The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-21
DASHED into The CROWD
FIVE PERSONS INJURED IN run
AWAY ON CHAPEL STREET.

| 1he hOISe
Plunged Through Crowd of Women
and Children from Church to Orange
Street on the sidewalls--Two Women
May be Fatally Hurt-Dozens of Mar
rovg Escapes wild Excitement Pre-
vailed.
Chapel street, between Orange and
Church streets was thrown into the
widest excitement about O'Clock yes
terday afternoon by runaway which
seriously injured five persons, narrowly
missed dozens more and terrified hun
dreds of women and children. 1t was
at an hour when the street was as usual
crowded with shoppers, the sidewalks
being filled from curb to show windows
with the slowly moving throns COM
posed in great part of women and chill
dren. Suddenly scream was heard up
the street towards the Church street
corner and this scream was quickly fol-
lowed by others until pandemonium
of screams and shrieks mingled with
4 hoarse cries of men echoed up and down
| the street.
A runaway horse with a long box
business wagon attached had jumped
upon the sidewalk in front of Apothe-
carries hall and was ploughing un-
] checked down the crowded walk. Those
standing where the horse took to- the
sidewalk miraculously escaped being
/ trampled under the horses hoofs and
/ their screams gave warning to those
farther along in the horses path and
enabled them to seek safety in door
ways, the middle of the street. and
wherever refuge offered.
The horse kept on down the walk
the crowd parting before him, and
struck no one until he was opposite S.
H Kirby's jewelry store. There the
crowd had become so terrorized that a
stampede resulted and all were not
able 10 get out of the runaways path.
Just In front of the store was strug-
Cling group of humanity, each person
trying to get out of the way and each
one getting in the way of the others SO
that none was able to get off the walk.
The horse struck this group foremost in
which We're Mrs. Annah f.. Pemberton
of No 121 Dwight street, Mrs. Terrence
M Fitzgerald of 124 Bristol street Mrs.
Christian Anderson Of Middletown ave-
nue. in North Haven, Mrs. Hatch of
Stafford, Conn, and her little eight
year-od grandson, Roland Hatch, also
of Stafford.
When the runaway horse struck the
tangled up crowd these persons Just
mentioned caught the force Of the
shock They were hurled to the side
walk and were trampled under the
hoofs of the maddened horse as he
dashed on. Just as he passed over
them the horse struck a large plate
glass cabinet belonging to Cramer, the
photographer, and containing photo
graphs The cabinet was thrown over
to the sidewalk, the broken plate glass
flying in all directions, the fragments
cutting several persons who had taken
refuge behind the, picture cabinet! at
Dozens of men and women hurried up
to the PROSTATE and bleeding women
and child on the sidewalk and kind
hands assisted them into Goodman's
and Kirbys jewelry stores.
DR. Joslin, medical examiner of Ham
den. happened to be on the street at
the time and he at once set himself to
work to do what he could for the in |
jured. He first attended Mrs. Pember-
ton and the boy, who were carried into
He found that she had |
sustained severe internal injuries in the
left side, that bone was broken in her
left forearm, that she had received
bad scalp wound, and that her face and
arms and other portions of her body
were severely cut and bruised, The
boy had received a dislocation of the
collar bone and was painfully cut and
bruised. Mrs Hatch was fortunate
enough to escape with only some pain
full bruises. She and the boy, her
grandson, are visiting Mrs. Pemberton
and We're with her when the accident
occurred. All three Were taken to Mrs.
home on Dwight street in
4 carriage Mrs. Pemberton was get
ing along as well as could be expected
asst night, but serious results from the
Internal injury were feared.
DR.. Edward M. McCabe happened
llong the street few minutes after
he accident and looked after the in
ures to Mrs Fitzgerald She and
Mrs. Anderson had been carried into {
<irby's jewelry store. OF these two /
WIS. ANDERSON WAS the more seriously I
INJURED and it was thought that her
,ack was broken and that her spine
vas badly injured. She was terribly
ut and bruised and the ambulance was ,
hurriedly from police head
Luarters In it she was taken to her
ome on Middletown avenue and it was
cared last night that her injuries {
night result fatally. She was taken {
way in the ambulance before Dr. Nc
'abe arrived. |
The doctor found that Mrs. Fitzgerald S
ad sustained a fracture Of both bones |
f the right leg just above the ankle. t
he was also badly bruised up. Her /
aughter, who works at Mendel e !
'reedman's, was summoned and was, t
early prostrated when she arrived and {
ound that her mother was seriously
1jured. Mrs Fitzgerald was taken to t
er home on Bristol street in the Grand I
venue police ambulance. DIR. James /
Y, Sweet was called and set the frac- d
lred bones. He found also that the !
ones of the left leg We're badly strain S
/ just above the ankle. h
The runaway horse kept on down the
dewalk to the corner of Orange street, t
le wagon still attached and turned a
own Orange street. Just below the r
orner was the Hotel Davenport bus s
nd the driver of this Saeirsr tha r,,,,