Show FORTY WORKMEN KILLED A t I Partly Party Completed Bridge Over Oyer the Licking Ilver Falls Fals with Fort Fort- five Workmen Shortly Shorty before noon on the the partly party constructed bridge across the Licking river between Covington and Newport and directly direct direct- dIrect ly opposite Cincinnati CIncinnat fell fel with a tremendous crash carrying with wit It Into int the swollen stream forty five forty workmen nearly all al of whom were either cither killed by the crash or drowned The cause of the collapse Is surmised to be bethe bethe bethe the weakening of the wood false work The high river has ha washed out the earth about the supports support and it is stated that one of the contractors said a day or two ago that he was afraid the structure would not stand under under un un- der dee the weight of the heavy material The men were engaged In putting In place the heavy Iron work of the main mam span when suddenly without warning there WI was t b a cracking sound of breaking breaking timbers a sudden swaying of the structure and a I headlong plunge of th the whole mass of timbers Iro irol and helpless ss workmen into Int the muddy waters of the Licking LikIng river fifty feet below Among the dead were the two contractors the Baird Brothers of Clev Cleveland and who were on the bridge with their men superintending I Ithe the work at the fatal moment t t on Uy down into int the river and the confusion of timbers and twisted bars of Iron made th the wreck as a if I a 0 tornado had twisted it Into a 0 shapeless mass The work work work-of of rescuing the Uie Injured and of recovering the dead was attended with wih humane humane hu hu- hu- hu mane inane promptness by the organized organize forces of Newport the three cities cles of Cincinnati Cincinnat and The number of lives lost will wi not be known for several days From five to fifteen and possibly more bodies are arc pinioned beneath I tO tons s of Iron work in the bed of the river i and it I is thought many others otherl were carried down s stream ream In the swift current and may I not be recovered for days or weeks I The The wrecking steamer Hercules Carroll Carrol I began pulling out the debris soon goon on after in search of the bodies It Is isnow inow now said that ten tenor tenor tenor or fifteen boys were swimming in the shadow of the bridge a dally daily occurrence and if this is true the number of dead will 1 approximately approximate approximate- ly Increase It I is also claimed that several spectators were carried down three Thirty-three bodies have been recovered and six six men were fatally Injured |