| Show A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT at a football foot ball game in a brooklyn park A NEW ORLEANS excitement no war ships will be sent oter from europe cons urn stives st louis for berlin NEW YORK nov 28 A terrible accident occurred at eastern park brooklyn before alie yale princeton booi ball game yesterday the big free stand on the eastern side of the grounds suddenly collapsed carrying down the entire load of human beings it is estimated that there were more than 2000 people in the structure at the time A scene ot indescribable confusion and panic followed the crash the tere mostly men a creat majority of them students from yale and princeton there ware also many women they all lay in a confused and mass upon the ground many completely buried under the wreckage the screams shrieks and groans were awful many fainted away from the injuries they received in an instant there was a generel husli for that part of the field and a score of policemen were soon engaged in pulling the maimed and wounded from the wreck others lent assistance and within ten minutes the whole place was cleared at first it was feared that some were killed but this adroved unfounded A great many persons however were very severely hurt and broken limbs and bruised heads and bodies were nn berous many of the wounded people had been carried away by their friends before their names could be learned among those whose e names were learned are charles vilbon ankle desolated diso cabets cadets john A quiller and harry perrin darney of the military institute peekskill Peek skill backs badly sprained henry B rem ington princeton 93 leg broken a yale man name not learned concussion of the spine two rutgers college students heads bruised and cut john monroe princeton concussion of the 8 G broken 93 ankle george A wylie ghigli broken james mcglone internal injuries F S keeler columbia 92 enst broken john bealy yale inifred internally stephen 5 sheer yale arm broken john carruthers wesleyan badly cut head eldredge Eln redge princeton 94 both lega badly injured curley prince contusion of the brain very serious Edward Moran yale broken mckean prince ton fractured leg bradley princeton oa both legs badly hurt A W fuller scalD wound gea A johnson contusion of attiq spire A lot of boys names not learned who stood on the top row of bleachery bleach erg were badly bruised and the only ladies hurt were two brooklyn Bio oklyn women the lowest estimate puts the number 1 fifty while others place it as high as sixty or more alie stand was as high as sixta feet or more the stand was evidently in a most un afe condition for the broken timbers showed that many of them were nearly rotted in two while alie whole structure was the most flimsy affair imaginable everyone claimed that a very superficial examination of the structure would show it utterly insufficient to support the crowd which would occupy it |
