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5 days ago · The tragic incident started the afternoon of May 30, 1883 when a woman tripped and fell descending the wooden stairs on the Manhattan side of the bridge. Apparently, this caused another woman to...
This fear is what may have prompted a stampede a week after the Brooklyn Bridge opened, on May 30. The New York Times wrote that a woman tripped and fell on the steps up to the bridge, prompting another woman to scream and crowds to push forward.
- The Brooklyn Bridge’s First Fatalities
- 'The Bends’ Claims Three Lives
- Multiple Men Fall to Their Deaths
- Stampede Kills Dozens After Bridge’s Opening
Months before construction even began, the bridge project claimed its first victim—its visionary designer. On June 28, 1869, German-born civil engineer John A. Roebling was surveying the location of the bridge tower on a ferry slip along the Brooklyn waterfront when his right foot became caught on a rope and was crushed by a docking boat, resulting...
To construct foundations for the bridge towers, engineers sank a pair of watertight wood-and-steel chambers, called caissons, face down into the East River. Working with shovels and even dynamite to excavate the riverbed, so-called “sandhogs” toiled in stifling heat and at more than double the normal atmospheric pressure due to the compressed air p...
Working at dizzying heights to construct the two bridge towers more than 275 feet above water, several laborers plummeted to their deaths while others were killed by falling stones and granite blocks. Irish-born mason Neil Mullen, a widower with five children, died three days before Christmas in 1877 when arches supporting the roadway on the Brookl...
Death continued to stalk the span even after its completion. Seven days after its grand unveiling, people thronged the bridge for a Memorial Daystroll on its elevated promenade. During the late afternoon, an estimated crowd of between 15,000 and 20,000 on the bridge caused foot traffic to logjam at a narrow staircase on the Manhattan side when a wo...
Dec 1, 2022 · A Monument To The Brooklyn Bridge Elephant Stampede Of 1929. New York City’s Most Horrific Land Mammal Triumph & Tragedy. Since the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in May of 1883, elephants have crossed into lower Manhattan.
On May 30, 1883, six days after the opening, a woman falling down a stairway at the Brooklyn approach caused a stampede which resulted in at least twelve people being crushed and killed. In subsequent lawsuits, the Brooklyn Bridge Company was acquitted of negligence.
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Since the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in May of 1883, elephants have crossed into lower Manhattan. It was a hallowed and wholesome tradition, started by world-famous showman, P.T. Barnum.
