New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-16
HELP FROM HOSPITALS.
Scenes on North Brother Island
Described by the Doctors.

DR.. AMMAN. of Lebanon Hospital, in speaking
OF what he saw and did last night, said;
II was the most grewsome spectacle 7 ever
Witnessed I'm my life. IL was simply awful No
words of mine can httingly describe IL At hfst
| was Mortified that l did not Know WEeIe
to go or what to do. | was pulled here ana
there By various people. all of whom wanted
me to attend their friends and loved ones first
| finally got on "A tug and started for North
Brother Island. on the way there We pulled
ion peopIe out of the water and 1 personally
attended thirteen after reaching the island
These were all put on the tug and brought back
10 the hospital. and l remained there 10 treat
those who had been brought by myself and
others.
on the second ambulance that reached the scene
He said
found tug waiting at the river and prompt
" boarded ii and went at once 10 North Brother
Island. 1 have never seen such horrible sight
before. and l trust that never will again. 1t
looked like battlefield. Heaps of dead were
piled here and there. sometimes many fifty
living in a heap 7 treated as many injured as
l could and sent them 10 the dock. from where
they were sent to the mainland in charge Of
nurses. The moaning of the injured was most
pitiful TO hear. II seems TO me that I can stii!
hear their groans. win never forget it as long
as I live.
DR.. schwarz. house surgeon at Lebanon Hos
Dital. said;
I have never in my life seen such a calamity
I spent time in looking around but pitched
IN ana nelpeu the doctors VINO arrived before
me. can only say that 1t was awful and We
all did our best.
DR.. Arthur Butts. the house physician at Ieb-
anon, said:
Horrible. and in capital letters is the only
way in which the scene can be described When
l reached North Brother Island L found bodies
lying on the beach for hundred yards in every
direction. The rescued were coming in by boat
loads. devoted myself principally the chill
dren who had been injured. 1 gave them slim
ulantS- WraDOed IN hIaukarS md
to Lebanon Hospital
was at the tunnel disaster. at One-hundred-
nd-ntnetieth-st. and Broadway, and, horrible
as that was IL did not compare to this. Many
OF the bodies were burned so as TO be unrecog-
nizable. and others were minus legs and arms.
which all went to make 1t a that can never
be forgotten by anyone who was there.
Superintendent Daub. of Lebanon Hospital.
went over with six nurses. He said:
When first reached the scene 1 was SO over
come that wept like child 1t was some time
before L could think commercially. but 1 finally
pulled myself together and put the nurses to
be eomplimented on their untiring efforts
Fourteen minutes after the alarm for the
burning of the Slocum was received at Flower
Hospital the ambulance was on the scene. This
was the quickest run of any of the ambulances.
the famous horse Baby. which was Injured last
week. making the run. In the ambulance were
Dr. Kaufman. in charge; Drs Taylor and
Cocheu. Miss Barker. the head nurse. and
Nurses Underhin and Weigh.
DIR. Kaufman, in speaking OF the work done.
said:
OF course We handled scores of people The
first seven whom came to we took to lincoln
Hospital We only brought two to our own
hospital The first two we found were children
one girl about two years old and the other a
boy about six. The boy was badly burned The
girl was only lost. Then we found a woman
ABOUT twenty-five years old. with a baby in her
arms She was unconscious and wrapped In a
blanket. She was severely burned and suffering
from shock I should think that she should re-
cover. however. The baby uninjured
inere We're three boys. then. who were burned,
which made the seven.
The physicians from the Harlem Hospital
treated about one hundred and twenty injured
persons.