Show ANOTHER AWFUL catastrophe forty five workmen are aro plunged to their death BY THE FALLING OF A BRIDGE while under construction it ills Is thought that only a pew few have escaped a terrible death cincinnati june 15 one of the most fearful accidents tn in the h history of this vicinity occurred today to day I 1 it was the fall of the bridge in ili course of construction over the tile licking river between covington and newport of forty five workmen on tho tile structure so far as known only two escaped unhurt all the others were either killed by crushed crushed iron and timber or drowned the cause is supposed to bethe bo the weakening acen neof of t the ie wooden false work the high big water washed out the tile earth supports the e men today to day ay were engaged under the dir direction action of robert an and william il lain baird contractors in placing heavy iron work on oil the main span without barnin warning except a sudden crackling of timbers and swaying of the structure and with witha a headlong plunge of the mass of timber and iron the workmen were carried into the waters of the licking river fifty feet below the river was quickly lined with rescuers on both bides sides the following in 9 bodies have been recovered richard bonnan 1 aman thoms burke win will ll li artner john job n oneil charles scammon Sc ampon konert baird thoa thos dohnt downing ug dick spooner fred brent charles duvenick ja jas s johnson geo goo burke burke N W burton D dennis ennis liar ilar low B 1 phelp C W Fann Fatin back juch ard jenning B T somers the tile following are lire missing frank muir chas tarr wm barton wm albis harry kramer 0 E B sheehan 11 krause ed nolan ed sullivan dan brinkley pat murray J J murray fatally injured andrew baird william wilson NV ilSon john phillips elmer barber NV E boobe henry osborne albert heinzler Jfe He ingler three others are slightly injured 15 A casualty such as throws a pale of sorrow over the community and sends a thrill of horror through lice the civilized world happened on the licking river between newport and arid covington kentucky this forenoon A wagon and street railway bridgeway bridge ewas was in course of construction st between the tile two cities the contractors for the iron work were baird bros pittsburg they were andrew and robert baird and they both went down to death with their two score or more of workmen the bridge was a strong wro wrought tight iron structure the stone piers on each side of the river were finished tho The ironwork iron work of the tile approaches is very massive the span spun between the two piers la is about feet the height of the truss which was to form the bridge span between the piers wai was sixty five feet above water false work in piling and arid timbers had been constructed in in the river on top of this false work the construe of the iron truss began midway between the two piers and work wag was pushed from the middle both ways on oil top of this was an apparatus r at us known to bridge men an am tile tm traveller SI r which I 1 is used to extend the structure from the ends the traveller was full fall of men at 1030 this morning and some of them were near thetos the ton nearly feet above the tho waters of the licking liver the tile timbers timber of the false work were deanis about ten tell inches square old and weather beaten and had evidently been used before it was a mass of iron hundreds upon hundreds of tons that over matched them wrought ruin and arid gathered an awful harvest for death thirty six men were in the traveller at 1030 when Xen the awful crash came and no one can tell how many were working below the crash came like a bolt from the heaven suddenly overtaken the beams of pine broke and arid crashed into the tile river below a mass of ruins under which a score of lives went out tho the debris filled the deep stream from bank batik to bank people filled both shores and the stream bassoon was soon bullof full of skiffs and the work of rescuing re lives began without a directing head this work wag was kept up all day and is still going on oil tonight to night at the tile hosrof the tile accident there were a few other workmen on the bridge near the scene which leaves a few survivors among the victims as the only ones to tell the story bruce thomas was working on oil the bridge he ile says the first thing I 1 knew I 1 was falling I 1 heard no cracking timber no outcry only I 1 knew I 1 was going down had hardly time to think when 1 found myself on oil the bottom of the river about twenty feet from the tile shore I 1 only got bruised on oil the legs I 1 saw several others that escaped c d but I 1 dont know their names art at the cottage on thornton street newport r t not yards from froin tile bridge lay lai ha the tle so dead e d bodies of john it roby a and nd his t brother william koby roby mrs catherine baer the occupant of the house was the mother in law to john roby who leaves a widow wid ow and two children the two brothers were taken there to die never in the houses of royalty ro were there more real in mourning curnin galty tuan a n in n that house tonight to night john died first his dying brother said to tho tile weeping widow dont cry annie john will g get et well when told that john was dead lead ho 0 said then I 1 want to die too those thome were his last words in the samo san house was C 11 fetters ironton ohio his back was injured at and d his ankle crushed d he ile said the crash cam came a without warning I 1 heard no pou round d or only I 1 mit 1 knew we were going geini down dow n csc I 1 scrambled on some timbers and an gome some one rescued me in a boat charles Wll IV kerson Ilkerson whose home Is in louisville kentucky was working on the engine on the newport approach and was the first one to the rescue he says tho the timbers of the false work buckled down the stream and everything went down in a heap wilkerson saved many lives of the wounded and then went diving for the dead the first dead man he got was james J johnson of havre dc de grace 11 maryland aryland this man had a brother injured at canova west vest virginia who has become insane from his injuries received while working for baird bros he ile had sued baird bros and was here on the bridge looking up tip testimony anion among kniker 1 the men on the works the next man W alker son recovered by diving was andrew baird one of the contractors who arrived here this ibis morning and wa was on the bridge with liis his brother inspecting the work baird bros wore were engaged on the great bridge at memphis and have had much experience in bridge building the wounded were scattered all over the three cities cincinnati covington and arid newport and surgical attendance was prompt p efficient and amply sufficient thero were sixty eight persons on and about the bridge w when I 1 ion it fell the following is the revised hat of the killed and missing uIs sing 0 D chapoit Cha poix thomas down an unknown about 40 years of age K it hoby roby elmer barbo wro wm alois C W pfaffenbach dick german gorman solle adams prank frank adams robert baird andrew baird charles Greig gresham ham edward sullivan n jm james e johnson dennis harlow E A nolan charles sibil stall charles tyree william barton patrick murray missing martin luther george ge burke N burton william Wil liani wessling We saling fred gge ed brant brent dick adams john phillips and harry osborne probably fatally injured and nineteen others more or less injured |