser, 20 Close street. bruised ;
Mamie Tallen, IL Elm street, face and
shoulders bruised.
Paterson was circus mad. The mills
had shut down on account of the show,
and hundreds of school children, supposed
to be in their classes, swelled the throng,
which blocked the pavements.
Schaffbausser, the driver of the wagon,
had driven the horses up close to the curb
In order to permit the parade to go by.
The horses showed no disposition to be.
come frightened until the elephants,
which were near the end Of the procession,
appeared in view. They rushed across the
pavement at the sight OF the towering
paohyderms and dashed into the midst Of
a crowd OF several hundred persons who
were collected on the sidewalk on that
block. Men, women and children tram
pied each other In their efforts to get out
of the way
The boy Schultz was knocked down by
the horses hoofs, and the wheels OF the
wagon passed over his abdomen. He died
shortly after he had been removed to st.
Joseph's hospital.
Struck by the Horses HOofs.
Olga Olsen, comely little Swedish
girl, was thrown to the ground and struck
In the forehead by the hoofs OF one Of the
horses. The rear wheels Of the wagon had
begun to pass over her when the progress
of the runaway team was stopped by a
hydrant with which the wagon came into
collision. Policeman Nelson Graham
seized the horses reins and succeeded in
quieting them.
1t was a scene Of the widest confusion.
The pavement was strewn with the forms
of spectators who had been thrown from
their feet.
Edward Olsen, father of the injured
Swedish girl, was picked out from the
bottom of heap of II persons who had
been piled on top Of him in their frenzied
efforts TO escape
The Office OF Dr. Kraft, which was near
the place Of the accident, was converted
into temporary hospital. The Hampden
boy was bleeding freely from wounds on
the face Many women whose names could
not be learned were brought into the office
in fainting condition. They went away
when they had recovered.
The driver himself was thrown under
the horses hoofs and badly bruised He
was arrested and taken TO police headquar-
ters He was paroled, with the under
standing that he was to be again arrestsd
should the father Of the Schultz bog make
complaint against him.
+ The circus parade passed on witbout in
corruption. J. A. Bailey said that Schan-
hausser had been warned by one Of the
outsiders that he was Ia danger OF meet
ing some accident n he persisted In keep
Tag his team so clese to the ltns " meroh.
He said that the driver took no notice Of
the warning.