Show ARE KILLED LIKE FLIES Lives Wiped Out by Traveling Trav-eling Crane NINE DEAD OTHERS MISSING Men Were Employed on a New Railroad Bridge Crano Suddenly Collapsed While the Men Were Working on the Pitts burg End Plttsburg Pa Oct 1Nlnc men wore killed two are missing and four were badly hurt today by the collapse col-lapse of a traveling crane on the Pitts burg end of the new Wabash railroad bridge over the aionongahela river DEAD W J McLoud George Wells J W Kellllnger J W Keltlingen William Kompton C L Fleming Frederick Salinger Frank Dalby J Campbell MISSING E ward Farrls James IHmmons INJURED Adolph VoBburg of Duquesne Frank Hoover Allegheny recovery doubtful William of Falls Vllam Tay Beaver Fals A M I Fowler of Paterson N J TRAVELER FALLS The cause of the accident has not yet been ascertained The bridge Is I of the cantilever pattern being constructed by the American Bridge company for the Wabash railroad and Is building from both sides of the river toward the center by means of overhead travelers fie men had been at work on the Plttsburjj end but a short time when suddenly the traveler which Is projected beyond the finished part of the bridge dropped and fell landing on a section of the bridge which Is being placed In position So unexpected and sudden was the cinsh that few of the workmen on the wrucked section were warned In time to escape The falling bridge landed on top of a barge load of steel anchorud at thE pier and several of the workman there were carried down HURLED OVER AND OVER John McTight a cousin oC the super intcndent of police who Is n blacksmiths black-smiths helper employed at the City Machine shops happened to be on the wharf watching the men at work when the accident happened McTlghe In giving a description of the accident saidThe The men were preparing to ram In one of the pIns on the bridge when the accident took place I was a terrible sight The men turned over and over as they fell and their bodies looked like so many lea |