New-York tribune., 1902-05-28
STORIES OF RESCUERS.
DOCTOR SAW INJURED BEING ROBBED
GREAT VAIL FOLLOWED CRASH.

CRASH AND CRY OF HORROR-Dr. Charles A.
Brown. assistant surgeon Of Troop c. who took
charge of the relief work soon as the acci-
dent occurred: I'VE had been halted and had
just resumed marching. having perhaps passed
two-thirds of block beyond the scene of the
accident. when heard the crash and the hor-
rifed cry and rushed back. My own ambulance
and one wagon standing near, which l pressed
into service, were the only conveyances avail
able at the time. There seemed to be fifty or
sixty injured in the pit some of them pinned
down by the lumber that had been used In con-
structing the platform which had given way
We worked quickly as possible gettlhg
twelve of the injured into the ambulance and
two more into the impressed wagon, and drove
at a gallon to the New-York Hospital, in
Fifteenth-st. On the way did what could TOT
the worst injured, three of whom were uncon-
scious We left them in the receiving room and
gaIloped back but. finding that the alarm had
brought all the necessary assistance. we has
tened on after our troop. which we did not
catch however, till the armory was reached
CRUSHED LIKE EGGSHELL.-Lieutenant George
] Fox OF Engine Company No. 16. who released
the sirder from the chest of Coolidge. the dead
man: The beam struck him across the chest
and crushed him in like eggsher. The cap
tain. Charles Shay and were just opposite the
scene Of the accident. We jumped into the ex;
il. The work Of rescue was largely done by
6 BOYS OF he also d OK fBand Mos of the
who had fallen in. simply picked themselves up,
Fifth-ave. side of the excavation. where three
men had made a chain of rescue, at different
heights on the embankment A large majority
OF those engulfed were women
CROWD SHOT INTO THE ARR. Edwards. of
No. PA Madison-st.. Brooklyn. private in the
18th Regiment: There three of us boys
from the 18th who had finished marching and
taking in the parade at Eighteenth-St., so
very much on hand for the accident.
There two points about il which particu-
larly impressed me; one was the way in which
the crowd apparently shot into the air
when the tmbers gave way. In the case of one
two persons In particular II If they
had been handled by catapult The other i'm
preston made upon the single great
wall that came from the whole crowd. The
structure swayed TO the west before falling
you have a table with weak legs when one
sits il. The crash followed this Swaying
motion. II would that Il upright.
and not a girder that had broken"
GIRDER PINNED WOMAN.-John Hoffman,. the
watChman for the Horace Waters Piano Com
pany. whose building is directly north of the
top story and who helped in the work of
rescue: THE most unpleasant sight ever saw
that in the excavation, when my friend
here. Miller. and I found a woman pinned down
by grder which lay across her cheek. At the
other end of the Cirder two men, in no way
girder motion by nervousy jumping about in
such manner that ii kept striking her In the
neck and cheek. We quickly released her. Very
many OF the injured at once driven away In
private carriages apparently IL their friends
were in immediate communication. The head
tunate the engine house at Eighteenth-s St.
between Fifth-ave. and Broadway. and the
barber shop imediatey opposite the OF
the accident. kept by I. Vincent"