St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-06
TWO MEN KILLED.
An Engine Falls Eighty-Fiye Feet
Down a Viaduct With FrishtfuI
ReSuItS

results.
Special to the Globe.
CLEVELAND, o., Jan. 5.-Shortly be-
lore O'Clock this afternoon the new
central yiaduct, directly over the CEN
trail way, gave way and fell tn the
ground, over sixty feet below. with a
terrific crash. The huge sleeper"
which is used on top of the viaduet
went down with the wreck. burying
fourteen Workmen beneath the debris.
Inc accident came without a seconds
warning. Suddenly the two spans over
tne central way fell, as if sawn off from
tne structure. Two men were crushed
terribly mutilated bodies conId
be seen, they could not be
taken from the ruins at once
by reason of the vast weight piled mon
them: One of the spans was $50 feet
ana the, other thirty feet in length,
from what can be learned from those
working on the viaduct at the time OF
the accident, 1t is conjectured that the
immense weight of the engine used in
holstlng the larger and heavier mate.
rlaiS INTO position, together with the
weight OF the spans, caused ali thai
portion OF the structure between the
valley railway tracks and central way
10 go down with crash, and without
any previous warning. Assistance was
at once On hand, and the work of recov-
ering the dead and wounded began. III.
-. burton and another man named
naTqY were taken out dead, while II.
ID. Hamlin, Charles Ord, John Borden
and Alex Emanelson were more or less
injured. The wounded were all taken
TO the Huron Street hospital. where an
examination of their wounds is now
Oelng made. 1t is feared that all are
FATALLY hurt. Several men were at work
below the bridge, but all escaped with
out injury.
Later--The cause of the accident is
now explained thus: The s'traveler - is
huge engine-like affair that runs along
the top of the constructed bridge. by
which the iron work is carried out i'm
advance on the cantilever plan: lust in
front or the traveller is a smaller car
called the, water carrier, which holds
water for the engine in the traveIer.and
Is also used as tool box. The accident
resulted from an oversight in permitting
the water carrier" to run too far out
on the end of the wooden trestle-work.
which is erected in advance of the iron
work. The carrier ran over the end of
the treStle and Immediately plunged
downward, carrying the wooden sun
ports, and these in turn crashed against
the yet unsecured iron work, carving
down with it the next two spans.
Hardy, the first man taken from the
wreck, was an awful sight. He was
pinned beneath mass of broken beams
and iron, and when his body was lifted
up, his head, severed from the body.
rolled down into the gutter.
The names of the dead are:
ID. G. BURTON, twenty-five years old.
116 South Pearl street.
DANIEL II. OAKEL, twenty-eight
years old, "a Main street.
The injured are:
ALEXANDER EMANUFIsoN, thirty
one years old, 81 Main street; burned by
escaping steam.
JOHN BARDON, twenty years old, n
Cliff street; burned by steam.
CHARLES ORD, twenty-Seven years
old, $50 Pearl street; Slightly hurt.
K. ID. HAMBLIN. thirty years old. l16S
Pearl street; injured internally.
EUGENE HANLON, slightly injured.