New-York tribune., 1910-08-22
STAND FALLS; THREE HURT
Many Others Watching Aeronaut
Receive Minor Injuries
FLYER HITS A GAS TANK
His Accident Follows Collapse of
Stand and He Also Is Sent
to Hospital
FLYER HITS A GAS TANK

Three persons were seriously injured
and others received painful bruises late
Yesterday afternoon by the collapse of
stand at Schtitzen Park, Union Hill,
which was crowded with spectators
Watching an aeronaut prepare for bal
loon ascension and parachute drop.
Later Gene Raymond. the aeronaut,
crashed into a gas tank and was Sc
verely injured. He was taken to the
North Hudson Hospital. suffering from
conclusion of the brain. Those who
were taken from the park to the hospl-
tai as the result of the collapse were:
rRERT. MARY. No s12 Main street, Union Hill,
back badly injured
DrE;TRtCKsoN. Thomas. No 25s Third avenue,
Jersey City, right. leg broken and thign
MARIE. Charles, No SIC Main street. Union
Hill: internal injuries.
Marie, who is only nine years old, was
buried under a struggling mass of hu-
manitv, and was unconscious when res
cuers finally reached him. His condition
was seen to be serious. and doubts as to
his recovery were expressed al the hos
pital last night. Physicians attended
dozens of others for slight bruises.
The accidents marred the festivities of
the Plattdeutscher Volksfest, which had
taken possession of the park for the day
An unusually large crowd. drawn to the
celebra ton by the favorable weather,
WIS in attendance. Late in the after
noon. when Raymond began to get ready
for his Journey aloft hundreds rushed to
a stand which had been erected at the
south end of the partk to give a better
view of the ascension.
Too Many on Stand.
According to the police this stand,
which had been built to accommodate
about four hundred persons. was occu-
pied by at least one hundred more. AS
RAYMOND was about to cast off there
was the rasping sound of cracking wood,
succeeded in another moment by the
cries of about one hundred persons who
we're thrown to the ground through
hole in the centre of the stand.
= Chief of Police Andes and Captain
Marcy summoned all the policemen in
the park to the rescue, and plunged into
the work of Strengthening out the con-
fusion and dragging out the injured.
Those who had been standing on firm
boards made frantic attempts to reach
the ground. regardless of the safety of
others: hose who had gone through the
hole in the stand and had not been
buried under a pile of humanity slid to
the ground and assisted in the work of
disentangiing the mass of persons.
The further down in the pile the res
cuers went the greater the results of the
accident Miss Crery was one of the
first to he dragged out. but she was al
most doubled up by reason OF the posi-
tiou she had been forced to hold Tor
few minutes and doctors found that her
back had been injured badly
Aeronaut Also Hurt.
All this happened in such short time
that practically all except the most pain
fully injured were able to see the balloon
ASCENSION and it's exciting finish. When
he cast off Raymond took course tow
ard New Durham and was riding we'll
until his lower parachute became en-
tangled in. a tree. Extricating himself
from the difficulty. Raymond next
crashed into the side of house. but was
ap1,arently uninjured. Some distance
further on. however, the balloon swung
with great force into a gas tank.
Raymonds head came in contact with
the tank but he kept to his seat and
.irifted to the grour when the gas be
Gan to escape from rent in the balloon
,aused by its collision with the tank A
large crowd had followed the balloon in
it's flight and help was soon at hand
RAYMOND relapsed into unconscious
moss before an ambulance arrived. but
after he had been taken to the hospital
and treated he revived.