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Show Trrtitini.i: Ainnc.vr. A Stand Collapse with Its toad or Human Ueluc. New York, Nov. 2T. A terrible accident occurred n't Eastern Park, Brooklyn, before tbo Yale-Prinrc-ton football game today. Tiie big free stand on the eastern side of the grounds suddenly collaissd, carrying carry-ing down the entire loaj of human bclpgs. It is estimated tliat Mure were more than 2)0J people in tho triieture at the time. A scene of Indescribable confusion an I paul; followed the crash. The occupants were motly men, a great majority ot them students from Yale nud Princeton. There were also many women. Tiiey all by in a confused and strjglin mass upon the ground, nnny completely Lurid under the wreckage. Tho screams, shrieks and groans were awful. Many fainted away from the injuries in-juries they received. In au ibstaiit there was n general rush fir that part of the field, and a secre of loliccmen were scon engaged en-gaged in pjlliug the maimsil and wounded lrom 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 proved uufounded. A great many persons, however, were very severely hurt anl broken limbs aud bruised heads and bodies were numerous. .MANY OS' THE WOUNDED 1'EOl'I.E had been cafrlod nwajr by their friends before their names could be learned. Among those whose names were learned are: Chirlrs Wilson, ankle dMoeatcd, Cadets John A.Quillerand Harry Perrin Darney of the military iustitutp, Peekskill, backs badly sprained; Henry B. Remington, Prlucctou '93, leg broken; a Yale man, name not learncd,concussion of the spine; two Rutgers College students. Leads bruised and cut; John Monro, Princeton, concussion of the leg; S. G. Dunning, Princeton -"81, brozen ankle; George A. Wyjlc, thigh broken; James McGbue, internal injuries: F. S. Keelir, Coldmbia 1)1, wrist broken; John Weely, Yale, Injured Internally; Stephens. Sheer, Yale, arai broken; John Car-miners, Car-miners, Wesleyan Unlversily.badly cut head; EMrcdge, Princeton HI, both legs badly Injured; Curiey, Princeton -"91, concussion of the brain, very serious; Edward Moran, Yale, leg broken; MrKean, Princeton, Prince-ton, fractured leg; Bradley, Iince-ton Iince-ton D2, both legs badly hurt; II. W. Fuller, scalp wound; George A. Johnson, contusion of the spine. A iot of boys, names not learned, nho stood up on the top row of bleachers, bleach-ers, were badly bruised and cut. The only ladles huit were two Brooklyn women. The lowest ejtiunte puts the number of people injured at fifty, while others place it a high as sixty or more. The stand was evidently evi-dently In a most unsafe condition, for the broken Umbers showed that many of them were nearly rolled in two, while the whole structure was tho most flimsy affair iiuagin able. Everyone claimed tiiat a very superficial examination ot the structure would show it utterly insufficient in-sufficient to supiort the crowd which would occupy it. |