The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-11-07
FIREWORKS EXPLODE.
Disaster to Crowd Watching Election
Bulletins in New York City
Eleven Killed.

Eleven Killed.
New York, Nov. 5.-By series of
explosions of pyrotechnic bombs,
and other fireworks on Tuesday
night, among the vast multitude
gathered in Madison Square to
witness the ascension of an airship
and the display of the election returns,
IL persons were killed outright, many
being blown almost to pieces, and at
least so injured, many of them fatally.
1t is estimated that at least 10000 per-
sons thronged the square at the time
ed by frightful panic in which hum
dreds were thrown down and trampled
under foot Five hundred policemen
and all the ambulances in the city
were instantly summoned, and the dy-
ing and those most seriously injured
were removed to the hospitals. In adj
dition to these many of the wound
ed were taken away by friends. Nine
men in charge of the fireworks dis
play were placed under arrest imme-
diately after the explosion. The list
of the dead is: Policeman Dennis
Shea, William G. Finney, George Rit-
zle, Harold Robley, six unknown men,
and an unknown boy.
Under the auspices of the Journal
exploded to celebrate the victory of
William r. Hearst, who was elected
representative in congress. The dis
play conferred sout', of Madison Square
garden, at the intersection of Madison
avenue and Twenty-fourth street. AT
that point small space had been kept
clear by the police with difficulty.
Around it was massed the densely
packed throng, numbering many
thousands. Sparks from a series of
Roman candles, which were being dis
charged simultaneously, fell into the
open boxes, which We're closely packed
with large aerial bombs. At the same
moment, one of the bombs, which had
just been touched off, exploded prema
turely, hurting sparks and fire in every
direction.
Instantly there was tremendous
detonation and an awful blast of fire,
which lighted up Madison square and
all the surrounding buildings. The
entire contents of the boxes and bar
rels had been exploded. Among the
first to recover their self-possession
We're the policemen stationed directly
about the space which had been kept
open at the street corner. AS the
crowd, now thoroughly panic stricken,
made efforts to escape eastward
through Twenty-fourth street and
across Madison square, the policemen
ran to the aid of the injured.
One of the first, who was found to
have been killed instantly, was Police
man Dennis Shea, of the Fourth pre-
cinct. L. NJ. Hollingwood, of 223 West
Twentyfourth street, was found TIC
have had his right leg almost blown off
at the knee.
| On the northeast corner of Twenty
fourth street and Madison avenue
stands the handsome double brown
stone residence occupied by David
Wolf Bishop. On its broad stone steps,
huddled together, lay the bodies of
three boys, apparently about IA or Is
years old. They had been hurled there
from their advanced position in the
crowd, close by the spot where the
fireworks were being set off. All of
them We're shookingly mangled and
were apparently killed instantly.
Scattered along the asphalt of Mad
son avenue lay several other bodies,
while nearly a score of the injured,
many of whom were terribly burned
and cut, were moaning piteously for
help.
On the arrival of the reserves, 500 of
them, many of the policemen did splen-
did service in atfording first aid to the
Injured, and half dozen private ply
sicians, who either lived in the vicinity
or had been among those in the
throng, went quickly to work dressing
wounds, applying bandages and giving
stimulants' to the injured.