The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-10
CROWDS ALONG THE ROAD.
Much Curiosity TO See the Ere ak
CandIdate-Severa PeoDle Hurt.

candIdate-SeveraI People Hurt.
LIMA, Ohio Aug.a10, 1S96.-People were
up early at Fort Wayne this morning and
more than a thousand of the townspeop1e
were waiting for the Bryan train when it
rolled into the station there at 535
o'clock Mr. Bryan had fully dressed by
this time. His eyes showed the loss of
sleep. but he was thoroughly awakened
by the rescunding cheer that went up
when he stepped to the platform of his
car. The gathering was bent on a speech.
bat it did did -slet get any words from the
young orator except a remark about
promising that he would not speak that
early in the morning. Then the people
rushed forward to shake hands and dur
ing the seventeen minutes stop both arms
of the nominee were worked incessantly.
Mr. Bryan intends to keep pretty quiet
today. He has decided to make no more
speeches until he reaches Pittsburg. His
voice has become husky from the two
hard days in Iowa and Illinois and he
wants to keep it in good condition for his
New York speech. Monroevile, Ind,
turned out a good sized crowd, who
cheered vigorously and then the train
crossed over into Ohio The first stop
made by Mr.. Bryan in Majo McKinley's
n
few people gathered there and cheered
when the nominee showed himself. Peo-
pie were lined by the hundreds along sthe
streets of Van Vert when the Bryan
train reached that big town at 6:46 O'Clock.
An audience of fully a thousand was
there to see Mr.. Bryan. Cries of speech"
went up after the cheer which
marked the appearance OF the candidate
had died away. but Mr. Bryan shook
his head and said he really couldn't Some
girls in silvered caps, with Bryan and
Sewall ribbons attached, pressed well to
the fore to get a handshake and that
agonizing process began at a rate that
threatened TO dislocate the nominees
right arm. At Middle Point a knot of
people cheered Mr.. Bryan, but most of
them appeared too bashful to shake
hands.
A serious panic was narrowly ayerted
at Delphos. when the train reached there
at 7:l3 The crowd was large. Mr. Bryan
had stepped to the platform of his car
and just as the explanation that he could
not make a speech was finished ~she
porch of a store directly in front of the
train and about twenty feet distant from
where he was standing, gave way with
a crash, carrying with 1t more than a
hundred people. A cry of horror went up
from the spectators and the shrieks of
those who had been tumbled into the eel
lar beneath the porch made things seem
worse than they were. Some of the wom-
en- in the crowd started to push their way
out and their frantic eagerness to get
away added to the other causes of ex-
rffr 1et1f -fft.f tod <Ix--
Stand STILL don't move,'' cried Mr.
Bryan and others on the train, and their
words brought the frightened people to
themselves. 1t was found that nobody
had been hurt By the cave-in. When
this was told Mr.. Bryan he remarked to
the crowd:-.H you would get
on our platform It would not
enough from their fright TO cheer the
nominee as the train moved off IL ad-
spondents who are on the Bryan train,
Mr. Bryan is being accompanied to New
York by Thomas Gahan, National Com
Prentiss Of Chicago. j. c.. johnson, Ma
tional Committeeman from Kansas, and
John A. Creighton. National Committee
When Lima was reached at 745, Mr.
ETyaE found big crowd waiting him.
The people were packed in between the
train and the station building, very
narrow space. and there was much crowd
ing in the endeavor of the majority of
them 10 get near the nominee. The de-
lnonStrafion was enthusiastic in the ex-
IRENE flfteen hundred people were in
the assemblage and they spent the first
few minutes after Mr. Bryan came to
shook his hand vigorously. Mrs, BrvaIl
made her first appearance Of the day
and stood by her husbands side. The
people were SO busy Shaking hands fhsf
they forgot to ask for the usual speech
until just as the train was moving off.
when IN response to loud demands to say
tQ you for coming here and / am GLAD
things are 50 different to what they were
q. year ago"
The usual stop al Lima is five minutes.
}sAt he actual time the train was held
was seventeen minufe 10 enable the
crowd e pay their respects 10 Mr. Bryan.
bt&te Central Committeeman Durbin of
'c.