Show FEll TO HOS DEATH I Bridgeman Drops Sixty Feet Into Snake River KILLED NEAR HUNTINGTON Loses Hia Hold While Climbing Up tho False Work on the Structure to Top of Oregon Short Line Bridge Unfortunate ran Struck the Braces Three Times in His Descent Breaking His Limbs and Injuring Him Internally Life Was Extinct When Workmen Reached Him TRIBUNE SPECIAL Huntington Orc Sept 1Hugh Bcattle a brldgcman working on the Oregon Short Line new bridge over Snake river just cast of this place waa killed aL noon today The whistle had Just announced the noon hour and while Jtantile was climbing up the false work to reach the top of the bridge he lost his 1 hand hold on the Umber fall lmba nl ing backward and down sixty feet In to the river below The unfortunate man came In contact with the braces three times luring the fall badly breaking his limbs and Injuring him Internally He was quickly rescued by men In a boat but life was extinct when they reached the shore with the body wih Bcaltle was a Canadian unmarried 32 years old His relatives are being notified at Chatsworlh Ontario He was a member of Brldgemens union lodge No 10 Kansas City Mo 110 which has given Instductlons to em balm the body preparatory to shipment east Since the new bridge over Snake river has been started there have been several accidents occurred but none terminated fatally prior to this There seems to be no censure due anyone The work Is of a very hazardous na ture and how he lost his hold is known only to himself |