Year: 1875

THE PARK HOSPITAL FILLED WITH THE WOUNDED


THE BUILDING IN A STATE OF SIEGE FROM THE


FRIENDS OF THE INJURED-THE SIXTH PRECINCT


POLICE STATION SCENE OF SORROW.


The scene in the Park Hospital was pitiable. The
pace was tested to its utmost capacity, and as the
sufferers were brought in and placed upon the
couches their cries of pain and anguish were heart
rendng There were persons of all ages and both
sexes An old man, 6S years, OF age, who had re-
ceived some scalp wounds. sat in chair and
rocked backward and forward bewailing his IN
juries. A little boy years of age writhed In
agony on q mattress the floor, suffer-
ing from o compound fracture of the arm and
internal injuries. Mary Jane Martin, age 16, was
brought in unconscious and in dying condition.
Her injuries were conclusion of the brain. little
boy who was brought in was overlooked for tme
and he lay on his cot SILENT but apparently suffering
severely. An examination showed that he was not
seriously injured being the victim merely of shock
and fright. Mary Ellen Cavanagh and Teresa Will
lians aged respectively Is and IA, had severe hem
orrhage of the nose and mouth from internal in
iuries in the head and it was found necessary to
stop the breathing through their noses in order to
prevent them from bleeding to death. Only two
persons who were taken to the Park Hospital re-
ceiyed injuries which were regarded certainly
fatal Their names are Mary Jane Martin, age 16,
and Patrick Ledell. age 25


About ten persons were suffering from dangerous
wounds and the rest had received contusions, scalp
wounds. and bruises which it was believed they
would survive. A number of physicians volunteered
their services to the regular corps of hospital phys
clans and surgeons, and did good work in admins
tering anodynes and relieving the agony of the
sufferers Among them were Drs. Chas. Wilson,
VIM. Eckford, A. Williams, and Ramon Amablle.
Fathers Curran and Flynn of st. Andrews Church,
Father Carroll of st. Stephens and Father McGee-
han of the Church of the TRANSPORTATION, were in
the hospital administering religious consolation and
comfort to the sufferers and passing from couch to
couch with words of comfort and cheer.


The couches in the four rooms of the hospital were
found to be entirely inadequate to accommodate the
injured and extra mattresses were brought from the
City Hall and from the Oak-st. and Chambers-st.
Police Stations. AS is usual upon such occasions,
those most slightly injured made the loudest out
cries while those severely hurt gave hardly any sgn
Charles Debit age 62 was covered with blood from
several severe wounds in the head occasoned by the
flying bricks; but no uttered no sound while the
surgeon was shaving his head, sewing up the
wounds and setting the plasters woman named
Mary Kehoe who said she was 80 years of age. at
tracted the attention of the physicians by her wall
ings and meanings. When asked where she was in
jured, she said cher heart was broken" The doc
tors could find no sign Of any injury upon her
person, and she was Z recommended to go
home. little boy, apparently not more
than years DID, who refused to.give his name, was
suffering from broken rib and internal injuries.
In addition to his wounds he was suffering from
consumption, and coughed almost continuously.
One of the attendant physicians administered an
opiate to relieve his pains. The mother and sister
of Mary Jane Martin were admitted to her bedside,
and, when informed that she was dying. wept pite-
ousy, and clung devotedly to their injured relative
The woman was. however, beyond the power of re-
cognition, and gave token that she was aware of
their presence. She was sitting in the gallery
next to the wall when it fell in, and received
its full force upon her head and back
Many of the wounded were removed at about II
D. m from the Park Hospital in ambulances, and
taken t. Bellevue Hospital The crowd of friends
and relatives which surged about the Park Hospital
and desired to be admitted 80 great that an
extra force of police officers had to be called into
requisition to prevent their forcing their way
within. Some of them begged to be admitted, and
others attempted to force their way in violently,
but the police succeeded. without resortng to ex-
treme measures, in keeping the hospital compare
lively free from all except the injured persons the
physicians and the officials. The crowd remained
outside until after midnight clamoring to be admit
ted but Of course their entreates could not be
needed.


Four of the bodies were brought to the Sixth Pre-
cinct Police Station and il was soon crowded with
men, women and children seeking to learn the fate
of their relatives The reverently lifted
from the faces of the dead from time to time, and
cries Of sorrow and mourning filled the ROOM The
crowd outside gradually increased and blocked up
the sidewalk and street. and EXPLANATIONS of pity
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