Show ane whole structure falls fifty feet into the fiver below juna lia JL casualty suck as throws a pall e cerrow over a community con and goads a of horror through the civilized world happened on the licking river between newport aad covinton CoT inton ky ye trdy after neen A wagon and street railway bridge was in ef construction between th two cities the contracts ars fem bem the iron work were baird f pittsburg they were aadrew nd robert baird and aliey bath ant blawn to death with their two score or snare ot workmen tha bridge was a strong wrought iron hr the stone piers n each side of th arver was finished th iron borks of the approaches are very the apan between the two piers ie abbat feet ana the height of the truss which wae to form the bridge span between the piers was flat feet above water false work in piling timbers had been constructed in the nver on the top of this false derx the cen of the iron traia began mid way betheen the two piers aad s work was pushed from the middle b t ways five sections of the ponderous ponder oui iron work bad beba constructed on top of thi was an apparatus known to bridge men as a traveller which is to extend a structure from tb ads the traveler was full ef mn at in ane mornine and some of them wera near the tap nearly one hundred feet aboTe the water 0 the licking riter abo timbers of the falia work about tea inches old aad weather beaten and had evi dently aad before it was a mass ef iron weighing hundreds upon hun brads of tens that overmatched over matched them and wrought the rain and fathered pa the awful harvest for death thirty six mea were in tho traveler at 1030 bhea the awful crash came and no one aaa tell how abany were working below the crash cams like a bolt from heaven suddenly the overhead beams of liae broke and crashed into the river kelow a mass of ruins under which a acore of lives went out the debris filled the deep betrea from bank to bank the people filled bobb led tbt eream was jooa full cf nisi and the werk ef rescuing life began without a directing head this work was api cp day lle ettare sixty echt prone en and about the acridge when it fell thu following isn revised list of the killed G D champoin Cham poix thomas down an unknown about 40 years of age K R rolv elmer barber elois 0 W dick formaa john adams aobert baird andrew baird gresham edward sullivan dennis nolan charles stall charles tyre william barton patrick mun y missing martin luther burke N burboa Tr essling fred brant dick amaxas john phillips harry laborne Oa borne is probably fatally injured and winsteen nin steen ethers dacre or less injured |