The sun., 1902-11-05
injured. McGee died in the New York
Hospital. His left leg was badly shattered
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A LITTLE GIRLS WOUNDS
Among the seriously injured was lit le
girl. Helene Adams. IL years old, Of los
Marcy avenue Brooklyn. To the first
policeman who went To her assist ance she
1 said Tell my mamma" Then she became
unconscious One Of the child's legs was
broken and she had a bad scalp wound.
Frank b. Wilson, also of iOl Marcy ave-
nue., who had come over with the little girl
10 see the fireworks, was injured
Most of the iron seemed to f,y low and
as result a large percentage of the -eri-
Gus injuries were to the legs Of the victims.
WINDOWS SHATTERED.
The windows in all Of the Madison avenue
houses between Twenty-fourth and Twenty
fifth streets were shattered by the explo-
sion, and some of the :, aimed glass windows
in the Rev Dr.. Parkhurst's church were
broken
The Bishop house Jared the worse. Every
front window in it was broken and one
Of the curtains was spattered with blood.
probably the blood Of little Feeney. who
was sitting on the fence post with his arm
around his grandmother's neck.
THE DIVERS or THE SHOW.
The fireworks exhibition was in charge
Of the Pain fireworks company, which
was engaged for the night by William X.
Hearst.
Harry Temple of Webster avenue. Park
vile. Brooklyn, an employee Of the Pain
| company, was the man In charge of the
exhibition He could not be found by the
police after the explosion.
His assistants were arrested. They were
Charles +. Harms and Robert Fitzgib-
bons, who drove the two trucks containing
the fireworks; Frank Leistman, who was
In charge of the mortars. and Joseph Full
lum and Edward Smith. who were en-
ployed 20 carry the fireworks from the
trucks.
All Of the prisoners told policeman Dubois
who made the arrests that Temple was
their superintendent.
Inspector Brooks said that the man really
wanted by the police had escaped.
HOW SHEA WAS KILLED.
A bystander who was standing close to
policeman Shea when he was killed and
who didn't stop running after the explosion
until he got TO Fourth avenue, said;
Il was in the front line at the firew works
exhibition. The crowd behind was showing
us hard because the display was getting
more interesting They were sending up
two or three things at once and everybody
wanted to get near enough to see how
Il was done.
y saw the policeman killed He was
almost facing me. He had hold OF his
club at both ends and was using II TO push
back the mob When ne was struck he
didn't make sound. but fell forward
against the man whom he had been pushing
and when that man jammed his way back
into the crowd the dead policeman fell
to the pavement.
There were half 4 dozen explosions in
such quick succession that they made one
terrific roar and there were a thousand
flashes as the bombs exploded and shot
out into the crowd.
THE PANIC.
Those In the back of the crowd didn't
seem to realize for several seconds what had
happened. Those in front were panic
stricken. They faced about and struggled
frantically against the wall of thousands
Of people to get out. They screamed and
yelled Some Of them were covered with
blood.
A realization of what had happened
penetrated he mob one circle after another
and finally all turned and fled"
GROUND sTREwN WITH VICTIMS.
In the twenty minutes that elapsed be-
tween the dispensing of the horror stricken
mob and the arrival Of the ambulances
at least fifty persons were lying on the
pavement and on the grass in the park
too seriously hurt to get away. And here
and there was a dead man, or a part Of
him. and scattered over the blood d-streaked
avenue for two or three blocks was a
layer OF broken glass and the wreckage
Of the fireworks.
One piece OF iron, eight inches long, few
way ONtT tilt VI tie crown IN Vne
Park and landed on Broadway between the
car tracks.
THE AMBrLANCHs ARRIVE
Ambulances were there from half a dozen
hospitals and as each one arrived there was
a clamor from a dozen different groups of
policemen for the surgeon to attend to this
or that man first.
DR. Bonnen of Bellevue Hospital was there
with all the ambulances and a staff of forty
five doctors. Coroner Scholer took charge
of the dead.
JEROME THERE.
District Attorney Jerome was dining at
the Mon Club when the explosion occurred
He thought little Of the report and knew
nothing Of the accident until he started
for home at about II o'clock. Then he
Jaw the crowd and went to the scene of
the accident.
Il think it is the fault Of the system,
rather than Of any individual" he said
later to n reporter of THE Sun. IF there
was no permit issued for the fireworks
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