The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-02-14

seatTo,d III the iinne o the was g ~
INN tho water ard never seen agatn. 10 y
s,,n,,ossd lie was struck by pieces o. hihng
timt,er and so injured az 30 be unable 10 as
3si.t himself. He bad only been WORKING on
The bridge for Il short time. j. e. nadaon,
or sussex county, was also killed, IL y sup
nosed. in the wreck or tic bridge. y. y.
shaw also of Sussex county, Va, was tue
third victim. HeWas not seen aftcr Tue Iaii'
iny Of the bridge. The fourth aud last VIC
rim was D. u. Handley, OF Media, Delaware
county. Pa, who was rapidly carried on
by the angry food. His plteous cries ior
helm were hcari-rendiDg to those who were
unable to assist him. He was swept by the
current down below the Danville bridge,
and lust before reaching Mayo's bridge he
sunk TO rise no more.
All OF the deceased are single men. Hand
lev was an odd Fellow, aud had been con-
slant visitor at Lodges in Manchester. i.
Il. HindoD, the man drowned early III the
day, was from Darlington, Md, where he
has a family. None Of the bodies have been
recovered.
INCIDENTS.
Mcssrs. Harry E. Gettings and Peter Ver-
nam. who were near each other when the
bridge fell, were swept down the river some
distance, but finally managed to reach a
cump of trees, to which they chung Win
desperate energy. After remaining IN TINS
position for nearly an hour they were rescued
Nv Mr. Jack Talbot, who works at HaXalrs
mills, and who gallan'ly went TO their assist
ance in boat. Gettys was unlpJured. YER
nain is at McPherson's, in Manchester, badly
Injured in back and leg.
Jesse Corfrode, having escaped the falling
| iimbcrs, was washed down to Mayo's bridge,
where he was saved 10y rope thrown him
| BIZ Dir. +. Ii. Saylor, one OF the contract ors,
who fortunately happened to be there ut the
| time. aud with the assistance of others Mt
Cortrode was hauled from the river to the
bridge above in complete state OF exhaus'
| ton.
Messrs. Cook and Crouch were both
swept down the river as far as Seventeenth
street, but were finally rescued by partle:
who went 10 their assistance. In this r1Ge
for life Mr.. Cook had luis arm broken, ano
was otherwise injured about the body by the
rocks over which he Was washed.
Mr.. Lip:comb, who WAS also thrown from
the bridge, was not swept do |n by the cur
rent, but chung TO the iron portion OF the
span, which fell in, and thus saved bis life
| lie stood for hours, however, in the Wnter,
clnglng to Il rope which was attached to the
! wreck, suffering horribly from cold, the
water coming up above his knees, while
watching and awaiting the efforts made FOL
| his rescue.
| A small boat attached to a rope in the
hands of men Oh the Petersburg railroad
bridge was allowed to float down to the poor
fellow, who got into it. About this time the
men on the free bridge, who had made un
successful cflerts to throw line to the I'M
perlIed man, succeeded in passing him 8
snail line, with which he secu!ed larger
one. This he tied around his body, and JUS
as he had done SO he was thrown out of the
boat by the surgiDy water. The men pulled
him in and raised him to the bridge. Mr.
Lip>com5 resides i'll Manchester.
Mr.. EJer c. Shaw, of Stony Creek, SUSSEX
county, Va, was among those who found s
watery grave. His parents were from NeN
| York, and had only settled in Virginia. u sllor
time ago. This family have been PARTICULAR,
unfortunate. having lost two SONS during Lie
late war-onc ut Cold Harbor and the othcl
1T the bat.Ic of the Crater. Mr.. 4. c.. Shaw
| was the third an1 ~ "a oA.,.'"i"5 Cie. a.
III as Inc disaster became known Mr. Van
Auken, mcnibcr Of the House Of Delegates |
from the county Of Sussex, repaired to the
sro', and UPON ascertlining that Mr.. Shaw |
was alnyGS the lost, Immediately ieicgraphcd
he fact to bis family.